A central issue in language acquisition is the contribution of input to the development of
linguistic knowledge. In this dissertation project, I investigate the developmental trajectories …

The present study aims to explore the applicability of automatic analysis to L2-Korean
learner corpora, with a special focus on learners' use of a clause-level construction. For this …

In this dissertation, I investigate why Korean allows failed-attempt interpretations of
accomplishment predicates, but languages like English do not. For example, the English …

The present study explores the applicability of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
techniques to investigate child corpora in Korean. We employ caregiver input and child …

Cross-linguistic studies allow for analyses that would be impossible in a single language. To
better understand the factors that underlie sentence production, we investigated production …

This paper investigates the syncretism exhibited by the Korean verbal suffix-eci. In addition
to its widely known appearance in the passive construction,-eci can also be used to derive …

A commonly known fact is that passives pose a challenge for young children in a variety of
languages (English: Borer & Wexler, 1987; de Villiers & de Villiers, 1973; Fox & Grodzinsky …

In spite of being a successful syntactic theory in many respects, head-driven phrase
structure grammar (HPSG) has inadequate coverage for morphological constructions …

This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of the Korean A-eci construction. The suffix–
eci attaches to an adjective and creates an inchoative, a verb denoting the change of a state …

The Animate First Principle (AFP), which states that an animate argument must appear first
in a sentence, has been observed in a large number of human languages and is asserted by …