Based on 973 telephone corpus, we investigate prosodic features (PF) of sentence boundary (SB) in spontaneous speech from the point view of conversation analysis, and compare prosodic behaviors of SBs which have different communicative functions (CF).

Comparison and the translation of the attributive clauses of EST between Chinese and English languages;

In the translation from English into Chinese, people often use rhetoric skill of changing attribute and attributive clause into adverbial.

The appositive clause introduced by that differs largely from the attributive clause introduced by that both in expressions of meaning and grammar rules, but they are likely to be confused due to their similar appearances.

This article attempts to explore its general features in use on the basis of an analysis of the assertive utterances with the predicate "утверждать".

Expressions and Translation of English Divided Attributive Clauses;

This paper lists ten main difficult points of attributive clauses in order that everyone can use them correctly.

However, some attributive clauses in English have the adverbial functions in semantics, explaining the relations of time, reason, result, condition (or supposition), purpose or concession with the main clauses.

Examining Chinese EFL Learners Grammatical Competence--With Special Reference to Relative Clauses;

,restrictive relative clauses,and investigates,from a cognitive-functional perspective,the occurrence and distribution of varying relative clause constructions in discourse.

In translating English relative clauses into Chinese,translators tend to attach more importance to the linear syntactic adjustments and specification of the logical relations between the main clause and the relative clause,but few of them take into consideration the factors such as informational status and function of the clauses.