Yoonjung Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoonjung Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoonjung |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4845-8470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Jack or Zack
This study examines the perceptual discrimination and lexical encoding of the English /dʒ–z/ contrast in Korean–English bilinguals, aiming to tease apart the roles of early exposure and misperception in shaping bilingual lexical representations. The English /dʒ–z/ contrast is not contrastive in Korean and is typically neutralized and adapted as the lenis affricate /c/ [t͡s] in Korean loanwords. We test heritage bilinguals with early exposure to K…
Speaking rate effects on Japanese vowel and consonant length contrasts
Vowels and stops are more rate-sensitive than fricatives and nasals in Japanese production. • These patterns align well with the observed ratios of geminate to singleton consonants. • Perception results broadly mirror the production patterns. This study examines the sensitivity of vowels and consonants to speaking rate variations in both production and perception, using Japanese as a case study. In contrast to prior studies, which suggest that vo…
French speakers' use of sound symbolic patterns to assign gender to French and English nonce names
Gender-based sound symbolic patterns have been documented in corpora of given names in several languages. Name-gendering experiments show that native speakers use many, but not all, of these patterns to assign gender to nonce names in their native and non-native languages, suggesting that some patterns may be productive in speakers’ minds. This study extends this experimental work to a new language, French, by examining how French speakers assign…
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception
This study investigates listeners’ ability to track individual speakers’ habitual speech rate in a dialogue and adjust their perception of durational contrasts. Previous studies that found such adjustments are inconclusive as adjustments can be attributed to exemplars of target structures in the dialogue rather than perceptual calibration of habitual speech rates. In this study, English listeners were presented with a dialogue between a fast and …
The influence of perceived L2 sound categories in on-line adaptation and implications for loanword phonology
The effect of speech rate on age estimation in conversational speech
Previous studies found that older speakers generally speak slower than younger speakers and further showed that listeners make use of this age-rate correlation in estimating speakers’ age. This study examines how speakers’ speech rates affect the perception of speaker age in conversational speech as well as how listeners’ own age affects age perception. After hearing a short dialogue in which two speakers’ speech rates were varied orthogonally, l…
Cross-language correspondences in the face of change
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: We investigate the robustness of cross-language phonetic correspondences in two bilingual communities over time, focusing on whether corresponding sounds (e.g. Mandarin /s/ and Korean /s’/) remain coupled in the face of language change, or whether the categories diverge over time in younger, more proficient bilinguals. Design/Methodology/Approach: We quantify the extent of assimilation versus indepe…
Variation of the word-initial liquid in North and South Korean dialects under contact
The emergence, progress, and impact of sound change in progress in Seoul Korean
Supralaryngeal implementation of length and laryngeal contrasts in Japanese and Korean
This article investigates supralaryngeal characteristics of Japanese and Korean length and laryngeal contrasts in stops and affricates. Electropalatography data collected from five Japanese and five Korean speakers revealed similar differences among the consonants in the degree of linguopalatal contact and duration of the closure. Japanese (voiceless) geminate and Korean fortis obstruents were most constricted and had the longest duration (althou…
French loanwords in Vietnamese
This study examines the adaptation of French vowels in Vietnamese focusing on adaptation patterns that seem to defy a straightforward analysis based on native phonotactic restrictions or comparison of phonetic input-output similarity. A proper analysis requires reference to knowledge of the input language phonology. In the first case study, we observe that Vietnamese adapters extend the French phonotactic tendencies, i.e., Loi de Position, to loa…
Cross-language Influence in the Stop Voicing Contrast in Heritage Tagalog
In heritage bilinguals’ sound structure, some aspects of the sound system are more prone to cross-language influence than others. In this study, we compare two different models of crosslanguage influence, a phonological markedness based model, which proposes that influence selectively affects a phonologically marked structure, and a phonetic category based model, where influence is mediated through cross-language equivalence classification of sim…
VOT merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto
Korean has a typologically unusual three-way laryngeal contrast in voiceless stops among aspirated, lenis, and fortis stops. Seoul Korean is undergoing a female-led sound change in which aspirated stops and lenis stops are merging in voice onset time (VOT) and are better distinguished by the F0 (fundamental frequency) of the following vowel than by their VOT, in younger speakers' speech. This paper compares the VOT pattern of Homeland (Seoul) and…
