Papers

* indicates student mentee

Journal Publications

• Lee, S. H., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2024). Signatures of individuation across objects and events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(8), 1997–2012. [link] [pdf]

• Yousif, S., Lee, S. H., Sherman, B., & Papafragou, A. (2024). Event representation at the scale of ordinary experience. Cognition, 249, 105833. [link] [pdf]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (2021). Does hitting the window break it? Investigating effects of discourse-level and verb-level information in guiding object state representations. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(8). pp. 921–940. [link] [pdf]

• Lee, H. (2016). The syntax and semantics of English appositives. Studies in Modern Grammar, 86. pp. 71–95.

Under Review

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. Grammatical aspect modulates activation of real-world knowledge about objects’ change-of-state. 

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. Shared principles of individuation underpin object-event correspondences cross-linguistically. 

• *Yuen, J., Lee, S. H., & Papafragou, A. Dwell times reveal effects of abstract event type on attention allocation.

Conference Proceedings

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (2024). Object-Event correspondences across languages. Proceedings of CogSci 2024. [link to pdf]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (2024). Event-General conceptual categories organize verb semantics and acquisition cross-linguistically. Proceedings of CogSci 2024. [link to pdf]

• Lee, S. H., Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A. (2024). Forming event units in language and cognition: A cross-linguistic investigation. Proceedings of CogSci 2024. [link to pdf]

• Lee, S. H., *Mangifesta, L, & Papafragou, A. (2023). Conceptual and linguistic factors affect entity processing and labeling. Proceedings of CogSci 2023. [link to pdf]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (2022). Mapping language onto mental representations of object locations in transfer-of-possession events: A visual-world study using webcam-based eye-tracking. Proceedings of Cogsci 2022. [pdf]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (2024). (Not) shifting together: An experimental investigation of Korean anaphors and subjective predicates. Proceedings of the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). [pdf]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (2021). Consequences of evidential marking on the interpretation of subjective predicates: Experimental data from Korean. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25. [link to pdf]

• Lee, S. H. (2019). The interpretation of the comparison class in superlative and comparative predication. Proceedings of the 55th Chicago Linguistics Society. pp. 233-246. [pdf]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (2019). Semantic decomposition of verbs and the processing and production of result states. Proceedings of the 55th Chicago Linguistics Society. pp. 247-258.

• Lee, S. H. (2018). A pragmatic account of the relative readings in Korean superlatives. Proceedings of the 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. [pdf]

• Lee, S. H. (2017). The syntax of the not only…but also… construction: A linearization account. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. [pdf]

Dissertation

Lee, S. H. (2022). Processing the Dynamicity of Events in Language. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Southern California. [pdf]

Conference Presentations

* indicates student mentee

• *Yuen, J., Lee, S.H. & Papafragou, A. (Upcoming Jul. 2025). Event boundedness affects attention allocation during online event processing. CogSci 2025. San Francisco, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (Jan. 2025). Conceptions of individuation in objects and events are shared across languages. Linguistic Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., *Paron, M., & Papafragou, A. (Jan. 2025). Conceptual and linguistic factors affect how leaerners name entities with non-canonical structure. Linguistic Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, Anna. (Nov. 2024). Generalization of verb lexicalization biases reveals cross-domain event primitives crosslinguistically. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H., Papafragou, A., Zacks, J., Baldwin, D., & Wittenberg, E. (Jul. 2024). Advances in the study of event cognition. CogSci 2024. Rotterdam, Netherlands. [Contributed Symposium]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (Jul. 2024). Object-Event correspondences across languages. CogSci 2024. Rotterdam, Netherlands. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A. (Jul. 2024). Forming event units in language and cognition: A cross-linguistic investigation. CogSci 2024. Rotterdam, Netherlands. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (Jul. 2024). Event-general conceptual categories organize verb semantics and acquisition cross-linguistically. CogSci 2024. Rotterdam, Netherlands. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (Jun. 2024). Cross-domain event primitives are reflected in motion verb learning across languages. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 3. University of Pennsylvania, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (Jun. 2024). Conceptual signatures of atomicity across languages. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 3. University of Pennsylvania, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (May 2024). Cross-event lexical features are accessed in verb lexicalization. 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Papafragou, A. (Jan. 2024). Acquisition of verb lexicalization biases across spontaneous and caused motion. LSA 2024 Annual Meeting. New York City, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., *Mangifesta, L., & Papafragou, A. (July 2023). Conceptual and linguistic factors affect entity processing and labeling. CogSci 2023. Sydney, Australia. [poster]

• Lee, S. H., *Pintado-Urbanc, A., Papafragou, A., & Ünal, E. (July 2023). Event units in language and cognition. CogSci 2023. Sydney, Australia. [poster]

• Lee, S. H., Ji, Yue, & Papafragou, A. (July 2023). Structural signatures of individual object and event units. CogSci 2023. Sydney, Australia. [poster]

