Korean Journal of Child Studies (아동학회지)
- Volume 6 Issue 1
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- Pages.17-40
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- 1985
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- 1226-1688(pISSN)
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- 2234-408X(eISSN)
The Acquisition of Negatives in Five Korean Children
한국 아동의 부정사 획득
Abstract
This study investigated Korean children's early acquisition of negatives and focused on four research questions: 1) processing of negative variations; 2) the nature of negatives when negatives are completely acquired in Korean (in which meaning and form are matched in one to one mapping); 3) the validity of Bellugi's negative acquisition model in Korean; and 4) the cause of child's erroneous sentence production: limited ability or regularity in children's cognition. The language data of the five subjects (age span; 1.1 - 3.11) were collected by their parents in the natural setting of the home. The results showed that 1) the pivot form, was processed in many ways from a simple to a complicated form, such as
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