Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)

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

Authors
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
Corresponding Author
Yijun Huo
Available Online 11 July 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_28How to use a DOI?
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
978-2-38476-062-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_28How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
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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