Seongyeon Ko 1 February 2013 MAIL TO Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Queens, NY 11367-1597

OFFICE King Hall, Room 210D PHONE 718-997-5562 FAX 718-997-5577 EMAIL [email protected] HOMEPAGE http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~sko

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University August 2012  Dissertation title: Tongue root harmony and vowel contrast in Northeast Asian languages  Committee: John Whitman (chair), Abby Cohn, Draga Zec Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Linguistics, Seoul National University

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M.A. in Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea  Thesis title: A Study on Nasalization and Lateralization in Korean - An OT Account  Committee: Yang-Soo Moon (chair), Juwon Kim, Ho-young Lee

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B.A. in Linguistics, Seoul National University

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Additional background: 2010 Introductory Mongolian I & II at Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian languages (SWSEEL), Indiana University at Bloomington. (8 weeks)  Instructor: Tserenchunt Legden 2007 Summer Institute, Linguistic Society of America, Stanford University. 2001 Mongolian scripts and basic conversation at International College of Education, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, China. (4 weeks)

ACADEMIC POSITION Queens College, City University of New York (since Fall 2012; tenure track)  Assistant Professor of Korean language and linguistics in the Department of Classics, Middle Eastern, Asian Languages & Cultures (CMAL)

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RESEARCH INTEREST 

primary:

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secondary: languages:

phonetics/phonology, historical/comparative linguistics, language documentation, morphology, syntax teaching Korean as a foreign language East Asian languages - Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Altaic languages - Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages Acehnese (an Austronesian language spoken in Aceh province, Sumatra, Indonesia; have primary fieldwork experience)

PUBLICATION Refereed Journal Papers Ko, Seongyeon. 2012. Oroch vowel harmony revisited. Eoneohag (Linguistics) 63. Linguistic Society of Korea. 31-53. Kang, Hijo & Seongyeon Ko. 2012. In search of the acoustic correlates of tongue root retraction in three Altaic languages: Western Buriat, Tsongol Buriat, and Ewen. Altai Hakpo 22. Altaic Society of Korea. 179-203. Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. Thwungkwusuewa mongkoleuy moumcohwa tayco yenkwu [Microvariation between Tungusic and Mongolic vowel harmony]. Altai Hakpo 21. Altaic Society of Korea. 145-177. [In Korean] Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. Vowel contrast and vowel harmony shift in the Mongolic languages. Language Research 47(1). 23-43. Ko, Seongyeon. 2010. Cwungseykwuke moumcheykyeyuy taylip wikyeywa ku pyenhwa [Contrastive hierarchy and its change in the Middle Korean vowel system]. Eoneohag (Linguistics) 56. Linguistic Society of Korea. 87-118. [In Korean] Refereed Conference Proceedings Ko, Seongyeon. 2013. A contrastive hierarchy approach to Tungusic and Mongolic labial harmony. To appear in Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 37), 185-198. Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. Vowel contrast and vowel harmony shift in the Mongolic languages. In Andrew Simpson (ed.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL) 62: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 7), 187-202.

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Ko, Seongyeon. 2010. A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. In Hiroki Maezawa and Azusa Yokogoshi (eds.), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL) 61: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6), 181-196. Ko, Seongyeon. 2009. Two types of anticausatives in Acehnese. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16), 93-107. [downloadable from http://westernlinguistics.ca/afla/meetings/afla16/proceedings.htm] Working Papers and Non-refereed Conference Proceedings Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. A contrast-driven typology of the Altaic vowel systems. Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference (SIAC2011). Kang, Hijo & Seongyeon Ko. 2011. Looking for the acoustic correlates of tongue root contrast in Altaic languages. Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference (SIAC2011). Kang, Hijo & Seongyeon Ko. 2011. A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and Ewen [extended abstract]. eLanguage. http://www.elanguage.net/journals/index.php/lsameeting Ko, Seongyeon. 2004. An LKB implementation of free word order variations in Korean. Studies in Linguistics 25: 31-58. Seoul Linguistics Club. [In Korean] Shin, Hyopil & Seongyeon Ko. 2003. An analysis of Korean flat structures implemented on the basis of LKB (Linguistic Knowledge Building). Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Korean Society for Language and Information. Inha University. [In Korean] Ko, Seongyeon. 2002. Selective variation between nasalization and lateralization in Korean. Studies in Linguistics 22: 3-26. Seoul Linguistics Club. [In Korean] Refereed Conference Presentations Jiwon Yun, Hyun Kyung Hwang, & Seongyeon Ko. 2012. Automatic Annotation for Korean Speech Corpus Analysis. A poster presented at the International Workshop on Corpus Linguistics and Endangered Dialects. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. October 11. Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. The end of the Korean vowel shift controversy. A paper presented at the 14th Harvard (Biennial) International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (Harvard ISOKL-2011). Harvard University. Aug 6-7. Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. The Mongolic Vowel Shift revisited. A paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX). Osaka, Japan. July 25-30.

