The Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin: Evidence from Monolingual and Mandarin-English Heritage Bilingual Children.

For head-initial languages like English, there is a strong consensus that subject relative clauses (RCs) are acquired earlier and are processed more easily than object RCs. However, for head-final languages like Mandarin, theoretical predictions and findings are in conflict on whether there is a uni...

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Published in:	Language Learning & Development Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 271 - 293
Main Authors:	Zhang, Shijie, Tantucci, Vittorio, Brandt, Silke
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2025
Subjects:	China Comparative grammar Task performance Analysis of variance Vocabulary Multilingualism in children Vowels Statistical correlation Phonological awareness Descriptive statistics English language Data analysis software
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