Eon-Suk Ko

 

Visiting Scientist                                                                              

Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences                       

Brown University

Providence, RI 02912

 

Office: Metcalf Research 102J

Phone: 401-863-1371

Email: esko at ldc.upenn.edu

 


Education

 

Ph. D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

M. A. in English Linguistics, Seoul National University

B. A. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University

 


Awards

 

Fulbright Fellowship, Korean-American Educational Commission

William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania        

 


Current Research

 

·                    Stress, intonation, and metrical phonology:

 

resubmitted

Word-level prominence and its susceptibility to phrasal prosody: the case of Korean

2007

Stress and long vowels in Korean: Chicken or egg, first?, presented at the 17th Japanese Korean Linguistics, UCLA.

in progress

A phonological analysis of Korean expressive lengthening: Evidence for a two-root theory of Korean laryngeal consonants

 

·                    Syntax-Phonology interface:

 

to appear

A minimalist approach to Korean prosodic phonology, to appear in Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII.

 

·                    Phonetic aspects of language acquisition:

 

2007

Acquisition of Vowel Duration in Children Speaking American English, Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pp. 1881-1884

In progress

Perception of Extrinsic Vowel Duration in Pre-verbal Young Children Learning American English

In progress

The influence of Infant-Directed Speech in the acquisition of vowel duration

 

 


Dissertation, Publications, and Manuscripts

 

Please take a look at my old research page at UPenn.