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Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. A contrast-driven typology of the Altaic vowel systems. A paper presented at the 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference (SIAC2011). Sunchon National University, Korea. July 15-16. Kang, Hijo & Seongyeon Ko. 2011. Looking for the acoustic correlates of tongue root contrast in Altaic languages. A paper presented at the 10th Seoul International Altaistic Conference (SIAC2011). Sunchon National University, Korea. July 15-16. Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. A contrastive hierarchy approach to Tungusic and Mongolic labial harmony. A paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 37). UC Berkeley. Feb 12-13. Kang, Hijo & Seongyeon Ko. 2011. Vowel contrast in endangered Northeast Asian languages: a case study of Buriat and Ewen. A poster presented at the CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages. CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Jan 12-14. Kang, Hijo & Seongyeon Ko. 2011. A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and Ewen. A poster presented at the 85nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA. Jan 6-9. (poster) Ko, Seongyeon. 2010. Vowel contrast and vowel harmony shift in the Mongolic languages. A paper presented at the Seventh Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 7). USC. October 29-31. Ko, Seongyeon. 2009. A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. The Sixth Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6). Nagoya University, Japan. Sep 4-6. Ko, Seongyeon. 2009. Two types of anticausatives in Acehnese. A paper presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16). UC Santa Cruz. May 1-3. Ko, Seongyeon. 2008. Resumptive / Expletive Pronoun and Voice Morphology in Acehnese. (This title has changed to Causative alternation and voice morphology in Acehnese.) A paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. Jan 3-6. Invited Talks Whitman, John, Andrew Joseph, and Seongyeon Ko. 2013. Comparative consequences for a tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean. To be presented at the Symposium on Paradigm change in historical reconstruction: the

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Transeurasian languages and beyond. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. March 7-8. Ko, Seongyeon. 2013. Contrastive hierarchies in the Altaic vowel systems. Institute of Altaic Studies, Seoul National University. January 24. Ko, Seongyeon. 2009. A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. A paper presented at the phonology seminar, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University. Ko, Seongyeon. 2001. Phonological realization of /nl/, /ln/ sequences in Korean. A paper presented at the 7th Linguistics Colloquium, co-hosted by CLI and Seoul Linguistics Club, SNU. Works in Preparation and Unpublished Manuscripts Ko, Seongyeon. In prep. Contra the Korean and Mongolic vowel shift hypothesis. [This paper will subsume the paper “The end of the Korean vowel shift controversy” below.] Legate, Julie & Seongyeon Ko. In prep. Acehnese and the theory of (anti)causatives. Ko, Seongyeon. 2011. The end of the Korean vowel shift controversy. ms. Cornell U. Ko, Seongyeon. 2009. A contrastivist view on the evolution of the Korean vowel system. ms. Cornell U. Ko, Seongyeon. 2009. Causative alternation and voice morphology in Acehnese. ms. Cornell U. Ko, Seongyeon. 2004. An Optimality-Theoretic formalization of the stress pattern in Standard Korean. ms. SNU. Ko, Seongyeon. 2002. A Study on Nasalization and Lateralization in Korean ― An Optimality Theoretic Account ―. M.A. thesis. Department of Linguistics, SNU. [In Korean] Other publications and miscellanies Seungjae Lee et al. 2006. 角筆口訣-uy 解讀-kwa 飜譯 3: -周本華嚴經券第六,券第五十七[Decipherment and translation of 'Kugyeol' marked with stylus, Vol ip ly - ū r ( r n l e by Śi ṣ n n ) Vol. 6 and 57]. Seoul: Thayhaksa. [In Korean] Ko, Seongyeon. 2001. How to look up a Written Mongolian word in a Mongolian-Chinese dictionary. Language Training Program Miscellany 1: MONGOLIAN. Department of Linguistics, SNU. [In Korean]

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2012

Instructor for Korean 101 and 203

2009-2010

TA for Korean 1101-1102 (instructor: Meejeong Song), Cornell U.

Fall 2008

TA for Korean 1101 (instructor: Meejeong Song), Cornell U.

Fall 2007

TA for Introduction to Phonetics (instructor: Hannele Nicholson), Cornell U.

Fall 2006

TA for Korean 101 and 201 (instructor: Hairhin Diffloth), Cornell U.

