Curriculum Vitae
Young-mee Yu CHO
Department of
Asian Languages and Cultures
330 Scott Hall,
College Ave Campus
Rutgers
University
New Brunswick,
NJ 08901-1164
732-932-5603
(o), 932-7605 (d), 932-7926 (f)
Research Interests
Phonology,
Phonetics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Syntax/phonology Interface,
Morphology, Korean and Japanese Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language
Teaching, Textbook Development.
Education
1990 Ph.D. Stanford
University. Linguistics
Dissertation: Parameters of consonantal Assimilation
(Principle Advisor: Paul Kiparsky)
1999-1981 Master’s
Program. English Literature.
Northeastern University
1979 B.A.,
summa cum laude. Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea).
English Language and Literature.
Professional Experience
2000 (fal1) ---
Associate
Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures,
Rutgers University.
1996 (fall)
---2000 \240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240\240 Assistant Professor, Department
of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Rutgers University.
2001-- Advisory
Member, Stanford Encyclopedia of Korean Linguistics.
2001-- Editorial
Board, The Comparative Korean Studies. (Seoul, Korea)
2001- Board
Member, The International Association for
Korean Language Education.
2001-- Board
Member, The Korean-American Institute of Princeton.
2000-- Executive
Secretary, The Korean Cultural Institute of Princeton.
2000- Write
regular columns for the New York Joongang Daily Newspaper.
2002- Faculty
Advisor for Rutgers Korean Student Literary Magazine, Hanul.
200 l - Faculty
Advisory Member, The Asian American Cultural Center. Rutgers Univ.
1999-2001 Delegate Member,
The Modern Language Association.
2000-- Executive Secretary, The American Association of
Teachers of Korean.
l 998-- Editorial
Collective on East Asian: An International Quarterly.
1997-2000 Board Member, The
American Association of Teachers of Korean.
l 998-- Faculty
Advisor for Rutgers Korean Student Association.
1995-- Senior
Advisor and Chief Examiner for Korean, Representative Chief Examiner
for Asia/Pacific Languages. International Baccalaureate,
Cardiff, England.
1994-- Member of
the Korean Textbook Guidelines Committee, The Korean Language
Education and
Research Center, University of Hawaii.
1992-1994 Editorial Board, Journal
East Asian Linguistics.
1990-1996 Lecturer/Korean
Language Coordinator, Stanford University
Fellowships and Grants
2003-2005
Korea
Foundation Grant for “Korean Studies Curricula in the Age of Multimedia
Education.”
(with A. Choi, K-H Choi and H-Y. Kim)
2002-2003 Tuttle Language
Grant for “Multi-faceted Approach to the
Teaching of Korean
Literature/Culture”
(with K. Choi, K. Chun, and H. Kim)
1999-2000 Research/Travel
Grant, The Northeast Council, The Association of Asian Studies.
l997-1998 Research Council
Grant, Rutgers University.
1994 Mellon
Fellowship, National Foreign Language Center, John's Hopkins Univ.
1993 Fellowship.
Summer Workshop on Curriculum Development, National Foreign
Language
Resource Center, Univ. of Hawaii.
1986-1990
Graduate
Fellowship, Stanford University
1979-1981 Graduate
Fellowship, Northeastern University
Invited Lectures
Invited to
teach a summer course for the Linguistic Society of American Summer Institute.
Michigan State University. July-Aug. 2003.
“Prominence
Preservation in Vocative Chant.” (with M. Saiki) The 13th
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Michigan State University. Aug. 2003.
“An
Overview of Korean Culture.” Business in Korea in 2003—Beyond the Headlines.
Office of International Trade and Protocol. NJ Commerce and International
Trade. Trenton, NJ. Feb. 2003.
“The Role of Weight and Tone in Korean.''
The 12th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. City
University of New York. Nov. 2002.
“Teaching
Methods of Korean as a Foreign language”
Kyunghee Univ. Seoul. Korea. The International Association for Korean
Language Education. Aug. 2002.
“Korean
Language Education in the 21st Century: the New Learner and Multimedia.'' The
National Association of Korean Schools Annual Meeting. Philadelphia. July 2002.
“Developing
Korean Studies as an Academic discipline.”
The Korea Forum. Asbury, New Jersey. May 2002.
“Korean
Textbooks for English speakers,” The
International Korean Language Foundation.
Sejong Cultural Center. Seoul, Korea.Nov. 2001.
“A Historical Perspective on Korean
Palatalization.'' Cornell University. Linguistics Colloquium.
