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Direct linkPu, Ming-Ming – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
The particular forms of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese lead to particular cognitive, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse constraints on speakers and writers. In this study, analyses of oral and written Mandarin Chinese narratives demonstrate that SS structures (subject head noun phrase [NP] modified by a subject RC) are produced more…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese
