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Hwang Hyun Kyung

Affiliation
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
URL
Research fields
Linguistics
Research keywords
Phonetics
Phonology
Experimental Linguistics
Prosody-Grammar Interface
Language Acquisition
Research projects
The interface between prosody and syntactic/information structure: A case study of Japanese downstep2019-04 -- 2023-03Manami HirayamaJapanese Society of for the Promotion of Science/Scientific Research(C)
Fricative acquisition by Japanese- and Korean-speaking infants2017-04 -- 2021-03Hyun Kyung HwangJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)3,510,000Yen
Typology of information structure in Southeast Asian languages2017-04 -- 2021-03Makoto MinegishiJapanese Society of for the Promotion of Science/Scientific Research(B)
Semantic, syntactic, and prosodic characteristics of negative questions in Japanese2015-04 -- 2018-03Yoshikazu OshimaJapanese Society of for the Promotion of Science/Scientific Research (C)
A cross-dialectal study of semantic structure and prosodic effect on Korean Sais-Sori2014-04 -- 2017-03Hyun Kyung HwangJapanese Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)2,470,000Yen
Scope, information structure, and prosody of Nominative/Accusative Objects: An empirical study2014-04 -- 2017-03Masashi NomuraJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Challenging Exploratory Research
Focus and Intonation: A Contrastive Study of Japanese and Korean2010-10 -- 2012-09Haruo KubozonoJapanese Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows2,400,000Yen
Career history
2019-04 -- (current)University of Tsukuba Associate Professor
2017-03 -- 2019-03RIKEN Laboratory for Language Development Research Scientist
2013-04 -- 2016-03National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Project Postdoctoral Fellow
2010-09 -- 2012-09National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Academic background
2004-08 -- 2011-01Cornell University Graduate School LinguisticsCompleted
2002-03 -- 2004-02Seoul National University Graduate SchoolCompleted
1998-03 -- 2002-02Seoul National UniversityGraduated
Degree
2011-01Ph.DCornell University
2004-02MASeoul National University
Academic societies
2020-04 -- (current)The Phonological Society of Japan
2020-04 -- (current)PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
2020-04 -- (current)THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
2020-01 -- (current)International Speech Communication Association
2020-01 -- (current)Acoustical Society of America
Honors & Awards
2002-02B.A. with honors, summa cum laude
Refereed academic journal/Refereed international conference paper
  • Epistemic bias interacts with prosodic pattern in South Gyeongsang Korean
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics/26/pp.33-41, 2020-07
  • Epistemic bias interacts with prosodic pattern in South Gyeongsang Korean
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics/26, 2020
  • Lexical category in downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Kato Takaomi
    Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2019
  • Shift of voice onset time and enhancement in Japanese infant-directed speech
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Mazuka Reiko
    Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.3255-3259, 2019
  • Stability of acoustic cues of the three-way voicing contrast in Thai mothers’ stop production
    Onsuwan Chutamanee; Duangmal Juthatip; Chonmahatrakul Naw...
    Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.3265-3269, 2019
  • Korean mothers’ production of laryngeal stops to their infants as compared with adults in the context of tonogenesis
    Choi Youngon; Nam Minji; Reiko Mazuka; Hwang Hyun Kyung; ...
    Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.3260-3264, 2019
  • Laryngeal contrast and tone in Tamang: A preliminary study
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Lee Seunghun; Gerber Pascal; Grollmann ...
    Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan/23(1)/pp.41-50, 2019
  • Persian non-high vowel perception by Korean speakers and its education
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Kwak Sae-Ra; Lee Young-Lim
    Journal of Middle Eastern Affairs/18(1)/pp.141-157, 2018
  • The phonetic realization of tonal contrast in Dränjongke
    Lee Seunghun; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Monou Tomoko; Kawahara Sh...
    Proceedings of Tonal Aspects of Languages/pp.217-221, 2018
  • On the Replicability of Pitch patterns in “Reiterant Speech”: A Complementary Study to Warner (1997)
    Matsui Mayuki; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    NINJAL Research Papers/14/pp.89-97, 2018
  • Biased questions in South Kyeongsang Korean: A preliminary study
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Journal of Asian and African Studies/94/pp.277-289, 2017
  • Not all XPs affect prosody in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS)/46/pp.95-104, 2016
  • Prosodic Focus and Nominative/Accusative Alternation in Japanese
    Nambu Satoshi; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics/23, 2016
  • The role of pre-focus compression in Tokyo Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Phonological Studies/19/pp.117-124, 2016-03
  • Overriding syntactic islands with prosodically marked wh-scope in South Kyŏngsang Korean and two dialects of Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Korean linguistics/17(1)/pp.33-77, 2015
  • Correlation between prosody and epistemic bias of negative polar interrogatives in Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Ito Satoshi
    Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody/pp.925-928, 2014-05
  • Distinct types of focus and wh-question intonation
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.922-925, 2011-08
  • The Interaction of Accent and wh-question intonation in Korean and Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Language Research/47(1)/pp.45-70, 2011-06
  • The Role of Prosody and Pragmatics on Wh-scope Assignment in Korean and Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society/45(1)/pp.255-269, 2009-01
  • Intonation Patterns of Wh-interrogatives in South Kyungsang Korean and Fukuoka Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea/45/pp.39-59, 2006-08
  • Spectral Characteristics of Frication Noise in Korean Sibilants
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Journal of the Korean Society of Phonetics Science and Speech Technology/49/pp.31-50, 2004-03
Other articles
  • Relative clause and downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Supplementary Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, 2019
  • Rendaku in place names across Japanese dialects
    Takemura Akiko; Pellard Thomas; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Vance T...
    Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies/50/pp.79-89, 2019
  • The perception of tonal clash in interrogative melodies of Tokyo Japanese: A cross-linguistic perspective
    Matsui Mayuki; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics/25/pp.215-288, 2018
  • Asymmetries between production, perception and comprehension of focus types in Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody/pp.641-644, 2012-05
Books
  • Where post-lexical prosody meets lexical prosody: Tonal clash and contour modification strategies in Tokyo Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Phonetics and Phonology in Action, pp.233-252, 2019
  • The role of perceived similarity and contrast: English loanwords into Korean and Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in Honor of John B. Whitman, pp.331-341, 2018
  • Focus and prosody in Tagalog
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Nagaya Naonori
    Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, Language Science Press, pp.375-388, 2018
  • Scope, Prosody and Pitch Accent: the Prosodic Marking of Wh-Scope in Two Varieties of Japanese and South Kyeongsang Korean
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    2011-01
  • Wh-intonation and Information Structure in South Kyeongsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Information Structure: Contrasts and Positions, , Cambridge University Press, pp.48-71, 2012-07
Conference, etc.
  • Perception of Korean affricate contrast by native infants
    Nam Minji; Choi Youngon; Kim Jisoo; Jung Sunho; Beom Jimi...
    The International Congress of Infant Studies 2020/2020-07
  • Discrimination of /p/-/ph/ stop contrast in early speech perception of Thai infants
    Onsuwan Chutamanee; Chonmahatrakul Nawasri; Duangmal Juth...
    The International Congress of Infant Studies 2020/2020-07
  • Discrimination of native and non-native three-way stops by Korean infants
    Choi Youngon; Nam Minji; Kim Sujin; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Maz...
    The International Congress of Infant Studies 2020/2020-07
  • Laryngeal contrast and tone in Tamang: A preliminary study
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Lee Seunghun; Grollmann Selin; Gerber P...
    The 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2018-09
  • Acoustic analysis of lexical tones in Thai infant-directed speech
    Onsuwan Chutamanee; Duangmal Juthatip; Chonmahatrakul Naw...
    Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation/2018-10
  • Relative clause and downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Annual Meeting on Phonology 2018/2018-10
  • Enhancement of stop contrast or emergence of new targets?: Implications on Language development in Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Mazuka Reiko; Mieko Takada
    Boston University Conference on Language Development/2018-11
  • Epistemic bias interacts with prosodic pattern in South Gyeongsang Korean
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference/2018-12
  • Development of speech perception in Korean infants: discriminating unusual sound contrasts with diachronic change
    Choi Youngon; Nam Minji; Mazuka Reiko; Hwang Hyun Kyung; ...
    Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019/2019-05
  • Acoustic characteristics of motherese and early perceptual development: A case study of Japanese stops
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Mieko Takada; Mazuka Reiko
    Symposium on Learning Sounds of Asian Languages/2019-07
  • Korean mothers’ production of laryngeal stops to their infants as compared with adults in the context of tonogenesis
    Choi Youngon; Nam Minji; Mazuka Reiko; Hwang Hyun Kyung; ...
    International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019/2019-08
  • Stability of acoustic cues of the three-way voicing contrast in Thai mothers’ stop production
    Onsuwan Chutamanee; Duangmal Juthatip; Chonmahatrakul Naw...
    International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019/2019-08
  • Shift of voice onset time and enhancement in Japanese infant-directed speech
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Mazuka Reiko
    International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019/2019-08
  • Lexical category in downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Kato Takaomi
    International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019/2019-08
  • Learning the laryngeal contrast in Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Mazuka Reiko
    The 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Satellite and the 1st NINJAL_SNU Joint Workshop/2019-10-17
  • Cue weighting in the perception of Tagalog stress,
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Nagaya Naonori; Villegas Julian
    The 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/2019-12-05
Teaching
2020-10 -- 2020-12Introduction to Linguistic AnalysisUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-04 -- 2020-08English Presentation IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-04 -- 2020-07Introduction to PhoneticsUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-04 -- 2020-05Invitation to Arts and ScienceUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-10 -- 2021-02Graduation Thesis (General Linguistics)University of Tsukuba.
2020-04 -- 2020-08Graduation Thesis (General Linguistics)University of Tsukuba.
2020-04 -- 2020-07Experimental PhoneticsUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-10 -- 2020-12Introduction to Phonetics-bUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-05 -- 2020-07Freshmen SeminarUniversity of Tsukuba.
2020-10 -- 2021-02English Presentation IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
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(Last updated: 2020-08-20)