한국인 스페인어 학습자들의 접합면 현상 습득

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of Sorace (2011)’s Interface Hypothesis by testing L1 Korean-L2 Spanish Learners over three different interface properties -the internal interface between syntax and semantics and the external interface between syntax and discourse-pragmatics. A total of 45 university students, divided into three proficiency levels, participated in a grammaticality and/or acceptability judgment test. The test questions dealt with three interface-related phenomena: a) word order variance of two types of intransitive verbs according to focus types, b) pronominal subjects according to topic/focus interpretation, and c) clitic-doubling of the utterance-initial (in)definite objects according to information structure. The SPSS statistics was used for data analysis. The findings of data analysis showed that 1) the more advanced the learners were, the fewer errors were made, and 2) in most cases, the learners seemed to acquire internally interface-related phenomena earlier than externally interface-related phenomena, but not all. The results of this study offer partially positive evidence in favor of the Interface Hypothesis proposed by Sorace and her colleagues.