Publications

Thesis and Dissertation
Oh, Y. (2015). Linguistic complexity and information: quantitative approaches, PhD thesis, Language Science, University of Lyon 2. (thesis)

Oh, Y. (2011). Traitement des collocations verbales dans un système de Q/R : les verbes supports et les verbes à particule, Master’s dissertation, Autonomous University of Barcelona & University of Franche-Comté.

Journal Publications
Oh, Y., Todd, S., Beckner, C., Hay, J., & King, J. (2023). Assessing the size of non-Māori-speakers’ active Māori lexicon, PLoS ONE, 18 (8), e0289669. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289669

Oh, Y., & Pellegrino, F. (2023). Towards robust complexity indices in linguistic typology: A corpus-based assessment, Studies in Language, 47 (4), 789-829. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22034.oh

Hay, J., King, J., Todd, S., Panther, F., Mattingley, W., Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Needle, J., & Keegan, P. (2022). Ko te mōhiotanga huna o te hunga kore kōrero i te reo Māori, Te Reo - The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 65 (1), 42-59. https://nzlingsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TeReoHayetal2022.pdf

Oh, Y., Todd, S., Beckner, C., Hay, J., King, J., & Needle, J. (2020). Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon, Scientific Reports, 10, 22318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4
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Coupé, C.*, Oh, Y.*, Dediu, D., & Pellegrino, F. (2019). Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche, Science Advances, 5 (9), eaaw2594. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
*Equally contributed authors
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Malisz, Z., Brandt, E., Möbius, B., Oh, Y., & Andreeva, B. (2018). Dimensions of segmental variability: interaction of prosody and surprisal in six languages, Frontiers in Communication, 3 (25). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00025

Oh, Y., Coupé, C., Marsico, E., & Pellegrino, F. (2015). Bridging phonological system and lexicon: insights from a corpus study of functional load, Journal of Phonetics, 53, 153-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2015.08.003

Oh, Y. (2012). Treatment of verbal collocations in a Q/A System: light verbs and phrasal verbs, Bulag (Bulletin de Linguistique Appliquée et Générale), 36, 175-195.

Conferences with Proceedings
Oh, Y., Coupé, C., & Pellegrino, F. (2024). The nature of phonological contrasts as a function of their position within syllables and words, International Congress of Linguists (ICL21), September 8-14, Poznan, Poland (oral presentation). (slides)

Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Dediu, D., Seifart, F., & Pellegrino, F. (2024). Trade-offs between information and speech rate in naturalistic speech from 49 non-WEIRD languages, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, August 21-24, Helsinki, Finland (oral presentation). (slides)

Oh, Y., & Song, G. (2021). 온라인학습 콘텐츠를 활용한 프랑스어 전공 기초역량 강화 교육모델 개발 사례, 2021년 한국프랑스어문교육학회 정기 학술대회 – 포스트 코로나 시대의 프랑스어문 교육의 방향, October 2, Seoul, South Korea (oral presentation). (paper, slides)

King, J., Hay, J., Keegan, P., Todd, S., Oh, Y., Needle, J., Beckner, C., Mattingley, W., & Panther, F. (2021). Language exposure and the development of a proto-lexicon, Fifth International Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization, September 9-10, Klagenfurt, Austria (oral presentation). (slides)

Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Oh, Y., & Dediu, D. (2020). Evolutionary perspectives on speech and information rates, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang13), April 14-17, Brussels, Belgium (poster presentation). (abstract)

Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Hay, J., King, J., & Racz, P. (2018). Word-order maintains OCP-Place effects across word boundaries in Māori, International Congress of Linguists (ICL20), July 2-6, Cape Town, South Africa (oral presentation). (slides)

Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Hay, J. & King, J. (2018). Phonotactic sensitivity in speakers with a very small lexicon, Proc. of the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16), Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-23 (oral presentation). (slides)

Schulz, E., Oh, Y., Malisz, Z., Andreeva, B., & Möbius, B. (2016). Impact of prosodic structure and information density on vowel space size, Speech Prosody 2016, May 31 - Jun 3, Buffalo, United States (oral presentation). (paper)

Coupé, C., Marsico, E., Oh, Y., & Pellegrino, F. (2015). Cross-linguistic investigations of the organizational scales in phonological systems, 11th Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 11), August 1-3, New Mexico, United States (oral presentation). (slides)

Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., & Marsico, E. (2014). Cross-linguistic investigations of oral and silent reading, Proc. of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014), September 14-18, Singapore (poster). (paper, poster)

Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E., & Coupé, C. (2013). A quantitative and typological approach to correlating linguistic complexity, Proc. of the 5th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL), September 12-14, Leuven, Belgium (oral presentation). (paper, slides)

Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C., & Marsico, E. (2013). Cross-language comparison of functional load for vowels, consonants, and tones, Proc. of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), August 25-29, Lyon, France (oral presentation). (paper)

Oh, Y., Coupé, C., & Pellegrino, F. (2013). Effect of bilingualism on speech rate: the case of Catalan and Basque bilinguals in Spain, 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL19), July 21-27, Geneva, Switzerland (poster). (poster)

Oh, Y., & Pellegrino, F. (2012). Quantitative approaches to phonological complexity: the case of East Asian languages, The International Conference for the Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL 2012), Busan, South Korea, December 10-11 (oral presentation). (slides)

Oh, Y. (2012). Linguistic complexity and information rate: quantitative approaches, Colloque des doctorants et des jeunes chercheurs COLDOC 2012, Traitement de corpus : outils et méthodes, Paris, Octobre 4-5 (poster). (poster)

Workshops
Oh, Y. (2019). Phonological and morphological complexity from a quantitative and typological perspective, Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity (IWMLC), Freiburg, Germany, September 12-13. (slides)

Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Hay, J. & King, J. (2018). Non-Māori speaking New Zealanders show surprisingly sophisticated Māori phonotactic knowledge, Proc. of the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16) satellite workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-23 (poster). (poster)

Articles for General Public
Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C., & Marsico, E. (2014). La complexité des langues du monde, Dossier Pour la Science, 82, 66-71. (link)

Communications
Oh, Y. (2020). ¿Qué idioma es más rápido?, Mundo Ciencia, Radio France Internationale (RFI), 20min, January 10. (link)

Oh, Y. (2019). An adult proto-lexicon, Humanities Research Institute Monthly Colloquium, Suwon, South Korea, May 8.

Oh, Y. (2017). Assessing trade-offs between linguistic subsystems and the equal overall complexity hypothesis, NZILBB Seminar Series 2017, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 3.

Oh, Y. (2016). On the relationship between phonological and morphological complexity: a large-scale, cross-language, quantitative approach, ASLAN Complexity Meeting, Lyon, France, June 16.

Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Marsico, E., & Pellegrino, F. (2016). Functional load and organization scales in phonological systems, International Workshop on Structural Complexity in Natural Languages, Paris, France, May 30-31.

Oh, Y. (2015). A quantitative and typological study of linguistic complexity, Phonetics Colloquium, Saarland University, Germany, January 14.

Oh, Y. (2014). Some languages are spoken faster than others: speech rate, information density, and phonological complexity, Soirée d'accueil des chercheurs étrangers, Lyon, France, October 29.

Oh, Y. (2013). Approche quantitative et typologique de la complexité des modules linguistiques, Journée d'étude du Work Package 2 (Langage et Langues: origine, évolution et diversité), LabEx ASLAN, Lyon, France, November 14.

Oh, Y. (2011). Treatment of verbal collocations in a Q/A system, 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing & Human Language Technology. University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, June 8-9.