Curriculum Vitae Jiwon Yun - the Stony Brook Linguistics Department

Curriculum Vitae
Jiwon Yun
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address:
Department of Linguistics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376
Phone:
+1-631-632-7758
E-mail:
[email protected]
Homepage:
https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/faculty/jiwon.yun
ACADMIC APPOINTMENT
2013-Present Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2013
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Thesis:
Wh-indefinites: Meaning and Prosody
Committee: Mats Rooth (chair), John Whitman (co-chair), Dorit Abusch,
Michael Wagner, John Hale
M.A. in Linguistics, 2004
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Thesis:
A study of conditionals in Korean - focused on the meaning
of the conditional markers -myen/-ya/-to
Committee: Chungmin Lee (chair), Seungho Nam, Hyophil Shin
B.S.E. (Cum Laude with honors) in Computer Science & Engineering, 2002
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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GRANTS AND HONORS
2013
Research Initiative Grant for Faculty in the Fine Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences (FAHSS), Stony Brook University.
2012
Graduate Fellowship in Cognitive Science in Support of Dissertation Research,
Cornell University.
2011
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University.
2010
NSF-NASSLLI Grant, National Science Foundation.
2009
ISS (Institute for the Social Sciences) Small Grant, Cornell University.
2009
Grant for summer study, National Science Foundation.
2008
Robert J. Smith Fellowship, East Asia Program, Cornell University.
2008
Starr Fellowship, East Asia Program, Cornell University.
2007
Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America
2006
Starr Fellowship, East Asia Program, Cornell University.
2005
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University.
1997-2004
University Fellowship, Seoul National University.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Semantics, Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, East Asian Linguistics
RESEARCH
Refereed Journal Articles:
Yun, Jiwon, Chen Zhong, Tim Hunter, John Whitman, John Hale. To appear. Uncertainty in
processing relative clauses across East Asian languages. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
Yun, Jiwon. 2011. On the Meaning of wh-(N)-ina and wh-(N)-itun in Korean, Language
Research, Vol. 47 No. 2. 191-218.
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Refereed Conference Proceedings:
Yun, Jiwon. To appear. The influence of sentence-final intonation and phonological phrasing on
the interpretation of wh-indeterminates, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Yun, Jiwon. To appear. Wh-indefinites and their licensing conditions, Proceedings of the 47th
Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 47).
Yun, Jiwon. 2012. The deterministic prosody of indeterminates, Proceedings of the 29th West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29).
Yun, Jiwon, John Whitman and John Hale. 2010. Subject-object asymmetries in Korean
sentence comprehension, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society (CogSci 2010).
Yun, Jiwon. 2010. Disjunction and alternative conditionals in Korean, MIT Working Papers in
Linguistics 61: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6).
Yun, Jiwon. 2009. A Stratal OT approach to a noun-verb asymmetry with respect to opacity in
Korean, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15-1: Proceedings of
the 32nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 32).
Yun, Jiwon. 2008. Noun-verb asymmetries in Korean phonology, Proceedings of the 27th West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27).
Yun, Jiwon. 2004. A study of conditionals in Korean, Eoneohak Yeongu 96, Department of
Linguistics, Seoul National University.
Yun, Jiwon. 2004. The semantics of particles -ina and -to without a classifier phrase in Korean,
Studies in Linguistics 25, Seoul Linguistics Club.
Referred Conference Presentations:
Yun, Jiwon. 2013. The influence of sentence-final intonation and phonological phrasing on the
interpretation of wh-indeterminates. Paper presented at the 9th Workshop on Altaic
Formal Linguistics. Cornell University. August 23, 2013.
Yun, Jiwon. 2013. The prosody and meaning of wh-expressions in Korean: revisited. Paper
presented at the Harvard ISOKL-2013 (the 16th International Symposium on Korean
Linguistics). Harvard University. August 3, 2013.
Yun, Jiwon, Hyun Kyung Hwang, and Seongyeon Ko. 2012. Automatic Annotation for Korean
Speech Corpus Analysis. Poster presented at the International workshop on corpus
linguistics (pre-conference workshop of the 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics
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Conference). National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
October 11, 2012.
Chen, Zhong, Jiwon Yun, John Hale and John Whitman. 2012. Uncertainty and prediction in
relativized structures across East Asian languages. Poster presented at the 25th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
March 14-16, 2012.
Yun, Jiwon. 2011. On the prosody and meaning of wh-expressions in Korean. Paper presented at
the Harvard ISOKL-2011 (the 14th International Symposium on Korean Linguistics).
