Jiwon Yun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiwon Yun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiwon |
| FAMILY NAME | Yun |
| SIGNATURE | YUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7179-5523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Isolated from Home, Trapped by Remittances
What does it mean to remit to a country you would never return to? This article examines remittance practices of North Korean defectors in South Korea, who, despite being isolated from their country of origin, continue to remit. We conceptualize North Korean defectors as isolated migrants who have extremely low possibilities of visiting or returning home and face great difficulties when communicating with their family members. Inspired by scholar…
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime
This article explores the use of smuggled Chinese smartphones in North Korea as a means of communication that can bypass government-imposed censorship and prohibitions. Adopting the theoretical framework of mobility regimes, we argue these smartphones represent a crack in the authoritarian mobility regime of North Korea and seeks to examine how this mediated practice of resistance interactions with a more traditional mode of resistance, namely de…
Community Choirs
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
The Excavation of the Remains of Soldiers Killed in the Korean War
The main purpose of this article is to explore the significance of the objectives by focusing on activity theory, as well as the legal and institutional establishment of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) Agency for KIA Recovery & Identification (MAKRI), the subject of the Korean War remains excavation project, and the implications of expanding the excavation of remains in the DMZ and the repatriation of the remains of US and UN soldiers on t…
Using a forced aligner for prosody research
Forced alignment is a speech technique that can automatically align audio files with transcripts. With the help of forced alignment tools, annotating audio files and creating annotated speech databases have become much more accessible and efficient. Researchers have recently started to evaluate the benefits and accuracy of forced aligners in speech research and have provided insightful suggestions for improvement. However, current work has so far…
Prosodic disambiguation of wh -indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese
This study focuses on naturally occurring ambiguous utterances like “Zhōngguóduì shuí yě dǎ-bù-guò” in Mandarin to study if/how prosody is used for disambiguation of wh-indeterminates. The results of our production study suggest that wh-indeterminates are disambiguated prosodically. For the wh-region, interrogative readings are distinguished from indefinite readings by having a longer duration and higher maximum pitch. For the pre-wh region, long…
Redefining immobility with mediated mobilities
This article challenges the notion that mediated mobilities are mere substitutes to physical mobilities. It proposes that practising mediated mobilities, especially in the form of vlogging, is a generative process by which individuals can redefine their experience of immobility during quarantine. To support this argument, the article analyses quarantine vlogs uploaded by individuals who were quarantined in South Korean quarantine facilities in 20…
Security Threats and Military Strategic Factors in the Russo–Ukrainian War
The Russo–Ukrainian war has lasted longer than expected due to a combination of two reasons: security threats and military‐strategic conflicts. It turned out that through this conflict, the paradigm of war has changed rapidly enough to be called a game changer. This article aims to provide a theoretical analysis of the main factors in Russia's foreign policy that concern a security threat to the instability of the geopolitical buffer zone and Gre…
Singing, moving and laughing together
Processing of the Mandarin polarity item renhe ‘any’
The Mandarin renhe is similar to the English any in terms of polarity sensitivity ( Wang 1993 ; Wang & Hsieh 1996 ; Kuo 2003 ; Cheng & Giannakidou 2013 ; Shyu 2016 ). However, the following phenomena regarding any in relative clause environments have not been surveyed with respect to renhe: (a) the NPI illusion effect reported in studies like Parker & Phillips ( 2011 ; 2016 ); (b) the subtrigging effect discussed in LeGrand (1975) and Dayal ( 199…
Meaning and Prosody of Wh-Indeterminates in Korean
This article presents an experiment investigating the relative contribution of two different prosodic properties to the interpretation and scope configuration of wh-indeterminates in Korean. The experiment shows that it is prosodic phrasing after the wh-indeterminate that determines whether it is interpreted as interrogative or indefinite. Prosodic prominence on the wh-indeterminate does not contribute to such a distinction; rather, it increases …
Uncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages
The processing difficulty profile for relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean represents a challenge for theories of human parsing. We address this challenge using a grammar-based complexity metric, one that reflects a minimalist analysis of relative clauses for all three languages as well as structure-dependent corpus distributions. Together, these define a comprehender’s degree of uncertainty at each point in a sentence. We use this id…
Redefining immobility with mediated mobilities
This article challenges the notion that mediated mobilities are mere substitutes to physical mobilities. It proposes that practising mediated mobilities, especially in the form of vlogging, is a generative process by which individuals can redefine their experience of immobility during quarantine. To support this argument, the article analyses quarantine vlogs uploaded by individuals who were quarantined in South Korean quarantine facilities in 20…
Singing, moving and laughing together
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime
