Jiwon Yun
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jiwon Yun plays a role.
Articles
2022. Prosodic disambiguation of questions in Korean: Theory and processing. Korean Linguistics 18:1, pp. 18–47
This study aims to identify the acoustic and perceptual properties that contribute to identifying the meaning of Korean sentences that are ambiguous between wh-question and yes-no question readings. While in most cases the Accentual Phrase (AP) tonal pattern (Jun 1993) differs between the two… read more | Article
2021. Processing of the Mandarin polarity item renhe ‘any’. Language and Linguistics 22:4, pp. 630–660
The Mandarin renhe is similar to the English any in terms of polarity sensitivity (Wang 1993; Wang & Hsieh 1996; Kuo 2003; Cheng & Giannakidou 2013; Shyu 2016). However, the following phenomena regarding any in relative clause environments have not been surveyed with respect to renhe: (a) the… read more | Article
2018. Chapter 7.
Wh-indefinites in East Asian languages. Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. 139–153
This paper investigates the syntactic and semantic behaviors of wh-indefinites in Chinese, Japanese and Korean when they receive an existential reading, and identifies the source of such a reading in the three languages. The observation is that Japanese and Korean pattern together in terms of the… read more | Chapter