Examining Main Clause Similarity and Frequency Effects in the Production of Tagalog Relative Clauses

dc.contributor.author Tanaka, Nozomi
dc.contributor.author Bondoc, Ivan Paul
dc.contributor.author Deen, Kamil
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-28T22:36:20Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-28T22:36:20Z
dc.date.issued 2022-11-28
dc.description.abstract This study investigates two possible factors in the well-known subject preference in the acquisition and processing of relative clauses (RCs): (i) an effect of similarity between declarative and relative clauses and (ii) an effect of frequency of certain RC types. Two production experiments were conducted with adult and child speakers of Tagalog, a verb-initial language with a Philippine-type voice system. One experiment elicited declarative clauses and the other elicited relative clauses; both had two animacy conditions: animate-animate (animate agent and patient) and animate-inanimate (animate agent, inanimate patient). Experiment 1’s results show a preference for patient voice in the animate-animate condition only. Experiment 2’s results show a preference for the relativization of the agent in the animate-inanimate condition only. We suggest that the interplay of a patient voice preference in Tagalog with a general preference for the relativization of agents – the source of which remains undetermined – may explain these results.
dc.format.extent 17 pages
dc.identifier.issn 1836-6821
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10524/52506
dc.subject Tagalog
dc.subject voice
dc.subject relative clause
dc.subject.languagecode tgl
dc.title Examining Main Clause Similarity and Frequency Effects in the Production of Tagalog Relative Clauses
dc.type Research article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 86
prism.number 2
prism.publicationname Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage 70
prism.volume 15
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