title: Animacy effect and language specificity: judgment of unaccusative verbs by Korean learners of English as a foreign language.
abstract: This study investigated the tendency of overpassivization of unaccusative verbs by Korean learners of English as a foreign language (FL). Sixty Korean native college students participated in the study, along with 17 English-speaking counterparts serving as a comparison group. Consistent with the findings of previous research, this study found Korean students' tendency to incorrectly accept passive-voice with inanimate subjects. The results of this study highlighted the role of lexical animacy, the hierarchy of agentivity, and language-specific effects on FL judgment. The findings of this study suggest a robust language-specific L1 effect on L2 acquisition and a greater involvement of cognition in FL use than language input.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA, hye.pae@uc.edu.
authors.forename: Hye K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Pae
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schanding
authors.forename: Yeon-Jin
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Yong-Won
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D019303:Multilingualism; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult