“…The majority of these investigations are concerned with children's comprehension of relative clauses in English (cf. Brown 1971, Sheldon 1974, Smith 1974, Tavakolian 1977, 1981, de Villiers et al 1979, Goodluck & Tavakolian 1982, Hamburger & Crain 1982, Tager-Flusberg 1982, Keenan & Hawkins 1987, Schuele & Nicholls 2000, McKee & McDaniel 2001, Kidd & Bavin 2002. 1 English has a wide variety of relative clauses, which are commonly classified based on two structural features: (i) the syntactic role of the HEAD, that is, the main clause element that is modified by the relative clause; and (ii) the syntactic role of the GAP, that is, the element that is gapped or relativized inside the relative clause.…”