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Yoonjung Kang

Professor, Department of Linguistic
Professor, Department of Language Studies (UTSC)
kang@utsc.utoronto.ca
416-287-7172
www.linguistics.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/yoonjung-kang
www.yoonjungkang.com/
Yoonjung Kang headshot

Areas of interest

  • Phonology
  • Loanwords
  • Korean Linguistics
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Phonology-Phonetics Interface

Biography

Main Bio

Yoonjung Kang (Ph.D., MIT) is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language Studies and in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Her area of specialization is phonology and its interface with phonetics and morphology, with a special focus on Korean. She is a co-editor of Phonology.  

Select publications

  • Kang, Y., Han, S., Ryu, N. Y., Schertz, J., & Yun, S. (2024). Front rounded vowels of Heritage Korean in Northern China. The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages, 16. 
  • Lim, N., & Kang, Y. (2023). Articulation and acoustics of Korean liquids: A case study in loanword adaptation. Canadian Acoustics, 51(3), 208-209. 
  • Kang, Y., & Hirayama, M. (2023). Age- and gender-based variation in the perception of voicing contrast in Tokyo Japanese. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 
  • Schertz, J., & Kang, Y. (2022). Phonetic cue competition within multiple phonological contrasts: Perception of Seoul Korean sibilants. Korean Linguistics, 18(1), 1-17. 
  • Kang, Y., Schertz, J., & Han, S. (2022). The phonology and phonetics of Korean stop laryngeal contrasts. The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Language and Linguistics. 
  • Kang, Y., & Schertz, J. (2021). The influence of perceived L2 sound categories in on-line adaptation and implications for loanword phonology. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 39, 555-578. 
  • Ryu, N. Y., Kang, Y., & Han, S. (2020). The effects of phonetic duration on loanword adaptation: Mandarin falling diphthong in Chinese Korean. 어학연구 (Language Research), 56(2). 
  • Kang, Y., Tsang, K. Y., & Wong, K. W. Y. (2020). The effect of speech rate on age estimation in conversational speech. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 42. 
  • Kang, Y., & Wong, K. W. Y. (2020). The emergence of the frequency code in sound symbolism of gender in Cantonese names. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2129-2133. 
  • Yun, S., & Kang, Y. (2019). Variation of the word-initial liquid in North and South Korean dialects under contact. Journal of Phonetics, 77, 100918. 
  • Kang, Y., Ryu, N. Y., & Yun, S. (2019). Contrastive hyperarticulation of vowels in two dialects of Korean. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 43-47. 
  • Schertz, J., Kang, Y., & Han, S. (2019). Sources of variability in phonetic perception: The joint influence of listener and talker characteristics on perception of the Korean stop contrast. Laboratory Phonology, 10(1). 
  • Schertz, J., Kang, Y., & Han, S. (2019). Cross-language correspondences in the face of change: Phonetic independence versus convergence in two Korean-Mandarin bilingual communities. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(1), 157-199. 
  • Mohsin, N., Sullivan, L., & Kang, Y. (2019). Sound symbolism in Urdu first names. UTSC Undergraduate Research Poster Forum. 
  • Wong, K. W. Y., & Kang, Y. (2019). Sound symbolism of gender in Cantonese first names. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2129-2133. 
  • Ting, C., & Kang, Y. (2019). The effect of habitual speech rate on speaker-specific processing in English stop voicing perception. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 
  • Ryu, N. Y., & Kang, Y. (2019). Web-based high variability phonetic training on L2 coda identification. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 43-47. 
  • Ryu, N. Y., & Kang, Y. (2018). Effects of auditory perceptual training on the identification of Korean vowels by Mandarin learners of Korean. 어학연구 (Language Research). 
  • Kang, Y., & Yun, S. (2018). Perceptual training on the perception of Korean codas by native Mandarin listeners. Journal of Phonetics. 
  • Kang, Y., & Yun, S. (2017). Phonetic realizations of the post-consonantal liquid in North and South Korean dialects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(4_Supplement), 2582-2582. 
  • Kachotyev, A., & Kang, Y. (2017). Supralaryngeal implementation of length and laryngeal contrasts in Japanese and Korean. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 62(1), 18-55. 
  • Ryu, N. Y., Kang, Y., & Han, S. W. (2017). Phonetic and phonological adaptation of loanwords: Mandarin falling diphthongs in Heritage Korean in China. Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology in Loanword Adaptation, Cologne, Germany. 
  • Kang, Y. (2016). VOT merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto. Language Variation and Change, 28(2), 249-272. 
  • Kang, Y., & Soo, G. (2016). Cross-language influence in the stop voicing contrast in heritage Tagalog. Heritage Language Journal, 13(2), 184-218. 
  • Kang, Y., Yoon, T. J., & Han, S. (2015). Frequency effects on the vowel length contrast merger in Seoul Korean. Laboratory Phonology, 6(3-4), 469-503. 
  • Yoon, T. J., Kang, Y., Han, S., Maeng, H. S., Lee, J., & Kim, K. (2015). A corpus-based approach to dialectal variation in Korean vowels. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 
  • Kang, Y., Schertz, J., & Han, S. (2015). Vowels of Korean dialects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4_Supplement), 2414-2414. 
  • Schertz, J., Kang, Y., & Kong, E. (2015). Diachronic change in perception of Korean sibilants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4_Supplement), 2414-2414. 
