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Proceedings/Recueil Des Communications Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development Année : 2017

Intervention Effects in Korean: Experimental L1 Evidence

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This paper provides experimental evidence from child as well as adult Korean bearing on the issue of intervention effects (IEs) with wh in-situ. As is well-known, in wh in-situ languages such as Japanese and Korean, when a wh-phrase is c-commanded by an intervener it cannot be interpreted in-situ. Ungrammaticality can be rescued by scrambling the wh-phrase above the intervener (Beck (1996), Beck &Kim (1997)). This paper takes up the question of whether Korean children (aged 5-7) know that a question with a wh in-situ falling in the scope of an intervener cannot be interpreted as a wh-question, while the corresponding question with the wh scrambled over the intervener can? To explore this question experimentally, we designed an original production task verifying under controlled discourse contexts the interpretation of in-situ wh-phrases in questions with an NPI intervener in Korean. Our findings revealed that children as young as five, just like adults, know that a question with a wh scrambled out of the scope of an NPI intervener is construed as a wh-question. Interestingly, however, when the wh remains in-situ in the scope of the intervener, two patterns of behavior were observed across both adult and child Korean: roughly 56% of the speakers showed IEs (assigned the target question a yes/no-question construal), while 44% of the speakers showed no IEs (assigned the target question a wh-question construal).

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hal-03966239 , version 1 (31-01-2023)

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Jiyoung Choi, Hamida Demirdache. Intervention Effects in Korean: Experimental L1 Evidence. Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1, pp.140-153, 2017, 978-1-57473-076-0. ⟨hal-03966239⟩
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