Selected Publications
Articles in journal/refereed conference proceedings
2025
Holliday, J. J., & Kong, E. J. (2025). The Role of Gender in the Social Evaluation of Korean Short Tongue Pronunciation. Language and Speech, 00238309251388973.
2024
Lee, H., & Kong, E. J. (2024) Pre-service English teachers’ cue-weighting in L2 stop perception. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 16(4) __.
Lee, H., Kong, E. J., & Holliday, J. J. (2024). The perception and production of Korean stops in second dialect acquisition. JASA Express Letters, 4(6)
2023
Lee, H., & Kong, E.J., (2023). Attentional modulation on multiple acoustic cues in phonological processing of L2 sounds. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 15(4), 11-16.
Holliday, J. J., Kong, E. J., & Lee, H. (2023). The effects and interaction of age and region on the acoustic realization of the Korean stop contrast. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
Kong, E.J., Lee, H., & Holliday, J. J. (2023). Executive function and Korean children’s stop production. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 15(3), 45-52.
2022
Kong, E.J., & Kang, S.Y. (2022) Individual differences in categorical judgment of L2 stops: A link to proficiency and acoustic cue-weighting. Language and Speech, 00238309221108647.
Kong, E.J., Holliday, J. J., & Lee, H. (2022). Post-adolescent changes in the perception of regional sub-phonemic variation. Journal of Phonetics, 90, 101114.
Kong, E. J., Kang, S., & Seo, M. (2022). The acoustic cue-weighting and the L2 production-perception link: A case of English-speaking adults’ learning of Korean stops. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 14(3), 1-9.
2021
Lee, H., & Kong, E.J. (2021). The effect of linguistic exposure to the standard dialect in the perception of Korean stops. 음성음운형태론연구, 27(2), 275-291.
Kong, E.J., & Lee, H. (2021). Relationship between executive function and cue weighting in Korean stop perception across different dialects and ages. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 13(3), 21-29.
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J. (2021). Age and gender differences in the spectral characteristics of Korean sibilants. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 13(1), 37-44.
2020
Kim, D., Clayards, M., & Kong, E.J. (2020). Individual differences in perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar phonetic categories, Journal of Phonetics, 81, 1-16
Lee, H., Kong, E.J., & Holliday, J. (2020). Diachronic change and synchronic variation in the Korean stop laryngeal contrast. Language and Linguistics Compass, e12374
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J. (2020). Gendered spectral patterns of sibilant fricatives in Seoul Korean. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology, 26(1), 1-19
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J. (2020). Cross-generational perception of Korean non-front vowels: Implication on sound change. Language & Linguistics, 87, 1-22.
2019
Kong, E.J. (2019). Individual differences in categorical perception: L1 English learners’ L2 perception of Korean stops. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 11(4), 63-70.
2018
Vasishth, S., Nicenboim, B., Beckman, M., Li, F., & Kong, E.J. (2018). Bayesian data analysis in the phonetic sciences: A tutorial introduction, Journal of Phonetics, 71, 147-161.
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J.E. (2018). Cognitive abilities and speakers’ adaptation of a new acoustic form: A case of a /o/-raising in Seoul Korean, Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 10(3), 1-8.
Kong, E.J., & Lee, H. (2018). Attentional modulation and individual differences in explaining the changing role of f0 in the Korean laryngeal stop perception, Language and Speech, 61(3), 384-408.
2017
Kong, E.J., & Yoo, J.W (2017). Speech processing strategy and executive function: Korean children’s stop perception, Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 9(3), 57-65.
Kong, E.J., & Kang, S. (2017). Individual variability in processing English source input into Korean stops, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology.
Kapnoula, E. C., Winn, M. B., Kong, E. J., Edwards, J., & McMurray, B. (2017). Evaluating the Sources and Functions of Gradiency in Phoneme Categorization: An Individual Differences Approach. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance.
2016
Seo, Y., & Kong, E.J. (2016). A morphological analysis of abbreviated English in airline reservation systems (항공예약 영어 축약에 대한 형태분석 연구), Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 16(4), 797-817.
Kang, J.E, & Kong, E.J. (2016). Static and dynamic spectral properties of the monophthong vowels in Seoul Korean: Implication on sound change (서울방언 단모음의 소리 변화와 음향단서 연구: 단일지점 포먼트와 궤적양상), Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 8(4), 39-47
Kong, E.J., & Edwards J. (2016). Individual differences in categorical perception of speech: Cue weighting and executive function. Journal of Phonetics, 59, 40–57. [pdf valid until Nov 12, 2016]
Lee, H.J., & Kong, E.J. (2016) Relationship between individual traits and variability in processing Korean stops: Implication on mechanism of sound change, Language and Linguistics, 71, 215-236.
