• 제목/요약/키워드: Universal Grammar

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An MP Interpretation of EFL Learners′ Linguistic Behaviour

  • Kang, Ae-Jin
    • 한국영어학회지:영어학
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.33-60
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    • 2004
  • This study was an attempt to present an appropriate way of interpreting L2 learners' linguistic behavior within Universal Grammar (UG) framework. Based on the Korean EFL adult learners' performance on the Subjacency violation sentences, the study suggested that the EFL learners are able to acquire subtle knowledge of target grammar and their linguistic behavior should be interpreted with the most recent version of UG theory, the Minimalist Program (MP) notion. The MP notion seems more plausible to accommodate incomplete L2 grammar while acknowledging UG-constrained interlanguage which the previous version, Principles and Parameters (P&P) approach, could not explain very well. The study observed no age-effects among the Korean EFL learners in their linguistic competence measured by the performance on the UG-constraint violation sentences. Having suggested that the MP notion can be a more reasonable tool to explain the EFL learners' linguistic behavior, the study introduced comprehensive hypotheses such as Constructionist Model (CM) and the Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM).

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Korean Learners' Development of English Passive Constructions

  • Park, Hye-Sook
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.199-216
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    • 2009
  • This study investigates how Korean speakers develop their interlanguage of English passive constructions with a reference to the learners' grammar proficiency levels. Sixty two college students of different levels of English participated in this study. They were asked to complete a sentence-completion task. Their production was classified into accurate passives, malformed passives, pseudo-passives, unaccusatives, and actives according to the use of transitive, ergative and unergative verbs. They then were further analyzed depending on the subjects' levels of grammar by three main factors: L1 transfer, the English voice system, and universal cognitive factors. The results showed that the subjects of the lower group produced more pseudo-passives, malformed passives, and overpassivization than those of the higher group, and even subjects of higher group still made passives for ergative verbs. It was also shown that L1 and universal factors had more influence on the lower group than on the higher group. Based on the analyses of the subjects' responses, the development of the English passive system by Korean learners is shown and some implications are suggested for effective teaching of English.

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한국(韓國) 아동(兒童)의 관계절 습득 연구 - 보편문법(普遍文法) 언어원리(言語原理)의 지속적(持續的) 언어습득(言語習得) 이론(理論)을 중심으로 - (The First Language Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Korean: Continuity of the Principles of Universal Grammar in First Language Acquisition)

  • 이귀옥
    • 아동학회지
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.125-138
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    • 1992
  • The purpose of the present study was to examine the development of embedding through relative clause formation in the first language acquisition of Korean. Results are reported from the study of the spantaneous natural speech of 36 young Korean children ranging from 16 months to 45 months in age acquiring Korean as their first language in Chinju, Korea. The results revealed a developmental order in the first language acquisition of Korean relative clause structures. Namely, a free or headless relative clause appears to be acquired first, before lexically headed restrictive relative construction. This order is consistent with one evidenced in English (and also Chinese) first language acquisition, 'free' relatives appear to provide a developmentally early stage in the acquisition of restrictive relative clauses. The Korean data provided additional evidence for an intermediary stage with an overt complementizer as well as an overt lexical head. Implications for the results are disscused with regard to a continuous theory of universal grammar in the first language acquisition.

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결합범주문법을 이용한 한국어 부정극어와 부정어의 통사 및 의미적 관계 분석 (An Analysis of Syntactic and Semantic Relations between Negative Polarity Items and Negatives in Korean.)

  • 김정재;박정철
    • 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.53-76
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    • 2004
  • Negative polarity items(NPIs), which function as quantifiers are licensed in a syntactically strict way by negatives, which function as qualifiers, resulting in universal negating interpretations as pairs. We present a proposal to explain the related phenomena, in which the syntax and the semantics are closely related to each other, with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. For this purpose, we first adopt the usual approach to scrambling, but control its overgeneration with the use of markers, taking into account the complex syntactic phenomena involving NPIs and scrambling in Korean. We also propose to utilize polarity intensity as a novel feature, in order to account for the universal negating interpretations when NPIs are combined with negatives. Our proposal also explains the difference in readings when other quantifiers or qualifiers intervene the NPI and the related negatives.

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English Floating Quantifiers and Lexical specification of Quantifier Retrieval

  • Yoo, Eun-Jung
    • 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2001
  • Floating quantifiers(FQs) in English exhibit both universal and language specific proper- ties This paper discusses how such syntactic and semantic characteristics can be explained in terms of a constraint-based, lexical approach to the floating quanti- fer construction within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar(HPSG). Based on the assumption and FQs are base-generated VP modifiers, this paper proposes and account in which the semantic contribution of FQs consists of a "lexically retrieved" universal quantifier taking scope over the VP meaning.P meaning.

