Abstract

This study investigated whether L1 Japanese learners of Korean can acquire the word order alternations of the Korean passive. In self-paced reading, Korean native speakers (n = 30) showed greater sensitivity to structural cues than semantic ones, while Japanese L2 Korean speakers (n = 60) showed no difference in reading time, regardless of proficiency, as well as showing no sensitivity to structural or semantic cues. These results indicate that Japanese L2 Korean speakers have difficulty with the on-line processing of sentences despite the morphological congruency between L1 and L2.

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