1. Phonotactics, probabilistic grammar, neural networks
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, 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 ICT & AI
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)