음성학
Phonetics
Measuring how speech sounds are actually produced and perceived — duration in Korean oral stops, and English stress in Korean learners.
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Catching in numbers the differences that slip past as sound
Phonetics, phonology, and morphology — observing how speech sounds are realised and how they change, with English and Korean side by side.
Research Areas
음운론
Phonology
The rules that operate beneath the surface. Placing English and Korean side by side often reveals one principle behind two seemingly different phenomena.
형태론
Morphology
How words change shape — and how irregular forms arise and survive, explained through frequency and analogy.
Below, papers, essays and courses are grouped by topic.
01
Variation and Analogy in Korean Inflection
한국어 활용의 변이와 유추
How vowel harmony and the inflection of ㄹ-final stems shift across generations, described from corpora and surveys and explained through frequency and analogy.
Papers
- 2023An Analogy-based Study of Optional /l/-insertion in Korean Verbal ConjugationStudies in Linguistics 69, 1–19
- 2023한국어 ‘ㄹ’ 말음 어간의 활용에서 나타나는 변이의 양상: 구어 말뭉치 및 설문을 통한 연구Korean Journal of Linguistics 48-2, 399–416
- 2023Transition of vowel harmony in Korean verbal conjugation: Patterns of variation in a spoken corpusPhonetics and Speech Sciences 15-2, 21–29
- 2024The Roles of Phonology, Morphology, and Frequency in the Variation of Noun-final Coronal Obstruents in KoreanStudies in Linguistics 73, 7–33
- 2016Variation and Change of Korean Vowel Harmony in Verbal Conjugation: An Apparent Time and Real Time StudyEONEOHAG 76, 27–56
- 2012Diachrony in Synchrony: Korean vowel harmony in verbal conjugationPh.D. dissertation, Stony Brook University
Related essays
- Why Repetition Mattersin Korean
- Frequency and Analogyin Korean
- Changes Underway in Korean Right Nowin Korean
02
Acquiring Stress in a Second Language
제2언어의 강세 습득
Which acoustic cues Korean learners rely on to hear and produce English stress, and how far immersion changes them.
Papers
- 2024The Effect of L2 Immersion on English Stress Perception and Production by Korean LearnersStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 30-2, 145–170
- 2022Does perception lead production?: A case study of English stress by Korean EFL learnersKorean Journal of Linguistics 47-1, 1–28
- 2022조음과 청취에 근거한 수업을 통한 한국인 대학생의 영어모음 발음 변화Linguistics 30-4, 1–18
- 2019Segmental and suprasegmental effects on Korean listeners’ English stress perceptionKorean Journal of Linguistics 44-4, 721–747
- 2016Acoustic Correlates of English Stress in Korean L2 Learners’ PerceptionKorean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 16-2, 169–196
Related essays
- Letting Go of the Obsession with Pronunciationin Korean
- Different Yet the Same IIin Korean
- What English Means to Usin Korean
03
Fine-Grained Articulatory and Acoustic Control
조음과 음향의 미세한 조절
Measuring fine control that the ear barely separates — stop duration, voice onset time — reaching back to early work on how vowel sequences resolve.
Papers
- 2024A phonetic study of bidirectional duration modulation in Korean oral stopsKorean Journal of Linguistics 49-1, 1–20
- 2024A perception-based analysis of voice onset time (VOT) dissimilation in KoreanPhonetics and Speech Sciences 16-1, 25–31
- 2020Duration modulation in Korean stops: nonlocal similarity avoidance vs. timing regulationStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 26-1, 103–125
- 2016Dynamic and static aspects of laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions in KoreanStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 22-1, 3–34
- 2013Phonetic grounding of position and height asymmetries in hiatus resolution: An acoustic analysis of Korean VV sequencesStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 19-2, 217–232
- 2010Position and Height Asymmetries in Hiatus Resolution: A case study of Korean VV sequencesProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 36-1, 174
- 2010Position and height asymmetries in hiatus resolution: Are they phonetically driven phenomena?The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127-3 (Suppl.), 2018
Related essays
- Different Yet the Same IIIin Korean
- What Loanword Spelling Reveals About Koreanin Korean
- Why Is English Spelling Such a Mess?in Korean
04
Vowels of Altaic Languages and Field Phonetics
알타이 제어의 모음과 현장 음성학
Acoustic fieldwork on the vowel systems of endangered languages — Buriat, Ewen, Nanai, Manchu — testing whether principles found in Korean hold elsewhere.
