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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod

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Title: Dominant language influence in acquisition and attrition of binding: Interpretation of the Korean reflexive <i>caki</i>
Author: Ji-Hye Kim
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author: Silvina A Montrul
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Homepage: http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/people/montrul
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author: James Hye-Suk Yoon
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Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linguistic Field: Language Acquisition
Subject Language: Korean
Abstract: This study investigates how the dominant language of Korean heritage speakers (English) influences Korean (minority language) in the domain of binding interpretations by comparing the performance of Korean immigrants in English dominant context with that of incomplete learners of Korean and L2 learners of Korean. Four groups (10 Korean immigrants, 17 simultaneous bilinguals, 14 late L2 learners, and 30 Korean native speakers) were tested. Differences between English and Korean in Governing Category and structural constraints were tested through a Truth Value Judgment Task with stories. Overall results showed that Korean immigrants (attriters) did not differ from Korean controls, while simultaneous bilinguals (incomplete learners) and late L2 learners of Korean showed behavior different from Korean control when two languages were different in their binding properties.

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This article appears in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Vol. 13, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST .



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