Academic Journey

I received a doctoral degree at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Under the supervision of Professor Katie Drager, I completed my dissertation, Socially-conditioned links between words and phonetic realizations, which examines how word recognition is influenced by age-related covariance between lexical items and phonetic forms, and how socially indexed acoustic properties encountered over the course of a lifetime are stored and represented at the lexical level.

My academic lineage is illustrated in the figure below. My research has been particularly influenced by Professors Jen Hay, Katie Drager, and Abby Walker, all of whom appear in an expanded Linguistree centered on Jen Hay.

I worked as Research Assistant Professor at the Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS).

Under the supervision of Professors Taehong Cho (PI) and Sahyang Kim, my postdoctoral research explored the articulatory aspect of phonetic grammar, focusing on how low-level kinematic processes are modulated by higher-level cognitive and prosodic functions. Using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), our research team examined temporal adjustment and articulatory strengthening patterns of gestural movements at different levels of rhythmic junctures (see Kim, Kim, & Cho, 2024).

At Pusan National University, I am focusing on sociophonetics, speech perception, L2 phonology, and AI speech processing, while also teaching and mentoring students in linguistics and related fields.