Causality in Korean Children's Narratives
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Causality, one of the fundamental semantic concepts, is expressed by various linguistic means cross-linguistically. This paper examines how causal relations are encoded in L1 Korean children’s narratives. Fifty seven Korean children and 30 adults participated in a story telling task, in which narrative data were elicited using a wordless picture book. An analysis of the data reveals the following patterns: 1) At the early stages, the children tended to express either the cause or the effect of a causal event, but not both of them. 2) The cause-effect relation of an event was first expressed by causal connectives, followed by morphological causatives, and then syntactic causatives; however, syntactic causatives were very rare even in adult narratives. 3) Direct and indirect causation were differentiated by Korean adults, but the distinction was weak in the case of the Korean children.
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Causality, one of the fundamental semantic concepts, is expressed by various linguistic means cross-linguistically. This paper examines how causal relations are encoded in L1 Korean children’s narratives. Fifty seven Korean children and 30 adults participated in a story telling task, in which narrative data were elicited using a wordless picture book. An analysis of the data reveals the following patterns: 1) At the early stages, the children tended to express either the cause or the effect of a causal event, but not both of them. 2) The cause-effect relation of an event was first expressed by causal connectives, followed by morphological causatives, and then syntactic causatives; however, syntactic causatives were very rare even in adult narratives. 3) Direct and indirect causation were differentiated by Korean adults, but the distinction was weak in the case of the Korean children.
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