한국어 부사격 조사 ‘에, 에서, 로’의 인지

The perception of Korean adverbial case markers ‘ey, eyseo, ro’: A self-paced reading study

This study aims to investigate the difference in perceiving Korean adverbial case markers ‘ey, eyseo, ro’ of Korean native speakers and L2 learners through a self-paced reading(SPR) task. The study employed 15 native speakers and 15 advanced learners with TOPIK level 6. Their SPR results were analyzed to find out the perception difference between two groups. As results the study found out that (i) the accuracy rates of native speakers were 12.61% higher than learners’, (ii) learners showed the longer Reaction Time(RT) on the window 3 and 4 than native speakers, (iii) learners’ RT on the window 3 showed difficulty to perceive ‘ey(means/method)’, (iv) learners’ RT and accuracy rates showed that ‘ey’ and ‘ro’ were perceived with more difficulty than ‘eyseo’. Overall, advanced learners in this study showed significant difference of perceiving adverbial case markers compared to native speakers.