(The)acquisition of relative clauses in English and Korean : development in spontaneous production

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• ABSTRACT
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
• 1.1. Description of the study = 1
• 1.2. Outline of Chapters 2 to 6 = 14
• 1.3. Prior research on the acquisition of relative clauses as reflected in production data = 15
• 1.4. Data collection and analysis = 26
• CHAPTER 2. COMPARISON OF SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION DATA AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• 2.1. Some principles in comparing comprehension and production data = 31
• 2.2. Comparison between spontaneous production data and results from previous comprehension studies
• 2.2.1. Parallel Function Hypothesis = 38
• 2.2.2. Accessibility Hierarchy Hypothesis = 45
• 2.2.3. Conjoined-Clause Hypothesis = 52
• 2.2.4. Anti-Interruption Hypothesis = 62
• CHAPTER 3. STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THE ACQUISITION OF RELATIVES
• 3.1. Korean
• 3.1.1. Grammatical sketch of relative clauses in Korean = 72
• 3.1.2. Prenominal adjectives and sentential relative clauses = 74
• 3.1.3. The development of head nouns = 87
• 3.2. English
• 3.2.1. The development of head nouns = 93
• 3.3. The development of proto-relatives into true relative clause constructions : a hypothesis on the acquisition of the structure = 103
• CHAPTER 4. PRAGMATIC／COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS OF RELATIVE-CLAUSE-CONTAINING UTTERANCES
• 4.1. Pragmatic／communicative functions of relative-clause-containing utterances produced by the English-speaking children = 109
• 4.2. Pragmatic／communicative functions of relative-clause-containing utterances produced by the Korean-speaking children = 123
• 4.3. Comparison between English and Korean from a functional perspective = 136
• CHAPTER 5. RELATIONS BETWEEN SYNTACTIC AND PRAGMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RELATIVE CLAUSES
• 5.1. Matrix grammatical roles of head nouns = 146
• 5.2 Relativization on subject NPs = 152
• 5.3. Copular complements = 166
• CHAPTER 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION = 174
• APPENDICES = 184
• BIBLIOGRAPHY = 195