▶ Topic: Bare Nominals, Plural Markers and Distributivity: The psycholinguistics of Korean plurals

▶ Date and Time: Friday, June 3rd, 2011. 1:30 ~ 2:30 p.m.

▶ Venue: Room #309, SNU Shinyang Humanities Hall (Bldg. #4)

▶ Lecturer: Sean Madigan (Professor at SNU Department of Linguistics)

▶ For further information, please contact us. 02) 880 7734

The psycholinguistics of plurality in Korean will be discussed at this colloquium. Korean has many ways of expressing plurality, two of which are bare plurals and the plural marker -tul. According to Professor Madigan’s current research, at least at the level of processing, bare nouns are not in fact ambiguous, but rather carry a presupposition of singularity. Also, bare nouns can indeed license a distributive reading, but in a manner that is most likely different from -tul.

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