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A Discourse Analysis of Relative Clauses in Chinese and English: An Error in "An Error in Error Analysis."
Zhao, Rong – IDEAL, 1989
Recent research has shown that transfer operates on the discourse as well as the phonological, semantic, and syntactic levels. This is the case with relative clauses (RCs) used by Chinese students of English. RCs are less frequent in Chinese and their low incidence in interlanguage production by such students is a case of transfer, not avoidance.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis