Do English Speakers Know “I Erased the Star but Not Completely” Is Acceptable in Korean?
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This experimental study has explored English native speakers’ event construals of accomplishment predicates (with incremental themes) in Korean. This study was grounded upon the following difference between English and Korean; accomplishment predicates in Korean can describe both complete and incomplete events while the corresponding predicates in English can describe only complete events. The phenomenon of partial completion interpretations of accomplishment predicates is called the Incompleteness Effect (IE). That is, Korean but not English displays the IE. We have predicted that such difference would be a source of negative transfer in the process of acquiring event interpretations of accomplishment predicates in Korean by English native speakers. We have tested this prediction with 22 English-speaking learners of Korean. We have found that while English advanced participants reliably accepted the accomplishment predicates as felicitous descriptions of incomplete events, English intermediate participants tended not to. This finding suggests that English-speaking learners at lower proficiency level are subjected to the L1 transfer; they clearly demonstrated full completion interpretation bias. This further suggests that L1 transfer effectively operates in the domain of L2 acquisition of semantics.
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This experimental study has explored English native speakers’ event construals of accomplishment predicates (with incremental themes) in Korean. This study was grounded upon the following difference between English and Korean; accomplishment predicates in Korean can describe both complete and incomplete events while the corresponding predicates in English can describe only complete events. The phenomenon of partial completion interpretations of accomplishment predicates is called the Incompleteness Effect (IE). That is, Korean but not English displays the IE. We have predicted that such difference would be a source of negative transfer in the process of acquiring event interpretations of accomplishment predicates in Korean by English native speakers. We have tested this prediction with 22 English-speaking learners of Korean. We have found that while English advanced participants reliably accepted the accomplishment predicates as felicitous descriptions of incomplete events, English intermediate participants tended not to. This finding suggests that English-speaking learners at lower proficiency level are subjected to the L1 transfer; they clearly demonstrated full completion interpretation bias. This further suggests that L1 transfer effectively operates in the domain of L2 acquisition of semantics.
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