Conference and Workshop Presentations

• Ji Yea Kim. Voicing cues in English word-final stops. Talk presented at the Spring 2024 Conference of the English Linguistics Society of Korea (ELSOK), Mokpo National University, Muan, Korea, June 21, 2024.

• Ji Yea Kim. Diminutives in American English and Mexican Spanish. Talk presented at the Fall 2022 Conference of the English Linguistics Society of Korea (ELSOK) & the Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea (DISCOG), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, November 5, 2022.

• Ji Yea Kim. <it, cit, ecit>: A new approach to diminutives in Spanish. Poster presented at the 52nd meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 52), University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA (virtual), April 21, 2022.  

• Ji Yea Kim. Morphophonological epenthesis in Spanish diminutives. Talk presented at the 46th  Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 46), University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA (virtual), March 19, 2022. 

• Ji Yea Kim. The innovative suffix -lʌ in Korean: direct affix borrowing and morphological copy epenthesis. Poster presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Washington DC, USA (virtual), January 6, 2022. 

• Ji Yea Kim. Why [s]? An analogical account of the epenthetic consonant quality in nonstandard Korean. Talk presented at the 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 29), Nagoya University and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Japan (virtual), October 11, 2021.

• Ji Yea Kim. Morphophonological consonant epenthesis in Korean. Talk presented at the Epenthesis Workshop (Epenthesis and Beyond), Stony Brook University, NY, USA (virtual), September 17, 2021. 

• Ji Yea Kim. Bettie vs. Betsie: Morphological s-epenthesis in English diminutives. Talk presented at the 5th American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM 5), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (virtual). August 27, 2021.

• Ji Yea Kim. The morphophonological formation of the suffix -lʌ in Korean. Talk presented at the Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context (KLCC),  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (virtual). June 5, 2021.

• Ji Yea Kim & Lori Repetti. Demonym suffixes in English. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 56), University of Chicago, IL, USA. Scheduled for April 30-May 2, 2020. (Paper accepted for a talk; Conference cancelled because of COVID-19.)

• Kirton, William P., Seung Ah Kwak, Juliet Huynh, Ji Yea Kim & Naoko O. Witzel. Korean-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 2019 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. September 20, 2019. (Presented by Kirton & Huynh.)

• Kwak, Seung Ah, William P. Kirton, Juliet Huynh, Ji Yea Kim & Naoko O. Witzel. How do Korean-English bilinguals represent stop sounds? Poster presented at the Spotlight Student Research Forum, UTA, April 4, 2019. (Presented by Kwak.)

• Ji Yea Kim. Epenthesis or allomorphy: A case study from Korean. Poster presented at the 43th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 43), University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. March 24, 2019.

• Kwak, Seung Ah, William P. Kirton, Juliet Huynh, Ji Yea Kim & Naoko O. Witzel. How Korean-English bilinguals represent stop sounds in their two languages. Talk presented at the 2019 Cultural Constructions Conference, UTA, TX, USA. March 21, 2019. (Presented by Kwak & Kirton.)

• Ji Yea Kim. Motivations for consonant epenthesis: A case study of nonstandard Korean. Talk presented at the 2019 Blitz Talk, Department of Linguistics, SBU. March, 6, 2019.

• Kwak, Seung Ah, William P. Kirton, Juliet Huynh, Ji Yea Kim & Naoko O. Witzel. Can Korean-English bilinguals distinguish Korean and English stop sounds? Poster presented at the 25th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT 25), UTA, TX, USA. March 1, 2019. (Presented by Kwak & Kirton.)

• Ji Yea Kim. Motivations for consonant epenthesis in nonstandard suffixed forms of Korean nouns. Poster presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2018), UC San Diego, CA, USA. October 7, 2018.

• Ji Yea Kim. Base identity effect at the segmental and suprasegmental levels in nonstandard Korean. Talk presented at the 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM 26), Hulme Hall, Manchester, UK. May 26, 2018.

• Ji Yea Kim. Variation in stem-final consonant clusters in Korean nouns. Talk presented at the Phonology Reading Group, Department of Linguistics, SBU. December 7, 2017.

