2025

• Agmon, Galit,* Cho, Sunghye,* Sharon Ash,  Katheryn A. Q. Cousins, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Leslie M. Shaw, Sameer Pradhan, Yoon Duk Kim, Mark Liberman, David J. Irwin,  Naomi Nevler. Automatic quantification of syntatic complexity in natural spontaneous speech of people with primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology.

2024

• Cho, Sunghye, Christopher Olm, Sharon Ash, Sanjana Shellikeri, Galit Agmon, Katheryn A. Q. Cousins, David J. Irwin, Murray Grossman, Mark Liberman, Naomi Nevler. Automatic classification of AD pathology in FTD phenotypes using natural speech. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20(5), 3416-3428. [open access] 

• Nevler, Naomi, Sunghye Cho, Katheryn AQ Coustics, Sharon Ash, Christopher Olm, Sanjana Shellikeri, Galit Agmon, Carmen Gonzalez-Recober, Sharon Xie, Megan Barker, Masood Manoochehri, Corey McMillan, David Irwin, Lauren Massimo, Laynie Dratch, Gayathri Cheran, Edward Huey, Stephanie Cosentino, Vivianna M Van Deerlin, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman. Changes in digital speech measures in asymptomatic carriers of pathogenic variants associated with Frontotemporal degeneration. Neurology 102(2), e207926. [link]  

• Agmon, Galit, Sameer Pradhan, Sharon Ash, Naomi Nevler, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, Sunghye Cho. Automated measures of syntactic complexity in natural speech production: Older and younger adults as a case study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 67(2), 545-561. [link] [preprint] 

• Kim, Jin-seo, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Sunghye Cho. KoFREN: Comprehensive Korean word frequency norms derived from large scale free speech corpora. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 9926-9931. [link] 

• Choi, Anna Seo Gyeong, Jin-seo Kim, Seo-hee Kim, Min Seok Baek, Sunghye Cho. Crosslinguistic acoustic feature-based dementia classification using advanced learning architectures. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments @LREC-COLING 2024, 95-100. [link] 

• Soleimani, Laili, Yuxia Ouyang, Sunghye Cho, Arash Kia, Michal Schnaider Beeri, Hung-Mo Lin, Ramit Ravona-Springer, Nadia Ramsingh, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, Naomi Nevler. Speech markers of depression dimensions across cognitive status. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 16(3), e12604. [link] 

• Yu, Xiaohua, Sunghye Cho, Yong-cheol Lee. Yanbian Korean speakers tend to merge /e/ and /ɛ/ when exposed to Seoul Korean. Speech Communication 164, 103111. [link] 

2023

• Cho, Sunghye, Meredith Cola, Azia Knox, Maggie Rose Pelella, Alison Russell, Aili Hauptmann, Maxine Covello, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Robert T. Schultz, Julia Parish-Morris. Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of autistic children's natural conversations. Molecular Autism 14, 13. [open access] 

• Gonzalez-Recober, Carmen, Naomi Nevler, Sanjana Shellikeri, Katheryn A. Q. Cousins, Emma Rhodes, Mark Yoffe Liberman, Murray Grossman, David J. Irwin, Sunghye Cho. Comparison of Category and Letter Fluency Tasks Through Automated Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology 14, 1212793. [open access]  

• Shellikeri, Sanjana, Sunghye Cho, Sharon Ash, Carmen Gonzalez-Recober, Corey T. Mcmillan, Lauren Elman, Colin Quinn, Defne A. Amando, Michael Baer, David J. Irwin, Lauren Massimo, Christopher A. Olm, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, Naomi Nevler. Digital markers of motor-speech impairments in spontaneous speech of patients with ALS-FTD spectrum disorders. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. [link]  

• Yang, Yahan, Sunghye Cho, Maxine Covello, Azia Knox, Osbert Bastani, James Weimer, Edgar Dobriban, Robert T. Schultz, Insup Lee, Julia Parish-Morris. Automatically Predicting Perceived Conversation Quality in a Pediatric Sample Enriched for Autism. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023, 4603-4607. [open access] 

• Tang, Sunny,  Katrin Hansel,  Yan Cong, Amir Hossein Nikzad, Aarush Mehta, Sunghye Cho, Sarah Berretta, Leily Behbehani, Majnu John, Mark Y. Liberman. Latent Factors of Language Disturbance and Relationships to Quantitative Speech Features. Schizophrenia Bulletin 49(S2),  S93-S103. [link] [preprint] 

2022

• Cho, Sunghye, Katheryn A. Q. Cousins, Sanjana Shellikeri, Sharon Ash, David J. Irwin, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, and Naomi Nevler. Lexical and acoustic speech features relating to Alzheimer's disease pathology. Neurology 99(4), e313-e322. [link]  [free access via PMC] 

