The handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics. Volume 3, Korean / edited by Chungmin Lee, Greg Simpson and Youngjin Kim ; general editor, Ping Li.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-620) and indexes.

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A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and brain mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. Korean, a language of growing interest to linguists, differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, its lexicon, and its written and spoken forms - features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. This handbook, the third in a three-volume series on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Korean. with contributions by over sixty leading scholars, it covers topics in first and second language acquisition, language processing and reading, language disorders in children and adults, and the relationships between language, brain, culture, and cognition. It will be invaluable to all scholars and students interested in the Korean language, as well as cognitive psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Advances in Korean psycholinguistics; The basics of Korean; Part I Language acquisition; Part II Language processing; Part I Language acquisition; 1 Acquisition of the subject and topic nominals and markers in the spontaneous speech of young children in Korean; Purpose; Korean; Word order and case markers; Pragmatic constraint; Morpho-syntactic constraint; Methodology; The children; Data; Results; Development of pragmatic constraints; Development of morpho-syntactic constraints.

Acquisition of grammatical functionsDiscussion; 4 Do Korean children acquire verbs earlier than nouns?; Introduction; Noun bias; Theoretical claims for the noun bias; Theoretical claims against the noun bias; Studies of noun and verb acquisition in Korean; Participants of the studies; Data collection method: parental questionnaire versus a word-checklist; Criterion for verbs; Individual differences in styles of language learning; Number of total words in production; Proportions of nouns and verbs; Discussion; 5 The acquisition of the placement of the verb in the clause structure of Korean.

IntroductionEvidence from the scope of negation; Experimental investigations; Experiment 1; Experiment 2; General discussion; 6 Learning locative verb syntax: a crosslinguistic experimental study; Introduction; Syntax-semantics correspondences for locative verbs in English and Korean; Experiment; Method; Results; Summary of findings; Discussion; Conclusions and further research; 7 Language-specific spatial semantics and cognition: developmental patterns in English and Korean; Introduction; Theories of language and thought.

Crosslinguistic differences in spatial semantics of containment and supportThe categories of IN and ON in English, and KKITA in Korean; When do children acquire language-specific spatial categorization?; Spatial categorization in early production; Spatial categorization in early comprehension; How do children acquire language-specific categorization so early?; Preverbal spatial cognition; Nonlinguistic sensitivity to spatial categories in adults; Discussion; 8 Acquisition of negation in Korean; Introduction; Two forms of negation in Korean; NEG placement error: data; Some previous analyses.

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