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Development of Clause Chaining in Korean.
1Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States.
Frontiers in Psychology
|March 29, 2020
Summary
Korean children develop clause chaining skills from age two, mastering conjunctions by four years old. Further development in referencing and sentence complexity continues through adulthood.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Developmental Psychology
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Korean features verb-final sentence structure and uses verb-suffixed conjunctions to chain clauses.
- Clause chaining connects sentences, expressing temporal, causal, and contrastive relationships.
Purpose of the Study:
- To outline the developmental trajectory of clause chaining construction in Korean.
- To analyze the acquisition of conjunctive forms, functions, and clause properties in child language.
Main Methods:
- Longitudinal naturalistic speech data from five children (ages 2-5).
- Elicited descriptions of video events from children (ages 3-10) and adults.
Main Results:
- Children begin clause chaining with conjunctions by age two.
- By age four, children exhibit adult-like clause chaining in form and function, including temporal relations.
- Four-year-olds struggle with differential subject reference and multi-clause sentences.
Conclusions:
- Clause chaining development in Korean is a protracted process extending into adulthood.
- Key developmental milestones include mastering conjunctions, subject reference, and event segmentation.
- Cognitive factors like temporal relation understanding and reference specification are crucial.
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