Research and activities

Links: Google Scholar, Github, OSF

Academic research output

Journal Papers

June Choe and Anna Papafragou. (Submitted). Children's sensitivity to informativeness: basic-level vs. superordinate nouns.
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. (2026). Children use speaker knowledge to learn novel subordinate vs. basic-level nouns. Cognitive Psychology, 166, 101829. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2026.101829.
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. (2025). Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns. Language Acquisition, 33(1), 83–103. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2024.2440348. PDF OSF
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. (2023). The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference. Journal of Memory and Language, 132, 104432. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2023.104432. PDF OSF
June Choe, Masaya Yoshida, and Jennifer Cole. (2022). The role of prosodic focus in the reanalysis of garden path sentences: Depth of semantic processing impedes the revision of an erroneous local analysis. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1(1). DOI: 10.5070/G601136. PDF OSF
Sean McWeeny, Jinnie S. Choi, June Choe, Alexander LaTourette, Megan Y. Roberts, and Elizabeth S. Norton. (2022). Rapid automatized naming (RAN) as a kindergarten predictor of future reading in English: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Reading Research Quarterly, 57(4), 1187–1211. DOI: 10.1002/rrq.467.

Peer-reviewed Proceedings

June Choe, Yiran Chen, May Pik Yu Chan, Aini Li, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday. (2022). Language-specific Effects on Automatic Speech Recognition Errors for World Englishes. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 7177–7186.
May Pik Yu Chan, June Choe, Aini Li, Yiran Chen, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday. (2022). Training and typological bias in ASR performance for world Englishes. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 1273-1277. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10869.
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. (2022). The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference: Semantic alternatives modulate subordinate meanings. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44, 2745-2752.

Conference Talks

June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Children's sensitivity to informativeness in naming: basic-level vs. superordinate nouns. Talk at the 101st Linguistic Society of America (LSA) conference. 9-12 January 2025. Philadelphia.
June Choe. Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns. Talk at the 10th MACSIM conference. 6 April 2024. University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
June Choe. Sub-layer modularity in the Grammar of Graphics. Talk at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings, 5-10 August 2023. Toronto, Canada. American Statistical Association (ASA) student paper award in Statistical Computing and Graphics. Paper
June Choe. Persona-based social expectations in sentence processing and comprehension. Talk at the Language, Stereotypes & Social Cognition workshop, 22-23 May, 2023. University of Pennsylvania, PA.
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Lexical alternatives and the acquisition of subordinate nouns. Talk at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 3-6 November, 2022. Boston University, Boston, MA. Slides
June Choe, Yiran Chen, May Pik Yu Chan, Aini Li, Xin Gao and Nicole Holliday. (2022). Language-specific Effects on Automatic Speech Recognition Errors in American English. Talk at the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing), 12-17 October, 2022. Gyeongju, South Korea. Slides
May Pik Yu Chan, June Choe, Aini Li, Yiran Chen, Xin Gao and Nicole Holliday. (2022). Training and typological bias in ASR performance for world Englishes. Talk at the 23rd Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 18-22 September, 2022. Incheon, South Korea.

Conference Presentations

June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns. Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 2-5 November, 2023. Boston University, Boston, MA. Paula Menyuk Travel Award. Abstract Poster
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Pragmatic underpinnings of the basic-level bias. Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 2-5 November, 2023. Boston University, Boston, MA. Paula Menyuk Travel Award. Abstract Poster
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Discourse effects on the acquisition of subordinate nouns. Poster presented at the 9th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), 15 April 2023. University of Pennsylvania, PA.
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Discourse effects on the acquisition of subordinate nouns. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 9-11 March 2022. University of Pittsburg, PA. Abstract Poster
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference: Semantic alternatives modulate subordinate meanings. Poster at the 2nd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, 18-20 May 2022. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
June Choe and Anna Papafragou. Beyond the basic level: Levels of informativeness and the acquisition of subordinate nouns. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), 24-26 March 2022. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
June Choe, Jennifer Cole, and Masaya Yoshida. Prosodic Focus Strengthens Semantic Persistence. Poster at The 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), 3-5 September 2020. Potsdam, Germany. Poster Abstract Video Slides
June Choe. Computer-assisted snowball search for meta-analysis research. Poster at The 2020 Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition. 27-28 May 2020. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 2nd Place Poster Award. Poster Abstract
June Choe. Social Information in Sentence Processing. Talk at The 2019 Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition. 29 May 2019. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Abstract
June Choe, Shayne Sloggett, Masaya Yoshida, and Annette D'Onofrio. Personae in syntactic processing: Socially-specific agents bias expectations of verb transitivity. Poster at The 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. 29-31 March 2019. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Annette D’Onofrio, June Choe and Masaya Yoshida. Personae in syntactic processing: Socially-specific agents bias expectations of verb transitivity. Poster at The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. 3-6 January 2019. New York City, NY.

