This paper shows Korean speakers’ strong preference for incremental structure building based on the following core phenomena: (1) left–right asymmetry; (2) pre-verbal structure building and a strong preference for early association. This paper argues that these phenomena reflect the procedural aspects of linguistic competence, which are difficult to explain within non-procedural grammar formalisms. Based on these observations, I argue for the necessity of a grammar formalism that adopts left-to-right incrementality as a core property of the syntactic architecture. In particular, I aim to show the role of (1) constructive particles; (2) prosody; and (3) structural routines in incremental Korean structure building. Though the nature of this discussion is theory-neutral, in order to formalise this idea I will adopt Dynamic Syntax [DS: Kempson et al. (Dynamic syntax: the flow of language understanding, Blackwell, Oxford, 2001); Cann et al. (The dynamics of language. Elsevier, Oxford, 2005)] in this paper.

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韩国的左右不对称和早期联想

本文基于以下核心现象显示韩国人对渐进式结构构建的强烈偏好：（1）左右不对称；(2) 前期语言结构的建立和对早期联想的强烈偏好。本文认为，这些现象反映了语言能力的程序方面，这在非程序语法形式主义中很难解释。基于这些观察，我主张采用从左到右递增作为句法架构的核心属性的语法形式主义的必要性。特别是，我的目的是展示（1）建设性粒子的作用；(2) 韵律；(3) 渐进式韩式结构构建中的结构例程。尽管本次讨论的性质与理论无关，但为了使这个想法形式化，我将采用动态语法 [DS：Kempson 等人。（动态句法：语言理解的流程，布莱克威尔，牛津，2001 年）；坎等人。（语言的动态。Elsevier，Oxford，2005）]在这篇论文中。