영어권 한국어 학습자의 척도 함축 해석에 대한 실험 연구
An experimental study on the interpretation of scalar implicatures by English learners of Korean
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This study aims to explore second language acquisition of the scalar implicatureby English-speaking learners of Korean. To this end, we designed two scalarimplicature tasks in Korean and English. Experiment 1 provided a sentenceevaluation task with no context classified in terms of informational strength andfelicity. In Experiment 2, the participants were asked to determine the felicity oftarget sentences with scalar or logical reading in a given context that triggersscalar interpretation. In both experiments we analyzed the acceptance rate onscalar implicatures and found that there was a difference in the acceptance ratebetween native Koreans and English learners of Korean. This indicates the scalarinterpretation in L2 processing is more effortful than in one’s native language. We found that the experimental methods between Experiment 1 and 2 did notaffect the results. In both experiments, the acceptance rate on scalar interpretationby L2 learners was lower than by L1 speakers. We also found that the acceptancerate varies depending on lexical items: For example, both ‘myechmyech’ and‘etten’ correspond to English ‘some’, but the acceptance rate on scalarinterpretation with ‘myechmyech’ was higher than the acceptance rate with‘etten’. This suggests that we need to closely examine the semantic properties ofthe lexical items that seemingly have one-to-one correspondences between L1 andL2. The results in this study support the claim that the processing of scalarimplicature is effortful, so L2 learners have difficulty interpreting sentences withscalar items.
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This study aims to explore second language acquisition of the scalar implicatureby English-speaking learners of Korean. To this end, we designed two scalarimplicature tasks in Korean and English. Experiment 1 provided a sentenceevaluation task with no context classified in terms of informational strength andfelicity. In Experiment 2, the participants were asked to determine the felicity oftarget sentences with scalar or logical reading in a given context that triggersscalar interpretation. In both experiments we analyzed the acceptance rate onscalar implicatures and found that there was a difference in the acceptance ratebetween native Koreans and English learners of Korean. This indicates the scalarinterpretation in L2 processing is more effortful than in one’s native language. We found that the experimental methods between Experiment 1 and 2 did notaffect the results. In both experiments, the acceptance rate on scalar interpretationby L2 learners was lower than by L1 speakers. We also found that the acceptancerate varies depending on lexical items: For example, both ‘myechmyech’ and‘etten’ correspond to English ‘some’, but the acceptance rate on scalarinterpretation with ‘myechmyech’ was higher than the acceptance rate with‘etten’. This suggests that we need to closely examine the semantic properties ofthe lexical items that seemingly have one-to-one correspondences between L1 andL2. The results in this study support the claim that the processing of scalarimplicature is effortful, so L2 learners have difficulty interpreting sentences withscalar items.
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