• Lee, S. H., *Pintado-Urbanc, A., Papafragou, A., & Ünal, E. (Mar. 2023). Linguistic and cognitive event units across languages. 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., *Mangifesta, L., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (Mar. 2023). Labeling novel entities in mass-count and classifier languages. 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (Jan. 2023). Linguistic and non-linguistic factors support entity construal and word learning. LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., Ji, Yue, & Papafragou, A. (Jan. 2023). Conceptual underpinnings of linguistic atomicity. LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., Pintado-Urbanc, A., Papafragou, A., & Ünal, E. (Jan. 2023). Segmenting events in language and cognition. LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (Nov. 2022). Conceptual and linguistic factors affecting entity construal. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 47. Boston, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (July 2022). Mapping language onto mental representations of object locations in transfer-of-possession events: A visual-world study using webcam-based eye-tracking. CogSci 2022. Toronto, Canada. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (May 2022). The role of grammatical cues in tracking object location in transfer-of-possession events: A visual-world eye-tracking study. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2. University of Pennsylvania, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Mar. 2022). Where do you think the ball is?: Using webcam-based eye-tracking to investigate mental representations of object locations in transfer-of-possession events. 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2022). University of California, Santa Cruz. [plenary presentation (talk)]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Jan. 2022). Grammatical markers of temporal event structure interact with real-world event knowledge during event comprehension. LSA 2022 Annual Meeting. Washington DC, USA. [talk; featured in Research Highlights in the media advisory]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Dec. 2021). Processing the dynamicity of events in language. 2021 LSK Young Scholar Symposium. [Awarded the Best Presentation Award] 

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Sep. 2021). Integrating real-world event knowledge and grammatical aspect information during event comprehension. AMLaP 2021. Université de Paris, France. [short talk]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Apr. 2021). (Not) shifting together: An experimental investigation of Korean anaphors and subjective predicates. The 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of Arizona, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Mar. 2021). Investigating perspective-sensitivity during the resolution of Korean anaphors. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [short talk] [link to recording: I'm in Session #6 (Session on Pronoun Comprehension). I start talking at around 33:20)

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Sep. 2020). Real-world event knowledge modulates the use of tense cues in event comprehension. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM), University of Pennsylvania, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Sep. 2020). Does hitting a window break it?: Going beyond lexicalized event structure during sentence processing. Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar, University of Oxford, UK. [talk] [link to talk video]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Sep. 2020). How many people agree? Evidentiality effects on opinions’ perceived generalizability. AMLaP 2020. University of Potsdam, Germany. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Sep. 2020). When evidentiality meets subjectivity: Generalizability of opinions. Sinn und Bedeutung 25, University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. [talk] [link to talk video]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Mar. 2020). When tense cues matter and when they don’t: Processing object state change in activity events. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UMass-Amherst, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Oct. 2019). Topicality and tense effects in processing object state change in activity events. CAMP (California Meeting on Psycholinguistics) 2019. UC Santa Cruz, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (May 2019). Semantic decomposition of verbs and the processing and production of result states. The Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. (May 2019). The interpretation of the comparison class in superlative and comparative predication. The Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, USA. [talk]

• Kaiser, E. & Lee, S. H. (May 2019). On the generalizability of subjective opinions: Predicates of personal taste and multidimensionality. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 42, University of Oslo, Norway. [talk] 

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Mar. 2019). How do repeated result states fare in sentence comprehension and production? CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. [poster]

• Kaiser, E & Lee, S. H. (Mar. 2019). Generalizing subjective opinions: evidence from two classes of perspectival adjectives. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Dec. 2018). Expecting and mentioning results: The role of contextual and lexical information. CAMP (California Meeting on Psycholinguistics) 2018. University of Southern California, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. (Oct. 2018). The interpretation of the comparison class in degree predication. CUSP (California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop) 11. UC Berkeley, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Sep. 2018). Processing inferred result states in discourse. AMLaP 2018, Berlin, Germany.  [poster]

• Lee, S. H. & Kaiser, E. (Jul. 2018). Effects of discourse context in processing the ambiguity of result attainment. AMBIGO: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, University of Göttingen, Germany. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. (Oct. 2017). The unavailability of superlative movement out of Korean nominal phrases. 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA. [poster]

• Lee, S. H. (Jul. 2017). The syntax of the not only…but also… construction: A linearization account. 24th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Kentucky, USA. [talk]

• Lee, S. H. (Jul. 2015). On Korean -(u)lo resultatives.  ICKL (International Conference on Korean Linguistics) & Harvard-ISOKL (Harvard-International Symposium on Korean Linguistics) 2015, University of Chicago, USA. [talk]

• Lee, H. (May 2015). On English appositives and afterthoughts: An HPSG approach. The Linguistics Society of Korea/The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea. [talk]

Last updated Mar. 2025