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A fundamental question of my research is where speakers' behavior comes from, lexical statistics or grammar. In search of an answer to this question, I have done research with the data of Korean, along with other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, Japanese, and Turkish, among others. My research interests include gradience, frequency, variation; learnability; loanword phonology; perception and production; syntax and semantics of a plural marker; topic and focus. I am currently working on the dissertation, "Gradience, Frequency and Variation in Phonology," which investigates the consonant insertion in Korean, based on the data of reduplication.

Areas of Interest: phonology, morphology, phonetics, psycholinguistics, semantics, East Asian linguistics

Research Papers

• Identity Avoidance in Korean
• Re Extrinsic -tul

Selected Publications

• 2001. The optimality of a phonological theory: Review of Bromberger and Halle 1997. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 7-1
• 2007. Identity avoidance in Korean reduplication. Linguistics in the Big Apple: The Proceedings of the 8^th SCN Mini-conference
• 2008. A case of non-aspirated stops in English loanwords turning into aspirated stops in Korean. Inquiries into Korean Linguistics III.
• In press. Korean Tul and English All. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: The 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics
• In press. Identity Avoidance in Korean and Turkish. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: The 5th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics

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