Contrastive focus affects word order in Korean sentence production
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This paper presents results of a sentence production experiment in Korean that investigated speakers’ preferences in word order. Despite the existence of so-called “canonical” order for certain types of sentences, Korean exhibits flexible linear word orders that maintain constant grammatical relations (Sohn, 1999). For example, a dative sentence describing an object transfer can have various word orders above and beyond those described in (1), while (1a) is considered as the canonical order.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011