• Ji Yea Kim. Stem-final consonant clusters and [s]-epenthesis in nonstandard Korean noun paradigm. Talk presented at the Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL) 14, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA. April 1, 2017.

• Ji Yea Kim. Variation in stem-final consonant clusters in Korean nominal inflection. Talk presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of Linguists from Stony Brook, Yale, NYU, and CUNY GC (SYNC), The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, NY, USA. December 3, 2016.

• Ji Yea Kim. Reevaluation of the prominence in contemporary Seoul Korean. Talk presented at the 2015 International Conference on Korean Linguistics (ICKL) & Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (Harvard-ISOKL), The University of Chicago, IL, USA. July 25, 2015.

• Ji Yea Kim. Diachronic change in the stress pattern in Seoul Korean: A spoken corpus-based acoustic analysis and an Optimality-theoretic account. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS) Conference, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. April 18, 2015.

• Ji Yea Kim. “Fully fledged or totally fledged?”: Maximizer associations in American English. Talk presented at the 11th Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES), UTA, TX, USA. March 25, 2015.

• Ji Yea Kim. Stress pattern in contemporary Seoul Korean. Talk presented at the 22nd Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT 22), UTA, TX, USA. February 19, 2015. (Won the Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize.)

• Ji Yea Kim. Perceptual cues to the voicing of English word-final stops: An analysis of preceding vowel duration and other factors. Talk presented in Korean at the 7th Gwanak Phonology Group at Seoul National University, SNU, Seoul, Korea. March 27, 2014.

• Ji Yea Kim. Perception of voicing of English word-final consonants: A comparative Study of English Listeners and Korean Listeners. Poster presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA. December 6, 2013.

• Ji Yea Kim. On the role of vowel duration as a perceptual cue to consonant voicing: Korean listeners’ perception of English word-final consonants. Talk presented at the 1st UCL Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University College London, London, UK. November 8, 2013.

• Ji Yea Kim. Production of English long vowels by native speakers of English and Korean. Talk presented at the 2012 International Conference of the English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK), BEXCO, Busan, Korea. December 12, 2012.

• Ji Yea Kim. Perception and production of aspiration in English voiceless stops: An experiment-based comparative study of native speakers of English and Korean. Talk presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. November 12, 2011. 

Invited Talks

• Ji Yea Kim. 영어 지소 접미사와 자음 삽입. Talk presented at the 2024 경상국립대학교 인문학연구소 4월 월례발표회, GNU, Jinju, Korea. April 25, 2024. 

• Ji Yea Kim. Morphophonological variation in consonant clusters. Talk presented at the Departmental Colloquium. Department of English Language and Literature, SNU, Seoul, Korea. April 21, 2023.

• Ji Yea Kim. Morphophonological variation in consonant clusters in Korean. Talk presented at the Monthly Meeting of the Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea, Seoul, Korea. April 8, 2023.

• Ji Yea Kim. Morpho-phonological [s]-epenthesis in comparison to [n]-epenthesis in Korean. Talk presented at the 2021 Graduate Scholarship Awardee Presentation, Center for Korean Studies, SBU. November 5, 2021.

• Ji Yea Kim. Consonant insertion in Korean: Why [s]? Talk presented at the 2020 Graduate Scholarship Awardee Presentation (virtual), Center for Korean Studies, SBU. November 13, 2020.

• Ji Yea Kim. Allophones and phonemes. Talk presented at LIN 101 Introduction to Human Language (Instructor: Professor Lori Repetti). Department of Linguistics, SBU. March 27, 2019.

• Ji Yea Kim. Nonstandard yet systematic variation: [s]-insertion in spoken Korean. Talk presented at the 2018 Graduate Scholarship Awardee Presentation, Center for Korean Studies, SBU. September 21, 2018.

• Ji Yea Kim. Allophones and phonemes in phonology. Talk presented at LIN 101 Human Language (Instructor: Sedigheh Moradi). Department of Linguistics, SBU. June 11, 2018.

• Ji Yea Kim. Variation in spoken Korean: A case study of standard and nonstandard forms. Talk presented at the 2017 Graduate Scholarship Awardee Presentation, Center for Korean Studies, SBU. September 29, 2017.