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The Role of Case Markers in Sentence Planning

초록/요약

The present study aims to investigate the role of case markers in sentence planning, particularly at the message-level, in Korean, an SOV language. We conducted two picture description experiments based on the structural priming paradigm while manipulating the amount or specificity of case marking information between the experiments. Participants were presented either with receiving-event primes or with control primes in both experiments and were then asked to describe pictured events that can be interpreted either as a giving or as a receiving event. The two experiments vary in that the source arguments in receiving-event primes were grammatically marked by a multifunctional and ambiguous marker –eykey in Experiment 1 but by a source-specific marker -eykeyse in Experiment 2. We found the explicit and specific source marking information is necessary for a significant increase in speakers’ receiving-type event descriptions, compared to control primes. In a meta-analysis of the combined data from Experiments 1 and 2, the results show that repeated exposure to the source-specific marker leads to fewer productions of otherwise generally preferred giving-type target descriptions and increases receiving- and other types of descriptions.

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