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¹Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States.

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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.

Keywords:

Korean acquisition acquisition of conjunction anaphoric reference clause chaining in Korean event segmentation topic continuity

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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.