The processing of ambiguous sentences by Iranian EFL learners A Study of Relative Clause Attachment

Mohammad TAHERİ; Moharam DAVODİ; Fatemeh NASİRİ

Makale detayları

The processing of ambiguous sentences by Iranian EFL learners A Study of Relative Clause Attachment

Yazarlar:

Mohammad TAHERİ | Moharam DAVODİ | Fatemeh NASİRİ

Yayıncı:

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi

Dergi:

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 2015 Vol.36 Issue 3, pp.1096-1105

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2015

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000921423

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

2587-246X

pISSN:

2587-2680

Özet:

 


Abstract. The current study examined the way adult Iranian EFL learners resolve relative clause attachment ambiguities, for example, in sentence: Someone saw the maid of the actress who was on the balcony. The main problem posed by those sentences is that the learners fail to process the ambiguous sentences, in fact, they don’t know that which noun they should prefer the attachment? 100 Inter-mediate Persian learners of English ( Aged 15 up to 21) recruited from two English language Centers in Qazvin, a province in Iran. Safiran and Apple Institute, the participants are asked to take part in an off-line questionnaire study, they replied to English off-line questionnaire. Their performance was revealed by the answers. the results indicated that Iranian EFL students do not opt for low attachment in resolving relative clauses, rather they choose high attachment in resolving relative clauses. An implication of these findings is that there is semantic relationship between the two options or possibilities which the parser tries to analyze them.

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Makale detayları

The processing of ambiguous sentences by Iranian EFL learners A Study of Relative Clause Attachment

Yazarlar: Mohammad TAHERİ | Moharam DAVODİ | Fatemeh NASİRİ

Yayıncı: Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi

Dergi: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 2015 Vol.36 Issue 3, pp.1096-1105

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2015

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000921423

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

eISSN: 2587-246X

pISSN: 2587-2680

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Mohammad TAHERİ | Moharam DAVODİ | Fatemeh NASİRİ

Yayıncı:

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi

Dergi:

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 2015 Vol.36 Issue 3, pp.1096-1105

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2015

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000921423

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

2587-246X

pISSN:

2587-2680