摘要：The purpose of this study was to examine Korean young children`s acquisition of honorific expressions. The participants of the present study were 297 young children (ages 3-5 years) from Kyunggi province. The results of the study showed that young children acquire honorific markers in the order of hearer-honorific expressions,subject-honorific expressions,and then object-honorific expressions. Five-year old children acquired at least 75% of the hearer-honorific expressions. The result can be explained by the fact that most of them were used in greetings. Even though more than 90% of five-year old children acquired the subject-honorific marker si,the acquisition rates of subject honorific nouns and subject-honorific verbs were less than 10%. Finally,the acquisition rates of object honorific expressions were less than 20%,with the exception of the object-honorific noun ce. The results of the study suggest that educational programs should be developed in order to facilitate the acquisition of honorific markers in young children.
关键词：honorifics;Language acquisition;acquisition order
