Yoonjung Kang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yoonjung Kang is involved.

Journal

Korean Linguistics

Edited by Lucien Brown

ISSN 0257-3784 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9731

Articles

Sullivan, Lisa and Yoonjung Kang 2025 Sound symbolism in Korean names: The interplay between cross-linguistic and language-specific patterns Korean Linguistics 21:1, pp. 61–100 | Article

Sound symbolism is the idea that meaning can be encoded at a submorphemic level. Recent research argues that it is more pervasive than previously assumed. We contribute to this line of work by investigating cross-linguistic and language-specific patterns in Korean given names, finding that… read more

Schertz, Jessamyn and Yoonjung Kang 2022 Phonetic cue competition within multiple phonological contrasts: Perception of Seoul Korean sibilants Korean Linguistics 18:1, pp. 1–17 | Article

This work examines Seoul Korean listeners’ perception of the five Korean sibilants: affricates /c′, c, ch/ and fricatives /s′, s/. Natural productions of the consonants were manipulated to vary orthogonally along several phonetic parameters relevant to the place/manner contrast ((denti)alveolar… read more