Say Young Kim
Professor of Experimental Linguistics @Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Professor of Experimental Linguistics @Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
2012 Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
2012-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore
contact: sayyoungkim@hanyang.ac.kr or sayyoung.kim@gmail.com
📄 Lee, J., Kim, S. Y.*, & Song, S.* (2025). The semantics of embedding predicates influence the acceptability of internally headed relative clauses in Korean. Cognitive Linguistics.
📄 Lee, M., Kim, H. S., Noh, Y., Lee, G., & Kim, S. Y. (2025). Incremental processing of postverbal negation: ERP evidence from Korean. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 75, 101259.
📄 Bennett, C. C., Bae, Y-H., Yoon, J-H., Kim, S. Y., & Weiss, B. (2025). Enhancing Human-Agent Interaction via artificial agents that speculate about the future. Future Internet, 17, 52.
📄 Kim, S. Y. (in press). The role of syllabic saliency in visual word recognition of Korean Hangul. In. H.K. Pae, K. Heather, & S.Y. Kim (Eds.). Handbook on the Korean Language and Literacy: Insights into Hangul and Text Processing. Springer.
📄 Lee, M., Noh, Y., Kim, H. S., & Kim, S. Y.* (2024). Processing of Shakespearean functional shift as a semantic anomaly in L2 English: Evidence from an ERP study. Cortex. 172, 271-283. [link]
📄 Kim, H. S., & Kim, S. Y.* (2024). Evidence of rapid automatic translation in Korean-English bilinguals using masked implicit priming: An ERP study. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 69, 101172
📄 Lee, J., Kim, S. Y.*, & Song, S.* (2023). What resists or boosts the use of Internally-Headed Relative Clauses in Korean? The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal. 31, 113-137.
📄 Bennett, C.C., Kim, S. Y., Weiss, B. ...et al. (2023). Cognitive shifts in bilingual speakers affect speech interactions with artificial agents. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
📄 Bennett, C.C., Bae, Y-H., Yoon, J. H., ... Kim, S. Y., ... et al. (2023). Effects of cross-cultural language differences on social cognition during human-agent interaction in cooperative game environments. Computer Speech & Language, 81, 101521.
📄 Duñabeitia, J.A., Baciero, A., Antoniou, K. ... Kim, S. Y., ... et al. (2022). The Multilingual Picture Database. Scientific Data 9, 431.
📄 Kim, S. Y., & Cao, F. (2022). How does the brain read different scripts? Reading and Writing. 35, 1449-1473.
📄 Li, C., Wang, M., Kim, S. Y., Bolger, D. J., & Wright, K. (2021). Phonological preparation in Korean: phoneme, or syllable or another unit? Language and Speech, 65, 337-353.
📄 Wang, X., Wang, J., Taft, M., & Kim, S. Y. (2021). Finding a 'flower' in a 'peanut' is as easy as in a 'garden': Towards a lemma-based model of bilingual word recognition. Language Cognition, and Neuroscience, 36, 1076-1085.
📄 Kim, S. Y., Liu, L., Liu, L., & Cao, F. (2020). Neural representational similarity between L1 and L2 in spoken and written language processing. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 4935-4951.
📄 Chung, W., Park, M. K., & Kim, S. Y.* (2019). An electrophysiological investigation of translation and morphological priming in biscriptal bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 151-164.
📄 Kim, S. Y.*, Yap, M. J., & Goh, W. D. (2019). The role of semantic transparency in visual word recognition of compound words: A megastudy approach. Behavior Research Methods. 51, 2722-2732. [dataset]
📄 Kim, S. Y., & Wang, M. (2018). Neural mechanisms of reading in Korean L1 and related L2 reading. In H. K. Pae (Ed.). Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Languages (pp. 411-426). John Benjamins. [pdf]
📄 Kim, S. Y., Liu, L., & Cao, F. (2017). How does first language (L1) influence second language (L2) reading in the brain? Evidence from Korean-English and Chinese-English bilinguals. Brain and Language, 171, 1-13.
For the full list of publications: google scholar