Nov. 200l.
“Underived
Environment Blocking.'' Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Linguistics
Colloquium. May 2001.
“Korean
Reduplication.'' Invited Paper at the l1th International Circle of Korean
Linguistics.
Univ. of
Hawaii. July l 998.
“Korean
Phonology in the Late Twentieth Century'' with Gregory Iverson, Invited paper
at the Plenary session of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics,
Brisbane, Australia. July 8, 1996.
“Heritage Language Education.” Invited lecture delivered at the annual
meeting of the National Association for Korean Schools. Los Angeles. Aug. 26,
1995.
“Rule
Ordering, and Constraint Interaction in Optimality theory.” Invited Talk at the
Berkeley Linguistic Society Meeting. Feb. 20, 1995.
Conference Presentations
“Korean
Studies Curricula in the Age of Multimedia Education.” (with A. Choi, K-H Choi,
and H-Y Kim). The 8th
American Association of Teachers of Korean Conference. Berkeley, CA. June 2003.
“Teaching
the Connectives -ko and –ase/-ese
by Contrast.” The 8th American Association of Teachers of Korean
Conference. Berkeley, CA. June 2003.
“Teaching Poetry in Advanced Korean Courses.” The 7th American Association of Teachers of
Korean Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida. July 2002.
“Teaching Sound Symbolism in Korean.” The 6th American Association of Teachers of
Korean Annual Conference. Univ. of Hawaii. August. 2001
“The Synchrony and Diachrony of Korean
Palatalization.'' Harvard Biennial International Symposium On Korean
Linguistics. July 200l .
“Korean
Culture: Its Continuing Projections and Impact.” The Annual Conference on Korea. The Center
for Asian Studies. Univ. of South Carolina. May 2001 .
“Semi-syllables
and Exhaustive Syllabification'' with Tracy King. NSF Workshop on
Syllables.
Sept. 1998. Ohio State University.
“Syllable
Typology and Acquisition of Clusters.''
Paper presented at the Third Utrecht Phonology Workshop. Utrecht. The
Netherlands. June 1998.
“Raddoppiamento
Sintattico as an Epiphenomenon.'' Paper presented at the 8th Colloquium on
Generative Grammars. Palmela, Portugal. Aprll l 998.
“Incorporating
Culture in the KFL Textbooks.” Paper
presented at the American Association of Teachers of Korean. Tempe, Arizona.
August 1997.
“An
Optimality Account of Semi-syllables.'' With Tracy King. Paper presented at the
Prosodic Phonology Conference. LSA Summer Institute. Cornell University, July
1997.
“Semi-syllables
and Georgian Consonant Clusters,'' with Tracy King, paper presented at the Non-
Slavic Languages Conference. May 10, 1997. University of Chicago.
“Variation
and Language Change in Optimality Theory,” with Arto Anttila. Paper presented
at the Optimality Workshop, Stanford University, Dec. 1996.
“Variation and Optimality Theory'' with Arto Anttila.
Paper presented at BCN Workshop on Conflicting Constraints, University of
Groningen, July 5, 1996.
“Language
Change as Constraint Reranking.'' Paper presented at the International
Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Manchester, England. Aug.
14, 1995.
“Rule
Ordering Revisited.'' Paper presented at the 20th Linguistic Society of Korea
meeting. Seoul, Korea. July 5, 1995.
“In
Defense of Juncture Rules.'' Paper presented at the Language Research
Institute, Seoul National University. June 27, 1995.
“Synchronic
Rule Inversion in Korean.'' Presented at the International Circle of Korean
Linguistics. University of London. July 24, 1994.
“Some
Issues in Korean Textbook development's KFL Textbook Development Planning
Conference. Jan. 1994.
“A Brief
History of Korean Vowels,'' with Sharon lnkelas. Paper presented at the
Stanford Workshop on Sound Change. Feb. 16, l 993.
“Directionality
in Labial Disharmony in Cantonese and Taiwanese.'' Paper presented in the
Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, Jan. 8, 1993.
“Universal and Morphological Devoicing in English and
Swedish.'' Paper presented in the Workshop on Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
Tromso, Norway. Nov. 22, 1992.
Publications
Books
[1] Korean
Phonology and Morphology (forthcoming). CSLI. Stanford University.
[2] Pathways
into Korean Language and Culture (2003). (Edited with S. Lee, G. Iverson,
and S. Ahn)
Pagijong, Seoul.
