Subject Advantage in L1-English Learners’ Production of Chinese Relative Clauses

• Published in: Journal of psycholinguistic research Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 405 - 424
• Main Authors: Tanaka, Nozomi, Cherici, Alessia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animacy; Asian People; Asymmetry; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Child Development; Child Language; Chinese as a second language; Chinese languages; Cognitive Psychology; Comprehension; East Asian People; English language; English Learners; Error analysis; Humans; Language; Language acquisition; Language Processing; Language Universals; Learning transfer; Musicians; Native Speakers; Nouns; Orthography; Periodicals; Preferences; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Relative clauses; Second language learning; Second Languages; Chinese as a foreign language; Relative clause; Asymmetry; Elicited production

This study investigated whether L1-English Chinese learners show a subject preference in their oral production of Chinese relative clauses (RCs) and whether they show animacy effects. We conducted a picture-based elicited production experiment that compared subject and object RCs, varying the object...