title: Psycholinguistic Evidence for Inverse Scope in Korean.
abstract: We use experimental data to shed light on the ongoing question of whether Korean allows inverse scope interpretation in sentences containing an indefinite subject and a universally quantified direct object (e.g., 'Someone bought each loaf of bread at the bakery'). The results of an off-line acceptability judgment task (n = 38) and an online self-paced reading task (n [Formula: see text] 22) indicate that inverse scope interpretations are in fact permitted in Korean as a secondary option, as is also the case in English. We argue that the dispreference for the inverse scope reading reflects processing considerations related to burden on working memory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaiì at Mānoa, Moore Hall 569, East-West Road 1890, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA. sunyoung@hawaii.edu.
authors.forename: Sunyoung
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaiì at Mānoa, Moore Hall 569, East-West Road 1890, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: O'Grady
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D056910:Republic of Korea; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Inverse scope; Korean; Quantifier ambiguity; Scope processing