1. Shore, Amber, Russell Scheinberg, Ameeta Agrawal, and So Young Lee. 2025. Correct-Detect: Balancing Performance and Ambiguity Through the Lens of Coreference Resolution in LLMs. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. [accepted]

2. Kim, Sang Hun, Dongkyu Park, Jongmin Lee, So Young Lee, and Yosep Chong. 2025. Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Designed with Large Language Model Based on Psychoanalysis and Personality Theory.  Cognitive Systems Research. [accepted]

3. Lee, So Young. 2025. Honorific Agreement Guides but Doesn't Govern in Ambiguity Resolution. Language Research 61(2), 171-192. 

4. Scheinberg, Russell, Ameeta Agrawal, Amber Shore, and So Young Lee. 2025. Explain-then-Process: Using Grammar Prompting to Enhance Grammatical Acceptability Judgments. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 19778–19795, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.

5. Lee, So Young, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, and Ameeta Agrawal. 2025. Who relies more on world knowledge and bias for syntactic ambiguity resolution: Humans or LLMs? In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 3484–3498, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.

6. Scheinberg, Russell, So Young Lee, and Ameeta Agrawal. 2025. Missing the cues: LLMs’ insensitivity to semantic biases in relative clause attachment. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10, no. 1 : 5902. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5902

1. Russell Scheinberg, Ameeta Agrawal, Amber Shore, and So Young Lee. Explain-then-Process: Using Grammar Prompting to Enhance Grammatical Acceptability Judgments. The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria

2. Alex Hong-Lun Yeung, Tran Ta-Tran, and So Young Lee. A cross-linguistic investigation of the perceptibility of amodal pho nation cues. The 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2025). Chania, Crete, Greece. 

3. So Young Lee. Prosodic and Morphosyntactic Factors in Korean Relative Clause Attachment. The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Cornell University.

4. Alex Hong-Lun Yeung, So Young Lee,  and Tran Ta-Tran. Exploring L1 Influence in the Learning of Novel Tone Patterns: A Tale of Two Korean Dialects. The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Cornell University. 

5. So Young Lee, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, and Ameeta Agrawal. Who relies more on world knowledge and bias for syntactic ambiguity resolution: Humans or LLMs? 2025 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Albuquerque, New Mexico.

6. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. NPI licensing in Korean: Structural Complexity and Lexical Specific Effects. Human Sentence Processing 2025. University of Maryland.

7. So Young Lee and Aniello De Santo. The Toves of the Borogoves: Investigating RC Attachment Ambiguity with Nonce Words. Human Sentence Processing 2025. University of Maryland.

8. Nayoung Kwon and So Young Lee. Interactions between cognitive accessibility and parsing strategies: processing cataphora in Korean. Human Sentence Processing 2025. University of Maryland.

9. Russell Scheinberg, So Young Lee, and Ameeta Agrawal. Missing the Cues: LLMs' Insensitivity to Semantic Biases in RC Attachment. The 99th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

10. So Young Lee and Myung Hye Yoo. Intermediate Activation and Its Impact on Subject-Verb Honorific Agreement in Korean.The 99th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. https://osf.io/qe6fj

1. Lee, So Young. 2024. Offline vs. Online processing of relative clause attachment ambiguity in Korean. Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society CLS 59 (2023), 253-261.

2. Lee, So Young, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, and Ameeta Agrawal. 2024. Multilingual Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity Resolution in Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pages 417–432, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

3. Lee, So Young, and Mai Ha Vu. 2024. The effects of distance on NPI illusive effects in BERT. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9443–9457, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.

4. Lee, So Young, and Aniello De Santo. 2024. Online Evidence for Pseudo-Relative Effects on Italian RC Attachment Resolution. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2375216

5. Lee, So-Young. 2024. Scope and Prosody in Multiple Wh-Questions. Languages 9, no. 7: 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9070226

6. Lee, So Young, and Aniello De Santo. 2024. Exploring Variation in English and Italian Relative Clause Attachment: The Role of Coordination. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9 (1): 5710. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5710

7. Lee, So Young, and Myung Hye Yoo. 2024. Investigating the Role of Case Markers in Honorific Agreement Processing in Korean. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 9 (1): 5714. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5714

1. So Young Lee, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, and Ameeta Agrawal. 2024. Multilingual Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity Resolution in Large Language Models. The 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, PACLIC 38 (2024). Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Japan

2. So Young Lee and Mai Ha Vu. 2024. The effects of distance on NPI illusive effects in BERT. The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Miami, Florida

3. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee. An Experimental Study on Resumption in Korean Double Relative Clauses. Joint Conference: The 26th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar and The 18th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.

