Acquisition of relative clauses : processing, typology and function, The

The Acquisition of Relative Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction: The acquisition of relative clauses; References; 1. Relative clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Emergentism; 3. The syntax of relative clauses; 4. The processing of relative clauses; Prominence; The distance between filler and gap; Chinese; Japanese and Korean; Summary; 5. The acquisition of relative clauses; The path problem; The closure problem; 6. Concluding remarks; References; 2.A connectionist account of the acquisition and processing of relative clauses.
Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse range of theoretical approaches and languages are bought to bear on the acquisition of this construction type, making the volume unique in its coverage. The volume will appeal to students and scholars whose interest lies in the acquisition and processing of syntax with a particular focus on complex sentences in crosslinguistic and functionalist perspective.