Acquisition of the Mapping between the Causation Type and the Causative Form in Korean
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This paper investigates whether the two kinds of causatives in Korean (morphological and syntactic) encode causation to different degrees of directness, and at what age children acquire these properties. A Truth-Value Judgment Task was used to test twenty Korean-speaking adults and thirty-seven Korean-speaking children. The results showed that both adults and children usually accepted the syntactic causative with both direct and indirect causation. As for the morphological causative, however, both adults and children accepted it most of the time with direct causation. Further analysis by verb type showed that children's adult-like behavior was limited to only occur with certain high frequency verbs like mek-ta 'eat' and ip-ta 'wear', suggesting that there are developmental stages children go through in acquiring the adult-like mapping between the causative form and the causative type.
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This paper investigates whether the two kinds of causatives in Korean (morphological and syntactic) encode causation to different degrees of directness, and at what age children acquire these properties. A Truth-Value Judgment Task was used to test twenty Korean-speaking adults and thirty-seven Korean-speaking children. The results showed that both adults and children usually accepted the syntactic causative with both direct and indirect causation. As for the morphological causative, however, both adults and children accepted it most of the time with direct causation. Further analysis by verb type showed that children's adult-like behavior was limited to only occur with certain high frequency verbs like mek-ta 'eat' and ip-ta 'wear', suggesting that there are developmental stages children go through in acquiring the adult-like mapping between the causative form and the causative type.
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