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The Korean language, known as Hangul, is the official language of South Korea and North Korea. It belongs to the Koreanic language family and is characterized by its unique script, phonetic structure, and grammatical features, including subject-object-verb word order and extensive use of honorifics.
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The Korean language, known as Hangul, is the official language of South Korea and North Korea. It belongs to the Koreanic language family and is characterized by its unique script, phonetic structure, and grammatical features, including subject-object-verb word order and extensive use of honorifics.

Key research themes

1. How do multilingual practices and language ideologies shape the Korean linguistic landscape and challenge monolingual norms?

This research area investigates the interplay between the dominant Korean language and the presence of foreign languages in South Korea's public spaces. By analyzing linguistic landscapes—such as public signage, advertisements, and commercial usages—scholars explore how multilingualism coexists with and confronts longstanding monolingual ideologies, actively reflecting shifts due to globalization, migration, and socio-economic factors.

Key finding: This study reveals that although Korean maintains dominance in public use, foreign languages—especially commodified English—operate pragmatically and symbolically, forming 'multilingual islands' particularly in ethnically... Read more
Key finding: Through detailed sign content analysis in Seoul, the paper documents English's dual role in South Korea's linguistic landscape—as both a communicative tool and a symbolic marker of global modernity and foreignness. It... Read more
Key finding: The paper highlights the ideological constructs underpinning language use in public signage, demonstrating pragmatic inequality faced by non-Korean languages. English often substitutes for other foreign languages and serves... Read more

2. What cognitive mechanisms underlie native and second language processing of Korean grammatical case during online comprehension?

This strand focuses on experimental psycholinguistic research delineating how native Korean speakers and second language learners process Korean nominal case markers in real-time language comprehension. Using methodologies such as eye-tracking and auditory paradigms, studies explore differential sensitivity to case information in canonical and non-canonical sentence structures, probing the mental representations and processing strategies involved.

Key finding: Using both auditory and visual paradigms, the study finds that native speakers utilize nominal case markers to incrementally predict upcoming elements more robustly, especially in non-canonical orders, while intermediate L2... Read more
Key finding: Through a series of comprehension and production experiments with Korean heritage children, the research demonstrates that while heritage speakers sometimes struggle with case interpretation in comprehension... Read more

3. How have Korean language policies and modernization efforts influenced the development of Korean literary language and language education?

This theme investigates the socio-political and institutional factors shaping Korean language planning, education, and literary language evolution during critical historical junctures. It includes archival research on academic debates, language reform movements, and education policies addressing standardization, vernacularization, and modernization from colonial liberation periods to contemporary pedagogical reforms.

Key finding: This paper explicates divergent yet parallel language policy trajectories in North and South Korea post-liberation, emphasizing South Korea's reliance on academic elites from colonial-era institutions to formulate national... Read more
Key finding: This work examines a virtual exchange project between U.S. and South Korean university students to promote Korean song learning and vocal performance, demonstrating how technology-mediated cross-cultural pedagogy potentiates... Read more

4. What orthographic and phonological mechanisms characterize the Korean writing system, and how do these impact language acquisition and processing?

This area looks into the unique structural properties of Hangul and their cognitive consequences, including debates on its morphophonemic versus phonetic nature and the role of script in phonological contrasts. Research addresses how orthographic features influence language learning, speech production, and the mental representation of phonemes, providing insights into linguistic theory and practical implications for second language acquisition.

Key finding: Arguing that Hangul is neither purely phonetic nor purely morphophonemic, this paper identifies its hybrid character: consonants are spelled morphophonemically to maintain morpheme consistency despite pronunciation variation,... Read more
Key finding: Through acoustic analysis of bilingual speakers reading Korean and Turkish, the study finds that orthographic design influences phoneme production. Korean's featural block-based Hangul reinforces vowel distinctions visually... Read more
Key finding: This theoretical paper reanalyzes Korean particles traditionally treated as case markers (-i/ka and -ul/lul), proposing they function as lexical delimiters rather than nominative/accusative markers, and introduces a new... Read more

