Yoon, Jeong-Me. 2012. Wh-island Effects in Korean Wh-in-Situ Questions: Degradedness or Misinterpretation? Korean Journal of Linguistics, 37-2, 357-382. This paper addresses a question arising from the unexpected results of a judgment study of wh-island effects of wh-in-situ questions in Korean reported in Yoon (2010). In the study, two groups of speakers were found: the speakers who mistakenly interpreted wh-in-situ questions with a non-local wh-Q association as Y/N-questions and judged them to be acceptable and those who judged them to be acceptable under the correct wh-question interpretation. A natural question arising from such a result is why neither judgments are identical to the standard wh-island effect judgment in the syntactic literature. As an explanation, I hypothesize that the standard wh-island effect judgment corresponds to the misinterpretation judgment and argue for it by showing that there is a strong correlation between the wh-island effects reported in the syntactic literature and the possibility that wh-in-situ questions with a non-local wh-Q association will be misinterpreted as Y/N-questions but (ii) that no correlation is observed between the wh-island effects and the acceptability scores obtained from the study of average native speakers. Ultimately, the validity of this hypothesis suggests that the genuine nature of wh-island effects of wh-in-situ questions is misinterpretation, not degradedness. (Myongji University)
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Misinterpretation and Wh-Island Effects in Korean Wh-in-situ Questions 2.1 Main Findings of Yoon (2010) 2.2 A Processing-Based Explanation 3. Further Question and Hypothesis 4. Correlation Between Wh-Island Effects and Misinterpretation Rates 4.1 Predictions of the Hypothesis 4.2 Wh-in-Situ Questions with No Wh-Island Effects in Korean 4.3 Testing the Hypothesis 5. Further Questions and Suggestions 5.1 Misinterpretation vs. Degradedness 5.2 How to Interpret the Acceptability Scores 6. Conclusion
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wh-island effectswh-in-situ questionsgarden path sentencesreprocessingprocessing approach to island effects