Anti-Senescence Effect of Thermo Responsive Nanofiber Surface(PIPAAm) Versus Trypsinization on Adiopose Tissue Stem Cell

오은정,김태정,임현주,정소연,권오형,정호윤,최진현 한국고분자학회 2010 한국고분자학회 학술대회 연구논문 초록집 Vol.2010 No.10

Korean Speakers’ Knowledge of Telicity of Directional Prepositions in English

오은정 한국영어학학회 2023 영어학연구 Vol.29 No.3

Following their aspectual properties, directional PPs in English are classified into two: telic PPs with a bounded path and atelic PPs with a unbounded path. Telic PPs such as to and out of can shift the aspect to telic (Alex swam (*in/for an hour). vs. Alex swam to the beach (in/*for an hour)). In contrast, atelic PPs such as towards and along do not have the same effect. Such a distinction has linguistic consequences. Telic and atelic PPs behave differently with respect to the in/for time adverbial test, the acceptability of halfway and almost modification, event cancellation and imperfective paradox interaction test. With this backdrop, this study examined Korean speakers’ awareness of the telic-atelic PP distinction exploiting the aforementioned five diagnostics. Results showed that the advanced learners reliably made the distinction across the five diagnostics whereas intermediate learners exhibited fluctuating judgments, being target-like only for the two diagnostics. We argued that the advanced learners are fully aware of the distinction, successfully constructing the right semantics of the directional PPs whereas the intermediate learners are still developing their sensitivity to the distinction. These results are quite striking considering fundamentally different roles played by adpositions in English and Korean. Furthermore, novel data from individual analyses revealed that among the prepositions tested, out of and along were represented as the most typical telic and atelic PPs, respectively in their mental grammar. We also addressed the reasons behind such individual results.

The Lexical-Based Account of L2 Acquisition of English Double Objects and Their Corresponding Passives by Korean Speakers

오은정 한국응용언어학회 2009 응용 언어학 Vol.25 No.1

Constructionists have claimed that seemingly homogeneous goals and benefactives in English are grammatically different and that such divergence is attributed to grammatical differences between the two that goal verbs are inherently ditransitive verbs whereas benefactive verbs are transitive verbs and in this regard, goal constructions are more typical than benefactive constructions. This paper examines implications of such a claim with Korean speakers, using the Magnitude Estimation. The lexical-based account advanced by the constructionists falls short of accounting for the results. This paper shows that the results are best explained by the L1 transfer-based account.

Korean Speakers' Knowledge of the Role of the Cardinality of Objects in the Computation of Telicity in English

오은정 고려대학교 언어정보연구소 2015 언어정보 Vol.0 No.21

This paper examines Korean speakers' knowledge of semantic computation of telicity in English. Precisely, it addresses the question of whether Korean learners are aware that telicity in English is encoded by the cardinality of objects. To this end, six different types of object NPs were used: eat an apple/the apple/two apples/a piece of cake/apples/cake. Only the first four objects of specified cardinality make a predicate telic. Results of a temporal modification test show that Korean learners have largely acquired that telicity in English relies on the cardinality of objects; crucially, they were able to accept the telic predicates but to reject the atelic predicates with the in X time adverbial. However, they failed to make the telic-atelic distinction regarding the event cancellation test, incorrectly accepting the telic predicates with the continuation denoting the cancelled event. It is argued that this fluctuation is attributable to L1 transfer. The transferred properties of Korean perfectives (i.e., partial completion interpretations) overrode their developing knowledge of telicity in English.

On Korean Children's Knowledge of Principle B

오은정,김새로미 한국언어학회 2012 언어 Vol.37 No.4

Late emergence of Principle B relative to Principle A is widely observed in the L1 acquisition of Binding Principles. Chien and Wexler (1990) argued that the delayed acquisition of Principle B is attributed to the lack of pragmatic principles (called Principle P), not to the lack of Principle B. They took as evidence for their claim children's better performance on binding interpretation of pronouns with a quantified antecedent than their performance on binding interpretation of pronouns with a referential antecedent. Following Chien and Wexler's work, numerous studies replicated their experiments but the results of the studies were quite divergent. The present study attempts to readdress the issue of Principle B in child grammar by testing 49 Korean children's performance (between the ages of 5 to 7) on the referential and quantificational binding interpretation for pronouns. We found the opposite pattern: children's performance on referential reading for pronouns was more accurate than their performance on quantificational reading for pronouns. We consider Sorace and Serratrice (2009)'s Interface Vulnerability Hypothesis as possible explanation of the results.