• Shellikeri, Sanjana, Sunghye Cho, Katheryn A.Q. Cousins, Mark Liberman, Erica Howard, Yvonne Balganorth, Daniel Weintraub, Meredith Spindler, Andres Deik, Edward B. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, David Irwin, David Wolk, Murray Grossman, and Naomi Nevler. Natural speech markers of Alzheimer's disease co-pathology in Lewy Body disorders. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 102, 94-100. [link] 

• Yu, Xiaohua, Sunghye Cho, and Yong-cheol Lee. Individual variability in the production of /e/ and /ɛ/ in Yanbain Korean. Studies in Linguistics 65, 1-19. 

• Cho, Sunghye, Riccardo Fusaroli, Maggie Rose Pelella, Kimberly Tena, Azia Knox, Aili Hauptmann, Maxine Covello, Alison Russell, Judith Miller, Alison Hulink, Jennifer Uzokwe, Kevin Walker, James Fiumara, Juhi Pandey, Christopher Chatham, Christopher Cieri, Robert Schultz, Mark Liberman, and Julia Parish-morris. Identifying stable speech-language markers of autism in children: Preliminary evidence from a longitudinal telephony-based study. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, pages 40–46, Seattle, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. [open access] 

• Cieri, Christopher, Mark Liberman, Sunghye Cho, Stephanie Strassel, James Fiumara, Jonathan Wright. Reflections on 30 years of language resource development and sharing. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2022, 543-550. [open access] 

• Tang, Sunny X., Yan Cong, Amir Hossein Nikzad, Aarush Mehta, Sunghye Cho, Katrin Hansel, Sarah Berretta, John M. Kane, Anil K. Malhotra. Clinical and computational speech measures are associated with social cognition in schizophreani spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Research. [preprint]  [link] 

• Nikzad, Amir K., Yan Cong, Sarah Berretta, Katrin Hansel, Sunghye Cho, Sameer Pradhan, Leily Behbehani, Danielle DeSouza, Mark Y. Liberman, Sunny X. Tang. Who does what to whom? Graph representations of action-predication in speech relate to psychopathological dimensions of psychosis.  Schizophrenia 8, 58. [open access] 

• Cho, Sunghye, Galit Agmon, Sanjana Shellikeri, Katheryn Cousins, Sharon Ash, David Irwin, Meredith Spindler, Andres Deik Acosta Madiedo, Lauren Elman, Colin Quinn, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, Naomi Nevler. Prosodic characteristics of prepausal words produced by patients with neurodegenerative disease. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 120-124. [open access] 

• Krell, Rony*, Tang, Wenqing*, Katrin Hänsel, Michael Sobolev, Sunghye Cho, Sarah Berretta, Sunny X. Tang. Lexical and acoustic correlates of clinical speech disturbance in Schizophrenia. In Shaban-Nejad A., Michalowski M., Bianco S. (eds), AI for Disease Surveillance and Pandemic Intelligence. W3PHAI 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 1013. Springer, Cham. [link] 

2021

• Lee, Yong-cheol and Sunghye Cho. The merger of /e/ and /ɛ/ in Seoul Korean tracing speakers born from the 1930s to the 1960s. Studies in Linguistics 61, 1-16. [link] 

• Cho, Sunghye, Naomi Nevler, Natalia Parjane, Christopher Cieri, Mark Y. Liberman, Murray Grossman, Katheryn A. Q. Cousins. (2021). Automated analysis of digitized letter fluency data. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 654214. [open access]  

• Parjane, Natalia, Sunghye Cho, Sharon Ash, Katheryn A. Q. Cousins, Sanjana Shellikeri, Mark Liberman, Leslie M. Shaw, David J. Irwin, Murray Grossman, and Naomi Nevler. (2021). Digital speech analysis in progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndromes. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 82(1), 33-45. [link] [free access via PMC] 

• Tang, Sunny*, Kriz, Reno*, Cho, Sunghye*, Suh Jung Park, Jenna Harowitz, Raquel E. Gur, Mahendra T. Bhati, Daniel H. Wolf, João Sedoc, and Mark Y. Liberman. (2021). Natural language processing methods are sensitive to sub-clinical linguistic differences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. NPJ Schizophrenia 7, 25. [open access] 

• Cho, Sunghye*, Nevler, Naomi*, Sanjana Shellikeri, Natalia Parjane, David J. Irwin, Neville Ryant, Sharon Ash, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, and Murray Grossman. (2021). Lexical and acoustic characteristics of young and older healthy adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 64(2), 302-314. [link] [free access via PMC] 

