L1/L2 Influence in the Interpretation of Pronouns

• 발행기관: 한국외국어교육학회
• 저자명: Soo-Ok Kweon
• 간행물 정보: 『Foreign Languages Education』Vol.24 No.1, 23~42쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.03.30

영문 초록

This paper examines the putative universality of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) postulated for pro-drop languages by observing the interpretational status of overt and null pronouns in the context of quantified antecedents that contrasts between Korean (pro-drop language) and English (non pro-drop language). In pro-drop languages, an overt pronoun cannot have a bound variable interpretation when the antecedent is a quantified NP (e.g., everyone, someone). Twenty three Korean learners of English took a forced-choice picture task, in which they had to select one of the two pictures that best depicted a sentence they heard that carried ambiguous meanings. Results showed that Korean speakers accepted a quantified antecedent with Korean overt pronoun ku, violating the OPC. The imperfect knowledge of the OPC by Korean speakers was attributed to the influence of the English overt pronoun he on the Korean overt pronoun ku. Pedagogical implications are discussed on the explicit instructions on the meanings of lexicon used in the OPC construction.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Theoretical Background

III. Research Methods

V. Results

VI. Discussion

VII. Conclusion and Implications

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키워드

L1 L2 영향 명시적 대명사 제약 한국어 L1 L2 influence Overt Pronoun Constraint Korean