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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