HWANG Hyun Kyung

Affiliation
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
Research fields
Linguistics
Research keywords
Phonetics
Phonology
Experimental Linguistics
Prosody-Grammar Interface
Language Acquisition
Research projects
The interface between prosody and syntactic/information structure in Japanese Korean2021-04 -- 2025-03Hyun Kyung HWANGJSPS/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)4,290,000Yen
疑問詞文のプロソディーに関する音声学・言語学の融合的・実証的研究2021-04 -- 2025-03Shinichi Tanaka/日本学術振興会/科研費 基盤研究(B)3,510,000Yen
Empirical and Theoretical Studies of Endangered Prosodic Systems of Japanese and the Construction of Prosody Database2019-04 -- 2024-03Haruo Kubozono/日本学術振興会/Scientific Research(A)44,590,000Yen
The interface between prosody and syntactic/information structure: A case study of Japanese downstep2019-04 -- 2024-03Manami HirayamaJapanese Society of for the Promotion of Science/Scientific Research(C)3,900,000Yen
Fricative acquisition by Japanese- and Korean-speaking infants2017-04 -- 2024-03Hyun 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 TsukubaAssociate Professor
2017-03 -- 2019-03RIKENLaboratory for Language DevelopmentResearch Scientist
2013-04 -- 2016-03National Institute for Japanese Language and LinguisticsProject Postdoctoral Fellow
2010-09 -- 2012-09National Institute for Japanese Language and LinguisticsJSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Academic background
2004-08 -- 2011-01Cornell University Graduate School Linguistics
2002-03 -- 2004-02Seoul National University Graduate School
1998-03 -- 2002-02Seoul National University
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
Honors & Awards
2002-02B.A. with honors, summa cum laude
Articles
  • Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants
    Nam Minji; Yamane Naoto; HWANG Hyun Kyung; Onsuwan Ch...
    Infant Behavior and Development/78, 2025-03
  • Acquisition of high vowel devoicing in Japanese: A production experiment with three and four year olds
    HWANG Hyun Kyung; Hirayama Manami
    Proceedings of Interspeech 2024/pp.4180-4183, 2024-09
  • Acquisition of high vowel devoicing in Japanese: A production experiment with three and four year olds
    HWANG Hyun Kyung; Hirayama Manami
    Proceedings of Interspeech 2024/pp.4180-4183, 2024-9
  • OCP and downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Kato Takaomi
    Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation, 6-9, 2023-11
  • Input distribution of Korean affricates in the context of a diachronic sound change: comparison between IDS and ADS
    Nam Minji; Choi Youngon; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Reiko Mazuka
    Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, 2023-08
  • A new local indicator of spatial autocorrelation identifies clusters of high rendaku frequency in Japanese place names
    Pellard Thomas; Takemura Akiko; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Vanc...
    Journal of Linguistic Geography/11(1)/pp.1-7, 2023-04
  • Perceived prominence and downstep in Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Hirayama Manami; Kato Takaomi
    Proceedings of Interspeech 2022/pp.1318-1321, 2022-09
  • A corpus-based investigation on the distribution of pronominal objects in Russian
    Kim Bora; Kitagawa Yoshihisa; Hsu Yu-yin; Hwang Hyun Kyu...
    The Journal of Linguistic Science/101/pp.1-22, 2022-06
  • Lexical Category and Downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Kato Takaomi
    Languages/7(1), 2022-01
  • Downstep in Japanese Revisited : Morphology Matters
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Hirayama Manami
    NINJAL Research Papers/(21)/pp.15-23, 2021-07
  • Epistemic bias interacts with prosodic pattern in South Gyeongsang Korean
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics/26/pp.33-41, 2020-07
  • 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 Na...
    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
  • 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 ...
    Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies/50/pp.79-89, 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 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
  • The phonetic realization of tonal contrast in Dränjongke
    Lee Seunghun; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Monou Tomoko; Kawahara S...
    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
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Books
  • Korean Verb-Verb Sequences
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Whitman John
    Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages/pp.193-220, 2021
  • Where post-lexical prosody meets lexical prosody: Tonal clash and contour modification strategies in Tokyo Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Matsui Mayuki
    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.
  • Acquisition of high vowel devoicing in Japanese: A production experiment with three and four year olds
    HWANG Hyun Kyung; Hirayama Manami
    Interspeech 2024/2024-09-01--2024-09-05
  • OCP and downstep in Japanese
    Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Kato Takaomi
    The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation/2023-11-18--2023-11-20
  • Input distribution of Korean affricates in the context of a diachronic sound change: comparison between IDS and ADS
    Nam Minji; Choi Youngon; Hwang Hyun Kyung; Reiko Mazuka
    ICPhS 2023/2023-08
  • Perceived prominence and downstep in Japanese
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; Hirayama Manami; Kato Takaomi
    Interspeech 2022/2022-09
  • Ordering of attributive modifiers and downstep in Japanese
    Kato Takaomi; Hirayama Manami; Hwang Hyun Kyung
    Phonology Festa 17/2022-03-07--2022-03-08
  • Production and Perception of Japanese Downstep
    Hwang Hyun Kyung; 平山 真奈美; 加藤 孝臣
    第九回 「対照言語学の観点から見た日本語の音声と文法」オンライン研究発表会/2020-12-11--2020-12-11
  • Japanese-learning infants' discrimination of Japanese and Thai stop contrasts
    Hwang Hyun Kyung
    The International Congress of Infant Studies 2020/2020
  • Perception of Korean affricate contrast by native infants
    Nam Minji; Choi Youngon; Kim Jisoo; Jung Sunho; Beom Jim...
    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 Jut...
    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 ...
    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 Na...
    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 Na...
    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
2024-04 -- 2024-09Directed Studies for Thesis on General Linguistics-aUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07Experimental PhoneticsUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07Project Seminar (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Introduction to Phonetics-bUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Research Laboratory Practice (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Practice (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Seminar (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07Research Laboratory Seminar (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Practice (2B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Seminar (2B)University of Tsukuba.
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Other educational activities
2022-08 -- 2022-08大学説明会研究室ツアー人文学類
2020-04 -- 2024-03学生・学務委員（クラス担任）人文学類
University Management
2023-04 -- 2024-03人文社会科学研究群 人文学学位プログラム 言語学サブプログラム運営委員
2023-04 -- 2024-03教育課程委員会委員
2022-04 -- 2023-03人文社会科学研究群 人文学学位プログラム 言語学サブプログラム運営委員
2022-04 -- 2023-03人文学類就職支援委員会委員
Other activities
2023-11 -- 2023-12Peer reviewer, Language Research
2022-04 -- 2022-06Peer reviewer, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
2021-06 -- 2021-08Peer reviewer, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
2020-08 -- 2020-09Peer-reviewer, Phonetics and Speech Sciences

(Last updated: 2024-12-11)