• Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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• v.2 no.2
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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.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.1
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• pp.227-236
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• 1997

How do aphasics deal with the inflectional marking occurring in agglutinative languages like Korean? Korean speech repetition, comprehension and production were studied in 3 Broca's aphasic speakers of Korean. As experimental materials, 100 easy sentences were chosen in 1st grade Korean elementary school textbooks about reading writing and listening, and two pictures were made from each sentence. This study examines the use of three kinds of inflectional markings--past tense, nominative case, and accusative case. The analysis focuses on whether each inflectional marking was performed well or not in tasks such as repetition, comprehension and production. In addition, morphological errors concerned with each inflectional marking were analyzed in view of markedness. In general, the aphasic subjects showed a clear preservation of the morphological aspects of their native language. So the view of Broca's aphasics as agrammatical could not be strongly supported. It can be suggested that nominative case and accusative case are marked elements in Korean.

• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• no.56
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• pp.297-329
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• 2014

This paper aims to examine the base inflectional forms of Korean old vernacular letters, and explain why it appears with frequency. In the korean old vernacular letters, the suffix 'ha-' and ending of the 'Base+ha-' adjective derivation are not appear with extraordinary frequency. I called it the base inflectional forms. I consider it in function and morphological constructions and also the syntactic constructions. Whenever Joseon-era people wrote a letter with a time limit, they have need to diminish their exertion to use of the brush. Therefore the base inflectional forms appear with extraordinary frequency in comparison with other papers. In the 'X ha-' word formation of Korean old vernacular letters, 'ha-' is formal morpheme without substantial meaning. So 'X' is left and 'ha-' and ending can be omitted resolutely. The base inflectional forms are occurred to voluntary language performance for a particular intention. but it is not appear in all conditions. In some circumstances, it appear. I checked out the constructions on base inflectional forms. In the 'X ha-' word formation, 'X' is predicative base without fail. and the ending which take part in base inflectional forms has a grammatical function unadulteratedly.

• Lingua Humanitatis
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• v.6
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• pp.185-211
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• 2004

Korean linguistics or linguistics In Korea has the viviparous limitation that on the one hand, it was influxed from Europe and Japan and on the other hand, these days the American linguistics takes the initiative in Korea. That's why Korean linguistics cannot be free of the problems of 'dependence/independence', 'central/marginal', etc. It calls for two conditions to study the nature of Korean itself and to establish the independence of Korean linguistics in this situation. The first condition is that we should reveal some peculiarities of Korean in itself. The second condition is that we should reveal universals of Korean by comparing it objectively with other languages which are typologically and genealogically different. 1 think the first is important but the latter is more important. To meet the second condition, we analysed the expansion structure of NP in Korean and French, and suggested a new tree-diagram for describing equivalently the NP structure of the two languages. As for VP structure, we suggested some possibilities of comparing the final endings in Korean with personal pronouns in French, and of comparing the prefinal ending 'si' in Korean with the second plural pronoun 'vous', etc. As a result of the comparison of Korean and French, we came to conclusion that Korean is a inflectional agglutinative language while French is a agglutinative inflectional one. In other words, they are same in 'typus', are different in 'topos'. This may be a surprising/unexpected conclusion. But this, we think, can lead us to much closer approach to the nature of the two languages Korean and French.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.1297-1304
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• 2008

This paper proposes a machine learning approach for language-independent sentence boundary detection. The proposed method requires no heuristic rules and language-specific features, such as part-of-speech information, a list of abbreviations or proper names. With only the language-independent features, we perform experiments on not only an inflectional language but also an agglutinative language, having fairly different characteristics (in this paper, English and Korean, respectively). In addition, we obtain good performances in both languages. We have also experimented with the methods under a wide range of experimental conditions, especially for the selection of useful features.

• Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.243-272
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• 2001

This paper focuses on the applicability of paradigm to derivational morphology and the pressure of paradigm enforced on derivational phonology and morphology. Through a close examination of well-attested data, we will demonstrate that apparent surface idiosyncrasies in phonology are the results of paradigm leveling, and that paradigmatic forces of analogy are productively operating in English word formation. On the basis of these observations, it can be argued that the notion of paradigm has at least some justification within derivational morphology as well, even if not to the same extent that it has with inflectional morphology and that the paradigm forces are independently needed in any adequate phonological and morphological theory. This can also be extended to provide evidence against the split morphology hypothesis that inflectional and derivational morphology belong to different grammatical modules.

