{"pk":49592,"title":"Korean monolingual children's comprehension of suffixal passive construction:  A webcam eye-tracking study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Building on Shin (2022), the present study examines how Korean monolingual children comprehend suffixal passive constructions by employing a webcam eye-tracking method, aiming to test two theoretical accounts of grammatical generalisation (gradual vs. early abstraction). Twenty-eight children aged three to six, alongside 20 adults, joined picture-selection experiments paired with eye-gaze measurements. The findings indicate that children's utilisation of passive-voice heuristics remains limited yet developing, overshadowed by well-entrenched active-voice knowledge. In particular, the eye-gaze data reveal processing challenges related to the passive voice, mainly interpretive difficulties arising from passive morphology. These results replicate those of Shin (2022), offering further support for a moderate version of each account that emphasises the pivotal role of linguistic exposure in mastering linguistic knowledge. From a methodological standpoint, this study enhances the accessibility of webcam eye-tracking research for understudied languages in the field.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Language acquisition; Language Comprehension; Syntax; Eye tracking"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00z988nb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Seongmin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mun","name_suffix":"","institution":"Kyungpook National University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gyu-Ho","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Unversity of Illinois Chicago","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T19:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49592/galley/37554/download/"}]}