© 2018 Korean Society for Language and Information 한국어 산출에서 문장성분의 의미적 속성이 어순선호에 미치는 영향 * 남윤주 † , 유제욱 ‡ , 홍우평 § 건국대학교, 건국대학교, 건국대학교 Yunju Nam, Jewook Yoo & Upyong Hong, 2018. The influence of constituents’ semantic properties on the word order preference in Korean sentence production. Language and Information, 22.1, 203-215. We conducted a psycholinguistic experiment in which native speakers of Korean orally produced sentences using a subject, a temporal adjunct, a locative adjunct, an accusative object, and a verb, presented in a pseudo-randomized way on the computer screen before each trial. Results of the experiment indicate that Korean speakers produce the temporal adjunct earlier than the locative one irrespective of the manipulated length difference between the adjuncts. This ‘time-before-place’ preference is argued to reflect the production strategy to put the sentence constituents describing the event structure as closely as possible, thereby minimizing the cost for communicating the propositional contents of the predicate. The underlying assumption of this interpretation is that locative adjuncts belong to the necessary part of the event description, whereas the temporal adjuncts do not. We conclude that even in free word order languages like Korean, word order might well be constrained by various processing strategies operating at the performance level for a more efficient communication. Key words: Korean, sentence production, word order preference, temporal adjunct, locative adjunct, long-before-short, time-before-place * 이 논문은 2016학년도 건국대학교의 연구년 교원 지원에 의하여 연구되었음. 논문의 미비점을 비판적으로 지적해 주신 익명의 심사자들께 감사드린다. 주저자 공동저자 § 교신저자: 홍우평. 건국대학교 문과대학 미디어커뮤니케이션학과, (143-701) 서울시 광진구 능동로 120 Tel: 02-450-3359, E-mail: uphong@konkuk.ac.kr The Korean Society for Language and Information http://dx.doi.org/10.29403/LI.22.1.9