This study aims to investigate how absence of particles is compensated by prosody. The current study focuses on topic particle -un/-nun, subject particle -i/-ka, object particle -ul/-lul, and genitive particle -uy in Korean. In order to figure it out, an experiment was carried out, a sentence reading task, with thirty native speakers of Korean. The result indicates that (i) when the particle is...

Usage-Based theoreticians have argued that children make the biggest strides in learning to use many adult-like grammatical rules in the preschool years. This argument is based on how children use novel verbs in verb clauses: many Englishspeaking 2-year olds are willing to use novel verbs in ungrammatical order; by 4, few children are willing to use novel verbs in a non-SVO order. In verb claus...

In this paper, I discuss Finnish case alternation adpositions from a theoretical and corpus perspective. First, I argue that postpositional PP constructions with genitive case denote the standard spatial meaning of which an extension is marked with partitive case. Also, I show how word order interacts with case assignment. Both findings are formalized in a bidirectional Optimality Theoretic fra...