03/2002 - 06/2005  Courses:

Lecturer (part-time), Dept of English, Hankyong Natl U., Korea. Introduction to English Linguistics History of the English Language English 1&2 Readings in English

RESEARCH AND OTHER WORKING EXPERIENCE Research Assistant: 09/2004 - 05/2005

RA for ‘Kugyeol’ project (principal investigator: Seungjae Lee), Institute of Korean Studies, SNU

09/2003 - 05/2005

RA (coordinator) for the project entitled ‘Researches on Endangered Altaic Languages’ (principal investigator: Juwon Kim), Institute of Humanities, SNU Fieldwork experience: Shor (Myski, Russia, 04/2004) Yakut and Ewenki (Yakutsuk, Russia, 02/2005)

08/2002 – 06/2003

RA for ‘Technical Development of Requisite Elements for the Korean Lip-Synchronization Software’ (principal investigator Ho-Young Lee), Institute of Humanities, SNU: Developed a TTS system with Jiwon Yun

06/2001 – 05/2002

RA (coordinator and editor), Center for Language and Information (director: Seungho Nam), SNU

Others:

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03/2002 - 02/2004.

Administrative Assistant. Department of Linguistics, SNU.

03/2003 – 05/2005

Proctor. Language Education Institute of Seoul National University.

HONOR AND AWARD Robert J. Smith Fellowship in Japanese Studies (tuition+stipend), East Asia Program, Cornell U., Fall 2011. Sage Fellowship (tuition+stipend), Graduate School, Cornell U., 2010-2011. FALCON summer semester scholarship ($2,000), Cornell U., Summer 2009. (declined) Starr Fellowship (tuition+stipend), East Asia Program, Cornell U., Spring 2009. Robert J. Smith Fellowship in Japanese Studies (tuition+stipend), East Asia Program, Cornell U., Spring 2008. Robert J. Smith Fellowship in Japanese Studies (tuition+stipend), East Asia Program, Cornell U., Spring 2007. Sage Fellowship (tuition+stipend), Graduate School, Cornell U., 2005-2006. Tuition Scholarships, Graduate School, SNU, 2003-04. Tuition Scholarships (6 semesters in total), Dept of Linguistics, SNU, 1993-2000. Class of 1993 Salutatorian, Ohyun High School, Jeju, Korea. Class of 1990 Valedictorian, Jeju Jungang Middle School, Jeju, Korea.

GRANT Conference Travel Grant for SIAC2011 & ICHLXX ($1075), Graduate School/Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell U., 07/2011. Conference Travel Grant for SIAC2011 (1,000,000 KRW), Altaic Society of Korea, 07/2011. Conference Travel Grant for BLS37 ($150), Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell U., 02/2011.

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Conference Travel Grant for WAFL7 ($250), Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell U., 10/2010. Conference Travel Grant for WAFL6 ($900), Graduate School/Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell U., 09/2009. Conference Travel Grant for AFLA16 ($730), Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell U., 05/2009. Conference Travel Grant for LSA 2008 annual meeting ($250), Graduate School, Cornell U., 01/2008. Tuition Grant for LSA 2007 Summer Institute, Dept of Linguistics, Cornell U., 06/2007. Travel and Tuition Grant for Mongolian Language Training, Dept of Linguistics, SNU, Summer 2001.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP     

Altaic Society of Korea Association for Asian Studies Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Society of Korea Korean Society of Speech Sciences

LANGUAGE SKILL     

Korean (native) English (fluent) Japanese (high intermediate) Khalkha Mongolian, Chinese, French (basic) Research languages: all Tungusic and Mongolic languages, Acehnese

SERVICE  

Ad hoc Reviwer for NELS 39 Assistant for the 16th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, June 26-28, 2008, Cornell University and SUNY at Binghamton.  Assistant for the Altaic Society of Korea & the Linguistic Society of Korea, 2002-2004.  Military service (The Republic of Korea Army) at Korea Army Training Center, Nonsan, Korea. May 1996 - July 1998. REFERENCE

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John Bradford Whitman 209 Morrill Hall Department of Linguistics Cornell University 159 Central Avenue Ithaca, NY 14853-4701 USA [email protected] Tel: 1-607-255-0737 Fax: 1-607-255-2044

Draga Zec 219 Morrill Hall Department of Linguistics Cornell University 159 Central Avenue Ithaca, NY 14853-4701 USA [email protected] Tel: 1-607-255-0728 Fax: 1-607-255-2044

Abby Cohn 203D Morrill Hall Department of Linguistics Cornell University 159 Central Avenue Ithaca, NY 14853-4701 USA [email protected] Tel: 1-607-255-1747 Fax: 1-607-255-2044

Julie Anne Legate 610 Williams Hall Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA [email protected] Tel: 1-215-898-6046 Fax: 1-215-573-2091

Juwon Kim Department of Linguistics Seoul National University 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu Seoul 151-742, South Korea [email protected] Tel: 82-2-880-6167 Fax: 82-2-882-2451

Jongho Jun Department of Linguistics Seoul National University 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu Seoul 151-742, South Korea [email protected] Tel: 82-2-880-6169 Fax: 82-2-882-2451

Meejeong Song 123 Rockefell Department of Asian Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 [email protected] Tel: 1-607-255-8498 Fax: 1-607-255-1345

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