Inter-speaker variation in Korean pronouns

Kim, Kyeong-min; Han, Chung–hye

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“…6) 5) Two reviewers indicate that sloppy interpretation is hard to come by in (9a). As pointed out by Kim & Han (2016) and Kim (2019), speakers' variation is observed with pronoun interpretation. The important thing we have to note here is that (9a) and (9b) show the parallel behavior: the preferred interpretation is strict interpretation in the pronoun argument in (9a) and the null argument in (9b).…”

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A Pronoun Analysis of Null Arguments in Korean

Ahn¹,

Cho²

2020

Lang. Res.

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This paper aims to account for null arguments in Korean under pro analysis. Korean is a radical pro-drop language; therefore pro is extremely productive. Thus, if pro analysis can capture interpretations of null arguments without postulating a separate operation such as argument ellipsis, it will be a good example of Occam's razor. We highlight the premise that pro is a silent form of an overt pronoun. This paper shows that the pronoun analysis of null arguments is both conceptually and empirically advantageous. Sloppy readings and nonspecific readings for mass nouns are regarded as data apparently supporting argument ellipsis. However, we show that the data can be reanalyzed under parallelism between null arguments and overt pronouns. We also show that only pronoun analysis can give a solid explanation to scope interaction between disjunction and negation and ellipsis-resistant constituents. We further discuss some advantages of pronoun analysis in comparison with another type of pro analysis, N(P) substitution analysis.

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“…Careful and extensive experimental investigations related to speakers' variation are solicited for future research (cf. Kim & Han 2016, Han et al 2007. 13) With respect to scope of disjunction and negation, Japanese and Korean show slight difference.…”

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A Pronoun Analysis of Null Arguments in Korean

Ahn¹,

Cho²

2020

Lang. Res.

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“…As discussed earlier, different analyses are available for ku/kunye: some claim that it is a pronoun, while others view it as something other than a pronoun. Kim and Han (2016) investigated the status of ku/kunye by experimentally testing its availability as a bound variable and proposed that it was either a pronoun or an R-expression. Additionally, they reported the presence of between-speaker variation in their analysis of ku/kunye, meaning that ku/kunye would be a pronoun at least for the speakers who allowed the bound readings, while ku/kunye would be an R-expression for those who consistently disallowed the bound readings of ku/kunye.…”

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L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation

Kim

2023

Second Language Research

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This study investigates pronoun interpretation by second language (L2) learners of English, focusing on whether first language (L1) transfer and/or processing difficulty affect L2 learners’ pronoun resolution. It is hypothesized that L2 learners’ non-target performance in L2-pronoun interpretation is attributable to two sources. The first is the computational complexity required for pronoun resolution, as argued in L1 acquisition by Grodzinsky and Reinhart and L2 acquisition by Slabakova et al. The second is how pronoun interpretation operates in L1. The hypothesis is tested by comparing Korean and Spanish L2-English learners’ interpretation of English pronouns using a Truth Value Judgment Task. Both groups had difficulty rejecting pronouns with local-referential antecedents when their proficiency levels were low. Additionally, Korean speakers showed more non-target responses than Spanish speakers due to their knowledge of pronoun interpretation in Korean. These results indicate that both L1 transfer and processing difficulty may be sources of L2 learners’ non-target pronoun interpretation, supporting the hypothesis of the study.

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“…Two case studies of Korean demonstrate inter-speaker representational differences in the domain of syntax. Han et al (2007; and Kim & Han (2016) show that there are structures in Korean which could be grammatically represented in two possible ways, but that the contexts which provide definitive evidence for one or the other rarely occur in natural speech. When these disambiguating contexts are explicitly elicited from Korean speakers, the population sampled has been found to essentially split in half with respect to whether speakers have landed on one or the other grammatical analysis.…”

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Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation

MacKenzie

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The traditional focus of variationist sociolinguistic research is the patterning of language variation at the level of the community, which individual language users are said to learn and reproduce (Labov 1972; 2012). In this paper, I observe that, although members of a speech community may all have learned the same grammar of a sociolinguistic variable, they may nonetheless produce that variable in ways which obscure this. This “perturbation,” I argue, is epiphenomenal, stemming from at least two possible sources: individual differences in mental representations, and individual differences in speech production planning. Moreover, I demonstrate that these differences are not only inter-individual; they can also be intra-individual, such that speakers may undergo age-grading which disrupts their patterning of a variable from how they previously produced it. I ask whether these individual differences may give rise to changes in constraints in the same way that individual differences can lead to sound change. The paper concludes with a call for more research that integrates sociolinguistic, formal, and psycholinguistic approaches to the study of language variation and change.

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Inter-speaker variation in Korean pronouns

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A Pronoun Analysis of Null Arguments in Korean

A Pronoun Analysis of Null Arguments in Korean

L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation

Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation

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