L2 acquisition of English raising constructions: Evidence from grammaticality judgments

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Jinsun Choe
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제43권 제2호, 451~473쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2026.06.30

국문 초록

This study investigates Korean-speaking learners’ acquisition of English raising constructions, focusing on syntactic intervention effects. In particular, we examine raising structures with an intervening experiencer, a configuration that creates a potential intervention context under standard locality principles. In a binary grammaticality judgment task, 106 participants evaluated sentences varying in grammaticality (grammatical vs. ungrammatical), structure (raising vs. unraised), and experiencer type (intervening vs. fronted vs. none). Results showed higher accuracy for grammatical than ungrammatical sentences, indicating overall sensitivity to grammatical well-formedness. Critically, within grammatical sentences, accuracy was lowest for raising constructions with an intervening experiencer. These sentences elicited lower accuracy than both their unraised counterparts and raising constructions with either a fronted experiencer or no experiencer, indicating a clear signature of intervention effects. Overall, the findings suggest that learners’ grammaticality judgments reflect sensitivity to structural intervention and that raising across an intervening experiencer remains especially difficult for Korean learners of English.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical and empirical background

3. Method

4. Results

5. General discussion

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

raising constructions intervention effects experiencer grammaticality judgment L2 acquisition

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• MIT Press
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• Second Language