Nayoung's areas of expertise include neuro-/psycholinguistics and syntax. She is interested in human language processing, focusing on the questions of how language system interacts with other cognitive functions and how grammatical variations in language structure map into processing. In addition to the theoretical tools adopted in comparative syntactic research, the methods she employs to investigate the cross-linguistic parsing strategies include ERPs, eye-tracking, and self-paced reading.
Some of her representative publications are as follows.
Kwon, N., & Lee, Y. (2024). When grammaticality is intentionally violated: Inanimate honorification as a politeness strategy. Journal of Pragmatics.
Kwon, N., & Sturt, P. (2024). When social hierarchy matters grammatically: Investigation of the processing of honorifics in Korean. Cognition. (link to the osf project page)
Sturt, P., & Kwon, N. (2023). Agreement attraction in comprehension: Do active dependencies and distractor position play a role? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Kwon, N. (2020). The processing of a long-distance dependency in Korean: An overview. The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics.
Kwon, N., Sturt, P, & Liu, P. (2017). Predicting semantic features in Chinese: evidence from ERPs. Cognition, 166, 433-446.
Kwon, N., & Sturt, P. (2014). The use of control information in dependency formation: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Memory and Language, 73, 59-80.
Kwon, N., Kluender, R., Kutas, M., & Polinsky, M. (2013). Subject/Object processing asymmetries in Korean relative clauses: Evidence from ERP data. Language, 89(3), 537-585.
