Eon-Suk Ko

 

Research Assistant Professor                                                                              

Department of Linguistics

609 Baldy Hall                     

University at Buffalo, SUNY

Buffalo, NY 14260

 

Office: 627 Baldy Hall

Phone: 716-645-0115

Email: eonsukko@buffalo.edu

 

 

EDUCATION AND AWARDS

 

Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania

M. A., B. A. Seoul National University

 

William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

Fulbright Fellowship

 

CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS

 

Stress, intonation, and metrical phonology

 

Syntax-phonology interface

 

Language acquisition

 

PAPERS

 

Soderstrom, Melanie, Eon-Suk Ko, and Uliana Nevzorova (under review) Infants discriminate yes/no questions from declaratives?

Ko, Eon-Suk (under review) A metrical theory of Korean prosody

Ko, Eon-Suk (2010) Stress and long vowels in Korean: Chicken or egg, first?, Japanese Korean Linguistics 17, CSLI, pp. 377-390. 

Ko, Eon-Suk, Melanie Soderstrom, and James Morgan (2009) Development of perceptual sensitivity to extrinsic vowel duration in infants learning American English, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126.5, pp. EL134-EL139.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2008) A minimalist approach to Korean prosodic phonology, Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII, Seoul: Hanshin.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2007) Acquisition of vowel duration in children speaking American English, Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2005) Accent and prosody. In Current Issues in English Linguistics Volume I: Phonology, D. Lee and B. Lee (eds), Seoul: Hanshin, pp. 49-104.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2003) The laryngeal effect in Korean: Phonetics or phonology?, In The Phonological Spectrum, Jeroen van de Weijer, V. J. van Heuven and H. van der Hulst (eds), volume 1, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series no. 233, John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, pp. 171-191.

Han, Chung-hye, Na-Rae Han, Eon-Suk Ko, and Martha Palmer (2002) Development and evaluation of a Korean Treebank and its application to NLP, Language and Information, 6.1, pp 123-138.

Han, Chung-hye, Na-Rae Han, Eon-Suk Ko, Heejong Yi and Martha Palmer (2002) Penn Korean Treebank: Development and evaluation, Proceedings of the 16th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Ik-Hwan Lee, Yong-Beom Kim, Key-Seun Choi and Minhaeng Lee (eds.), The Korean Society for Language and Information, pp.69-78.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2001) Acoustic effects of stress in Korean: with a focus on the status of vowel length, Proceedings of the 31st North East Linguistic Society, GSLA (ed), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2001) A discourse analysis of the realization of objects in Korean, Mineharu Nakayama and Charles Quinn (Eds), Japanese Korean Linguistics IX, CSLI, Stanford University, pp. 195-208.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2001) An information-status theory of case and NP deletion in Korean, Language Research 36.1, pp. 43-62.

Ko, Eon-Suk (2001) Laryngeal effects in Korean: phonetics or phonology, UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 6.3, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

Ko, Eon-Suk (1999) Interaction of tone and stress in Chonnam and Seoul Korean, Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, pp. 246-259.

Ko, Eon-Suk (1998) A two-root theory of Korean geminate consonants, Proceedings of the 27th Western Conference on Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, California State University at Fresno, pp. 243-57.

Ko, Eon-Suk (1996) Korean tense consonants and post obstruent tensification: A cognitive approach, Proceedings of the 1st Seoul International Conference on Phonetic Science, Seoul: Hanshin.

 

CORPORA AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

 

Ko, Eon-Suk, Na-Rae Han, Stephanie Strassel, and Nii Martey (2003) Korean Telephone Conversations Transcripts, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2003T08 and ISBN 1-58563-264-3.
Ko, Eon-Suk, Na-Rae Han, Alexandra Caravan, and George Zipperlen (2003) Korean Telephone Conversations Speech, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2003S03 and ISBN 1-58563-263-5.

Han, Na-Rae, Eon-Suk Ko, David Graff, Stephanie Strassel, Nii Martey, Myeonchul Kim, Alexandra Canavan, George Zipperlen (2003) Korean Telephone Conversations Complete Set, , Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2003P01 and ISBN 1-58563-267-8.

Palmer, Martha, Chung-Hye Han, Na-Rae Han, Eon-Suk Ko, Hee-Jong Yi, Alan Lee, Chris Walker, John Duda, Nianwen Xue (2002) Korean English Treebank Annotations, , Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2002T26 and ISBN 1-58563-236-8 Portions (c) 2001-2002 CoGenTex, Inc., Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

Han, Na-Rae Han and Eon-Suk Ko, Bracketing guidelines for Penn Korean Treebank, Technical Report, IRCS-01-10, Institute of Research in Cognitive Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

2009   Development of infants’ perceptual sensitivity to the vowel length effect, The 34th Boston University Child Language Development Conference.

2009   The prosody of intensification in Korean: A case study of nemu, Harvard International Studies on Korean Linguistics XIII

2009   Perceptual sensitivity to extrinsic vowel duration develops between 8- and 14 months, Child Phonology, University of Texas at Austin

2008   Phase, accent, and the derivation of prosody in Korean, NELS 39, Cornell University

2008   Children’s acquisition of vowel duration: a corpus based study, Child Phonology 2008, Purdue University

2007   Stress and long vowels in Korean, The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics, UCLA.

2007   Acquisition of vowel duration in children speaking American English, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp.

2007   Phase and multiple spell-out theory of Korean phrasal prosody, The 12th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University.

2007   Stress and long vowel in Korean: chicken or egg, first?, The 4th Seoul International Conference on Phonology and Morphology, Hanyang University.

2002   A phonological and phonetic analysis of the metrical structure in Korean, The 76th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco.

2002   Development and Evaluation of a Korean Treebank and its Application to NLP (with Chunghye Han, Narae Han, Martha Palmer), The 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2002)

2002   Penn Korean Treebank: Development and Evaluation (with Chunghye Han, Na-Rae Han, Eon-Suk Ko, Heejong Yi and Martha Palmer), The 16th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation.

2000   Acoustic effects of stress in Korean: with a focus on the status of vowel length, The 31st North East Linguistic Society, Georgetown University.

2000   Effects of stress on vowel in Korean: A case study of positional effects in phonetics (poster), the 7th Laboratory Phonology, Netherlands.

2000   Positional effects in phonetics, The 24th GLOW (Generative Linguistics of the Old World), University of the Basque Country, Spain.

1999   A discourse analysis of the realization of objects in Korean, The 9th Japanese Korean Linguistics Conference, Ohio State University.

1999   Interaction of tone and stress in Chonnam and Seoul Korean, The 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of Arizona.

1999   Accent and stress in Chonnam and Seoul, Korean Linguistics Conference, Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

1999   Phonetics and phonology of vocative chant in Korean, The 23rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.

1999   Laryngeal effects in Korean: Phonetics or phonology?, The 4th Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference, Leiden University.

1998   A two-root theory of Korean geminate consonants, Western Conference on Lingusitics, Arizona State University.

1996   Korean Post Obstruent Tensification and Cognitive Phonology, The 1st Seoul International Conference on Phonetic Science, Seoul National University, Korea.