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Downloadable Papers and Handouts

Dissertation

2012 Tongue root harmony and vowel contrast in Northeast Asian languages. Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY. [pdf]

Journal papers

2013 The end of the Korean Vowel Shift controversy. Korean Linguistics 15:2. (accepted)
2012 Oroch vowel harmony revisited. Eoneohag 63. Linguistic Society of Korea. 31-53. [pdf]
2012 (with Hijo Kang) In search of the acoustic correlates of tongue root retraction in three Altaic languages: Western Buriat, Tsongol Buriat, and Ewen. Altai Hakpo 22. 179-203. [pdf]
2011 Microvariation between Tungusic and Mongolic vowel harmony. Altai Hakpo 21. 145-177. (In Korean) [pdf]
2011 Vowel contrast and vowel harmony shift in the Mongolic languages. Language Research 47(1). 23-43. (Revised version of the WAFL 7 paper) [pdf]
2010 Contrastive hierarchy and its change in the Middle Korean vowel system. Eoneohag 56. Linguistic Society of Korea. 87-118. (In Korean) [pdf]

Working papers and proceedings

2013 A contrastive hierarchy approach to Tungusic and Mongolic labial harmony.Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 37). [paper]
2011 A contrast-driven typology of the Altaic vowel systems. Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference (SIAC 2011).
2011 (with Hijo Kang) Looking for the acoustic correlates of tongue root contrast in Altaic languages. Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference (SIAC 2011).
2011 Vowel contrast and vowel harmony shift in the Mongolic languages. In Andrew Simpson (ed.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL) 62: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 7), 187-202.
2011 (with Hijo Kang) A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and Ewen. LSA Meeting Extended Abstracts 2011.
2010 A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. In Hiroki Maezawa and Azusa Yokogoshi (eds.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL) 61: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6), 181-196. [pdf]
2009 Two types of anticausatives in Acehnese. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16), 93-107. [pdf]
2004 An LKB implementation of free word order variations in Korean. Studies in Linguistics 25. Seoul Linguistics Club. (In Korean) [pdf]
2002 Selective variation between nasalization and lateralization in Korean. Studies in Linguistics 22. Seoul Linguistics Club. (In Korean)[pdf]

Conference presentations and Invited talks

2013 Towards a contrast-driven typology of the Altaic vowel systems. A paper to be presented at the 9th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 9). Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. August 23-25.
2013 (with Seunghun Lee) A Stratal OT approach to the *ln effects in Korean. A paper to be presented at the 15th Harvard (Biennial) International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (Harvard ISOKL-2013). Harvard University. August 3-4.
2013 (with Andrew Joseph and John Whitman) Comparative consequences for a tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean. The Symposium on Paradigm Change in Historical Reconstruction: the Transeurasian Languages and Beyond. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. March 7-8. [slides]
2013 Contrastive hierarchies in the Altaic vowel systems. Institute of Altaic Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. January 24.
2012 (with Jiwon Yun and Hyun Kyung Hwang) Automatic annotation for Korean speech corpus analysis. The International Workshop on Corpus Linguistics and Endangered Dialects. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. October 11. [poster]
2011 The end of the Korean vowel shift controversy. The 14th Harvard (Biennial) International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (Harvard ISOKL-2011). Harvard University. August 6-7.
2011 The Mongolic Vowel Shift revisited. The 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX). Osaka, Japan. July 25-30.
2011 A contrast-driven typology of the Altaic vowel systems. The 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference. Sunchon National University, Korea. July 15-16.
2011 (with Hijo Kang) Looking for the acoustic correlates of tongue root contrast in Altaic languages. The 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference. Sunchon National University, Korea. July 15-16.
2011 A contrastive hierarchy approach to Tungusic and Mongolic labial harmony. The 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 37). UC Berkeley. Feb 12-13.
2011 (with Hijo Kang) Vowel contrast in endangered Northeast Asian languages: a case study of Buriat and Ewen. The CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Jan 12-14.
2011 (with Hijo Kang) A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and Ewen. The 85nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA. Jan 6-9.
2010 Vowel contrast and vowel harmony shift in the Mongolic languages. The Seventh Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 7). University of Southern California. October 29-31.
2009 A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. The Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6). Nagoya University, Japan. Sep 4-6.
2009 A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. Presented at the phonology seminar, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University.
2009 Two types of anticausatives in Acehnese. The 16th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16). UC Santa Cruz. May 1-3.
2008 Causative alternation and voice morphology in Acehnese. The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. Jan 3-6. [handout]
2003 (with Hyopil Shin) An analysis of Korean flat structures implemented on the basis of LKB(Linguistic Knowledge Building). The 2003 Conference of the Korean Society for Language and Information. Inha University.
2001 Some aspects of the phonological realization of /nl/, /ln/ sequences in Korean. Presented at the 7th Linguistics Colloquium, co-hosted by CLI and Seoul Linguistics Club, SNU.

Other publications and unpublished manuscripts

2009 The evolution of the Korean vowel system: a contrastive hierarchy approach. ms. Cornell University.
2009 Causative alternation and voice morphology in Acehnese. ms. Cornell University. [pdf]
2006 (with Seungjae Lee et al.) 角筆口訣의 解讀과 飜譯 3: -周本華嚴經券第六, 券第五十七- (Decipherment and translation of 'Kugyeol' marked with stylus 3: Buddhāvatam ̣saka-mahāvaipulya-sūtra (translated by Śikṣānanda) Vol. 6 and 57). Seoul: Thayhaksa.(In Korean)
2005 An Optimality-Theoretic formalization of stress pattern in Standard Korean. ms. Seoul National University. [pdf]
2002 A Study on Nasalization and Lateralization in Korean ― An Optimality Theoretic Account ―. MA thesis. Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University. (In Korean) [pdf]
2001 How to look up a Written Mongolian word in a Mongolian-Chinese dictionary. Language Training Program Miscellany 1: MONGOLIAN. Department of Linguistics, SNU. (In Korean)