4. So Young Lee, Russell Scheinberg, Amber Shore, and Ameeta Agrawal. Resolving RC Attachment Ambiguity in LLMs: Contrasting Head-Initial and Head-Final Language Processing. The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics. Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.

5. So Young Lee and Aniello De Santo. Evaluating the Limits of a Minimalist Grammar Parser on Korean Double Relative Clauses. Human Sentence Processing 2024. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

6. Nayoung Kwon and So Young Lee. Different interpretational preferences in pronominal resolution during off- and on-line sentence processing: Evidence from Korean with pro and overt pronouns. Human Sentence Processing 2024. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

7. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee. Closest Conjunct Agreement modulates interferences in processing dependencies: Evidence from Korean honorific agreements. Human Sentence Processing 2024. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

8. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee. The role of resumptive pronouns in comprehension of Korean double relative clauses. Human Sentence Processing 2024. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

9. So Young Lee and Songhee Kim. Differential neural processing of negative polarity items: evidence from EEG analysis of 'ever' and 'any'. Midwest Cognitive Science Conference 2024. Ohio University, Ohio.

10. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee.The mechanism of retrieving subjects with mixed features in Korean honorific agreements. CLS60: Chicago Linguistics Society 60. University of Chicago, Chicago.

11. So Young Lee and Mai Ha Vu. Revisiting the NPI illusion effect: exploring the influence of distance and licensor types. The 98th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, New York.

12. So Young Lee and Aniello De Santo. Exploring variation in English and Italian relative clause attachment: the role of coordination. The 98th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, New York. 

13. So Young Lee and Myung Hye Yoo.Investigating the role of case markers in honorific agreement processing in Korean. The 98th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, New York. 

1. Lee, So Young and Myung Hye Yoo. 2023. Honorific agreement in Korean: Retrieval processing and predictive processing. Linguistic Research 40(3): 387-407.

2. Yoo, Myung Hye and So Young Lee. 2023. Interference effects on the processing of Korean double relative clauses. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 8(1). 5516.

1. So Young Lee and Myung Hye Yoo. What triggers attraction effect of honorific agreement in Korean. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia) 2023. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2. So Young Lee and Myung Hye Yoo. Attraction effect of honorific agreements in Korean processing of honorific agreement.  The Fourth International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-4). Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea

3. So Young Lee. Wh-dative attachment ambiguity and phrase length. Speech Prosody and Beyond 2023.Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Korea

4. So Young Lee. Offline vs. Online processing of relative clause attachment ambiguity in Korean. CLS59: Chicago Linguistics Society 59. University of Chicago

5. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee. The processing of multiple filler-gap dependencies in Korean: the case of double relative clauses. The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Simon Fraser University. 

6. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. NPI intrusion effects in Korean relative clause processing. Human Sentence Processing 2023. University of Pittsburgh.

7. Nayoung Kwon and So Young Lee. Interpretation of pronominal elements in Korean. Human Sentence Processing 2023. University of Pittsburgh.

8. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee. Interference effects on the processing of Korean double relative clauses. The 97th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Colorado, Denver. 

1. Song, Jiyeon, So Young Lee, and Stanley Dubinsky. 2022. Event- and type-plurality of the anti-quantifier -ssik in Korean. Proceedings of the 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. 166-175.

2. Lee, So Young and Myung Hye Yoo. 2022. Processing of Honorific Agreement.  Proceedings of the13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XIII (GLOW in Asia XIII) 2022 Online Special. 162-169. 

3. Lee, So Young and Aniello De Santo. 2022. A Computational View into the Structure of Attachment Ambiguities in Chinese and Korean. Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society 52. Vol 2. 189-198.