[3] Integrated
Korean. Beginning l (2000) (with H. Sohn, et. al.) Univ. of Hawaii Press.
[4] Integrated
Korean. Beginning 2 (2000) (with H. Sohn, et. al.) Univ. of Hawaii Press.
[5] Integrated
Korean. Intermediate 1 (2001) (with H. Sohn, et. al.) Univ. of Hawaii
Press.
[6] Integrated
Korean. Intermediate 2 (2001) (with H. Sohn, et. al) Univ. of Hawaii Press.
[7] Parameters
of Consonantal Assimilation (1999). Lincom Europa. Munich, Germany.
[8] Readings
in Authentic Korean (1994) (with S. Yuen et. al.). Second Language Teaching
and Curriculum
Center. University of Hawaii.
Articles
[1] “Diglossia
in Korean Language and Literature: A Historical Perspective.” (in press) East
Asia:
An International Quarterly.
[2] “A
Historical Perspective on Nonderived Environment Blocking: the Case of the
Korean Palatalization.”
(to appear) in The Nature of Word:
Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. Eds. S. Inkelas and K. Hanson.
MIT Press.
[3] “Sound Symbolism in Korean” (forthcoming).
Ed. H. Sohn. The Korean Language in
Culture and
Society. Univ. of Hawaii Press.
[4] “Semi-syllables and Exhaustive
syllabifications.'' (2003) (with T. King)
Eds. C. Fery and R. van
de Vivyer. The Syllable in Optimality
Theory. Cambridge University Press. pp. l83-222.
[5] Contributed two chapters in Selected
Readings in Korean. (2003) (Eds. H. Sohn and H. Yang) University
of Hawaii Press.
[6] “Syllable
Weight and Tone in Korean.” (2003). The
12th Japanese and Korean Linguistics.
[7]
“Hangugo kinung kyosubop-uy thukjingkwa
saeronun mosaek.'' (2002) (New Insights into Korean
Pedagogy) Present and Future Teaching
Methods of Korean as a Foreign Language. IAKLE. Seoul.
pp. 39-59.
[8] “The Synchrony and Diachrony of Korean
Palatalization.'' (2001) Harvard Studies in Korean
Linguistics
pp. 144-153.
[9] “Toward
Multi-faceted Approach to the Teaching of Korean Language and Culture.” (2001) Textbooks
for Foreign Learners. The International Korean Language
Foundation. pp. 75-84.
[10] “Language
Change and the Korean Lexicon” (2001) Historical
Linguistics. l 8. pp. 89-104.
[11] “Korean.''
(2001) Eds. J. Garry and C. Rubino. Facts about the World's Languages: An
Encyclopedia of
the
World's Major Languages, Past and Present. The H. W. Wilson co. New York.
pp. 394-397.
[12]
“Optionality in Glide Formation in Korean”
(2000) Japanese/Korean Linguistics. pp. 88-99.
[13] “Korean
Reduplication in Optimality Theory.”
(l999) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics.
[14] “Language Change as Constraint Reranking.''
(1998) Historical Linguistics. 15. 2. 45-62.
[15]
“Variation and Language Change in
Optimality theory's (1998) (with A. Anttila) Lingua. l 04. 3 1-56.
[16]
“Korean Phonology in the Late Twentieth
century” (1997) (with G. Iverson) Language Research. 33.
4. 687-735.
[17] “Liquid Specification in Korean as Geminate
Alterability.'' (1997) Harvard Studies in Korean
Linguistics.7.
[18] “In
Defense of Juncture Rules/Constraints.'' (1996) Language Research.
[19] “Rule
Ordering, and Constraint Interaction in Optimality theory” (1995). The
Proceedings of the
Berkeley Linguistics Society. 21.
[20] “A Lexical
Account of Inflectional Suffixes in Korean” (1995) (with P. Sells) Journal
of East Asian
Linguistics.
[21] “Hankuke-uy
moum cohwa-wa cacil kihahak.'' (Vowel Harmony in Korean and Feature
Geometry)
1995. Cwusikyong-hakpo. Tower Press. Seoul,
Korea.
[22]
“Universal and Morphological Devoicing
in English and Swedish.'' (1994) The Linguistic Review. 11.
[23]
“Post-obstruent Tensification in Korean and Geminate inalterability.'' (1994)
(with S. Inkelas).
Theoretical Issues in Korean Linguistics.
Stanford University.
[24] “Verbal
Compounding in Koreans (1994) Theoretical Issues in Korean Linguistics.
Stanford
University.