Research activities in FOSS

Journal Papers

Massimo Aria, Trang Le, Corrado Cuccurullo, Alessandra Belfiore, and June Choe. (2024). openalexR: An R-tool for collecting bibliometric data from OpenAlex. The R Journal, 15(4), 166-179. Paper Github

Manuscripts

June Choe. (2024). jlmerclusterperm: R (and Julia) package for cluster-based permutation tests on densely-sampled time series data. Paper Github
June Choe. (2022). Sub-layer modularity in the Grammar of Graphics. Paper Github

Conference Talks

June Choe. Sub-layer modularity in the Grammar of Graphics. Talk at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings, 5-10 August 2023. Toronto, Canada.
June Choe. Fast cluster-based permutation test using mixed-effects models. Talk at the Integrated Language Science and Technology (ILST) seminar, 21 April 2023. University of Pennsylvania, PA.
June Choe. Cracking open ggplot internals with {ggtrace}. Talk at the 2022 RStudio Conference, 25-28 July 2022. Washington D.C.. Github
June Choe. Stepping into {ggplot2} internals with {ggtrace}. Talk at the 2022 useR! Conference, 20-23 June 2022. Vanderbilt University, TN. Diversity scholarship award. Github

Software

June Choe. (2024). jlmerclusterperm: Cluster-Based Permutation Analysis for Densely Sampled Time Data. R package version 1.1.3. CRAN Github
Rich Iannone, June Choe, and Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda. (2024). pointblank: Data Validation and Organization of Metadata for Local and Remote Tables. R package version 0.12.1. CRAN Github
Massimo Aria, Corrado Cuccurullo, Trang Le, and June Choe. (2024). openalexR: Getting Bibliographic Records from 'OpenAlex' Database Using 'DSL' API. R package version 1.4.0. CRAN Github
June Choe. (2024). jlme: Regression Modelling with 'GLM.jl' and 'MixedModels.jl' in 'Julia'. R package version 0.3.0. CRAN Github
Sean McWeeny, June Choe, and Elizabeth S. Norton. (2021). SnowGlobe: An Iterative Search Tool for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses [Computer Software]. OSF

Teaching

Positions held

Teaching assistant for “Introduction to Linguistics”. Instructor: Aletheia Cui. Spring 2024. University of Pennsylvania.

Teaching assistant for “Data science for language and the mind”. Instructor: Kathryn Schuler. Fall 2021, Spring, 2023, and Fall 2023. University of Pennsylvania.

Workshops led

Introduction to mixed-effects models in Julia. Workshop at Penn MindCORE. 1 December 2023. Philadelphia, PA. Github Colab notebook

Experimental syntax using IBEX/PCIBEX with Dr. Nayoun Kim. Workshop at the 2022 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics. 11-12 August 2022. Seoul, South Korea. PDF

Experimental syntax using IBEX: a walkthrough with Dr. Nayoun Kim. 2021 BK Winter School-Workshop on Experimental Linguistics/Syntax at Sungkyunkwan University, 19-22 January 2021. Seoul, South Korea. PDF

Guest lectures

Non-convergence and overparameterization in mixed-effects models: strategies in R and Julia. LING 5620 “Quantitative Study of Linguistic Variation”. Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga. Fall 2024. University of Pennsylvania. GitHub

Model extrapolation. LING 0700 / PSYC 2314. “Data Science for studying language and the mind”. Instructor: Dr. Kathryn Schuler. Fall 2024. University of Pennsylvania. Colab notebook

Hard words and (syntactic) bootstrapping. LING 5750 “The Acquisition of Meaning”. Instructor: Dr. Anna Papafragou. Spring 2024. University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction to R for psychology research. PSYC 4997 “Senior Honors Seminar in Psychology”. Instructor: Dr. Coren Apicella. Spring 2024. University of Pennsylvania. Colab notebook

Model fitting and diagnosis with MixedModels.jl in Julia. LING 5670 “Quantitative Study of Linguistic Variation”. Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga. Fall 2023. University of Pennsylvania. GitHub

Simulation-based power analysis for mixed-effects models. LING 5670 “Quantitative Study of Linguistic Variation”. Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga. Spring 2023. University of Pennsylvania.

Professional activities

Editor

Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL), Volume 30, Issue 1.

Reviewer

Cognition
Language Learning and Development
Journal of Open Source Software
Proceedings of Cognitive Science

Membership

Linguistics Society of America
American Statistical Association