Harvard University. August 6-7, 2011.
Yun, Jiwon. 2011. The deterministic prosody of indeterminates. Paper presented at the 29th
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona in Tucson. April
22-24, 2011.
Yun, Jiwon. 2011. Wh-indefinites and their licensing conditions. Paper presented at the 47th
annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. The University of Chicago. April 7-9,
2011.
Kwon, Nayoung, Jiwon Yun, John Hale and John Whitman. 2011. Processing of noun
complement complex NPs with subject and object pro in Korean. Poster presented at the
24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Stanford University.
March 24-26, 2011.
Yun, Jiwon. 2011. On the exceptional wide scope reading of bare-wh existentials in Korean.
Poster presented at the 85th LSA Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. January 6-9,
2011.
Yun, Jiwon, John Whitman and John Hale. 2010. Subject-Object Asymmetries in Korean
Sentence Comprehension. Poster presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the cognitive
science society. Portland, Oregon. August 11-14, 2010.
Yun, Jiwon. 2009. Disjunction and Alternative Conditionals in Korean. Paper presented at the
6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. Nagoya University, Japan. September 4-6,
2009.
Yun, Jiwon. 2008. Noun-Verb Asymmetries in Korean Phonology. Paper presented at the 27th
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. UCLA. May 16-18, 2008.
Yun, Jiwon. 2008. A Stratal OT Approach to a Noun-Verb Asymmetry with respect to Opacity
in Korean. Paper presented at the 32nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of
Pennsylvania. February 22-24, 2008.
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Invited Talks:
● Wh-indefinites: Meaning and Prosody, Stony Brook University Linguistics Colloquium.
March 14, 2014.
● The role of experimental and computational methods in linguistic research, Seoul National
University Linguistics Colloquium. January 20, 2014.
Research Assistantships:
2012 Summer-Fall Cornell University
● Project Title: Korean Syntax, by Donna Gerdts and John Whitman.
To appear, Cambridge University Press.
● Supervisor: John Whitman
● Duties: reviewing and commenting on a book manuscript
2010 Spring
Cornell University
● Project Title: What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge?
● Supervisor: John Hale
● Duties: developing a Korean minimalist grammar for computational modeling
11/2002-10/2003
Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
● Project Title: Structure and Meaning Interfaces: A Cross-linguistic Study of
Information Structure and Lexical-Syntactic Structure
● Supervisor: Chungmin Lee
● Duties: constructing a multi-language corpus
08/2002-07/2003
Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
● Project Title: Technical Development of Requisite Elements for the Korean
Lip-synchronization Software
● Supervisor: Hoyoung Lee
● Duties: implementing a text-to-phoneme application in C++
Work Experience:
02/2002-06/2003
CoreLogix, Seoul, Korea
● developing a data mining engine for Customer Management Relationship in Java
● building the website for Korean Air in Visual Basic .NET
07/2000-08/2000
Amail, Seoul, Korea
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● developing a webmail solution in C
01/2000-02/2000
Seoda, Seoul, Korea
● building a commercial website in HTML and Perl
TEACHING
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York:
Instructor
2014 Spring
LIN 651: Syntax Seminar (Graduate)
2013 Fall
LIN 625: Semantics (Graduate)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York:
Teaching Assistant
2010 Spring
ASIAN 2212: Introduction to China. (Instructor: Robin McNeal)
2009 Fall
ASIAN 2218: Introduction to Korea. (Instructor:Jacqueline Pak)
2009 Spring
KOREA 1102: Korean 102. (Instructor: Meejeong Song)
2007 Fall
LING 303: Introduction to Syntax. (Instructor: Julie Legate)
2007 Spring
KOREA: Korean 102 and Korean 202. (Instructor: Hairhin Diffloth)
Doctoral Student Advising:
Ph.D. Dissertation committee
Ling Wang, “A Comparative study of the acquisition of non-contrastive features of a second
language: the effect of vowel neighborhood density, speech rhythm and syllable organization”
(in progress).
Qualifying Paper committee
Paola Cepeda, “On the semantics of Spanish Hasta que no” (in progress).
Megan Streenrod (in progress).
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SERVICE
2011-present Paper Reviewer of the Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society
2013
Abstract Reviewer of the 32th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
2008
Assistant of the 16th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics
LANGUAGES
Korean: native
English: fluent
Japanese: fluent (as evidenced by Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1 certificate)
Chinese: fair (with two years of coursework at Cornell)
SKILLS
Computer Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, OCaML
Research Tools: Praat, HTK, Matlab, Mathematica
Last updated: February 2014
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