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This experimental syntax study examines Yeo’s (2006, 2011) claims about –key/-tolok alternation of clausal and non-clausal resultatives in Korean. Yeo (2006) argues that clausal resultatives license–tolok whereas non-clausal resultatives license -key, but not vice versa. These claims were tested, employing OpenSesame and a 5-point Likert scale task. The t-test and κ-test results showed that non-clausal resultatives agreement (i.e., convergence rate) between the linguist’s and 44 naïve speakers’ judgments was 100% and clausal resultatives agreement between the two types of acceptability judgments was just 57%. These new empirical data are in line with Yeo’s (2006) claims for non-clausal resultatives, but not for clausal resultatives. Furthermore, this paper provides a pattern analysis, a detailed analysis of divergence types between the two types of judgments for all pairs tested. We also discuss contributions of experimental syntax studies to the advancement of syntactic theory.