• Cho, Sunghye, Naomi Nevler, Sharon Ash, Sanjana Shellikeri, David J. Irwin, Lauren Massimo, Katya Rascovsky, Christopher Olm, Murray Grossman, and Mark Liberman. (2021). Automated analysis of lexical features in Frontotemporal Degeneration. Cortex 137, 215-231. [link]  [free access via PMC] 

  2020 

• Cho, Sunghye, Naomi Nevler, Sanjana Shellikeri, Sharon Ash, Mark Liberman, and Murray Grossman. (2020). Automatic classification of primary progressive aphasia patients using lexical and acoustic features. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020 workshop on Resources and Processing of Linguistic, Para-linguistic and Extra-linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric/Developmental Impairments (RaPID-3), 60-65. [open access] 

• Nevler, Naomi, Sharon Ash, Corey T. McMillan, Lauren Elman, Leo McCluskey, David J Irwin, Sunghye Cho, Mark Y Liberman, and Murray Grossman. (2020). Automated analysis of natural speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum disorder. Neurology 95(12), e1629 - e1639. [link] [free access via PMC] 

• Lee, Yong-cheol and Sunghye Cho. (2020). Focus prosody varies by phrase-Initial tones in Seoul Korean: Production, perception, and automatic classification. Languages 5(4), 64. [open access]

  2019

• Lee, Yong-cheol, Dongyoung Kim, and Sunghye Cho. (2019). The effect of prosodic focus varies by phrasal tones: The case of South Kyungsang Korean. Linguistics Vanguard 5(1), 20190010. [link]

• Cho, Sunghye, Mark Liberman, Neville Ryant, Meredith Cola, Robert T. Schultz, and Julia Parish-Morris. (2019). Automatic detection of ASD in children using acoustic and text features from brief natural conversations. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2019, 2513 - 2517. [open access]

• Cho, Sunghye, Mark Liberman, and Yong-cheol Lee. (2019). Automatic detection of prosodic focus in American English. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2019, 3470 - 3474. [open access]

• Lee, Yong-cheol, Satoshi Nambu, and Sunghye Cho. (2019). Dataset of focus prosody in Japanese phone numbers. Data in Brief 25. 104139. [open access]

  2018

• Cho, Sunghye and Yong-cheol Lee. (2018). Perceptual evaluation of tonal patterns in Seoul Korean. Lingua Humanitatis (인문언어) 20(2), 331-348. 

• Cho, Sunghye. (2018). The production and perception of High-toned [il] by young speakers of Seoul Korean. Linguistic Research 35(3), 533-565. [open access]

• Lee, Yong-cheol, Satoshi Nambu, and Sunghye Cho. (2018). Focus prosody of telephone numbers in Tokyo Japanese. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 143(5), EL340--346. [open access]

• Cho, Sunghye and Yong-cheol Lee. (2018). Tone and metrical structure in Seoul Korean. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. Cambridge: MITWPL. [link]

  2017

• Cho, Sunghye. (2017). Text alignment in Japanese children’s songs. In University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 23.1, 31–37, (Eds.) Djärv, Kajsa and Amy Goodwin Davies. [open access]

  2016

• Cho, Sunghye and Yong-cheol Lee. (2016). The effect of the consonant-induced pitch on Seoul Korean Intonation. Linguistic Research 33(2), 299-317. [open access]

• Cho, Sunghye. (2016). Tonal patterns and extrametricality of Japanese 2-pattern accent system. In Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology 2014, (Eds.) Albright, Adam and Michelle A. Fullwood. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. 

• Cho, Sunghye. (2016). The /i/ deletion rule and phonologically conditioned allomorphy in Korean cases. In University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) 22. 1: Proceedings of the 39th Penn Linguistics Conference, 81-90, (Ed.) Sunghye Cho. [open access]

  Work in progress

• Cho, Sunghye, Yong-cheol Lee, and Mark Liberman. Diachronic development of pitch contrast in Seoul Korean: A corpus study. (in preparation)

• Cho, Sunghye. Text-tune alignment in Japanese children's songs. (in preparation)

• Cho, Sunghye, ... and others at CAR and LDC. Girls with ASD behave differently during natural conversations. (in preparation)

  Theses

• Cho, Sunghye. (2017). Development of pitch contrast and Seoul Korean intonation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. [link] 

• My dissertation project explores how a tonogenetic sound change affects the intonation system of Seoul Korean. I investigate this question in depth by conducting a production experiment and analyzing two speech corpora.

• Cho, Sunghye. (2011). Dialectal variations of English and their effects on the production and perception of second language learners. MA thesis, Ewha Womans University. 

*For papers, abstracts, or posters that are not accessible here, please email me to csunghye@ldc.upenn.edu.