4. Lee, So Young and Jiwon Yun. 2022. NPI licensing and intrusion effect in Korean. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 29. 277-289. [pdf]

5. De Santo, Aniello and So Young Lee. 2022. Evaluating Structural Economy Claims in Relative Clause Attachment. Society For Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2022, 65-75. [pdf]

1. So Young Lee. Processing of wh-scope and prosody in Korean. Invited talk at Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Colloquium. The City University of New York. (Virtual)

2. So Young Lee. Processing long-distance dependencies using deep learning.  Symposium on Natural Language Processing and Simulation. Miami University

3. So Young Lee and Myung Hye Yoo. A potential processing mechanism of subject-verb honorific agreements in Korean.  Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2022 (AMLaP 2022). University of York (Virtual)

4. Myung Hye Yoo and So Young Lee. The role of argument statuses and case markers in multiple filler-gap dependency formations. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2022 (AMLaP 2022). University of York (Virtual)

5. Jiyeon Song, So Young Lee, and Stanley Dubinsky. Event- and type-plurality of the anti-quantifier -ssik in Korean. The 24th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 24). (Virtual) 

6. So Young Lee and Myung Hye Yoo. Processing of Honorific Agreement.  Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XIII (GLOW in Asia XIII). The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Virtual)

7. So Young Lee. Language and AI. Invited talk at Ewha Womans University. (Virtual)

8. Aniello De Santo and So Young Lee. Pseudo-relative clause effects on the online processing of Italian relative clause attachment. The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. (Virtual)

9. Mai Ha Vu and So Young Lee. Comparing neural-network based language models to human sentence processing: choice of task matters. The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. (Virtual)

10. So Young Lee and Aniello De Santo. Online processing effects of Pseudo Relative Clause Availability in Italian Attachment Ambiguity. The 46th annual Penn Linguistics Conference. (Virtual)

11. Aniello De Santo and So Young Lee. Evaluating Structural Economy Claims in Relative Clause Attachment. Society For Computation in Linguistics 2022. (Virtual)

12. So Young Lee and Aniello De Santo. Connecting Sentence Processing and Syntactic Theories in Prenominal Relative Clause Languages. The 96th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.Washington D.C. (Virtual)

13. Aniello De Santo and So Young Lee. Evaluating Theories of Attachment Preference Computationally. The 96th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.Washington D.C. (Virtual)

1. Lee, So Young. 2021. The Effect of Honorific Affix on Processing of an Attachment Ambiguity. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28. [pdf]

1. So Young Lee and Aniello De Santo. A Computational View into the Structure of Attachment Ambiguities in Chinese and Korean. North East Linguistics Society 52, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. (Virtual)

2. So Young Lee. NPI licensing and intrusion effect in Korean. The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Nagoya University and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. (Virtual)

3. So Young Lee. One factor affecting online processing of an attachment ambiguity. Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context 2021, Cornell University. (Virtual)

4. So Young Lee. Prosodic phrasing of wh-questions. The 95th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. (Virtual)

1. Lee, So Young, Lei Liu, and Hongchen Wu. 2020. Factive island is not an island in Mandarin. Proceedings of the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32). 239-246.

1. So Young Lee. The effect of honorific affix on processing of an attachment ambiguity. The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of Central Lancashire. (Virtual)

2. So Young Lee, Lei Liu, and Hongchen Wu. Factive island is not an island in Mandarin. The 32th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Connecticut. (Virtual)

3. So Young Lee. Prosody of multiple wh-questions in Korean. The 56th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. (Conference Canceled due to COVID-19)

4. So Young Lee. Processing of relative clause attachment ambiguity in Korean. 33rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference University of Massachusetts Amherst. (Virtual)

5. So Young Lee. Computational approach to attachment ambiguity. Invited talk at Miami

University, Oxford.

6. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. When are wh-island effects enhanced? The 94th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans

1. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun Another source of wh-island effects. The 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Sogang University, Korea.

2. So Young Lee. Processing of long-distance dependencies in Korean. 2019 Annual Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Korea. Chonnam National University, Korea.

3. So Young Lee. A case study of long-distance dependencies in Korean with wh-scope. 32nd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Colorado, Boulder.