All papers in Korean language

Erfahrungsbericht über das Leben als Ausländer im Land des Lächelns Als ich zum ersten Mal thailändischen Boden betrat, wusste ich wenig über das Leben, das mich hier erwarten würde. Ich war einfach "der Farang"-der Ausländer, der... more
In this study, we investigate the development of Standard German vowels, concerning their formants, namely F1, F2 and F3, by a young-adult Brazilian female speaker of German as a third language (L3). The methodology entails an acoustic... more
When I look back over my life and ministry, one theme shines brighter than all others: intimacy. Not the shallow intimacy of sentiment or momentary emotion, but the covenantal intimacy of knowing God and being known by Him. For more than... more
According to the communicative efficiency hypothesis, speakers should produce more linguistic material when comprehension difficulty increases. Here, we investigate a potential source of comprehension difficultylisteners' language... more
日本語教育の現場では、学習者と母語話者がともに活動に参加する様々な試みが行なわれている。参加者は、そのような場面でどのように会話に参加しているのだろうか。相手の発話を踏まえて談話を展開し合い、対称的に参加している場合もあれば、一方にイニシアチブが偏り、非対称的なやり取りになる場合もあると考えられる。このような会話参加の様相が形成されるプロセスに焦点を当てた研究は、今のところ非常に限られている。... more
El uso de herramientas multimedia, en el ambito educativo, contribuye de manera beneficiosa a la adquisicion de nuevos conocimientos. La implementacion de dichos recursos incluso puede despertar mayor interes en el contenido de las... more
'끼치다'의 어휘사*-'기티다[遺]'와 ' 티다[撒]'의 통시적 의미 변화를 중심으로-1) 정은진 ** 1. 들어가며 2. 현대국어 '끼치다'의 공시적 의미 3. '기티다[遺]'의 통시적 의미 변화 4. '티다[撒]'의 통시적 의미 변화 5. 나가며 요약 동사 '끼치다'는 두 개의 동음이의어로 구별되며, 각각 '기티다[遺]'와 ' 티다[撒]' 로부터 기원하여 별개의 의미 변화를 겪었다. "남기다" 의미의 '기티다'는... more
Aos falantes de pomerano que resistem a todos os preconceitos linguísticos e mantém viva a língua e a cultura dos seus antepassados. A uma força suprema e celestial, a quem chamam Deus, pelo ânimo e pela perseverança nos momentos de... more
Aos falantes de pomerano que resistem a todos os preconceitos linguísticos e mantém viva a língua e a cultura dos seus antepassados. A uma força suprema e celestial, a quem chamam Deus, pelo ânimo e pela perseverança nos momentos de... more
Francis-Ratte had regular *rC > *nC in PJ, but he also gave *ur-si > usi : > LAMENTS: MK wu:l-'cries' ~ OJ urepe-'laments,' urayam-'envies,' u-si 'lamentable,' ura 'heart, mind'. pKJ *ur-'laments'.
Heritage speakers are “child and adult members of a linguistic minority who grew up exposed to their home language and the majority language” (Montrul, 2010, p. 4). It is common for their proficiency in the heritage language to fall short... more
Hallyu atau Korean Wave telah melanda Indonesia dengan dahsyat dalam dekade terakhir. Dari drama Korea yang menguras air mata hingga musik K-Pop yang membuat kita bergoyang, pengaruh budaya Korea Selatan kini telah menjadi bagian dari... more
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness, affective domain and perception of using SNS for vocabulary learning to adult EFL learners. Especially, Instagram is used for this research due to its growing popularity and... more
This article examines the application of learning among Korea Studies alumni, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. Among those are the application of Korean language at the work... more
Co-author: Nguyen Quang Ninh, Bae Yang Soo
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The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history1–3. A key problem is the relationship between... more
A computer-based instruction system for language learners, dubbed ATR CALL, is described. This system is a collection of speech perception, production and/or comprehension training tools, which have been mainly developed for second... more
This study investigates borrowability of basic vocabularies such as kinship terms, body parts, and natural and weather terms in nine bilingual villages in Northeastern Iran. The surveyed villages serve as a rich bilingual area for... more
This study investigates the possible cause(s) of English spelling errors by Arabic learners of English (ALEs). Studies show that ALEs make significantly more English spelling errors than other English second-language learner groups.... more
Hangul is widely categorized as a classic example of a morphophonemic orthography, in which each morpheme receives a single spelling, even if its pronunciation varies from context to context. This paper makes the case that Hangul is in... more
This essay is an abbreviated and revised version of ‘Jejueo: Korea’s Other Language,’ which was first  published as chapter 25 in The
Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics, edited by Sungdai Cho & John Whitman and published
Speech learning model aims to explain the variables contributing to the differences in L2 phonetic productions. Most previous studies comparing L2 vowel production with L1 vowel production mostly attribute the differences to the mother... more
인간의 언어 표현은 규칙성과 불규칙성을 동시에 가지고 있다. 일반적으로 규칙성이 크다고 생각되는 통사 단위에서도 불규칙성이 나타나며, 불규칙적인 표현이라고 여겨지는 관용표현/숙어도 규칙성을 포함하고 있다. 그러므로 표현들은 규칙적인 것과 불규칙적인 것으로 양분할 수 있는 것이 아니라 그 정도성에 차이가 있는 것으로 보아야 한다. 이렇게 규칙성과 불규칙성은 통사 현상의 본질적 속성임에도 불구하고 대부분의 기존 연구에서는... more