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디지털 게임의 장르 문법 연구 -FPS 장르를 중심으로- (A Study of Digital Game Grammar)

  • 이동은
    • 한국게임학회 논문지
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.7-18
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    • 2015
  • 본 연구는 디지털 게임, 그 중에서도 특히 FPS 장르의 게임들이 특정한 규칙과 패턴을 반복, 변형, 적용하면서 발전해가고 있음을 전제로 FPS 게임의 장르적 관습을 이론화하고 이를 통해 세부 문법을 도출하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 우선 게임 장르 연구의 필요성을 검증하고, 구체적인 사례를 통해 FPS 게임의 장르적 문법을 여섯 가지 측면에서 도출한다. 여섯 가지 측면은 FPS의 서사 문법, 아바타, 공간, 주요 아이템인 무기, 게임 플레이의 핵심인 사격 메커니즘, 그리고 인터페이스이다. 이와 같은 연구는 게임학 이론 정립에 이바지하고 게임을 기획하거나 개발하려는 창작자들을 위한 하나의 지시서를 제공한다는 점에 의의가 있다.

문법으로서의 논리 ― 비트겐슈타인의 논리관 ― (Logic as grammar: Wittgenstein’s view of logic)

  • 이영철
    • 논리연구
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.57-91
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    • 2008
  • 철학적 문제들의 발생은 언어의 논리에 대한 오해에 기인한다는 신념에 따라, 비트겐슈타인의 철학적 탐구는 언제나 언어의 논리 문제를 중심으로 전개되었다. 그의 철학적 작업은 실로 논리적 탐구였다고 할 수 있다. 그러나 그가 생각한 언어의 논리란 무엇인가? 그것은 처음부터 언어의 문법으로서 이해되었지만, 이 이해에는 그의 전후기에 중요한 변화가 있었다. 초기에 그는 언어의 논리를 이상적 표기법에서 실현되는 진리 함수적 구문론과 같은 것으로 이해했으나, 후기에 그는 언어의 논리를 언어놀이의 다양한 언어 사용 규칙들로서 보는 데로 나아갔다. 그것은 논리를 모든 가능성이 미리 규정되어 있는 매우 엄격하고 이상적인 하나의 보편적 문법 체계로서 보는 데서부터, 논리를 미리 생각되지 않은 가능성에 열려 있고 언어놀이들에 특유한 다양한 언어 사용 규칙들로 이루어진 문법 체계들로서 보게 되는 변화이다. 이 글은 그의 전후기 논리관의 상이한 핵심과 그 변화 이유를 다루고 있다. 특히 논리의 자율성과 필연성에 대한 그의 전후기의 관점 변화가 다루어진다.

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한국인 EFL 학습자의 결정적 시기와 보편문법 (The critical period in Korean EFL contexts and UG)

  • 한혜령
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제6호
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    • pp.219-239
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    • 2000
  • There has been a growing enthusiasm in Korea for the early education of English as a foreign language (EFL). The present study examined the validity of the Critical Period Hypothesis in terms of the Universal Grammar (UG), in three different types of learning contexts - first language (L1), second language (SL), and foreign language (FL) learning contexts. While previous research findings in L1 and SL learning contexts suggest that UG principles and parameters are accessible to language learners only for the early years of lifetime, this article argues that their results - and even the methods - cannot be applied to EFL settings and that independent studies on the EFL context are, required. It also proposes the recent UG notion of functional categories as the most appropriate subject in the discussion of Korean EFL learners' access to UG. Findings on foreign language contexts, including the author's own, strongly indicate that UG is not sensitive to learners' starting ages in FL settings. If young children in FL contexts cannot develop their interlanguage grammar based on UG, the existing teaching methods for young children should be revised.

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매개변항, 부분집합원리, 재귀대명사습득 (Parameter. Subset Principle, and the Acquisition of Korean Reflexive Anaphora)

  • 조숙환
    • 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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    • 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1989년도 한글날기념 학술대회 발표논문집
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    • pp.296-301
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    • 1989
  • 본 논문의 목적은 매개변항(parameter)과 부분집합원리(subset principle)를 재귀대명사 구조분석 및 습득에 적용하여 보편문법(Universal Grammar)과 언어습득의 상호관계를 검토하는 데에 있다. 본 논문은 첫째, 재귀대명사 '자기'를 매개변항이론에 근거하여 분석하고, 둘째, 재귀사의 구조를 부분집합원리에 적용하여 '자기'의 습득과정을 관찰한다. 본 논문의 목적을 위해 두 가지 가설을 세워 실험적으로 검증하였다. 실험결과, 선행사자격 습득단계의 가설이 확증되었으며, 지배변항 습득단계의 가설은 결정적 증거가 미비해 앞으로의 과제로 남아 있다.

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한국인 영어 학습자의 영어 굴절 자질 습득 (Korean EFL Learners영 Acquisition of English Inflectional Features.)

  • 양현권
    • 한국영어학회지:영어학
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    • 제2권2호
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    • pp.227-248
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    • 2002
  • This paper reviews current developments in UG-related SLA·FLL research. It discusses the findings of Hahn (2000), Shin (2000) and Yang (2001) with respect to the following issues: the role of UG parameters in SLA·FLL and the developmental aspects of inflectional categories in Korean EFL learners' interlanguage. It contends that Korean EFL learners' inflectional grammars are constrained by L1 as well as by Universal Grammar.

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