Jiwon Yun 윤지원 尹芝元

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University.
M.A., Linguistics, Seoul National University.
B.S.E., Computer Science & Engineering (cum laude with honors), Seoul National University. 

Selected Publications

Wu, Hongchen, Jiwon Yun, Xiang Li, Huiyi Huang, Chuandong Liu. 2023. Using a forced aligner for prosody research. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10. 429. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon and Hye-Sook Lee. 2022. Prosodic disambiguation of questions in Korean: theory and processing. Korean Linguistics 18.1. 18-47. [paper]

Wu, Hongchen and Jiwon Yun. 2021. Processing of the Mandarin polarity item renhe ‘any’. Language and Linguistics 22.4. 635-666. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon. 2020. Computational modeling of long-distance dependency in Korean using Minimalist Grammar. EONEOHAG (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea) 87. 63-86. [paper] (in Korean)

Yun, Jiwon. 2019. Meaning and prosody of wh-indeterminates in Korean. Linguistic Inquiry 50.3. 630–647. [paper]

Lee, So Young and Jiwon Yun. 2018. Influence of intonation, morphology, and syntax on the semantic scope of wh-phrases in Kyeongsang Korean. Language and Information 22.3. 23–43. [paper]

Kang, Hijo, Jiwon Yun, and Seongyeon Ko. 2017. Vowels of Beryozovka Ewen: an acoustic phonetic study. Altai Hakpo (Journal of the Altaic Society of Korea) 27. 1-23. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon, Hijo Kang and Seongyeon Ko. 2016. A phonetic study of Nanai vowels using automated post-transcriptional processing techniques. Altai Hakpo (Journal of the Altaic Society of Korea) 26. 29-44. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon, Chen Zhong, Tim Hunter, John Whitman and John Hale. 2015. Uncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 24. 1-36. [paper] (open access)

Yun, Jiwon. 2015. The influence of sentence-final intonation and phonological phrasing on the interpretation of wh-indeterminates. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL). 25-34.

Yun, Jiwon. 2014. Wh-indefinites and their licensing conditions. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS). 361-372.

Yun, Jiwon. 2012. The deterministic prosody of indeterminates. Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). 285-293. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon. 2011. On the meaning of wh-(N)-ina and wh-(N)-itun in Korean. Language Research (어학연구) 47.2. 191-218. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon, John Whitman & John Hale. 2010. Subject-object asymmetries in Korean sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2152-2157. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon. 2010. Disjunction and alternative conditionals in Korean. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL) 61. 373-380. [handout]

Yun, Jiwon. 2009. A stratal OT approach to a noun-verb asymmetry with respect to opacity in Korean. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PLC) 15. 233-241. [paper]

Yun, Jiwon. 2008. Noun-verb asymmetries in Korean phonology. Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). 449-457. [paper]

Selected Presentations

Cépeda, Paola and Jiwon Yun. 2018. Negation in Korean time measure constructions. The 26th meeting of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. UCLA. [slides]

Yun, Jiwon. 2017. Sentence-final intonation in Korean. The 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. The University of Helsinki. [handout]

Yun, Jiwon, So Young Lee and John Drury. 2017. Intrusion effects on Korean NPI licensing and the influence of prosody. The 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT. [poster]

Lee, So Young and Jiwon Yun. 2016. Influence of Intonation, Morphology, and Syntax on the Semantic Scope of wh-phrases in Kyeongsang Korean. The 90th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC. [poster]

Yun, Jiwon and Hye-Sook Lee. 2015. The theory and processing of Korean wh-indeterminates. The 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Southern California. [poster]

Yun, Jiwon, Hyun Kyung Hwang, and Seongyeon Ko. 2012. Automatic Annotation for Korean Speech Corpus Analysis. The International workshop on corpus linguistics (pre-conference workshop of the 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan. [poster]

Kwon, Nayoung, Jiwon Yun, John Hale, and John Whitman. 2011. Processing of noun complement complex NPs with subject and object pro in Korean. The 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford University. [poster]

Yun, Jiwon, John Whitman, and John Hale. 2010. Subject-object asymmetries in Korean sentence comprehension. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon. [poster]

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses:

LIN 110 The Anatomy of English

LIN 335 Computational Linguistics

LIN 347 Pragmatics

LIN 350 Experimental Phonetics

LIN 355 Language and Life in East Asia

LIN 405 Writing in Linguistics

Graduate Courses:

LIN 537 Computational Linguistics 1

LIN 625 Semantics

LIN 627 Computational Semantics

LIN 651 Syntax Seminar: Syntax-prosody interface

LIN 655 Computational Linguistics Seminar

CV (with links to downloadable papers)
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