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The handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics. Volume 3, Korean /

A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and brain mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. Korean, a language of growing interest to linguists, differs significantly fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lee, Chungmin, Simpson, Greg, Kim, Yougjin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Korean
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Advances in Korean psycholinguistics; The basics of Korean; Part I Language acquisition; Part II Language processing; Part I Language acquisition; 1 Acquisition of the subject and topic nominals and markers in the spontaneous speech of young children in Korean; Purpose; Korean; Word order and case markers; Pragmatic constraint; Morpho-syntactic constraint; Methodology; The children; Data; Results; Development of pragmatic constraints; Development of morpho-syntactic constraints.
  • Acquisition of grammatical functionsDiscussion; 4 Do Korean children acquire verbs earlier than nouns?; Introduction; Noun bias; Theoretical claims for the noun bias; Theoretical claims against the noun bias; Studies of noun and verb acquisition in Korean; Participants of the studies; Data collection method: parental questionnaire versus a word-checklist; Criterion for verbs; Individual differences in styles of language learning; Number of total words in production; Proportions of nouns and verbs; Discussion; 5 The acquisition of the placement of the verb in the clause structure of Korean.
  • IntroductionEvidence from the scope of negation; Experimental investigations; Experiment 1; Experiment 2; General discussion; 6 Learning locative verb syntax: a crosslinguistic experimental study; Introduction; Syntax-semantics correspondences for locative verbs in English and Korean; Experiment; Method; Results; Summary of findings; Discussion; Conclusions and further research; 7 Language-specific spatial semantics and cognition: developmental patterns in English and Korean; Introduction; Theories of language and thought.
  • Crosslinguistic differences in spatial semantics of containment and supportThe categories of IN and ON in English, and KKITA in Korean; When do children acquire language-specific spatial categorization?; Spatial categorization in early production; Spatial categorization in early comprehension; How do children acquire language-specific categorization so early?; Preverbal spatial cognition; Nonlinguistic sensitivity to spatial categories in adults; Discussion; 8 Acquisition of negation in Korean; Introduction; Two forms of negation in Korean; NEG placement error: data; Some previous analyses.