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The influence of discourse information on the comprehension of null-subject sentences in Korean children
- THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
- 2008, 21(3), pp.81-97
- Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
- Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
Hyun Joo SONG 1, 최유정 1, 김민영 1
1연세대학교
Accredited
ABSTRACT
The current research explores Korean preschoolers' understanding of null-subject sentences using discourse information. The children listened to 4-sentence stories, while looking at pictures about the stories on a computer screen. In the last (target) sentence of each story, the subject was omitted and the referent of the omitted subject could be inferred from the preceding sentences. Both 5-years-old (Experiment 1) and 4-years-old (Experiment 2) children were likely to interpret omitted subjects as referring to the subject of the preceding sentence. This research is an initial attempt to investigate Korean preschoolers' sensitivity to discourse information when understanding ambiguous sentences in which the subject is omitted. The results will provide a foundation for further studies on the interplay between syntax and discourse in younger children's language comprehension.
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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.