This handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Korean.

Introduction: advances in Korean psycholinguistics Chungmin Lee, Youngjin Kim and Greg Simpson; 1. Acquisition of the subject and topic nominals and markers in the spontaneous speech by young children in Korean Chungmin Lee; 2. The acquisition of argument structure and transitivity in Korean: a discourse-functional approach Patricia M. Clancy; 3. Acquisition of case markers and grammatical functions Gyeonghee No; 4. Do Korean children acquire verbs earlier than nouns? You-kyung Chang-Song and Soyeong Pae; 5. The acquisition of the placement of the verb in the clause structure of Korean Chung-hye Han, Jeffrey Lidz and Julien Musolino; 6. Learning locative verb syntax: a cross-linguistic experimental study Meesook Kim; 7. Language-specific spatial semantics and cognition: developmental patterns in English and Korean Soonja Choi; 8. The acquisition of negation in Korean Judy Yoo-Kyung Baek and Kenneth Wexler; 9. The acquisition of Korean numeral classifiers Kwee-Ock Lee and Sun-Young Lee; 10. Acquisition of Korean reflexive anaphora Sook Whan Cho; 11. The Korean relative clause: issues of processing and acquisition Jong Sup Jun; 12. The accessibility hierarchy in Korean: head-external and head-internal relative clauses Sookeun Cho and William O'Grady; 13. Development of functional categories in child Korean Ho Han; 14. The acquisition of modality Chungmin Lee; 15. The syntax of overmarking and kes in child Korean John Whitman; 16. Events in passive development Youngjoo Lee; 17. Universal quantification in child grammar Hye-Kyung Kang; 18. The acquisition of prosody in Korean Youngon Choi and Reiko Mazuka; 19. Korean as a heritage language Terry Kit-fong Au and Janet Sae Oh; 20. Maturational effects on L2 acquisition Dami Lee; 21. Acquisition of English articles by Koreans Heejeong Ko, Tania Ionin and Kenneth Wexler; 22. The acquisition of wanna contraction by adult Korean learners of English Soo-Ok Kweon; 23. Phonological abilities of Korean-English bilinguals Grace H. Yeni-Komshian; 24. Parameters and languages in contact: an altered view of codeswitching Keumsil Kim Yoon; 25. Influence of socio-psychological categories in bilingual interaction M. Agnes Kang; 26. Ontological concept versus shape in word learning from the cross-linguistic point of view Hyeonjin Lee; 27. An overview of Korean sign language Se-Eun Jhang; 28. Visual processing of Hangul, the Korean script ChangHo Park; 29. English vowel spaces produced and perceived by Americans and Koreans Byunggon Yang; 30. Morphological representation and processing of Sino-Korean words Kwangoh Yi; 31. The role of phonology in word recognition of Korean Hangul and Hanja Jeung-Ryeul Cho; 32. Lexical and sublexical processes in Korean word recognition Greg B. Simpson and Hyewon Kang; 33. Prosody in sentence processing Sun-Ah Jun; 34. Korean sentence processing Youngjin Kim and Kwangill Choi; 35. Sentence processing and memory representation in Korean Jae-Ho Lee and Sung-il Kim; 36. Understanding complex sentences: memory constraints and information structures Yoonhyung Lee and Peter Gordon; 37. Korean language processing by ERP studies: word order effects Kyung Soon Shin and Jun Soo Kwon; 38. Inferences during discourse comprehension in Korean Soyoung Suh Kim, Jung-Mo Lee and Jae-Ho Lee; 39. Morpho-syntactic processing in Korean aphasics Yu Mi Hwang, Kichun Nam and Myung-Yoon Kang; 40. Morpho-syntactic processing of Korean-speaking adults with Broca's aphasia and children with SLI Mina Hwang; 41. Comprehension deficits in Korean agrammatic aphasia Miseon Lee; 42. Developmental reading disorders in Korean Jeesun Kim and Chris Davis; 43. Individual differences in Korean language processing: context-dependent processing of skilled readers in word ambiguity resolution Byeong-Taek Lee; 44. The computational model of lexical and morphological processing in Korean HeuiSeok Lim.