Jiwon Yun
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jiwon Yun plays a role.
Articles
Prosodic disambiguation of questions in Korean: Theory and processing Korean Linguistics 18:1, pp. 18–47 | Article
2022 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
Processing of the Mandarin polarity item renhe ‘any’ Language and Linguistics 22:4, pp. 630–660 | Article
2021 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
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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 | Chapter
2018 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