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Direct linkPolinsky, Maria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) who are English-dominant. Monolingual and bilingual children demonstrate full adultlike mastery of relative clauses. Adult HSs, however, are significantly different from…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Child Language, Monolingualism, Word Order
Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Findings from a longitudinal study of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English pose a challenge to the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan & Comrie, 1977), which predicts that object relatives should not be acquired before subject relatives. In the children's Cantonese, object relatives emerged earlier than or…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Word Order, Language Acquisition
