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Although Keenan Comrie(1977)'s NPAH hypothesis is widely believed to predict the difficulty order of relative clauses(RCs) in SLA, most studies have been conducted on English(& European languages). So this study tests the NPAH's applicability to Korean language acquisition. The analysis of Chinese learners's speech corpus data(Study 1) and sentence combination production test(SCT: Study 2) results revealed that (a) learners used subject(SU) RCs more easier than direct object(DO) or oblique(OBL), (b) learners made strong association between SU and animate head nouns, DO/OBL and inanimate heads in speech corpus, but this tendency was not found on SCT(except SU). This study also dealt with (c) the different effects of formal instruction(PI & MOI), and (d) learners' ability to generalize their relativization knowledge to different types of RCs. Results of SCT revealed that (1) two types of instruction positively affected the rate of acquisition of RCs(PI=MOI). And (2) learners could generalize their relativization knowledge(DO) to another types(SU, OBL) equally.