Cho, Sookeun. 2014. A study on whether there are Internally-headed Relative Clauses or not in Korean. Language Information. Volume 19. 189-205. The aim of this paper is to investigate if Korean speakers accept internally-headed relative clauses and to decide if there are internally-headed relative clauses in Korean. To achieve the goals, we reexamined two experimental data. The results of the study showed that Korean speakers judged the grammaticality of internally-headed relative clauses around 70% of the time, suggesting that they accept the existence of internally-headed relative clauses restrictively. The results also suggest that 'defective-looking' internally-headed relative clauses observed in the early period of Korean language development seem to be 'real' ones.
Key Words: relative clauses, internally-headed relative clauses, Korean language development, acquisition of relative clauses, acquisition of Korean relative clauses