In:Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art
Edited by Soonja Choi
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 36] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Soonja Choi
Part I.Acquisition of Korean as a first language
Chapter 1.Phonological development of Korean monolingual children
Minjung Kim
Chapter 2.Word reading and spelling in Korean: The roles of orthographic, phonological, and morphological awareness
Young-Suk Grace Kim
Minkyung Cho
Chapter 3.L1 acquisition of lexicon and morphology in Korean
Soonja Choi
Chapter 4.Development of clause chaining and interclausal semantics
in Korean children
in Korean children
Soonja Choi
Chapter 5.Acquisition of syntactic knowledge by monolingual
Korean children
Korean children
Gyu-Ho Shin
Chapter 6.Early spatial language acquisition in Korean-learning children: Spatial cognition, language input, and early vocabulary
Youjeong Park
Jihye Choi
Chapter 7.The relationship between mother–child collaborative communication and the development of social understanding: Two case studies
Jihyun Sung
Chapter 8.Family-level social factors and language development
in Korean-learning children
in Korean-learning children
So Yeon Shin
Part II.Acquisition of Korean by second language and heritage learners
Chapter 9.Assessing morphosyntactic complexity in child L2 learners
of Korean: Exploring the roles of internal and external factors
of Korean: Exploring the roles of internal and external factors
Hyunwoo Kim
Kitaek Kim
Haerim Hwang
Kyuhee Jo
Chapter 10.Development of morphosyntax by young Korean heritage
language speakers
language speakers
Sunny Park-Johnson
Chapter 11.Discourse, narrative and pragmatic development of children acquiring Korean in monolingual and bilingual contexts
Younhee Kim
Nguyen Thi Xuan Hue
Chapter 12.Socializing children to become speakers of Korean
as a heritage language in immigrant families
as a heritage language in immigrant families
Jin Sook Lee
Haewon Kim
Part III.Acquisition of Korean in atypical learner populations
Chapter 13.Korean sign language acquisition in young Deaf twins: A longitudinal study
Se-Eun Jhang
Sook Ki Lee
Byung-Cheol Yun
Heywon Jeon
Seonhye Lee
Chapter 14.Pragmatic bootstrapping in Korean children with autistic
spectrum disorder
spectrum disorder
Sook Whan Cho
Kyung-Sook Lee
Chapter 15.The development of reading and writing in Korean children
with developmental dyslexia
with developmental dyslexia
Soyeong Pae
