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Papers by yaesheik Lee

Research paper thumbnail of A Study on Understanding English Aspectual Adverbs: Already, Still, and Yet

The Journal of Linguistics Science, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Capturing some lexical differences between English and Korean: A generative lexicon approach

Language Research, 2001

It John-i John-Nom son-ul hand-ACC ccalassta. cut 'John cut his hand.' Contrary to the pairs in (... more It John-i John-Nom son-ul hand-ACC ccalassta. cut 'John cut his hand.' Contrary to the pairs in (2), the pairs in (5) illustrate that English nouns and verbs denote narrower conceptual categories that Korean counterparts. (5) < narrower scope English words, wider scope Korean words > < behavior, hayngdong >, < medicine, yak >, Nouns < glass,can > < chair, uyca >, < bathroom, hwacangsil >, < finger, sonkkalak >, < idea, saynkak >,00' < take/ride, thata >, < take, mekta > Verbs < crunch, pwuswuta > < hoist, olita >,00' For example, the English word behavior denotes the event of doing something in a habitual manner, but the Korean counterpart han ygdong

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of L1 and the Lexicon of Proficient Adult L2 Users: In Analysis of English Textbooks in Korea

Journal of Pan Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of 초등학교 이중언어 학습자들의 양 언어에 대한 태도

Research paper thumbnail of The domain of direct case assignment

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of The validation of parallel test forms: ‘Mountain’ and ‘beach’ picture series for assessment of language skills

Language Testing, 2010

Pictures are widely used to elicit expressive language skills, and pictures must be established a... more Pictures are widely used to elicit expressive language skills, and pictures must be established as parallel before changes in ability can be demonstrated by assessment using pictures prompts. Why parallel prompts are required and what it is necessary to do to ensure that prompts are in fact parallel is not widely known. To date, evidence of equivalence has been documented for only a handful of picture instruments. The present study aims to demonstrate that two picture series, one describing hiking on a mountain, the other a picnic at a beach, designed to elicit narrative writing from children, are statistically parallel. To verify their being parallel, a random group design and a covariate were used. MANCOVA and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that the two alternate picture forms were parallel in terms of means, variances, and factor structures with regard to multiple writing components. This study makes a unique contribution to picture-based assessment, first by publishing t...

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Development of Children's Writing Ability in an EFL Context

Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012

This study investigated the English writing skills developed by 42 children participating in an E... more This study investigated the English writing skills developed by 42 children participating in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program for approximately 315 hr, spread over 18 months. The English writing abilities were measured 3 times in terms of grammar, content, coherence, spelling, and text length. A repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance demonstrated that the effect of time on the growth of writing skills was both large and significant: Grammar, coherence, and text length all showed substantial improvement in a linear progression; spelling and content developed in linear and quadratic trends. In addition, the improvement rate of grammar was similar to that of coherence, but text length showed a faster improvement. The vital common point was that students showed varying but remarkable improvements across all these components. This article makes idiosyncratic contributions to the understanding of young EFL writers and the longitudinal development of multiple writing components. This study may also serve as a reference for second-language educators as they notice (a) that these children achieved a high level of English writing skills although they did not live in an English-speaking society and (b) how they learned English in a curricular context where language acquisition principles were incorporated.

Research paper thumbnail of Korean ECM: Semantic and Pragmatic Factors

... Perspective, Stanford Ling. Assoc & CSLI Press, Stanford, 215-225. Jocobson, P. 1992. The... more ... Perspective, Stanford Ling. Assoc & CSLI Press, Stanford, 215-225. Jocobson, P. 1992. The Lexical Entailment Theory of Control and the Tbugh-Construction. Ivan A. Sag & A Szabolcsi(eds.) Lexical -154 - Page 11. Korean ECM : Semantic and Pragmatic Factors (Lee ...

Research paper thumbnail of Negative Polarity Items and the Semantics of the Particles "-to" and "-na" in Korean

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994

This paper argues that the Korcan particles "-to" and "-na" can be analyzed as having one core me... more This paper argues that the Korcan particles "-to" and "-na" can be analyzed as having one core meaning with their own accompanying meanings due to illocutionary forces or to people's world-knowledge on orderings among the elements of alternative sets. It also maintains that both the incompatibility of "amwu" ('any') plus "-to" and the concurrence of "amwu" plus "-na" with upward entailing property predicates are due to informativity and some other pragmatic felicity conditions. The quantificational forces of polarity items are then examined. Finally, since negative polarity items are accompanied by strong stress, arguably related to focus, it is possible to show how focus participates in the compositional derivations and contributes to the entire meaning of the sentence in which it occurs. Contains 28 references. (MDM)

Research paper thumbnail of Analysis of Google Voice Actions’ Recognition of Korean Young Learners’ English Word Pronunciation

