Honorific agreement in Korean: Retrieval processing and predictive processing

• 영문명: Honorific agreement in Korean: Retrieval processing and predictive processing
• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: 이소영(So Young Lee) 유명혜(Myung Hye Yoo)
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제40권 제3호, 387~407쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

This study investigates the processing mechanisms of subject-verb agreement in Korean, which offers a distinctive landscape that encompasses both optional and required agreement components. We particularly focused on the attraction effect, by teasing a part of agreement relationships (optional vs. required). The findings in this study indicate that Korean honorific agreements might employ a distinct processing strategy, potentially resembling the active search strategy observed in other long-distance dependencies in Korean. Korean speakers appear to predict the presence of honorific markers for dependency resolution, even though honorific agreements are not obligatory in the language. This research provides new insights into the crosslinguistic variations in processing strategies for subject-verb agreement.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Experiment

4. Results

5. Conclusion

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키워드

honorific agreements attraction effect processing strategies