2015
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J.E. (2015) L2 proficiency and effect of auditory source in processing L2 stops. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 7(3), 99-105.
Kang, S.Y., Kong, E.J., & Seo, M.S. (2015). Individual differences in autistic traits and variability in production patterns: a case of affricates by young Seoul Korean speakers, Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 7(1), 125-131.
2014
Kong, E.J., Kang, S.Y. & Seo, M.S. (2014). Gender difference in the affricate productions of young Seoul Korean speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(4), EL329-EL335.
Kang, J.E. & Kong, E.J. (2014). The role of f0 cue in distinguishing a laryngeal contrast of word-initial stops in Korean and Japanese. Language and Linguistics, 62, 75-100.
Beckman, M. E., Li F., Kong, E.J., & Edwards J. R. (2014). Aligning the timelines of phonological acquisition and change. Laboratory Phonology. 5(1), 151-193.
2013
Kong, E.J. & Yoon, I. (2013). L2 Proficiency Effect on the Acoustic Cue-Weighting Pattern by Korean L2 Learners of English: Production and Perception of English Stops, Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 4(4), 81-90.
2012
Kong, Eun Jong, Syrika, Asimina, and Edwards, Jan. (2012). Voiced stop prenasalization in two dialects of Greek. Journal of Acoustical society of America, 132, pp 3439-3452.
Kong, E.J., Beckman M. E., & Edwards J. (2012). Voice onset time is necessary but not always sufficient to describe acquisition of voiced stops: The cases of Greek and Japanese. Journal of Phonetics, 40, pp 725–744.
Kong, Eun Jong. (2012). Perception of Korean stops with a three-way laryngeal contrast. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 4(1), 13-20.
2011
Kong, E. J., & Edwards, J. (2011). Individual differences in speech perception: Evidence from visual analogue scaling and eye-tracking. Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 17-21 August 2011, Hong Kong.
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2011). Why are Korean tense stops acquired so early: The role of acoustic properties. Journal of Phonetics. 39, 196-211.
2010
Kong, Eun Jong & Weismer, Gary (2010). Correlation of acoustic cues in stop productions of Korean and English adults and children. Phonetics and Speech Sciences. 2(4), 29-37.
Chung, Hyunju, Kong, Eun Jong & Weismer, Gary (2010). Vowel formant trajectory patterns for shoared vowels of American English and Korean. Phonetics and Speech Sciences. 2(4), 67-74.
Kong, Eun Jong (2010). The role of pitch range reset in Korean sentence processing. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 2(1), 33-40.
2009 and Earlier
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2007). Fine-grained phonetics and acquisition of Greek voiced stops, In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 865-868.
Kong, Eun Jong (2004). The role of pitch range variation in discourse structure and intonation structure of Korean, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
In submission/preparation
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Kong, E.J., & Edwards, Jan (2015). Individual differences in L2 learners’ perceptual cue weighting patterns. In Proceedings of the 18th international congress of the phonetic sciences. Glasgow, UK.
Schertz, J., Kang, Y., Han, S., Kochetov, A. & Kong, E.J. (2015) Dialectal variability in Place and Manner of Korean affricates. In Proceedings of the 18th international congress of the phonetic sciences. Glasgow, UK.
Takada, M., Kong, E.J., Yoneyama, K., & Beckman, M. (2015). Loss of prevoicing in modern Japanese /g, d, b/. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK.
Holiday, J., Kong, E.J., & Edward, J. (2011). Dialectal variation in the acoustic correlates of Korean stops. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 878-881. Hong Kong.
Kong, E.J., & Edward, Jan (2011). Individual differences in speech perception: Evidence from visual analogue scaling and eye-tracking. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1126-1129. Hong Kong.
Syrika, A., Kong, E.J., & Edward, Jan (2011). Velar softening: An acoustic study in Modern Greek. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1926-1929. Hong Kong.
Kong, E.J., Beckman, Mary, & Edwards, Jan (2007). Fine-grained phonetics and acquisition of Greek voiced stops, In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 865-868. Saarbrucken, Germany.
Kong, E.J. (2004). The role of pitch range variation in discourse structure and intonation structure of Korean, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Jeju, Korea.
Conference presentations
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J.E. (2017) The perception of non-front vowels in Seoul Korean: Evidence of sound change, Poster presented at Seoul International Conference on Speech Science. Seoul, Korea. (Nov. 9).
