Abstract
This study investigates whether KFL(Korean as a Foreign Language) learners’ heritage languages can affect their interpretations of a Korean reflexive, caki, with respect to the c-commanding requirement of the antecedent, especially when caki appears in a context in which a non c-commanding antecedent is favored by pragmatic factors. We compared the interpretations of the Korean control group with those of three different native English speaker KFL groups: Korean heritage group, Chinese heritage group, and English speakers without any heritage background. Different levels of sensitivity to pragmatic factors among the KFL groups indicate that heritage languages have an influence on L2 acquisition. Korean heritage speakers have the highest level of sensitivity to pragmatic manipulation. The sensitivity of Chinese heritage speakers to the pragmatic factors was higher than that of English speakers without any heritage language but lower than that of Korean heritage speakers.
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