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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Korean speakers"”.
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
… and constructions in English-, Japanese- and Korean-speaking learners' L2 Chinese grammars. The aim of the research is to find out whether Ll transfer persists in L2 Chinese and whether L2 learners can acquire the functional AspP involved in Chinese resultative and compound causative …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… such a study has not been conducted in the L1 Korean context. Therefore, this research aimed to explore the use of verb grammar patterns across L1 Korean speakers through the Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC). The CLC is the largest corpus to date and contains written exam scripts from six …
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The Sensitive Period Hypothesis in L2 Production: /I/ Versus /I/ and Voicing-Dependent Vowel Duration in the English Speech Produced by Korean Speakers of English
… hypothesis in relation to L2 production. Thirty Korean speakers of English who came to the United States at varying ages participated in two experiments. When they came to the U.S., their ages ranged from 0 (at birth) to 26. Their mean length of stay in the target country was about 15 years. They …
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Frame anaphora: The definite article in discourse
… feature of language for many nonnative speakers of English. This study investigates one use of the definite article in the written discourse of native and nonnative speakers. This use, which I term frame anaphora, is illustrated in the following example: 'The disease is usually harmless, …
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Adapting the IPA Systems of Korean Diction to Classical Vocal Method: A Critical Study
<p>While the IPA is helpful in learning Korean diction, it is not sufficient when applied to classical singing techniques, especially for non-native Korean speakers. To be able to clearly distinguish the ambiguity of sounds of the language, using proper and accurate phonetic symbols are necessary. …
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Use of plausibility information and structural preference in resolving sentence ambiguity in Korean
… ambiguous relative clause (RC) constructions in Korean to determine how multiple sources of information, such as syntactic preference and semantic plausibility, were employed in reading comprehension by three groups of Korean speakers with different L1 backgrounds: native speakers of Korean …
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"Fragile bilinguals: rescaling ""good"" and ""bad"" South Korean bilinguals"
… explores how U.S.-based multilingual South Korean speakers of English and Korean negotiate their positions in the over-crowded and complex lingusitic market, and try to stake a claim to being legitimate bilinguals through the process of metapragmatic typification (Agha, 2007). First, I …
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A discourse approach to Korean politeness:towards a culture-specific Confucian framework
… values, as they apply to strategic politeness in Korean institutional settings, specifically university contexts. This study also seeks to explore issues of methodology for culture-specific politeness research, given that previous researchers either neglected cultural values, which operate …
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Use of a Thematic Template in L2 Korean Relative Clause Comprehension
… the heuristics internalized and exhibited by L2 Korean learners, across case-marked and non-case-marked environments. It further examines how perceptual processes—such as segmentation and grouping—underlie these heuristics and seeks empirical evidence for the cognitive costs associated with the …
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Prosodically Induced Acoustic Variation in English, Korean, and Hindi
… from speech production experiments on English, Korean and Hindi that examine factors governing acoustic variation. The focus of this research is the patterns of variation in the acoustic expression of laryngeal phonological contrasts among stop consonants and supralaryngeal contrasts among …
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The Availability of Semantic and Syntactic Information and Their Use As A Structural Predictor In the Real-Time Processing of L1 and L2 Korean
… investigate the real-time sentence processing of Korean both by native speakers and learners in terms of the availability and the effectiveness of different types of information in the structural prediction. Built on the crosslinguistically contrastive findings between Japanese in Yoshida (2006) …
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Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition
… interpretation and processing of two languages (Korean and English), as well as in the second language (L2) acquisition of English by Korean speakers, with a focus on possible first language (L1) transfer. Using offline tasks and eye-tracking measures, the dissertation seeks answers to three …
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A sensitive period for second language acquismon: A reaction-time study of grammaticality juooments of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… are most affected by age? For this purpose, 60 Korean speakers of English were tested for their ability to judge the grammaticality of 96 English sentences in 12 grammatical categories, employing a reaction-time procedure. These subjects first began learning English at ages varying from 0 to 29 …
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Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
… strategies. By testing a head-final language (Korean) with relatively free word order, this study also examines whether and how scrambling (switching word order between subject and object of a transitive verb) affects L1 as well as L2 sentence processing (Miyamoto & Takahashi, 2002; Yamashita, …
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Coreference processing in L1 and L2
… of discourse entities is determined in Korean. Accessibility was manipulated by varying the grammatical role (subject vs. object) and the order of mention (SOV vs. OSV) of an entity. The results consistently revealed an advantage for subject antecedents. Although not as strong as …
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The perception and production of palatal codas by Korean L2 learners of English
… namely palatal codas in the English of native Korean speakers. Using an AXB perception task and a read-aloud task, Experiment 1 compares L2 perception and production accuracies of palatal codas. Experiment 2 uses a forced-choice word-identification task and a read-aloud task to investigate cues …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… Previous research has demonstrated that native speakers of English are able to use verb bias information fast enough to generate predictions about the upcoming syntactic structure and that verb bias plays a larger role than plausibility in this predictive process (e.g., Garnsey, Pearlmutter, …
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Perceptions of students from a Korean university about the attributes of effective lecturers of English as a foreign language
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of what Ewha Womans University students perceive to be the attributes of effective EFL lecturers and to measure the levels of importance they place on each of these attributes. The first section of the study (Stage 1) elicited a list of …
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Discovering Korean learners' perceptions of intercultural encounters with their classmates
… and second, how did these reactions affect Korean students' perceptions of their ESL classes? The purpose of this study was to investigate the intercultural experiences of Korean learners in an intensive ESL program, and based on its findings, to suggest ways to improve intercultural …