Ian Joo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5901255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Joo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Joo |
| SIGNATURE | JOO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7678-1227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Phonological distances between Eurasian lects measured via Phonotacticon 1.0 reveal areal patterns
The present study measures the phonological distances between 335 spoken lects of Eurasia using Phonotacticon 1.0, a cross-linguistic database, and explores whether phonologically similar lects form areal patterns within Eurasia. Results indicate that phonological clusters tend to form geographical clusters, which divides Eurasia horizontally into eastern (East/Southeast Asia), central (South/Central/North/West Asia), and western (Europe) regions…
Phonotacticon
Phonotacticon is a cross-linguistic database that contains syllabic phonotactic information about spoken lects (linguistic varieties), including the possible forms of the onset, nucleus and coda of each lect, as well as the phonemic and tonemic inventories. In this paper, we present Phonotacticon 1.0, which contains the phonotactic profiles of 516 Eurasian lects retrieved from descriptive literature. The later versions of Phonotacticon will exten…
The sound symbolism of food
In different languages around the world, morphemes representing the (cooked form of) staple food or food in general tend to begin with a [+labial] phoneme followed by a [+low] phoneme (/pa-/, /ma-/, /fa-/, /wa-/, etc.). This article provides evidence for this phonological similarity by analyzing 66 sample languages’ morphemes representing the staple food within the society where each language is spoken. About a fourth of the morphemes referring t…
Iconic bias in Italian spatial demonstratives
An iconic pattern across spoken languages is that words for ‘this’ and ‘here’ tend to have high front vowels, whereas words for ‘that’ and ‘there’ tend to have low and/or back vowels. In Italian, there are two synonymous Italian words for ‘here’, namely qui and qua, and two synonymous words for ‘there’, lì and là. Qui ‘here’ and là ‘there’ are iconic because qui has the high front vowel /i/ and là has the low vowel /a/, whereas qua ‘here’ and lì …
The etymology of Korean ssal ‘uncooked grain’ and pap ‘cooked grain’
In this paper, I will provide etymological explanations for the two Korean words for ‘grain’: ssal ‘uncooked grain’ and pap ‘cooked grain.’ The word ssal ‘uncooked grain’ is a loanword from Middle Chinese bu-sat ‘Bodhisattva,’ linking the Buddhist holy figure to the type of food that has a sacred status in Korean culture. The support for this claim comes from the fact that (i) grains were sometimes associated with the Buddha’s body in Korea, and …
Caused-Motion and Caused-Position
According to Goldberg (1995) , placement verbs (such as put ) are instantiated in the Caused-Motion Construction. Rohde (2001) , however, argued that placement verbs in fact occur in a different construction, which she names the Caused-Position Construction, whose semantic value is not ‘ cause to move ’ but rather ‘ cause to be positioned ’. The present paper redefines and justifies the postulation of Caused-Position Construction. The Caused-Posi…
Phonosemantic biases found in Leipzig-Jakarta lists of 66 languages
Based on the vocabulary of 66 genealogically distinct languages, this study reveals the biased association between phonological features and the 100 lexical meanings of the Leipzig-Jakarta List. Morphemes whose meanings are related to round shapes (‘egg’, ‘navel’, ‘neck’, and ‘knee’) tend to contain phonemes that bear the [+round] feature. Also observable is the positive association between buccal actions and the phonological features they resemb…
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Phonosemantic biases found in Leipzig-Jakarta lists of 66 languages
Based on the vocabulary of 66 genealogically distinct languages, this study reveals the biased association between phonological features and the 100 lexical meanings of the Leipzig-Jakarta List. Morphemes whose meanings are related to round shapes (‘egg’, ‘navel’, ‘neck’, and ‘knee’) tend to contain phonemes that bear the [+round] feature. Also observable is the positive association between buccal actions and the phonological features they resemb…
The etymology of Korean ssal ‘uncooked grain’ and pap ‘cooked grain’
In this paper, I will provide etymological explanations for the two Korean words for ‘grain’: ssal ‘uncooked grain’ and pap ‘cooked grain.’ The word ssal ‘uncooked grain’ is a loanword from Middle Chinese bu-sat ‘Bodhisattva,’ linking the Buddhist holy figure to the type of food that has a sacred status in Korean culture. The support for this claim comes from the fact that (i) grains were sometimes associated with the Buddha’s body in Korea, and …
Caused-Motion and Caused-Position
According to Goldberg (1995) , placement verbs (such as put ) are instantiated in the Caused-Motion Construction. Rohde (2001) , however, argued that placement verbs in fact occur in a different construction, which she names the Caused-Position Construction, whose semantic value is not ‘ cause to move ’ but rather ‘ cause to be positioned ’. The present paper redefines and justifies the postulation of Caused-Position Construction. The Caused-Posi…
Iconic bias in Italian spatial demonstratives
An iconic pattern across spoken languages is that words for ‘this’ and ‘here’ tend to have high front vowels, whereas words for ‘that’ and ‘there’ tend to have low and/or back vowels. In Italian, there are two synonymous Italian words for ‘here’, namely qui and qua, and two synonymous words for ‘there’, lì and là. Qui ‘here’ and là ‘there’ are iconic because qui has the high front vowel /i/ and là has the low vowel /a/, whereas qua ‘here’ and lì …
The sound symbolism of food
In different languages around the world, morphemes representing the (cooked form of) staple food or food in general tend to begin with a [+labial] phoneme followed by a [+low] phoneme (/pa-/, /ma-/, /fa-/, /wa-/, etc.). This article provides evidence for this phonological similarity by analyzing 66 sample languages’ morphemes representing the staple food within the society where each language is spoken. About a fourth of the morphemes referring t…
Phonotacticon
Phonotacticon is a cross-linguistic database that contains syllabic phonotactic information about spoken lects (linguistic varieties), including the possible forms of the onset, nucleus and coda of each lect, as well as the phonemic and tonemic inventories. In this paper, we present Phonotacticon 1.0, which contains the phonotactic profiles of 516 Eurasian lects retrieved from descriptive literature. The later versions of Phonotacticon will exten…
Phonological distances between Eurasian lects measured via Phonotacticon 1.0 reveal areal patterns
The present study measures the phonological distances between 335 spoken lects of Eurasia using Phonotacticon 1.0, a cross-linguistic database, and explores whether phonologically similar lects form areal patterns within Eurasia. Results indicate that phonological clusters tend to form geographical clusters, which divides Eurasia horizontally into eastern (East/Southeast Asia), central (South/Central/North/West Asia), and western (Europe) regions…
Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Morpheme (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works)