Studies in Modern Grammar

Research paper thumbnail of A Study on Understanding English Aspectual Adverbs: Already, Still, and Yet

The Journal of Linguistics Science, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Capturing some lexical differences between English and Korean: A generative lexicon approach

Language Research, 2001

It John-i John-Nom son-ul hand-ACC ccalassta. cut 'John cut his hand.' Contrary to the pairs in (... more It John-i John-Nom son-ul hand-ACC ccalassta. cut 'John cut his hand.' Contrary to the pairs in (2), the pairs in (5) illustrate that English nouns and verbs denote narrower conceptual categories that Korean counterparts. (5) < narrower scope English words, wider scope Korean words > < behavior, hayngdong >, < medicine, yak >, Nouns < glass,can > < chair, uyca >, < bathroom, hwacangsil >, < finger, sonkkalak >, < idea, saynkak >,00' < take/ride, thata >, < take, mekta > Verbs < crunch, pwuswuta > < hoist, olita >,00' For example, the English word behavior denotes the event of doing something in a habitual manner, but the Korean counterpart han ygdong

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of L1 and the Lexicon of Proficient Adult L2 Users: In Analysis of English Textbooks in Korea

Journal of Pan Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of 초등학교 이중언어 학습자들의 양 언어에 대한 태도

Research paper thumbnail of The domain of direct case assignment

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of The validation of parallel test forms: ‘Mountain’ and ‘beach’ picture series for assessment of language skills

Language Testing, 2010

Pictures are widely used to elicit expressive language skills, and pictures must be established a... more Pictures are widely used to elicit expressive language skills, and pictures must be established as parallel before changes in ability can be demonstrated by assessment using pictures prompts. Why parallel prompts are required and what it is necessary to do to ensure that prompts are in fact parallel is not widely known. To date, evidence of equivalence has been documented for only a handful of picture instruments. The present study aims to demonstrate that two picture series, one describing hiking on a mountain, the other a picnic at a beach, designed to elicit narrative writing from children, are statistically parallel. To verify their being parallel, a random group design and a covariate were used. MANCOVA and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that the two alternate picture forms were parallel in terms of means, variances, and factor structures with regard to multiple writing components. This study makes a unique contribution to picture-based assessment, first by publishing t...

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Development of Children's Writing Ability in an EFL Context

Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012

This study investigated the English writing skills developed by 42 children participating in an E... more This study investigated the English writing skills developed by 42 children participating in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program for approximately 315 hr, spread over 18 months. The English writing abilities were measured 3 times in terms of grammar, content, coherence, spelling, and text length. A repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance demonstrated that the effect of time on the growth of writing skills was both large and significant: Grammar, coherence, and text length all showed substantial improvement in a linear progression; spelling and content developed in linear and quadratic trends. In addition, the improvement rate of grammar was similar to that of coherence, but text length showed a faster improvement. The vital common point was that students showed varying but remarkable improvements across all these components. This article makes idiosyncratic contributions to the understanding of young EFL writers and the longitudinal development of multiple writing components. This study may also serve as a reference for second-language educators as they notice (a) that these children achieved a high level of English writing skills although they did not live in an English-speaking society and (b) how they learned English in a curricular context where language acquisition principles were incorporated.

Research paper thumbnail of Korean ECM: Semantic and Pragmatic Factors

... Perspective, Stanford Ling. Assoc & CSLI Press, Stanford, 215-225. Jocobson, P. 1992. The... more ... Perspective, Stanford Ling. Assoc & CSLI Press, Stanford, 215-225. Jocobson, P. 1992. The Lexical Entailment Theory of Control and the Tbugh-Construction. Ivan A. Sag & A Szabolcsi(eds.) Lexical -154 - Page 11. Korean ECM : Semantic and Pragmatic Factors (Lee ...

Research paper thumbnail of Negative Polarity Items and the Semantics of the Particles "-to" and "-na" in Korean

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994

This paper argues that the Korcan particles "-to" and "-na" can be analyzed as having one core me... more This paper argues that the Korcan particles "-to" and "-na" can be analyzed as having one core meaning with their own accompanying meanings due to illocutionary forces or to people's world-knowledge on orderings among the elements of alternative sets. It also maintains that both the incompatibility of "amwu" ('any') plus "-to" and the concurrence of "amwu" plus "-na" with upward entailing property predicates are due to informativity and some other pragmatic felicity conditions. The quantificational forces of polarity items are then examined. Finally, since negative polarity items are accompanied by strong stress, arguably related to focus, it is possible to show how focus participates in the compositional derivations and contributes to the entire meaning of the sentence in which it occurs. Contains 28 references. (MDM)

Research paper thumbnail of Analysis of Google Voice Actions’ Recognition of Korean Young Learners’ English Word Pronunciation

Studies in Modern Grammar