College of Liberal Arts - College of Liberal Arts

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- Associate Professor Syntax, Experimental Syntax, Psycholinguistics
- KIM, NAYOUN
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- +82-2-760-0270
- nayoun@skku.edu
- Toegye Hall of Humanities 6F 31621
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Research Interest
Syntax, Experimental Syntax, Psycholinguistics
Education
- Ph.D, Northwestern University
Experience
- University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics, Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Journal Articles
- (2026) Investigating Animacy Effects on Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Self-paced Reading. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics. 26, 1
- (2025) Grammaticality Illusions in the Real-Time Processing of Backward Noun Phrase Ellipsis. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics. 25, 1
- (2024) Processing wh-filler-gap dependencies. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 77, 12
- (2024) Argument Status and Retrieval Interference. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics. 24,
- (2024) Coordination of Unlike Categories Creates Grammaticality Illusion. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics. 24,
- (2023) Zero-derivation in Korean: the effect of covert structure in real-time processing. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 14,
- (2023) Antecedent-Ellipsis Mismatch in the Resolution of Noun Phrase Ellipsis: Results from Eye-Tracking While Reading. 담화와 인지. 30, 4
- (2023) Understanding the Influence of Local Coherence on the Reanalysis Process of Temporally Ambiguous Noun Phrase: The Role of Animacy. 담화와 인지. 30, 4
- (2023) Processing of Referential Non-Isomorphism in Noun Phrase Ellipsis. 언어. 48, 1
- (2023) Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 13, 1
- (2022) Asymmetries of English wh-adjunct/argument in Negative Island Sensitivity: An Experimental Study. 담화와 인지. 29, 4
- (2022) The Effect of Antecedent Complexity in the Processing of Noun Phrase Ellipsis. 담화와 인지. 29, 4
- (2022) The Puzzle of Argument Structure Mismatch in Gapping. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 13, -
- (2022) Active nature of dependency formation: The online processing of tough-constructions. Linguistic Research. 39, 1
- (2022) Predictive Sentence Processing: Evidence from Passive Relative Clause Processing. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics. 22, -
- (2021) An Illusion of Grammaticality in Wh-Questions. 언어. 46, 3
- (2020) Processing gapping: Parallelism and grammatical constraints. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 73, 5
- (2020) How long can you hold the filler: maintenance and retrieval. LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE. 35, 1
- (2019) The online processing of noun phrase ellipsis and mechanisms of antecedent retrieval. LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE. 34, 2
Publications
- (2024) 언어심리학: 언어과학의 이해. 학지사. Co-author
Conference Paper
- (2025) The processing of backward Noun Phrase Ellipsis. The 2024 Linguistic Society of Korea Winter Conference. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2024) Mechanisms working behind the antecedent retrieval in the real-time processing of the reflexive dependency. AmLaP Asia. SINGAPORE
- (2024) The Mechanism behind Understanding Anaphoric One and Noun Phrase Ellipsis: How Language Models Work. The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2024) How syntactic structural aspects interact with diverse memory representations. Invited speaker, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Linguistics-Experimental Syntax and Semantics workshop. CHINA
- (2023) Argument status and semantic interference. 2023 LSK Young Scholar Symposium. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2023) Understanding the influence of local coherence on the reanalysis process of temporarlly ambiguous noun phrase: the role of animacy. 2023 LSK Young Scholar Symposium. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2023) Coordination of Unlike Categories Creates Grammaticality Illusion. Linguistic Society of America. UNITED STATES
- (2022) How syntactic structural aspects interact with memory representation. University of Hongkong, Department of Linguistics colloquium. HONG KONG
- (2022) Active Nature of Dependency Formation: The Online Processing of Tough-constructions. SICOL-2022. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2022) Experimental Syntax Using IBEX/ PC IBEX. SICOL-2022. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2022) Syntax for the win: active wh-fillers vs. active cataphora. UMass Syntax Group. UNITED STATES
- (2022) Active Nature of Dependency Formation: The Processing of Tough-constructions. Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2022 Annual Meeting). UNITED STATES
- (2022) Maximizing Parallelism in the Processing of Gapping: Evidence from Argument Structure Mismatches. Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2022 Annual Meeting). UNITED STATES
- (2021) Hold, Release, and Retrieve: The Study of Wh-Filler-Gap Dependencies and Ellipsis. 언어정보연구소 Colloquium. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2021) Syntactic expectations win in incremental processing of anaphora. 고려대학교 4단계BK21 언어학교육연구팀 및 언어정보연구소. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2021) Subject-object asymmetries are not specific to dependency-formation: Evidence from Korean. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. UNITED STATES
- (2021) Hold, Release, and Retrieve: The Study of Wh-Filler-Gap Dependencies and Ellipsis. 서울대학교. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
- (2021) Predicting binding domains: Evidence from fronted auxiliaries and wh-predicates. CUNY (Conference on Human Sentence Processing). UNITED STATES
- (2021) Processing embedded clauses in Korean: null element or a dependency formation?. CUNY. UNITED STATES
