A Cross-Linguistic Analysis: Impacts of Relative Clause Structure on Cognition

Chengkangjie Huang; Nancy Yan; Xiangzhi Deng; Yijun Huo

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A Cross-Linguistic Analysis: Impacts of Relative Clause Structure on Cognition

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Chengkangjie Huang¹, Nancy Yan², Xiangzhi Deng³, Yijun Huo⁴^{, *}

¹Linguistics Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

²School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210000, China

³College of Education for the Future, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, Zhuhai, 519087, China

⁴Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

^*Corresponding author. Email: yh3433@tc.columbia.edu

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Yijun Huo

Available Online 11 July 2023.

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Keywords: English Relative Clause; Second Language Acquisition; Language and Cognition; First Language Influences
Abstract: With a rising amount of second language (L2) learners around the world. The understanding and using of L2 sentence structure is largely influenced by first language (L1) thinking patterns, especially when the two languages belong to different language systems. Previous studies on L1 and L2 focus largely on the differences between verb form and tenses. The test subjects in the present study are required to translate English sentences with relative clauses to Chinese. This experiment found that Chinese native speakers who learn English as L2 often fail to distinguish the structural relationship between the main clause and relative clause when given English sentences with relative clauses.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 11 July 2023
ISBN: 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_28
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_28 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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