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Syntactic Case errors which infants and young children produce in learning their first language are considered within some language acquisition theories. In addition, this paper also discusses why Korean primary school students make few syntactic Case errors in subject positions during the process of their learning English. Considering some examples related to Case errors, it has been argued that all such syntactic errors result from the some underspecified features of T. On the other hand, in the case of Korean primary school students, since they are more than 10 years old, they have the complete functional categories containing the all specified features in their first language grammar. T is also included in such functional categories. Thus, such Case errors are rare at subject positions in finite clauses among Korean primary school students.