중국인 학습자의 한국어 조사 ‘이/가’와 ‘은/는’의 습득 연구

Abstract

The study has investigated Chinese learners’ acquisition of Korean particle i/ka and eun/nun which had different meanings depending on linguistic contexts. Meanings of i/ka include exclusiveness, information focus, specificity, selectional listing. eun/nun has meanings of topic and contrast; topic was sub-categorized into aboutness, genericity, givenness, and contrast into two types depending on the explicitness of counterparts. Participants of the study were 25 native speakers of Korean(NKs) and 40 Chinese learners of Korean(CKs), and CKs were divided into two groups of high CKs and low CKs according to their proficiency. They were asked to select a Korean particle appropriate to a given sentence among 4 choices. ANOVA on the scores of i/ka and eun/nun has been conducted to examine whether there existed significant differences among three groups in different linguistic contexts. The result showed that there were significant differences among scores of three groups. The results of additional analyses are as follows: (1) In four meanings of i/ka, which were included in the study, there were no significant differences between scores of NKs and high CKs. Scores of low CKs were significantly different from those of NKs and high CKs. (2) In three meanings of eun/nun, genericity, givenness and contrast, scores of low CKs and high CKs were significantly different from those of NKs, but there were no significant difference between two subgroups of CKs. However, in eun/nun which has meaning of 'aboutness', there was no significant difference between scores of NKs and high CKs, while scores of low CKs were significantly different from the others.