The Acquisition of English Negatives by Young Korean Speakers:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Keun hyung Park In cheol Choi
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제89호, 169~187쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.06.01

영문 초록

This study deals with Korean learners acquisition of English negatives. According to previous research, learners of English pass through a stage that demonstrates the characteristics of learners interlanguage. Using a learner corpus (KELC), we show that Korean learners progress through several developmental stages before they master English negation. In addition, the errors made at each developmental stage reflect learners knowledge of syntactic representation in terms of functional categories. Specifically, at the beginner level, the learners do not use auxiliaries at all. As they move to the intermediate level at which the functional category begins to be used, they start using auxiliaries in front of the negator. However, their outcomes are undermined with inflection errors either on the auxiliary or on the thematic verb. Finally, at the advanced level, the inflection errors disappear although still the present tense dominates where the past tense is required. This developmental pattern is in accord with the stages reported in the literature and the maturation of syntactic representation (i.e., functional categories).

목차

1. Introduction

2. Literature Review

3. A Corpus Study

4. Results and Discussion

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

English negatives developmental stage Korean learners learner corpus functional category