4. So Young Lee. Computational approach to attachment ambiguity. Invited talk at Dartmouth College, Hanover.

1. Lee, So Young and Jiwon Yun. 2018. Influence of Intonation, Morphology, and Syntax on the Semantic Scope of Wh-phrases in Kyeongsang Korean. Language and Information 22(3), 23-43. [pdf]  

2. Lee, So Young. 2018. A Minimalist Parsing Account of Attachment Ambiguity in English and Korean. Journal of Cognitive Science 19 (3), 291-329. [pdf]

3. Lee, So Young, Lei Liu, Hongchen Wu, and Jiwon Yun. 2018. Syntax and Prosody interface of Wh-scope in Mandarin. Proceeding of the 9th Speech Prosody Conference [pdf]

1. So Young Lee, Lei Liu, Hongchen Wu, and Jiwon Yun. Syntax and prosody interface of wh-scope in Mandarin. 9th Speech Prosody conference. Poznań, Poland.

2. So Young Lee, Hongchen Wu, Lei Liu, and Jiwon Yun. The effect of the surface syntactic positions

of wh-phrases on wh-scope. The 26th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin Madison.

3. So Young Lee, Hongchen Wu, Lei Liu, and Jiwon Yun. The difference between perception and production of prosodic information in Chinese wh-scope disambiguation. Penn Linguistics Conference 42, University of Pennsylvania.

4. So Young Lee, Aydogan Yanilmaz, Jiwon Yun, and John Drury. The processing of Turkish and Korean NPI licensing and intrusion. 31th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis.

5. So Young Lee, Hongchen Wu, Lei Liu, and Jiwon Yun. Asymmetric prosodic effect on production and perception of Mandarin wh-scope. The 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Ohio State University.

1. Lee, So Young, Hongchen Wu, Lei Liu, and Jiwon Yun. 2017. Prosody and Wh-scope Interpretation in Chinese. Proceedings of 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics(NACCL-29) (2), 373-380.

2. Lee, So Young and Jiwon Yun. 2017. Wh-scrambling and Wh-scope in Korean, Proceeding of WAFL 13.

3. Yun, Jiwon, So Young Lee and John Drury. 2017. Negative Polarity Illusion in Korean. Proceeding of WAFL 13.

1. So Young Lee. Wh-island in wh-in-situ languages. Invited talk at Brown Bag Talk in Syntax reading group. New York University.

2. So Young Lee. A computational approach to the preference shown in the attachment ambiguity. The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Workshop3: East Asian Psycholinguistics: Recent Developments. University of Hawaii, Manoa.

3. So Young Lee. A computational approach to the attachment ambiguity. Brown Bag Talk. Stony Brook University.

4. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. What prevents wh-island effect in Korean. The 20th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

5. So Young Lee and Hwichan Oh. NPIs in Korean ditransitives. The 20th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

6. So Young Lee, Hongchen Wu, Lei Liu, Siyao Peng, and Jiwon Yun. Prosodic disambiguation of wh-scope in Chinese. The 25th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, the Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

7. So Young Lee, Hongchen Wu, Lei Liu, Siyao Peng, Yaobin Liu, and Jiwon Yun. Prosody and wh-scope interpretation in Chinese. The 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jergey.

8. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. Wh-scrambling and wh-scope in Korean. The 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Language, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.

9. Jiwon Yun, So Young Lee, and John Drury. Negative Polarity Illusion. The 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Language, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.

10. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. The surface syntactic position of wh-phrases on wh-scope and the syntactic position of wh-phrases. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

11. Jiwon Yun, So Young Lee, and John Drury. Intrusion effects on Korean NPI licensing and the influence of Prosody. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

12. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. Wh-scope and the syntactic position of wh-phrases in Korean. The 41st Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania.

1. So Young Lee. Influence of intonation, sentence-final particles, and surface syntactic position of the wh-phrases on wh-scope in Kyeongsang Korean. Presented at Brown Bag Talk. Stony Brook University.

2. So Young Lee and Jiwon Yun. Influence of intonation, morphology and syntax on the semantic scope of wh-phrases in Kyeongsang Korean. The 90th LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC.

1. So Young Lee. L1 Influence on Korean EFL Learners’ acquisition of ergative verbs and middle verbs in English. SYNC 2014, Stony Brook University. 

1. Yoon, YoungEun and So Young Lee. 2013. Korean Present Perfect and “-ess”, Journal of Studies in Language, 29 (3), 503-526. 

1. So Young Lee. Korean speakers’ sociophonetic variations by region, age, gender, regional movement and their effect on English intonation. The 6th Graduate Conference of English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

2. So Young Lee. The analysis of Korean Speakers’ responses to Yes/No Questions in English. The 20th Annual EGAD Conference, Texas A&M University.