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Yoon. Universal Versus Language-Specific Conceptual Effects on Shifted Word-Order Production in Korean: Evidence from Bilinguals
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Title: | Yoon. Universal Versus Language-Specific Conceptual Effects on Shifted Word-Order Production in Korean: Evidence from Bilinguals |
Authors: | Dennison, Heeyeon |
Keywords: | linguistics |
Date Issued: | 01 Feb 2008 |
Publisher: | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics |
Citation: | Dennison, Heeyeon. 2008. Yoon. Universal Versus Language-Specific Conceptual Effects on Shifted Word-Order Production in Korean: Evidence from Bilinguals. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics 39(2). |
Series: | University of Hawai‘I at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics |
Abstract: | Yamashita and Chang (2001) claimed that the long-before-short preference found in Japanese preverbal positions is due to a universal conceptual accessibility difference between long and short phrases (i.e., semantic richness of long phrases). However, the preference could also reflect the development of processing strategies and experience-based components in grammar (Hawkins 2004). To test this, one on-line production experiment and one off-line judgment study were conducted. They examined the long-before-short preference in Korean using proficient bilinguals of Ko.rean and English as well as native speakers of Korean, while also examining the animate-before-inanimate prefer.ence considered to be universal. The results show an experience-specific effect of length on word order (i.e., varia.tion in group behaviors), while finding a universal effect of animacy (i.e., uniformed response patterns from all groups). This study proposes that the long-before-short order is beneficial for the production system to lessen diffi.culty at the verb position. Thus, this ordering preference is not a conceptual effect but a special type of word order that reflects processing strategies influenced by experiences with grammar. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/73222 |
Rights: | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License |
Volume: | 2008 |
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Working Papers in Linguistics - 2008 |
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