Yoonjung Kang
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Department
of Humanities
University of
Toronto Scarborough
Graduate faculty
Department
of Linguistics
University of
Toronto
Contact Information
UTSC
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H521 |
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416-287-7172 |
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416-287-7116 |
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kang ‘at’ utsc.utoronto.ca |
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Mailing Address: |
Department of Humanities University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail, H521 Scarborough, Ontario, M1C 1A4 |
St. George
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SS4082 |
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416-… |
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416-971-2688 |
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yoonjung.kang ‘at’ utoronto.ca |
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Department of Linguistics University of Toronto Sidney Smith Hall, |
Teaching
(2009) Fall LINB09: Phonetics (Undergraduate, UTSC)
(2010) Winter LINB04: Phonology I (Undergraduate, UTSC)
LIN1222: Advanced Phonology (Graduate, St. George)
(2010) Fall LINB09: Phonetics (Undergraduate, UTSC)
LINC02: Phonology II (Undergraduate, UTSC)
Education
(2000) Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1994) B.A. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University
Downloadable papers and handouts
Loanwords
(2010) “A survey of suprasegmental adaptation in loanwords.” Ms.
(2009) “A diachronic study of the adaptation of English posterior coronal obstruents in Contemporary Korean.” Ms.
(2009) “A diachronic study of yod-dropping in Korean: a loanword connection.” Handout from Torontø-Tromsø Phonoløgy Workshøp, University of Toronto, Oct. 9-11, 2009.
(2009) “Loanword Phonology.” To appear in van Oostendorp, Marc, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice, eds., Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell.
(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.
(2009) “English loanwords in Korean: From ppada to sweparazzi.” FLAUT lecture.
(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.
Heritage Korean
(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 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) (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.
Phonetics
(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 electropalatographicinvestigation of affricate contrasts in four languages.” CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, August 6, 2009.
Last updated: January 29, 2010