[25]
“Alternations in Major Class Features'' (1993) (with S. Inkelas) The
Proceedings of the West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics.
[26]
“Inalterability as Prespecification,'' (1993) (with S. Inkelas) Language
69. 3.
[27] “The
Phonology and Phonetics of Voiceless vowel” (1993). The Proceedings of the
Berkeley Linguistic
Society.
[28] “On
the Universality of the Coronal Node”
(1991) Eds. C. Paradis and J.-F. Prunet. The Special Status
of Coronals: Internal and External
Evidence. Academic Press.
San Diego.
[29] “A
Phonological Constraint on the Particle Attachment in Korean” (1991) Harvard
Studies in Korean
Linguistics. 4.
[30] “Syntax
and Phrasing in Korean” (1990). Eds. S. lnkelas and D. Zec. The
Phonology-syntax Connection.
The University of Chicago Press.
[31] “Syllable
Structure Conditions in Korean and the OCP.” (1988) Papers from the Sixth
International
Conference on Korean Linguistics.
[32] “Korean Assimilation.” (1988) The
Proceedings of the West Coast Conference
on Formal Linguistics.
[33] “Phrasal
Phonology of Korean” (1987) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics 2.
[34] “Verbal
Nouns in Korean and Japanese.” (1987) (with M. Saiki) Harvard Studies in
Korean
Linguistics. 2
[35] “Evidence
for VP from Child Korean.” (1987) (with K-S Hong) Child Language Research
Forum.
[36] “An LFG
Analysis of the Korean Reflexive caki.” (1985) Harvard Studies in
Korean Linguistics.1
Teaching and Curriculum
Development
Insook Chung, Korean-English
Translation in the Context of Cross-Linguistic
Communication. Doctoral Dissertation. The Graduate
School of Education, RU. 2002.
Lian-Hee
Wee, Opacity and Choice. On-going Dissertation. Dept. of Linguistics.
RU. 2001—
Q. Luu,
“The Coronal-Dorsal Relationship in Coda Position.'' Master's Thesis, Dept. of
Linguistics. RU. 2001
K. Nishitani. “What
if vowels had no mora?” Qualifying Paper. Dept. of Linguistics.
RU. 2002-
M. Hiller. “The Typology of Tones.'' Qualifying Paper.
Dept. of Linguistics. RU. 2001 .
Hong, Soonhyun. Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity
in Optimality Theory. Doctoral
Dissertation.
Univ. of Pennsylvania. 1997.
Bratt, E. Argument Composition and the Lexicon.
Doctoral Dissertation. Stanford U. 1996.
[1-2]
Advanced Korean (574:301, 302)
[3-4]
Advanced Readings in Korean (574: 401, 402)
[5-6]
Readings in Korean Literature (574: 410, 411)
[7]
Introduction to Korean Culture (574: 210)
[8-9]
Elementary Korean (574: 101:70, 102:70) (Distance Learning Course)
[10]
Korean Language in Culture and Society (574:250)
[11-12] Korean Literature in Translation (574:220,
221)
[13-14]
Advanced Korean for Business l, 2 (574: 303, 304)
[15-16]
Honors in Korean (574: 497, 498)
[17]
Writing Systems of the World (06:090:199)
[18]
Writing and Literacy in East Asia (214:310)
Journal Review
Language
Phonology
Journal of
East Asian Linguistics
Phonetica
Linguistic
Inquiry
Theoretical
Issues in Korean Linguistics
Canadian
Journal o Linguistics
Referee for publishers
University of
Hawaii Press
GLOT
International, The Netherlands
CSLI
Publications, Stanford University
University of
California at Berkeley Press
Referee for Conferences
Harvard
Biennial International Symposium On Korean Linguistics
Japanese/Korean
Linguistics Conference
Western States
Conference on Linguistics
Harvard
Workshop on Korean Linguistics
Slavic
Linguistics
Professional Organizations
Linguistic
Society of America
The
International Circle of Korean Linguistics
Association for
Asian Studies
Linguistic
Society of Korea
The
International Association of Korean Language Education
The American
Association of Teachers of Korean
The Modern
Language Association
Organizational Activities
Vice-president
of the Korean Graduate Student Association at Stanford, 1984-1985.
Member of the
Organizational Committee for the Child Language Research Forum, Stanford Univ.
1985.
President of
the Women's Alpine Club at Seoul National University, 1977.
Language Abilities
Korean
(native), English, Classical Chinese, Japanese, French and German (reading
knowledge), Armenian.