• Language and Information
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.121-154
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• 1998

The morphological analyzer is expected to tell attested word forms from imaginable yet unattested ones. An account of the inflectional morphology of English verbs is given in the framework of Word-and-Paradigm morphology, developed mainly by Matthews (1972, 1974, 1991) and further by Aronoff (1994) and Zwicky (1985, 1988), which is free of overrecognition. Thirteen inflectional classes are identified according to the patterns each of them exhibits in filling the slots in the paradigm. Peculiarity in orthography is also considered in assigning each verb lexeme to a class. Modules of a C program which gives associated morphosyntactic properties to all and only attested verb forms are written so that details of this framework can be evaluated explicitly. This program is shown to be superior to existing programs in economy and in the generality it achieves.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.405-411
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• 1993

한국어 동사의 굴절은 (1) 접사의 누적 (2) 어간과 접사의 변이형 (allomorphy) (3) 원격한 접사의 꼴이 어간에 민감한 점 등의 이유로 단순한 접사 추출(affix-stripping)에 의한 형태소 분석이 감당하기 어려운 부분을 갖고 있다. 따라서 형태소에 바탕을 둔 형태이론보다 더 세련된, 낱말에 바탕을 둔 형태이론이 요구되는데, 이 논문에서는 "낱말 패러다임 형태이론 (Word and Paradigm Morphology)"에서 실현규칙(rules of realization)이 언급하는 요소 중의 하나인 굴곡 부류(inflectional classes)가 어떻게 설정되어야 할 것인가를 다룬다. 특정한 형태 통사적 속성들(morpho-syntactic properties)이 실현될 때 (1) 주요 어간(primary stem)이 요구되느냐 아니면 부차 어간 (secondary stem)이 요구되느냐, 그리고 (2) 접사의 어떤 꼴이 요구되느냐에 바탕을 두고 한국어의 동사를 열 다섯개의 굴절 부류로 분류한다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.203-235
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• 2013

The goal of this paper is to test the findings about English-speaking children's acquisition of inflectional morphemes in the literature using a large-scale database. For this, we obtained a 4.7-million-word corpus from the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) database, and analyzed 1,630 British and American children's uses of English derivational morphemes up to age 7. We analyzed the type and token frequencies, type per token ratio (TTR), and the lexical diversity (D) for such inflectional morphemes as the present progressive -ing, the past tense -(e)d, the comparative and superlative -er/est with reference to children's nationality and age groups. To sum up our findings, the correlations between the D value and children's age varied from morpheme to morpheme; e.g. we found no correlation for -ing, a marginal correlation for -ed, and a strong correlation for -er/-est. Our findings are consistent with Brown's (1973) classical observation that children learn progressive forms earlier than the past tense marker. In addition, overgeneralization errors were frequently found for -ed, but rarely for -ing, showing a U-shaped developmental pattern at ages 2-3. Finally, American children showed higher D scores than British children, which showed that American children used inflectional morphemes for more word types compared with British children. The present study has its significance in testing the earlier findings in the literature by setting up well-defined methodology for analyzing the entire CHILDES database.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2001.10d
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• pp.267-272
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• 2001

구(phrase) 단위 또는 문장(sentence) 단위의 연어(collocation) 정보는 자연언어 처리를 위한 단일어 또는 이중어 데이터베이스를 구축할 수 있는 중요한 기초 자료가 될 뿐 아니라, 외국어 학습에서도 어휘 단계를 넘어선 학습 자료를 제공할 수 있다. 불어는 굴절 언어(inflectional language)로서 기본형 대 굴절형의 비율이 약 1:9 정도로 비교적 굴절 비율이 높은 언어다. 또한 불어 표제어 중 95% 이상을 차지하는 불어의 동사, 명사, 형용사 중 상당한 비율이 암기해야 할 목록(list)이라는 특성을 갖기 때문에 검색과 학습에 있어 오류가 지속적으로 일어나는 부분이다. 표제어의 검색의 경우 불어 굴절 현상을 지원하는 전자 사전이 개발되어 있지만 아직까지 연어 정보에서 굴절형을 지원할 수 사전 또는 데이터베이스는 개발되어 있지 않다. 본 연구의 목적은 전자 사전과 형태소 분석기를 이용하여 굴절형 처리를 지원할 수 있는 불-한 연어 데이터베이스를 구축하는데 있다. 이를 위해 부산대학교 언어정보 연구실에서 개발한 불어 형태소 분석기 Infection와 불-한 전자 사전 Franco를 사용하였으며, 지금까지 구축된 불-한 연어 정보는 94,965 개이다. 본 고에서는 두 정보를 이용하여 불어 굴절형 정보를 분석 및 생성하는 방식 및 불-한 연어 데이터베이스 구조를 살펴 본다.