Jinyoung Jo

Jinyoung Jo

Social Science Research Professional

Stanford University

Biography

I am a Social Science Research Professional in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. I recently defended my Ph.D. dissertation in Linguistics at UCLA, where I investigated the sources of individual differences in phonology and used computational methods to model inter-speaker variation. My research also explores phonological development and the characteristics of child-directed speech. Recently, I have been working at the intersection of linguistics and Large Language Models.

If you are a graduate student or a faculty member at Stanford Linguistics, you can schedule a meeting with me here, or come to my office hours.

Fall 2024 Office Hours:

Tuesday 1:00pm-2:30pm, Thursday 11:00am-12:30pm

Interests

  • Individual differences in phonology
  • Phonological variation
  • Learning biases
  • Child-directed speech
  • Language and cognition
  • Computational modeling of human linguistic behavior
  • Large Language Models

Education

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2024

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • M.A. in English Language & Literature, 2017

    Seoul National University

  • B.A. in English Language & Literature, 2015

    Seoul National University

Publications

Remote collection of language samples from 3-year-olds (accepted). Journal of Child Language.

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(2024). Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development.

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(2024). Leveraging linguistic features to improve machine learning models for detecting ChatGPT usage on exams. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks and Large Language Models.

(2024). What prosody does when morphosyntax is absent: the case of Korean relative clauses. (* = co-first authors). Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America.

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