Yoonjung Kang

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Department of Humanities
University of Toronto Scarborough

Graduate faculty                                        

Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto

 


Contact Information                                                         

UTSC

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

St. George

Office:

SS4082

Telephone:

416-978-6373

Fax:

416-971-2688

E-mail:

yoonjung.kang ‘at’ utoronto.ca

Mailing Address:

Department of Linguistics

University of Toronto

Sidney Smith Hall,
4th Floor
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3

 


Teaching

(2011) Winter             On leave

 


Education

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

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

 


Professional Service

(2009-) Editorial board, Phonology

 


Publications

Edited journal volume

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

 

Peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles

(under review) (with Ellen Broselow) “Second language phonology and speech.” In J. Herschensohn and M. Young-Scholten, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition.

           

(accepted pending minor revisions) “L1 phonotactic restrictions and loanword adaptation: English affricates in Contemporary Korean.” Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

 

(2011) “Loanword Phonology.” In van Oostendorp, Marc, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice, eds., Companion to Phonology, 2258-2282. Wiley-Blackwell.

 

(2010) “Tutorial overview: suprasegmental adaptation in loanwords.” Lingua 120, 2295-2310.

 

(2010) “The emergence of phonological adaptation from phonetic adaptation: a case study of English loanwords in Korean.” Phonology 27.2, 225-253.

  

(2008) (with Keren Rice) "Introduction." Journal of East Asian Linguistics: A Special 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.

 

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

 

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

 

Book chapter

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

 

Working papers and Conference proceedings

(2009) (with Sohyun Hong) "The adaptation of the English voiceless affricate in 1930s Korean." Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 34: Papers from Toronto Workshops on East Asian Languages) (Handout).

 

(2009) "English /z/ in 1930s Korean." Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistic (Handout).

 

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

 

(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.

 

(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, Binghamton University/Cornell University

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 


Invited Presentations

(2011) “Sound change and variation in Contemporary Korean: A loanword connection.” Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

 

(2010) “The Diachrony of English Loanwords in Korean.” 2010 Spring Conference on General and Applied Linguistics organized by the Modern Linguistic Society of Korea and The Joongwon Linguistic Society of Korea. Cheongju, Korea.  

 

(2008) "The Adaptation of English /s/ in Korean" The 16th meeting of International Circle of Korean Linguistics, June 26-28, 2008, Binghamton University/Cornell University

 

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

Other Presentations (selected)

(2010) (With Alexei Kochetov) " Place of Articulation and Lingual Coarticulation of Korean Coronal Obstruents:  An Electropalatogrphic Study". Poster presentation. LabPhon 12, University of New Mexico.

 

(2010) (With Seung-Joon Park) "Variation of consonant-final nouns in Heritage Korean in Toronto: Default preference or statistical knowledge". 2010 Canadian Linguistic Association Meeting, Concordia University.

 

(2010) (With Seung-Joon Park) "Variation of consonant-final nouns in Heritage Korean in Toronto: Default preference or statistical knowledge". 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of Manchester.

 

(2010) (With Alexei Kochetov) "An EPG Study of Korean Coronal Obstruents". MOT Phonology Workshop, March 12-14, 2010. Carleton University.

 

(2009) (With Naomi Nagy, James Walker, and Alexei Kochetov) “Heritage Language change and variation in Toronto: A New Project.” Poster presented at NWAV 38, Oct. 22-5, 2009, University of Ottawa.

 

(2009) (With Alexei Kochetov and David Go) “The acoustics of Korean fricatives.” Handout from CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, August 6, 2009. 

 

(2009) (With Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni, and Milica Radišić) “A preliminary electropalatographic investigation of affricate contrasts in four languages.” CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, August 6, 2009. 

 

(2009) (With Naomi Nagy, James Walker, and Alexei Kochetov) “Heritage Languages in Toronto: A New Project. Handout from Heritage Language Workshop, May 7, 2009, University of Toronto.

 

(2009) “A diachronic study of yod-dropping in Korean: a loanword connection.” Torontø-Tromsø Phonoløgy Workshøp, University of Toronto, Oct. 9-11, 2009.

 

(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.

 

(2009) “English loanwords in Korean: From ppada to sweparazzi.FLAUT lecture.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 


Last updated: July 1, 2011