The present study examined the development of aspect marking in Korean with a focus on -ko iss- and –a iss- imperfective markers, compared with progressive and perfective markers. First, we examined the comprehension accuracy of 3-4-year-old Korean-learning children, while observing their online interpretation patterns via their eye-fixation. Second, 3-4-year-olds’ production of aspect markers was elicited, using pictures/videos that portrayed various aspects of events. Both groups of children comprehended progressive meanings better than the perfective/resultative meanings. Accuracy between the imperfective markers didn’t differ but 4-year-olds were more accurate than 3-year-olds. In production, 4-year-olds were more accurate in producing -ko iss- than -a iss-, while 3-year-olds were less accurate in using both markers. Eye-gaze patterns showed that children were faster in identifying the resultative -ko iss- than -a iss- event. Taken together, these results suggest that Korean children may begin extending the progressive -ko iss- form into the result state before they fully acquire a new resultative form, indicating polysemous extension of the existing form as the acquisition mechanism of aspect morphology.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Experiment 1: Comprehension 2.1. Participants 2.2. Stimuli and Procedure 2.3. Results 3. Experiment 2: Production 3.1. Participants 3.2. Stimuli and procedure 3.3. Results 4. Conclusion and Discussion References
키워드
상 형태론발달한국어이해산출응시 패턴비완료상결과상aspect morphologydevelopmentKoreancomprehensionproductioneye-gaze patternimperfectiveresultative
저자
Hae-Young Kim [ Duke University ]
Youngon Choi [ Chung-Ang University ]
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