1990년대 중반이후 한국의 문화산업콘텐츠 수출이 증대되는 "한류" 현상이 대두되어 세계적인 주목을 받기 시작하였다. 그러나 전통적인 문화산업 무역이론은 이러한 후발국으로부터 문화상품의 수출을 설명하지 못한다. 본 연구에서는 Becker의 소비자본이 기호의 형성에 기여할 뿐만 아니라 생산성의 향상에 기여하는 인적자본으로서의 속성을 지니고 있다는 점을 이용하여 문화산업에서 후발국의 "기술추격"을 합리화하는 이론모델을 제시하고 있다(rationalize), 본 연구는 공식모델의 비교정태 분석을 통하여 문화산업에서 후발국의 "기술추격"을 가능하게 하는 조건들을 설명하고 있다.

Sungsoo Ok and Soo-Yeon Kim. 2017. Sensitivity to D-linking Effects in Island Construction Processing by Korean Speakers. Studies in Modern Grammar 96, 109-127. Questioning across-the-board effects of islands and D-linking in wh-interrogative construction, this study presents the results of two acceptability judgement experiments where judgements of Korean native speakers for Korean wh-interrogative constructions and for English wh-interrogative constructions are provided and compared. With respect to Korean wh-questions, native Korean speakers show different acceptability patterns depending on whether wh-phrases move overtly or not. When they are scrambled, presence of islands and the D-linking feature of wh-phrase affect acceptability in Korean as if they do in English: the former degrades the acceptability while there is an increase in acceptability status in the latter. As for in-situ cases, however, D-linking rather downgrades the acceptability of the sentences. In the second experiment on English wh-questions with Korean EFL learners, there are statistically significant, but comparatively marginal, effects of island constructions and D-linking on whinterrogative judgements. These results indicate that island effects and D-linking effects are not ubiquitous with the same degree but that they do vary depending on the language type, overtness of movement, and whether the tested language is L1 or L2.