Research Interests: psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, discourse and dialogue, NLP, web-based behavioral experiments, corpus analysis


* = Equal contribution; † = Mentored student contribution.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

2025

Sanghee J. Kim* & Forrest Davis*. Discourse sensitivity in attraction effects: the interplay between language model size and training data. To appear in the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2025.

2024

Sanghee J. Kim & Ming Xiang. Incremental discourse-update constrains number agreement attraction effect. Cognitive Science, 48(9): e13497.

Sanghee J. Kim & Ming Xiang. Encoding of discourse structure information during language comprehension: evidence from web-based visual world paradigm experiments. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 46(0), 2825--2832.

2022

Sanghee J. Kim, Lang Yu & Allyson Ettinger. "No, they did not": Dialogue response dynamics in pre-trained language models. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 863--874.

Aurora Martinez del Rio*, Casey Ferrara*, Sanghee J. Kim*, Emre Hakgüder & Diane Brentari. Identifying the correlations between the semantics and the phonology of ASL and BSL: A vector space approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 806471.

2020

Sanghee Kim & Mi-Jeong Song. Is starting early beneficial for the acquisition of English articles in an EFL setting? English Teaching, 75(4), 3--32.

2016

Sanghee Kim & Jeong-Ah Shin. The effect of thematic roles during grammatical encoding in sentence production. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 16(1), 77--97.

Peer-reviewed Abstracts

2024

Loy Bhowmick & Sanghee J. Kim. Identifying neural biomarkers of stuttering in children: A review of cortical and connectivity differences. The Young Researcher.

Sanghee J. Kim & Ming Xiang. Memory encoding of discourse structure information in real-time: through the lens of pronoun resolution. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5705.

Jinyoung Jo*, Juyeon Cho*, Sanghee J. Kim*, & Sun-ah Jun. What prosody does when morphosyntax is absent: the case of Korean relative clauses. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5719.

2021

Sanghee Kim. 'Call-back' speech acts: Getting more than 'again' with Korean particles. Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), 71--80.

2019

Sanghee Kim. Allocutive agreement in Korean under cyclic Agree. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 4(54), 1--15.

Edited Volumes

2021

Matthew Hewett, Corinne Kasper, Sanghee Kim & Naomi Kurtz (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

2015

Juyeon Cho, Jinyoung Jo, Sanghee Kim, Jong-Hyeon Lee & Heemin Park (Eds.) SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language, Vol. 13, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University.

Conference presentations

For slides or posters at conferences, please check out the [OSF Repository] (under "Files" of each project).