Kim, D., Clayard, M., & Kong, E.J. (2017). Individual differences in perceptual adaptation to phonetic categories: Categorization gradiency and cognitive abilities, Poster presented at the 16th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. British Columbia, Canada. (Nov. 10).
Holliday, J., & Kong, E.J. (2017). Acoustic evidence from spontaneous speech for sound change in Korean sibilants. Poster presented at the 4th Workshop on Sound Change. Edinburgh, Scotland. (April 20).
Kong, E.J., & Holliday, J. J. (2016). An acoustic investigation of affricates in the Seoul Corpus. Poster presented at the Korean Society of Speech Sciences 2016 Spring Research Symposium. Gwangju, Korea. (May 20).
Takada, M., Kong, E.J., Yoneyama, K., & Beckman, M. (2016). Do pitch and voice quality cue word
-initial "voicing" in Tohoku Japanese?. Poster presented at the 24th Japanese/ Korean Linguistics Conference, Tokyo, Japan (October 15).
Kong, E.J., & Lee, H. (2016). Attentional modulation and individual differences in explaining the changing role of f0 in the Korean laryngeal stop perception, Poster presented at the 15th conference on laboratory phonology. Ithaca, NY, USA. (July 13).
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J.E. (2015). The perception of non-front vowels in Seoul Korean: Evidence of sound change, Poster presented at Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences. Seoul, Korea. (Nov. 20).
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J.E. (2015). L2 learner's sensitivity to the native source in the speech perception, Poster presented at Korean Society of Speech Sciences 2015 Spring Research Symposium. Daejeon, Korea. (May 22).
Takada, M., Kong, E.J., Yoneyama, K., & Beckman, M. (2014). Age- and gender-related variation in voiced stop prenasalization in Japanese, Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Indiana, USA (October).
Kong, E.J., Yoneyama, K., & Beckman, M. (2014). Effects of a sound change in progress on gender-marking cues in Japanese Poster presented at the 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Tokyo, Japan (July).
Holliday, J. J., & Kong, E.J. (2013). The acoustic correlates of stop productions in older and younger Jeju speakers. Poster presented at Korean Society of Speech Sciences 2013 Spring Research Symposium. Busan, Korea. (May 24).
Kong, E.J., & Kang, J. (2013). Patterns of acoustic cue weighting in the speech perception of English stops by Korean L2 learners. Poster presented at Korean Society of Speech Sciences 2013 Spring Research Symposium. Busan, Korea (May 24).
Kong, E.J., Kang, S., & Seo, M. (2013). An acoustic study on the place of articulation of Korean affricates. Poster presented at Korean Society of Speech Sciences 2013 Spring Research Symposium. Busan, Korea. (May 24).
Kong, E.J., & Edwards, Jan (2012). Individual differences in categorical speech perception. Paper presented at the 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Stuttgart, Germany (July 27-29).
Kong, E.J., & Edwards, Jan (2011). Gradient perception of laryngeal contrast of stops in English and Korean: eye-tracking evidence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, USA (May).
Chung, H., Kong, E.J., & Edwards, Jan (2011). A cross-linguistic developmental study of vowel dynamics. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, USA (May).
Kong, E.J., Beckman, Mary E., & Edwards, Jan (2010). Different gestures explain different acquisition patterns for Japanese and Greek voiced stops. Poster presented at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, New Mexico.
Kong, E.J., Beckman, Mary E., & Edwards, Jan (2010). Why are Korean tense stops mastered early: evidence from production and perception. Paper presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
Chung, H., Edwards, J., Weismer, G., Kong, E.J., Munson, B., & Beckman, M. (2010). Korean listeners' sensitivity to language-specific phonetic details of children and adults' vowel production in five different languages. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
Syrika, A., Edwards, J., Fourakis, M., Kong, E.J., Munson, B., & Beckman, M. E. (2010). Why [spa] not [psa]? On the perceptual salience of initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ sequences. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
Kong, E.J., Beckman, Mary E., & Edwards, Jan (2010). VOT trumps other measures in predicting Korean children’s early mastery of fortis stops. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
Kong, E.J., Beckman, Mary E., & Edwards, Jan (2009). Nasal venting and the early mastery of Greek voiced stops. Paper presented at International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Chicago.
Kong, E.J., Beckman, Mary, & Edwards, Jan (2009). VOT is necessary but not sufficient for describing the voicing contrast in Japanese. Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco.
Arbisi-Kelm, T., Beckman, M., Kong, E.J., & Edwards, Jan (2009). Production of dorsal place(s) of articulation by child and adult speakers of four languages. Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco.