• 인지과학
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.35-56
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• 2007

이 논문의 목표는 첫째, 고대, 중세, 현대 영어에 나타나는 수의적 주어 현상을 다양한 문헌에 기초하여 기술적으로 자세히 고찰하고 역사적 변화에 대한 동기를 살펴보며, 둘째, 최근 영어사 연구에서 큰 역할을 하고 있는 인지적 제약(constraints)에 기반하여 수의적 주어 현상의 역사적 변화에 대한 원리적인 설명을 하는 것이다. 영어사에서 두 유형의 주어 생략-영 주어(pro) 탈락과 등위절 주어-이 고대, 중세, 및 현대 영어에 나타났는데, 고대 영어는 풍부한 굴절 체계의 영향으로 영주어 탈락과 등위절 주어 생략이 다 같이 나타났고, 굴절이 많이 약화된 중세영어에는 여전히 이 두 현상이 나타났으나 발생정도가 점점 감소 추세였으며, 따라서 소유격과 대명사를 제외하고는 굴절이 상실된 현대 영어에서는 영주어 탈락과 등위절 주어 생략 그 자체가 거의 사라지게 되었다. 이 논문에서는 영어발달사적 관점에서 고대, 중세, 현대 영어의 주어 생략현상이 문법적 측면에서 세 가지 제약들의 위계(hierarchy) 변화로 발생하였고, 형태적 측면에서는 굴절체계의 변화로 발생하였음을 보였다.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.117-149
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• 2004

The paper is to argue against the asymmetric CP-V2 analysis of Old English, according to which finite verbs invariably undergo movement into a clause-final T within subordinate clauses and reach the functional head C within main clauses. The asymmetric CP-V2 analysis, first of all, faces difficulty in explaining a wide range of post-verbal elements within subordinate clauses. To resolve the problem, the analysis has to abandon the obligatoriness of V-to-T movement or introduce various types of extraposition whose status is dubious as a legitimate syntactic operation. Obligatory V-to-T movement in Old English lacks conceptual justification as well. Crosslinguistic evidence reveals that morphological richness in verbal inflection cannot entail overt verb movement. Moreover, the operation is always string-vacuous under the asymmetric CP- V2 analysis and has no effect at the interfaces, in violation of the principle of economy. The distribution of Old English finite verbs in main clauses also undermines the asymmetric CP-V2 analysis. Conceptually speaking, a proper syntactic trigger cannot be confirmed to motivate obligatory verb movement to C. The operation not only gets little support from nominative Case marking, the distribution of expletives, or complementizer agreement but also requires the unconvincing stipulation that expletives as well as sentence-initial subjects result from string-vacuous topicalization. Finally, textual evidence testifies that Old English sometimes permits non-V2 ordering patterns, many of which remain unexplained under the asymmetric CP-V2 analysis.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.719-744
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• 2009

This paper aims to reexamine Homorganic Cluster Lengthening in Late Old English whereby OE short vowels became lengthened before specific consonant clusters such as /-ld, -nd, -mb, -rd, -rð, -ng, -rz/. As for the motivation for this apparently odd-looking sound change, I propose that it was the result of phonologization of the phonetic lengthening of syllables containing resonants homorganic with a following voiced obstruent. Adopting Luick's (1898) view of "resonant+voiced homorganic obstruent" phonologically as a single coda, I show that Homorganic Cluster Lengthening is in fact a natural sound change that can be explained with the proper postulation of a few quantity-related universal constraints within the framework of the Optimality Theory. The fact that the constraints and their ranking as posited in this paper can also account for Pre-Cluster Shortening points to the validity of my approach in the analysis of other quantity changes in Middle English.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.509-536
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• 2001

The traditional typology of English poetic meters makes a binary division between strong-stress (or accentual) meters and accentual-syllabic (or syllable-stress or syllable-accent) meters. According to this typology, Old and Middle English alliterative poetry was composed in strong-stress meter; the iambic pentameter from Chaucer to Yeats and on to the present has been an accentual-syllabic meter. Intersecting with this literary typology is a linguistic typology that classifies languages of the world as stress-timed or syllable-timed or some mix of the two. English is a clear example of a stress-timed language. Whereas most descriptions of strong-stress meter focus on the counting of stresses, the present study focuses on the patterns of unstressed syllables between the stresses (possibly at isochronous intervals). The implications of this analysis suggest a new typology in which certain forms of English verse follow strict grammatical stress (mainly Old and Middle English, but for reasons different from “strong-stress” expectations) and other forms are shaped by a compromise of grammatical stress and the metrical template. Within this later group, iambic pentameter contrasts with trochaic, anapestic, and dipodic meters in lending itself more readily to modulation. Some of this modulation comes from an easy incorporation into iambic pentameter of elements associated with Old and Middle English meters.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1043-1065
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• 2011

