The Comparison of Focus Particles between English and Korean
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The investigations into focus particles of English and Korean have been made from a variety of academic approaches. Theoretical literatures have shown the complexity of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features(Horn, 1969 ; Kay, 1990 ; Ross, 1979 ; Konig, 1990 ; Quirk, 1985 ; Sohn, 1999). Empirical and experimental studies regarding focus particles also reported that the process of comprehension of sentences containing a focus particle requires the complicated knowledge of interfaces at syntax, semantics and pragmatics(Crain et al., 1994 ; Paterson et al., 2003 ; Gualmini et al., 2003 ; Kim, 2011, 2015 ; Matsuoka, 2004 ; Höhle et al., 2009, 2016 ; Notley et al., 2009). Relative to a great deal of work for each focus particle in L1 acquisition, however, it is very recently that there have been attempts to extend it to the second language acquisition. Taking into consideration that English and Korean have different focus marking systems, it is expected that there would be more differences than similarities between them. Prior to the discussions regarding this, it is fundamental to explore how two languages differ from each other or are similar with each other in terms of the operations of focus particles. The purpose of the current study is to compare and contrast focus particles of English and Korean with focus on their syntactic and semantic characteristics. No attempts have been made to explore whether or not there are any similarities that underly the operation of focusing constituents in a sentence. This comparative study can make contributions to discover any language-universal or language-specific features in how the focus particles behave, which shades light on how focus markers are operative in human mind. (Tongmyoung Unverisity)
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The investigations into focus particles of English and Korean have been made from a variety of academic approaches. Theoretical literatures have shown the complexity of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features(Horn, 1969 ; Kay, 1990 ; Ross, 1979 ; Konig, 1990 ; Quirk, 1985 ; Sohn, 1999). Empirical and experimental studies regarding focus particles also reported that the process of comprehension of sentences containing a focus particle requires the complicated knowledge of interfaces at syntax, semantics and pragmatics(Crain et al., 1994 ; Paterson et al., 2003 ; Gualmini et al., 2003 ; Kim, 2011, 2015 ; Matsuoka, 2004 ; Höhle et al., 2009, 2016 ; Notley et al., 2009). Relative to a great deal of work for each focus particle in L1 acquisition, however, it is very recently that there have been attempts to extend it to the second language acquisition. Taking into consideration that English and Korean have different focus marking systems, it is expected that there would be more differences than similarities between them. Prior to the discussions regarding this, it is fundamental to explore how two languages differ from each other or are similar with each other in terms of the operations of focus particles. The purpose of the current study is to compare and contrast focus particles of English and Korean with focus on their syntactic and semantic characteristics. No attempts have been made to explore whether or not there are any similarities that underly the operation of focusing constituents in a sentence. This comparative study can make contributions to discover any language-universal or language-specific features in how the focus particles behave, which shades light on how focus markers are operative in human mind. (Tongmyoung Unverisity)
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