  • Kang, Y., Ryu, N. Y., & Kwon, H. S. (2015). Dialectal variation in Korean verbal vowel harmony and the emergent locality effect. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 
  • Bang, H. Y., Sonderregger, M., Kang, Y., Clayards, M., & Yoon, T. J. (2015). The effect of word frequency on the time course of tonogenesis in Seoul Korean. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 
  • Schertz, J., Kang, Y., & Han, S. (2015). Dialectal variability in place and manner of Korean affricates. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 
  • Kang, Y. (2014). Voice Onset Time merger and development of tonal contrast in Seoul Korean stops: A corpus study. Journal of Phonetics, 45, 76-90. 
  • Yoon, T. J., & Kang, Y. (2014). Monophthong analysis on a large-scale speech corpus of read-style Korean. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 6(3), 139-145. 
  • Kang, Y., Pham, A. H., & Storme, B. (2014). French loanwords in Vietnamese: the role of input language phonotactics and contrast in loanword adaptation. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. 
  • Kang, Y. (2014). A corpus-based study of positional variation in Seoul Korean vowels. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 23, 1-20. 
  • Kang, Y., & Han, S. (2013). Tonogenesis in early Contemporary Seoul Korean: A longitudinal case study. Lingua, 134, 62-74. 
  • Kang, Y. (2013). L1 phonotactic restrictions and perceptual adaptation: English affricates in Contemporary Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 22, 39-63. 
  • Broselow, E., & Kang, Y. (2013). Second language phonology and speech. The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 529-554. 
  • Kang, Y. (2012). The adaptation of English liquids in Contemporary Korean: A diachronic study. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 11, 0041-63. 
  • Yoon, T. J., & Kang, Y. (2012). A Forced-alignment-based Study of Declarative Sentence-ending "ta" in Korean. Speech Prosody 2012. 
  • Kang, Y. (2011). The adaptation of Japanese loanwords into Korean. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 52(2006), 65-104. 
  • Kang, Y. (2010). Tutorial overview: Suprasegmental adaptation in loanwords. Lingua, 120(9), 2295-2310. 
  • Kang, Y. (2010). The emergence of phonological adaptation from phonetic adaptation: English loanwords in Korean. Phonology, 27(2), 225-253. 
  • Kang, Y., & Kachotyev, A. (2010). An EPG study of Korean coronal obstruents. MOT Phonology Workshop. 
  • Kang, Y., & Kachotyev, A. (2010). An electropalatographic study of Korean coronal obstruents. The 12th Conference of Laboratory Phonology, University of New Mexico. 
  • Kang, Y. (2010). 100 Loanword Phonology. Presentation at TTP Workshop. 
  • Kang, Y. (2009). A diachronic study of yod-dropping in Korean: A loanword connection. Toronto-Tromsø Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto. 
  • Kang, Y. (2009). The acoustics of Korean fricatives. CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto. 
  • Kang, Y. (2009). English /z/ in 1930s Korean. Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics 2. 
  • Kang, Y. (2008). A brief remark on the role of phonetics in phonology. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 30. 
  • Nagy, N. (2009). Heritage language variation and change in Toronto. Accessed November 3, 2010. 
  • Kang, Y., Kenstowicz, M., & Ito, C. (2008). Hybrid loans: A study of English loanwords transmitted to Korean via Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 17, 299-316. 
  • Kang, Y. (2008). The role of L1 phonemes in interlanguage segmental mapping: English/s/in Korean. Inquiries into Korean Linguistics, 3, 1-13. 
  • Albright, A., & Kang, Y. (2008). Predicting innovative alternations in Korean verb paradigms. Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the Papers. 
  • Kang, Y. (2008). English voiced stops in Korean in the 1930s. A talk presented at the annual meeting of the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT). 
  • Kang, Y. (2008). Tensification of voiced stops in English loanwords in Korean. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, 12, 179-192. 
  • Kang, Y. (2008). Interlanguage segmental mapping as evidence for the nature of lexical representation. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(1), 103-118. 
  • Kang, Y. (2007). Frequency effects and regularization in Korean nouns. Handout from the Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology. 
  • Kang, Y. (2006). Neutralizations and variations in Korean verbal paradigms. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XI, 183-196. 
  • Ito, C., Kang, Y., & Kenstowicz, M. (2006). The adaptation of Japanese loanwords into Korean. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 52, 65-104. 
  • Kang, Y. (2005). The emergence of the unmarked in an analogical change. Handout from Seoul Forum in Phonology. 
  • Kang, Y. (2003). Perceptual similarity in loanword adaptation: English postvocalic word-final stops in Korean. Phonology, 20(2), 219-273. 
  • Kang, Y. (2003). The emergence of phonetic naturalness in an analogical change: evidence from Korean nouns. Handout for LANYU Forum. 
  • Kang, Y. (2003). Sound changes affecting noun-final coronal obstruents in Korean. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 12, 128-139. 
  • Kang, Y. (2000). The phonetics and phonology of coronal markedness and unmarkedness. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy. 
  • Kang, Y. (1999). The phonetic basis of coronal phonotactics. Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 232-45. 
  • Bruening, B., Kang, Y., & McGinnis, M. (1997). PF: Papers at the Interface. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. 
  • Halle, M., Bruening, B., Kang, Y., & McGinnis, M. (1997). PF: Papers at the Interface. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. 
  • Kang, Y. (1997). Tone in sukuma. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 30, 49-95.