Voice Onset Time merger and development of tonal contrast in Seoul Korean stops
L1 phonotactic restrictions and perceptual adaptation
Tonogenesis in early Contemporary Seoul Korean
Phonology and speech
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The emergence of phonological adaptation from phonetic adaptation
This paper provides a detailed diachronic account of the adaptation of the English posterior coronal obstruents /ʃ ʧ ʤ/ in Contemporary Korean. These consonants are variably adapted with a glide (/j/ or /w/), and the distribution of the glides is conditioned by phonetic and phonological characteristics of the English input, as well as native phonotactic restrictions. The diachronic change in the occurrence of /w/ serves as an example of a variabl…
Tutorial overview
Hybrid loans
Interlanguage Segmental Mapping as Evidence for the Nature of Lexical Representation
The traditional view of phonological representation assumes that lexical representation is economical and free of redundancy and that a phoneme is represented as a combination of contrastive phonetic features. The traditional view, however, is challenged by the recent developments in phonological theories. In Optimality Theory, the distinction between contrastive vs. non-contrastive aspects of pronunciation is made not by the lexical representati…
Perceptual similarity in loanword adaptation
When an English word with a postvocalic word-final stop is adapted to Korean, a vowel is variably inserted after the final stop. Vowel insertion in this position is puzzling not only because of its variability but also because of the fact that it is not motivated by the native phonology in any obvious way. After providing a thorough description of the vowel-insertion pattern on the basis of a survey of a large body of data, the paper proposes tha…
Voice Onset Time merger and development of tonal contrast in Seoul Korean stops
The emergence, progress, and impact of sound change in progress in Seoul Korean
Tonogenesis in early Contemporary Seoul Korean
VOT merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto
Korean has a typologically unusual three-way laryngeal contrast in voiceless stops among aspirated, lenis, and fortis stops. Seoul Korean is undergoing a female-led sound change in which aspirated stops and lenis stops are merging in voice onset time (VOT) and are better distinguished by the F0 (fundamental frequency) of the following vowel than by their VOT, in younger speakers' speech. This paper compares the VOT pattern of Homeland (Seoul) and…
Tutorial overview
Variation of the word-initial liquid in North and South Korean dialects under contact
Interlanguage Segmental Mapping as Evidence for the Nature of Lexical Representation
The traditional view of phonological representation assumes that lexical representation is economical and free of redundancy and that a phoneme is represented as a combination of contrastive phonetic features. The traditional view, however, is challenged by the recent developments in phonological theories. In Optimality Theory, the distinction between contrastive vs. non-contrastive aspects of pronunciation is made not by the lexical representati…
Perceptual similarity in loanword adaptation
When an English word with a postvocalic word-final stop is adapted to Korean, a vowel is variably inserted after the final stop. Vowel insertion in this position is puzzling not only because of its variability but also because of the fact that it is not motivated by the native phonology in any obvious way. After providing a thorough description of the vowel-insertion pattern on the basis of a survey of a large body of data, the paper proposes tha…
Hybrid loans
Interlanguage Segmental Mapping as Evidence for the Nature of Lexical Representation
The traditional view of phonological representation assumes that lexical representation is economical and free of redundancy and that a phoneme is represented as a combination of contrastive phonetic features. The traditional view, however, is challenged by the recent developments in phonological theories. In Optimality Theory, the distinction between contrastive vs. non-contrastive aspects of pronunciation is made not by the lexical representati…
The emergence of phonological adaptation from phonetic adaptation
This paper provides a detailed diachronic account of the adaptation of the English posterior coronal obstruents /ʃ ʧ ʤ/ in Contemporary Korean. These consonants are variably adapted with a glide (/j/ or /w/), and the distribution of the glides is conditioned by phonetic and phonological characteristics of the English input, as well as native phonotactic restrictions. The diachronic change in the occurrence of /w/ serves as an example of a variabl…
Tutorial overview
Phonology and speech
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
L1 phonotactic restrictions and perceptual adaptation
Tonogenesis in early Contemporary Seoul Korean
Voice Onset Time merger and development of tonal contrast in Seoul Korean stops
French loanwords in Vietnamese