This paper investigates the morphosyntactic status of Korean ‘particles’, which should be reanalyzed as affixes, clitics, or words. Despite their central role in Korean grammar, few studies have acknowledged the existence of clitics in... more
이 글은 2007년부터 2023년까지 나온 한국어 대상의 언어학 출판물 중 형태론과 통사론 분야의 연구물을 살펴 봄으로써 그 동향과 쟁점을 정리하고 나아가 방향성 을 파악해 보려는 시도이다. 여기서는, 특정의 이론적 색채가 두드러지지 않은 연 구물과 더불어, “구절구조 문법(phrase structure grammars)” 계통의 이론 등 표면 구조만을 설정하는 “단층, 제약 기반(mono-stratal,... more
expressions are ambiguous between a progressive meaning (P-reading) and a resultative meaning (R-reading). Most previous analyses assume that there is only one construction involved. Only a few previous analyses assume that there are two:... more
In this paper', we will examine several different types of tough-and similar constructions. They have A -positon fillers and show unbounded dependency between filler and gap. Problems with the rule-based approach of GKPS arise when the... more
This paper examines some popular misanalyses in Korean morphology. For example, contrary to popular myth, the verbal haand the element -(nu)ncannot be analyzed as a derivational affix and as a present tense marker, respectively. We will... more
Although there is a lot of literature dealing with the classification and distribution of Korean adverbials, there does not seem to be any satisfactory work. This is partly due to the properties of the adverbials themselves, whose... more
In Korean, there are many little words that can best be analyzed as clitics: The copula iand the adjectival ha-, as well as some nominal and verbal particles. Among others, the clitic analysis of adjectival haleads to a unified account of... more
L'article concerne l'analyse de la montee du noeud droit en anglais, de type : Alice composes, and John performs, Philadelphia-style punk rock music. Les proprietes particulieres de cette construction rendent caduques les... more
is ambiguous between progressive and resultative meanings. We assume that it is ambiguous in three ways: P(rogressive)-reading, R(esultative)-reading and p(seudo)-R-reading constructions. These constructions allow different sets of... more
expressions are ambiguous between a progressive meaning (P-reading) and a resultative meaning (R-reading). Most previous analyses assume that there is only one construction involved. Only a few previous analyses assume that there are two:... more
Korean [… V-ko iss-] expressions are well-known for their ambiguity between a progressive meaning (P-reading) and resultative meaning (R-reading). Depending on the properties of the verbs in the V position, we can divide them into three... more
Dictionaries and ontologies are very important resources not only for linguistic research and applications but also for other areas dealing with knowledge. In general, however, they fall short of our expectations. One reason for this... more
adviser for five years of my stay here a t Ohio State University (OSU). Throughout these years he guided me with his keen insights into linguistic phenomena. He helped me look at linguistic fads precisely in a broader perspective. As my... more
One of the main purposes of this paper is to establish the identity of verbal nouns (VNs): they constitute a special sub-class of nouns which are responsible for both subcategorization and case-marking. They are neither verbs (even though... more
Concord adverbial constructions in Korean show unbounded dependency relationships between two non-empty entities. There are two different types of unboundedness involved: one between a concord adverbial and a verbal ending and the other... more
We will provide a theory/platform-neutral framework for representing idiomatic expressions. Previous analyses on idioms, including those for some systems implemented on the basis of specific theories and platforms, are not flexible enough... more
There have been heated debates on whether tense markers in Korean are inflectional affixes or syntactic words. One of the strongest pieces of evidence for the latter position comes from tense-related phenomena in -ko constructions. These... more
A subordinate clause (We…, aware of the gravity…, …) subtly transformed into a main clause (We are aware of the gravity…)-this quiet syntac�c tweak wreaks havoc on diploma�c clarity, shi�ing tone, agency, and intent.
우리나라에 전혀 알려지지 않은 언어들, 그리고 그런 언어들의 언어 구조에 관심을 두고, 연구하여 국내 학계에 소개하는 일 아프리카 언어에 대한 국내 연구는 스와힐리어 분석에 관한 것으로 권명식(1986, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997a, 1998, 1999)이 있고, 아프리카 언어분류에 관한 것으로 권명식(1988, 1993a, 1997b, 2001)이 있다. 은 나름의 의의가 있을 것이다. 당장은... more
The aim of this contrastive study is to analyze temporal converb constructions between Turkish and Lezgian and it is a morphological analysis since it examines inflectional temporal converb constructions between two languages. The... more
Data collection was funded by UCMEXUS and CONACYT (Mexico) (Grant No. CN0255). We express our gratitude to research assistant, Adam Lassila of UGA, to Kim Love-Myers and Andrea Moncayo González of the Statistical Consulting Center of UGA,... more
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