{"title":"A revisit of three hypotheses about second language development of English relative clauses","authors":"Chi Wui Ng","doi":"10.1075/pl.23008.ng","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Cantonese-English learners in Hong Kong confront with substantial difficulty in development of English relative\n clauses. This study aims at verifying predictions of hypotheses about second language learners’ development of English relative\n clauses with data of written Hong Kong English. wh relatives and that relatives in the Hong Kong\n component of the International Corpus of English were identified. Frequencies of occurrence of distinct types of relative clauses\n in the Hong Kong component were compared to evaluate whether predictions of Keenan and\n Comrie’s (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy, Kuno’s (1974)\n Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis, and Hamilton’s (1994) Subject-Object Hierarchy\n Hypothesis are supported by the corpus data respectively. Results indicate that the Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis is supported\n by data of written Hong Kong English whilst the other two hypotheses are partially supported only. Hypotheses supported by corpus\n data of written Hong Kong English are suggested to inform English language education in Hong Kong by illuminating the\n instructional order of different types of English relative clauses.","PeriodicalId":497578,"journal":{"name":"Pedagogical linguistics","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pedagogical linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"0","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.23008.ng","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Cantonese-English learners in Hong Kong confront with substantial difficulty in development of English relative
clauses. This study aims at verifying predictions of hypotheses about second language learners’ development of English relative
clauses with data of written Hong Kong English. wh relatives and that relatives in the Hong Kong
component of the International Corpus of English were identified. Frequencies of occurrence of distinct types of relative clauses
in the Hong Kong component were compared to evaluate whether predictions of Keenan and
Comrie’s (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy, Kuno’s (1974)
Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis, and Hamilton’s (1994) Subject-Object Hierarchy
Hypothesis are supported by the corpus data respectively. Results indicate that the Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis is supported
by data of written Hong Kong English whilst the other two hypotheses are partially supported only. Hypotheses supported by corpus
data of written Hong Kong English are suggested to inform English language education in Hong Kong by illuminating the
instructional order of different types of English relative clauses.
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