caa a22 4500 475756681 CHVBK 20180406123539.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008304903779 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008304903779 Kim Young-Joo Department of English Education, Hong-Ik University, Sangsu-dong, Mapo-gu, 121-791, Seoul, Korea aut Subject/Object Drop in the Acquisition of Korean: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison [Elektronische Daten] [Young-Joo Kim] This paper discusses the subject/object drop pattern found in child Korean and makes a cross-linguistic comparison among seven languages. Regardless of their target languages, children acquiring any language are found to start producing fewer overt subjects than adult speakers. But their production of overt subjects increases with age and quickly reaches the adult rate. Since even children acquiring null-subject languages produce overt subjects at the early stages of acquisition less often than adults, there seem to be some nonsyntactic factors which are at least partly responsible across languages for the initial nonproduction of overt subjects. Moreover, the actual subject-drop rate in a language cannot be predicted on the basis of how the language identifies null subjects. For example, we cannot predict that a "rich-agreement" language drops subjects more often than a "discourse-oriented" language or the other way around. Children instead seem to show sensitivity to actual frequencies of subject drop in their target languages. Korean data also confirm the universal tendency of more frequent subject than object drop. The subject/object drop pattern in child Korean and a cross-linguistic comparison among seven languages support performance-limitation accounts of the subject drop phenomenon in early English. The findings are most consistent with Valian's observation that early grammars show a high degree of sensitivity to characteristics of and frequency distributions in input. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-10-01), 325-351 0925-8558 9:4<325 2000 9 10831 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008304903779 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008304903779 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kim Young-Joo Department of English Education, Hong-Ik University, Sangsu-dong, Mapo-gu, 121-791, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-10-01), 325-351 0925-8558 9:4<325 2000 9 10831 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer