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Yoonjung Kang

Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Department of Humanities
University of Toronto Scarborough

Graduate faculty

Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto

 

 


Contact Information

Office:

H521

Telephone:

416-287-7172

Fax:

416-287-7116

E-mail:

kang ‘at’ utsc.utoronto.ca

Mailing Address:

Department of Humanities

University of Toronto Scarborough

1265 Military Trail, H521

Scarborough, Ontario, M1C 1A4

 


Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000)

B.A. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University (1994)

 


Downloadable papers and handouts

New!!! (2009) (With Seung-Joon Park) "The alternation of consonant-final nouns in heritage Korean in GTA" Handout from Heritage Language Workshop, May 7, 2009, University of Toronto.

Loanwords

New!!! (2009) (with Sohyun Hong) "The adaptation of the English voiceless postalveolar affricate in 1930s Korean." To appear in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (Papers from Toronto Workshops on East Asian Languages) (Handout).

(2009) "English /z/ in 1930s Korean." To appear in the Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics (Proceedings of the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, November 7-9, 2008, Simon Fraser University) (Handout).

(2009) “A brief remark on the role of phonetics in phonologyToronto Working Papers in Linguistics 30, 131-147.

(2008) (with Keren Rice) "Introduction." Journal of East Asian Linguistics: A Speical Issue on the Loanword Phonology of East Asian Languages.

(2008) (with Chiyuki Ito and Michael Kenstowicz) "Hybrid Loans: a Study of English Loanwords Transmitted to Korean via Japanese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

(2008) "The Adaptation of English /s/ in Korean" Inquiries into Korean Linguistics III, 1-14. (Handout) from the 16th meeting of International Circle of Korean Linguistics, June 26-28, 2008, Binghamtom University/Cornell University

(2008) "English voiced stops in Korean in the 1930s." Handout from MOT (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto) Phonology Workshop, March 14-16, 2008, McGill University.

(2008) "Tensification of voiced stops in English loanwords in Korean." Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII, 179-192. (Handout)

(2007) "Interlanguage segmental mapping as evidence for the nature of lexical representations." Language and Linguistics Compass I.

(2007) (with Chiyuki Ito and Michael Kenstowicz) "The adaptation of Japanese loanwords into Korean." MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52, 65-104.

(2005) "Loanword phonology" (prepublication version) [In Korean] In Lee, P.-H. & T.-K. Lee (eds.) Recent issues in English linguistics.

(2003) "Perceptual similarity in loanword adaptation: English postvocalic word-final stops in Korean." Phonology 20.3. 219-273.

 

Morpho-phonology of Korean

(2008) (with Adam Albright) "Predicting innovative alternations in Korean verb paradigms." To appear in the Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists. (Handout) from the 18th International Congress of Linguists, July 21-26, 2008.

(2007) " Frequency effect and regularization in Korean nouns." Handout from the Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology. Stanford, July 6-8, 2007.

(2006)  "Noun-Verb asymmetry in Korean." Handout from MOT (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto) Phonology Workshop, February 2006, University of Toronto.

(2006) "Neutralizations and variations in Korean verbal paradigms." Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XI.

(2005) "The Emergence of the Unmarked in an analogical change (?)." Handout from Seoul Forum in Phonology, December, 2005, Seoul National University.

(2003) "Sound changes affecting noun-final coronal obstruents in Korean." Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12. 128-139.

(2002) "Frequency of use and analogical change in Korean nouns: a case against abstract representation." Poster from NELS, 2002, MIT.

 


 Last updated: May 11, 2009