여성노인(女性老人)의 미용(美容)서비스 이용실태(利用實態)와 미용시술(美容施術)이 우울감(憂鬱感)과 자아존중감(自我尊重感)에 미치는 영향(影響)

오은정,최근희 한국미용학회 2009 한국미용학회 추계학술발표회 Vol.2009 No.1

Constructive and Blind Patriotism: Relationship to Emphasis on Civil Liberties, National Security, and Militarism in a Korean and an American University

오은정,Robert L. Williams,Stacy L. Bliss,Katherine R. Krohn 한국사회과학협의회 2009 Korean Social Science Journal Vol.36 No.1

The objective of this study was to compare the relationship of two forms of patriotism to important sociopolitical values in a Korean and an American University. Constructive patriotism represents a commitment to the ideals of one’s country and a willingness to question current societal actions in a society that appear inconsistent with those ideals. On the other hand, blind patriotism reflects allegiance to the current policies of one’s government, irrespective of their lack of consistency with the ideals of that country. The two measures of patriotism were correlated with emphasis on civil liberties, national security, and militarism. The latter values have been heavily emphasized in American society since the occurrence of 9/11. In the current study, college students in an American University (n = 222) and a Korean University (n = 215) were administered a 50-item survey measuring five sociopolitical dimensions: constructive patriotism, blind patriotism, respect for civil liberties, emphasis on national security, and militarism. The two samples obtained similar means for emphasis on national security and constructive patriotism, but the American sample scored significantly lower (p < .001) on respect for civil liberties and higher (p < .001) on blind patriotism and militarism than the Korean sample. Although the correlations between patriotism measures and the remaining sociopolitical constructs were directionally consistent across the two samples, the correlations were substantially stronger in the American sample. Few gender differences were evident in the findings for either sample. The objective of this study was to compare the relationship of two forms of patriotism to important sociopolitical values in a Korean and an American University. Constructive patriotism represents a commitment to the ideals of one’s country and a willingness to question current societal actions in a society that appear inconsistent with those ideals. On the other hand, blind patriotism reflects allegiance to the current policies of one’s government, irrespective of their lack of consistency with the ideals of that country. The two measures of patriotism were correlated with emphasis on civil liberties, national security, and militarism. The latter values have been heavily emphasized in American society since the occurrence of 9/11. In the current study, college students in an American University (n = 222) and a Korean University (n = 215) were administered a 50-item survey measuring five sociopolitical dimensions: constructive patriotism, blind patriotism, respect for civil liberties, emphasis on national security, and militarism. The two samples obtained similar means for emphasis on national security and constructive patriotism, but the American sample scored significantly lower (p < .001) on respect for civil liberties and higher (p < .001) on blind patriotism and militarism than the Korean sample. Although the correlations between patriotism measures and the remaining sociopolitical constructs were directionally consistent across the two samples, the correlations were substantially stronger in the American sample. Few gender differences were evident in the findings for either sample.

Transitivity of Benefactive Verbs: Evidence from a Typological and Corpus-based Study

오은정 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2013 언어와 언어학 Vol.0 No.60

Constructionists claim that despite surface realizations, goals and benefactives are distinct, which is attributed to different valency: benefactives, unlike goals, are transitive. I examine this claim through a typological and corpus-based study of benefactives. Typological excursion into benefactives shows they come in two types, ones with/without verbs of giving. For the former in which benefactives are expressed by a serial verb, a beneficiary is allowed in the presence of the verb of giving. It is argued that the reason why transitivity of benefactives is not available in English is due to the lack of verb serialization, which is confirmed by the corpus data of benefactives in Korean.

The Incompleteness Effect: Interplay between Semantic and Contextual Factors

오은정 고려대학교 언어정보연구소 2014 언어정보 Vol.0 No.19

This experimental study compares event completion construals of change-of-state predicates in English by L1 English and L1 Korean speakers. The Incompleteness Effect (henceforth, IE) refers to the phenomenon in which the change-of-state predicates typically entailing event completion describe incomplete events. The semantic account for IE argues that IE arises only for accomplishments, leading to the division between accomplishments and achievements. IE is attested to in Korean but not in English. Given that difference, this paper is concerned with two questions: (1) whether Korean L1 speakers are aware that accomplishments are incompatible with incomplete events in English and (2) whether contextual factors other than the semantic one are relevant to IE. The results indicate that Korean speakers are insensitive to the absence of IE in English, which is best explained by L1 transfer. The results, moreover, showed that contextual factors are relevant to IE but in a selective way. Accomplishments but not achievements were influenced by contextual factors. Lastly, the results revealed there is an intricate interplay between semantic and contextual factors: the former plays a main role while the latter plays a supplementary role.

L1-Transfer in the Acquisition of English Unaccusativity by Korean Speakers.

오은정 고려대학교 언어정보연구소 2011 언어정보 Vol.0 No.12

The previous L2-studies on English unaccusativity found that overgeneration of passive unaccusatives is particularly prevalent among Korean speakers, which suggests that L1-transfer is operative in this domain. Nevertheless, the role and extent of L1-transfer hasn't received due attention. To contribute to the accurate characterization of the phenomenon, this paper examines the relevance of L1-transfer in this domain, using a passivization diagnostic. The findings of the study show that Korean speakers experienced more difficulties with particular subtypes of passive unaccusatives, whose Korean counterparts include either the morpheme ci- or consist of a verbal noun and hata. It is argued that transfer of a multi-function of the ci- and of unique properties of lexical passives in Korean are held responsible.