This study examines the adaptation of French vowels in Vietnamese focusing on adaptation patterns that seem to defy a straightforward analysis based on native phonotactic restrictions or comparison of phonetic input-output similarity. A proper analysis requires reference to knowledge of the input language phonology. In the first case study, we observe that Vietnamese adapters extend the French phonotactic tendencies, i.e., Loi de Position, to loa…
Cross-language Influence in the Stop Voicing Contrast in Heritage Tagalog
In heritage bilinguals’ sound structure, some aspects of the sound system are more prone to cross-language influence than others. In this study, we compare two different models of crosslanguage influence, a phonological markedness based model, which proposes that influence selectively affects a phonologically marked structure, and a phonetic category based model, where influence is mediated through cross-language equivalence classification of sim…
VOT merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto
Korean has a typologically unusual three-way laryngeal contrast in voiceless stops among aspirated, lenis, and fortis stops. Seoul Korean is undergoing a female-led sound change in which aspirated stops and lenis stops are merging in voice onset time (VOT) and are better distinguished by the F0 (fundamental frequency) of the following vowel than by their VOT, in younger speakers' speech. This paper compares the VOT pattern of Homeland (Seoul) and…
Supralaryngeal implementation of length and laryngeal contrasts in Japanese and Korean
This article investigates supralaryngeal characteristics of Japanese and Korean length and laryngeal contrasts in stops and affricates. Electropalatography data collected from five Japanese and five Korean speakers revealed similar differences among the consonants in the degree of linguopalatal contact and duration of the closure. Japanese (voiceless) geminate and Korean fortis obstruents were most constricted and had the longest duration (althou…
The emergence, progress, and impact of sound change in progress in Seoul Korean
Cross-language correspondences in the face of change
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: We investigate the robustness of cross-language phonetic correspondences in two bilingual communities over time, focusing on whether corresponding sounds (e.g. Mandarin /s/ and Korean /s’/) remain coupled in the face of language change, or whether the categories diverge over time in younger, more proficient bilinguals. Design/Methodology/Approach: We quantify the extent of assimilation versus indepe…
Variation of the word-initial liquid in North and South Korean dialects under contact
The effect of speech rate on age estimation in conversational speech
Previous studies found that older speakers generally speak slower than younger speakers and further showed that listeners make use of this age-rate correlation in estimating speakers’ age. This study examines how speakers’ speech rates affect the perception of speaker age in conversational speech as well as how listeners’ own age affects age perception. After hearing a short dialogue in which two speakers’ speech rates were varied orthogonally, l…
The influence of perceived L2 sound categories in on-line adaptation and implications for loanword phonology
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception
This study investigates listeners’ ability to track individual speakers’ habitual speech rate in a dialogue and adjust their perception of durational contrasts. Previous studies that found such adjustments are inconclusive as adjustments can be attributed to exemplars of target structures in the dialogue rather than perceptual calibration of habitual speech rates. In this study, English listeners were presented with a dialogue between a fast and …
French speakers' use of sound symbolic patterns to assign gender to French and English nonce names
Gender-based sound symbolic patterns have been documented in corpora of given names in several languages. Name-gendering experiments show that native speakers use many, but not all, of these patterns to assign gender to nonce names in their native and non-native languages, suggesting that some patterns may be productive in speakers’ minds. This study extends this experimental work to a new language, French, by examining how French speakers assign…
Jack or Zack
This study examines the perceptual discrimination and lexical encoding of the English /dʒ–z/ contrast in Korean–English bilinguals, aiming to tease apart the roles of early exposure and misperception in shaping bilingual lexical representations. The English /dʒ–z/ contrast is not contrastive in Korean and is typically neutralized and adapted as the lenis affricate /c/ [t͡s] in Korean loanwords. We test heritage bilinguals with early exposure to K…
Speaking rate effects on Japanese vowel and consonant length contrasts
Vowels and stops are more rate-sensitive than fricatives and nasals in Japanese production. • These patterns align well with the observed ratios of geminate to singleton consonants. • Perception results broadly mirror the production patterns. This study examines the sensitivity of vowels and consonants to speaking rate variations in both production and perception, using Japanese as a case study. In contrast to prior studies, which suggest that vo…
Linguistics (19 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (19 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (12 works) · Phonology (9 works) · Perception (8 works) · Vowel (7 works) · History (6 works)