This article explores the use of smuggled Chinese smartphones in North Korea as a means of communication that can bypass government-imposed censorship and prohibitions. Adopting the theoretical framework of mobility regimes, we argue these smartphones represent a crack in the authoritarian mobility regime of North Korea and seeks to examine how this mediated practice of resistance interactions with a more traditional mode of resistance, namely de…
Meaning and Prosody of Wh-Indeterminates in Korean
This article presents an experiment investigating the relative contribution of two different prosodic properties to the interpretation and scope configuration of wh-indeterminates in Korean. The experiment shows that it is prosodic phrasing after the wh-indeterminate that determines whether it is interpreted as interrogative or indefinite. Prosodic prominence on the wh-indeterminate does not contribute to such a distinction; rather, it increases …
Uncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages
The processing difficulty profile for relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean represents a challenge for theories of human parsing. We address this challenge using a grammar-based complexity metric, one that reflects a minimalist analysis of relative clauses for all three languages as well as structure-dependent corpus distributions. Together, these define a comprehender’s degree of uncertainty at each point in a sentence. We use this id…
Meaning and Prosody of Wh-Indeterminates in Korean
This article presents an experiment investigating the relative contribution of two different prosodic properties to the interpretation and scope configuration of wh-indeterminates in Korean. The experiment shows that it is prosodic phrasing after the wh-indeterminate that determines whether it is interpreted as interrogative or indefinite. Prosodic prominence on the wh-indeterminate does not contribute to such a distinction; rather, it increases …
Processing of the Mandarin polarity item renhe ‘any’
The Mandarin renhe is similar to the English any in terms of polarity sensitivity ( Wang 1993 ; Wang & Hsieh 1996 ; Kuo 2003 ; Cheng & Giannakidou 2013 ; Shyu 2016 ). However, the following phenomena regarding any in relative clause environments have not been surveyed with respect to renhe: (a) the NPI illusion effect reported in studies like Parker & Phillips ( 2011 ; 2016 ); (b) the subtrigging effect discussed in LeGrand (1975) and Dayal ( 199…
Using a forced aligner for prosody research
Forced alignment is a speech technique that can automatically align audio files with transcripts. With the help of forced alignment tools, annotating audio files and creating annotated speech databases have become much more accessible and efficient. Researchers have recently started to evaluate the benefits and accuracy of forced aligners in speech research and have provided insightful suggestions for improvement. However, current work has so far…
Prosodic disambiguation of wh -indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese
This study focuses on naturally occurring ambiguous utterances like “Zhōngguóduì shuí yě dǎ-bù-guò” in Mandarin to study if/how prosody is used for disambiguation of wh-indeterminates. The results of our production study suggest that wh-indeterminates are disambiguated prosodically. For the wh-region, interrogative readings are distinguished from indefinite readings by having a longer duration and higher maximum pitch. For the pre-wh region, long…
Redefining immobility with mediated mobilities
This article challenges the notion that mediated mobilities are mere substitutes to physical mobilities. It proposes that practising mediated mobilities, especially in the form of vlogging, is a generative process by which individuals can redefine their experience of immobility during quarantine. To support this argument, the article analyses quarantine vlogs uploaded by individuals who were quarantined in South Korean quarantine facilities in 20…
Security Threats and Military Strategic Factors in the Russo–Ukrainian War
The Russo–Ukrainian war has lasted longer than expected due to a combination of two reasons: security threats and military‐strategic conflicts. It turned out that through this conflict, the paradigm of war has changed rapidly enough to be called a game changer. This article aims to provide a theoretical analysis of the main factors in Russia's foreign policy that concern a security threat to the instability of the geopolitical buffer zone and Gre…
Singing, moving and laughing together
The Excavation of the Remains of Soldiers Killed in the Korean War
The main purpose of this article is to explore the significance of the objectives by focusing on activity theory, as well as the legal and institutional establishment of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) Agency for KIA Recovery & Identification (MAKRI), the subject of the Korean War remains excavation project, and the implications of expanding the excavation of remains in the DMZ and the repatriation of the remains of US and UN soldiers on t…
Isolated from Home, Trapped by Remittances
What does it mean to remit to a country you would never return to? This article examines remittance practices of North Korean defectors in South Korea, who, despite being isolated from their country of origin, continue to remit. We conceptualize North Korean defectors as isolated migrants who have extremely low possibilities of visiting or returning home and face great difficulties when communicating with their family members. Inspired by scholar…
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime
This article explores the use of smuggled Chinese smartphones in North Korea as a means of communication that can bypass government-imposed censorship and prohibitions. Adopting the theoretical framework of mobility regimes, we argue these smartphones represent a crack in the authoritarian mobility regime of North Korea and seeks to examine how this mediated practice of resistance interactions with a more traditional mode of resistance, namely de…
Community Choirs
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (3 works) · Mandarin Chinese (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works)