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Beyond the Input Language: Universality in the Development of Sentence Processing

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2011, v.23 no.1, pp.91-122
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2011.23.1.003

Abstract

The present study examined the development of sentence processing by investigating 4-5-year-old Korean-learning children's and Korean-speaking adults' online and offline parsing pattern of sentences comparable to those used in previous English studies, using visual-world eye tracking paradigm. The results showed that unlike adults, Korean children were more likely to consider a post-positional phrase as a verb goal argument than a noun modifier, making interpretation errors similar to those observed in English-learning children. This was interesting given that verbs appear at the end of sentences in Korean, opposite of English sentences, ruling out the possibility that the interpretation errors observed among English children were due to children' dependency on verb information. The current results suggest that the development of language processing may follow a universal path, independent of the input language characteristics.

keywords
문장처리, 언어 발달, 문장처리 발달, 실시간 문장 해석, 시각세계안구운동추적법, sentence processing, development of sentence processing, language development, visual world eye-tracking

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