This study investigates i-umlaut which occurred in the period of pre Old English (OE) in two aspects: what motivates i-umlaut in OE and how the phenomenon can be analyzed within the framework of OT. Unlike root-controlled vowel harmony, i-umlaut in OE is triggered by the suffixal i or j in the unstressed syllable whereby a stressed root vowel becomes fronted or raised. In this study, it is proposed that i-umlaut in OE is driven by the weak trigger i or j to improve its poor perception: I-umlaut improves the poor perceptibility of the weak trigger by extending its feature-either [-back] or [-low]-onto the vowel in the stressed syllable. This study provides an OT-theoretic analysis utilizing the licensing account to vowel harmony proposed by Walker (2004, 2005). The licensing constraints, IDENT-IO(F) and the locally conjoined constraints are proposed and their interaction correctly captures the pattern of i-umlaut in OE. Also, it is shown that the licensing account proposed in this paper is superior to the previous analyses as well as the nonlicensing approaches in that it can provide a perceptual motivation couched in i-umlaut in OE.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.47-61
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is to survey the major elements that have changed English from a synthetic language to an analytic one. Therefore, this paper has looked at the differences between synthetic languages and analytic ones. In synthetic languages, the relation of words in a sentence is synthetically determined by means of inflections, while in analytic languages, the functions of words in a sentence are analytically determined by means of word order and function words. Thus, Old English with full inflectional systems shows the synthetic nature. However, in the course of time, Old English inflections came to be lost by phonetic changes and operation, which made English dependent on word order and function words to signal the relation of words in a sentence. The major phonetic changes that have shifted English are the change of final /m/ to /n/, the leveling of unstressed vowels, the loss of final /n/, and the decay of schwa in final syllables. These changes led to reduction of inflections of English as well as the loss of grammatical gender. The operation of analogy, the tendency of language to follow certain patterns and to adapt a less common form to a more familiar one, has also played an important role in changing English.

• 아동학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2004

This study investigated the relations of children's age, intelligence, and the concept of conservation to their learning of English. Ten 4-year-old children from 1 child-care center and 13 7-year-old children from 1 elementary school were tested after completion of 8 sessions of experimental English classes. Children's intelligence was measured by K-WPPSI for 4-year olds and K-WISC for 7-year-olds. Children were tested for number and liquid conservations. A Korean teacher with 11 years of experience of teaching children at American elementary schools taught the 2 groups with the same subjects and methods. Data were analysed by independent samples t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Pearson's r. The results showed that children's age and the concept of conservation were related to English learning. No statistically significant relationship with IQ was found.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.57-81
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• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 균형 잡힌 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 영어 읽기와 쓰기능력 증진에 효과적인지를 살펴보고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위해 D시의 유치원 만5세 유아 36명을(실험, 통제집단 각 18명씩) 대상으로 실험집단에 균형적 영어접근 프로그램을 8주간 주 2회 실시하였다. 본 연구의 검증을 위해 활용한 검사도구는 알파벳 읽기능력과 단어읽기능력은 이옥섭(1999)의 단어읽기 검사를 수정하여 사용하였으며, 책읽기 능력은 Sulzby(1985)의 읽기 발달단계를 검사도구로 사용하였다. 유아들의 쓰기발달 수준을 측정하기 위해 Hildreth(1936)와 Schikedanz(1986)의 쓰기 발달단계에 기초하여 이경화(1997)가 수정한 도구를 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 14.0 통계 프로그램을 사용하여 ANCOVA분석을 하였다. 연구결과를 요약하면, 첫째, 균형적 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 읽기능력 증진에 효과적임이 밝혀졌다. 하위 요인가운데 알파벳 읽기와 단어읽기는 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 나타났으나 영어책읽기에는 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 둘째, 균형적 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 쓰기능력 발달에 효과적임이 밝혀졌다. 따라서, 균형적 영어접근 프로그램이 유아들의 영어 읽기와 쓰기능력 증진에 긍정적 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.201-228
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• 2013

본 연구는 유아기 자녀를 둔 북한이탈주민 어머니의 영어교육에 대한 실태와 어려움을 알아보는 것이 목적이다. 연구대상은 유아기 자녀를 둔 북한이탈주민 201명이며, 영어교육의 실태에 대한 설문지와 심층면담을 통해 자료를 수집하고 분석하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 대부분의 북한이탈주민 어머니는 자녀에게 영어교육을 실시하고 있었으며, 만 3세 이전에 영어교육을 시작하는 경우가 많았다. 영어교육을 시키는 가장 주된 이유는 같은 또래들이 영어교육을 받고 있기 때문인 경우가 많았다. 자녀의 영어교육을 위한 도움제공은 10분 미만이 가장 많았고, 유아 혼자 복습을 하게하거나, 숙제를 강조하는 경우가 많은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 북한이탈주민 어머니들이 자녀에게 영어교육을 시킬 때의 어려움은 비용부담, 정보부족, 영어교육을 시킬 시간부족, 불만족스러운 영어교육 순으로 나타났다. 자녀의 한 달 영어교육비용은 3만원 미만이라는 응답이 가장 많았으며, 영어교육을 위한 지출은 가계에 부담이 된다는 응답이 많았다.

• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.211-231
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• 2003

The study of English words in terms of etymology has a long history, going back over 110 years since Murray et al. (1884). Scholars have therefore had lots of time to gather all kind of information on the origin of English words. In fact, Modern English is the product of a long and complex process of historical developments from a great diversity of sources. The origins and development of English words meaning ‘a vessel for washing, a bath or a toilet’ are traced from Old English to the twentieth century in this paper in terms of the semantic and/or conceptual categories of the words with their particular senses. We conclude this paper with a brief discussion of how the teaching of English words can give some feedback to both teachers and students under the circumstances of English education in Korea and/or how we come to a better understanding of this charming field of English etymology in its own right.