Papers
- 2017Vowels of Beryozovka Ewen: An acoustic phonetic studyALTAI HAKPO 27, 1–23
- 2012In search of the acoustic correlates of tongue root contrast in three Altaic languages: Western Buriat, Tsongol Buriat, and EwenALTAI HAKPO 22
- 2016A phonetic study of Nanai vowels: Using automated post-transcriptional processing techniquesALTAI HAKPO 26, 29–44
- 2013Segmental OCP in Manchu syllablesALTAI HAKPO 23, 1–22
- 2015Interaction of perception and memory in segmental OCPALTAI HAKPO 25, 145–165
- 2011A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and EwenLSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2
Related essays
- Different Yet the Same Iin Korean
- Different Yet the Same IIin Korean
- Different Yet the Same IIIin Korean
Journal Articles26
- 2026Nonlocal Effects of Fricatives on Duration Modulation in Korean WordsKorean Journal of Linguistics 51-3, 511–529
- 2024The Effect of L2 Immersion on English Stress Perception and Production by Korean LearnersStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 30-2, 145–170
- 2024A phonetic study of bidirectional duration modulation in Korean oral stopsKorean Journal of Linguistics 49-1, 1–20
- 2024The Roles of Phonology, Morphology, and Frequency in the Variation of Noun-final Coronal Obstruents in KoreanStudies in Linguistics 73, 7–33
- 2024A perception-based analysis of voice onset time (VOT) dissimilation in KoreanPhonetics and Speech Sciences 16-1, 25–31
- 2023An Analogy-based Study of Optional /l/-insertion in Korean Verbal ConjugationStudies in Linguistics 69, 1–19
- 2023한국어 ‘ㄹ’ 말음 어간의 활용에서 나타나는 변이의 양상: 구어 말뭉치 및 설문을 통한 연구Korean Journal of Linguistics 48-2, 399–416
- 2023Transition of vowel harmony in Korean verbal conjugation: Patterns of variation in a spoken corpusPhonetics and Speech Sciences 15-2, 21–29
- 2022Does perception lead production?: A case study of English stress by Korean EFL learnersKorean Journal of Linguistics 47-1, 1–28
- 2022조음과 청취에 근거한 수업을 통한 한국인 대학생의 영어모음 발음 변화Linguistics 30-4, 1–18
- 2020Duration modulation in Korean stops: nonlocal similarity avoidance vs. timing regulationStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 26-1, 103–125
- 2019The Realizations of /h/ in Seoul and Gwangju KoreansEONEOHAG 84, 175–198
- 2019The Asymmetric tense consonant effects in compound and word-initial tensificationStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 25-1, 3–30
- 2019Segmental and suprasegmental effects on Korean listeners’ English stress perceptionKorean Journal of Linguistics 44-4, 721–747
- 2019A Review of the Studies in English Linguistics from Studies in British and American Language and LiteratureThe British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea 135, 93–111
- 2017The Prosodic Effect of Compound Tensification in KoreanStudies in Linguistics 45, 1–27
- 2017Vowels of Beryozovka Ewen: An acoustic phonetic studyALTAI HAKPO 27, 1–23
- 2012In search of the acoustic correlates of tongue root contrast in three Altaic languages: Western Buriat, Tsongol Buriat, and EwenALTAI HAKPO 22
- 2016Dynamic and static aspects of laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions in KoreanStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 22-1, 3–34
- 2016Variation and Change of Korean Vowel Harmony in Verbal Conjugation: An Apparent Time and Real Time StudyEONEOHAG 76, 27–56
- 2016Acoustic Correlates of English Stress in Korean L2 Learners’ PerceptionKorean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 16-2, 169–196
- 2016A phonetic study of Nanai vowels: Using automated post-transcriptional processing techniquesALTAI HAKPO 26, 29–44
- 2015Interaction of perception and memory in segmental OCPALTAI HAKPO 25, 145–165
- 2014Inconsistency in Phonological PhenomenaEONEOHAG 70, 93–115
- 2013Phonetic grounding of position and height asymmetries in hiatus resolution: An acoustic analysis of Korean VV sequencesStudies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 19-2, 217–232
- 2013Segmental OCP in Manchu syllablesALTAI HAKPO 23, 1–22
Dissertation
- 2012Diachrony in Synchrony: Korean vowel harmony in verbal conjugationPh.D. dissertation, Stony Brook University
Conference Presentations
- 2011A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and EwenLSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2
- 2010Position and Height Asymmetries in Hiatus Resolution: A case study of Korean VV sequencesProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 36-1, 174
- 2010Position and height asymmetries in hiatus resolution: Are they phonetically driven phenomena?The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127-3 (Suppl.), 2018