The L2 Acquisition of English Locatives by Korean Speakers

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  • 韓国人英語学習者による所格交替の第二言語習得

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Abstract

The acquisition of argument structure has recently received considerable attention in SLA. This study seeks to add its findings regarding the knowledge of English locative patterns attained by Korean L2 learners to this line of inquiry. Following Bley-Vroman & Joo (2001) and Schwartz et al. (2003), an acceptability judgment task was administered to a group of adult Korean learners of English as a second language and to a group of native English speakers. The task consisted of items representing three different sentence patterns in which locative verbs appear : (a) Locative Alternation, (b) PP-Omission, and (c) Raising-to-Subject; these patterns were used to test for knowledge of semantic verb classes and how they map to syntax. The results are inconclusive regarding (c), but do provide evidence that Korean L2 learners can come to have principled, target-like knowledge of English locative verb classes in patterns (a) and (b).

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  • Second Language

    Second Language 3 (0), 49-68, 2004

    The Japan Second Language Association

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