명사구 접근성 위계와 영어 관계절 습득의 관련성 연구

On the relation between the NPAH and the acquisition of English Relative Clauses

The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) is widely believed to account for the acquisitional difficulty of relative clause types. To explore what governs the correlation, several experiments were carried out, including a sentence combining test for investigating the animacy effect and a reading comprehension test to measure processing time and accuracy. The results of the experiments show that NPAH effects exist independent of other processing effects such as animacy effects. Further, the fact that processing time and accuracy differ across relative clause types suggests that NPAH effects reflect differences in the syntactic complexity of relative clause types.