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This study investigates how adult native speakers of Korean interpret the sentences containing Korean extrinsic plural marker -tul. This morpheme has been known as a distributive marker, by which the element it is attached to is distributed over the agent denoted by a subject nominal. Despite its unique function and disparity in judgments by Korean adult speakers, there has little research to provide a evidence of how it operates in sentence interpretations. In a picture truth value judgement task, participants were asked to compare a target sentence with a picture that either matches or mismatches it, the results showed that adult native speakers of Korean were able to licence the distributive reading when the extrinsic -tul is attached to direct objects or verbs. In addition, the copied -tul attached to a verb was found to be able to restrict its scope only to the verb rather than the verb phrase as a whole. It indicates that the extrinsic -tul plays a role of focus operator to which the element is distributed.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Korean Extrinsic Plural Marker -tul
  2.1. plural marker –tul and its occurrence
 3. The Present Study
 4. Experiment
  4.1. Subject
  4.2. Conditions
  4.3. Design (Picture True Value Judgement Task)
  4.4. Predictions
 5. Results
 6. Discussion
 7. Conclusion
 References

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• Soyoung Kim [ Tongmyong University ]

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