1. Phonotactics, probabilistic grammar, neural networks, AI models

• Evaluating the reasoning abilities of AI language models in phonological and morphological problem solving. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 31(1): 49-90 (with Eunjin Oh, Sunwoo Park, and Hailee Yoon) (2025) 

• ChatGPT’s phonology problem-solving abilities through reasoning with varying custom instructions. Linguistic Research 42(1): 53-93. (with Sunwoo Park, Sanghoun Song, and Eunjin Oh) (2025) 

• Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments. Lingua 303. (2024) 

• ChatGPT takes on a phonology exam: Analyzing its characteristics, errors, and reasoning ability. Language and Information 27(2), 73-115. (with Eunjin Oh, Sunwoo Park, and Sanghoun Song) (2023) [In Korean]

• Learning the distribution of  English -al and -ar suffixes using deep neural networks. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 23, 839-858. (2023) 

• Predicting the gender of Korean personal names using fastText. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 27(3) (2021) 

• A maximum-entropy model of phonotactics for Korean male and female names. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 27(1), 99-129 (2021) 

• A maximum-entropy grammar of phonotactics for the TRAP-BATH vowel distribution. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 19(1), 1-26. (2019) 

• Statistical learning of Korean phonotactics. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 18(2), 339-370. (2012) 

2. Tones and tone models using weighted-constraints

• [Book review] "Lian-Hee Wee (2019). Phonological tone. (Key Topics in Phonology.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xx+322." Phonology 36, 744-750. (2019) 

• The phonetic specification of contour tones: evidence from the Mandarin rising tone. Phonology 34, 1-40. (with Edward Flemming) (2017)

• Compression and truncation: The case of Seoul Korean accentual phrase. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 21(2), 359-382. (with Edward Flemming) (2015) 

• Effects of tonal distance and speech rate in the phonetic realization of Kinande H tones. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 19(3), 501-527. (2013) 

• The timing of phrase-initial tones in Seoul Korean: a weighted-constraint model. Phonology 28, 293-330. (2011)  

• Phrase positional effects on F0 peak timing in Tokyo Japanese. Phonetics and Speech Sciences 3(3), 69-75. (2011) 

• The tonal timing and shape of the English L+H* pitch accent. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 17(2), 283-311 (2011) 

• A note on contrasts, mergers and acquisition in Kyungsang accent. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 28 (with Michael Kenstowicz and Jieun Kim) (2007) 

3. Other topics in phonetics and phonology 

• Analysis of the acoustics of English word-final liquids by Korean elementary school students. Journal of the Korea English Education Society 22(4), 249-275. [In Korean] (2023)

• Production of coda obstruent clusters by Korean and English speakers: acoustic and dynamic time warping analyses. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 22, 1443-1464. (2022)

• Comparing English and Korean speakers' word-final /rl/ clusters using dynamic time warping. Phonetics and Speech Sciences 14(1), 29-36. (2022) 

• An analysis of listening errors by Korean EFL learners from self-paced passage dictation. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 13(1), 17-24. (2021) 

• The effects of teaching linking in Korean EFL listening class. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 25(2), 273-297. (2019) 

• An acoustical analysis of English post-alveolar fricatives and affricates produced by Korean and English speakers, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 23(2), 293-324. (2017) 

• Variation in vowel duration depending on voicing in American, British, and New Zealand English. Phonetics and Speech Sciences 8(3), 11-20. (2016) 

• Production of pre-fortis clipping in English by Korean and English speakers. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 21(1), 115-141. (2015) 

• Dispersion in the English Lexicon: contrasts in phonetic vowel duration. Language and Linguistics 67, 177-204. (2015) 

• An analysis of velar fronting in child phonology based on a longitudinal corpus study. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 20(2), 207-228. (2014) 

• Phonetic Prominence of Contrastive Focus in English across Multiple Types and its Semantic Implications. English Language and Linguistics 18(3), 1-29. (with Chungmin Lee) (2012) 

• Laryngeal Feature Mobility in Cherokee and Korean. Language and Linguistics 56, 283-306. (2012) 

• Perception of voicing in fricatives. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists, pp. 986-1006. (2008) (with Maria Giavazzi) pdf 

4. English Education using AI digital technology

• Analyzing ChatGPT's judgments on nativelikeness of sentences written by English native speakers and Korean EFL learners. Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning, 26(2), 9-32. (2023)

• Assessing nativelikeness of Korean college students' English writing using fastText. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 22, 19-39. (2022) 

• A case study of online recorded lectures with preview homework in university TOEIC courses. Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning, 23(3) (Special Issue), pp.413-431. [In Korean] (2020)  

• The effectiveness of using an ICT-based participation points system on student participation and affective factors. Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning 23(2), 236-259. (With Hyeonju Lee) [In Korean] (2020) 

• An Online Survey Tool as a Learner Response System: Use of Google Forms in University TOEIC Courses. Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning 18(2), 77-99. (2018)