HYUNJUNG LEE
Department
of English Education, Kyungnam University,
Kyungnam Daehak-ro 7, Masan-Happo-gu, Changwon-city
Kyungsang-nam-do (631-701), Korea
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
March 2015 Assistant Professor
– Present Department of English Education, Kyungnam University, Changwon, South Korea
– Present Department of English Education, Kyungnam University, Changwon, South Korea
March 2014 Lecturer
– March 2015 Department
of English, Hankyong
National University, Ansung, South Korea
March 2013 Postdoctoral
fellow
– February
2014
Phonology
Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago
Sep 2009 Graduate Research Assistant
– March 2013 University
of Kansas Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (KUPPL),
Linguistics
Department, University
of Kansas, Lawrence
EDUCATION
2013
Ph.D., Linguistics (with honors), University of
Kansas
Areas
of study: phonetics, phonology, socio-phonetics and psycholinguistics
Dissertation: Evidence of diachronic
sound change: A comparative acoustic study of Seoul and Kyungsang Korean
[Committee: Allard Jongman (chair),
Joan Sereno, Jie Zhang, Alison Gabriele, Carlos Nash (external member)]
2010 M.A., Linguistics, University of Kansas
[Advisor:
Dr. Allard Jongman, Thesis: An
acoustic and aerodynamic study of stops in tonal and non-tonal dialects of Korean]
2005 B.A., English, Hankyong
National University, South Korea
PUBLICATIONS
Lee, H (2016) Consistent sound change between stops and affricates in Seoul Korean within and across individuals: A diachronic investigation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, EL491-496.
Lee, H (2016) Word-specific effects on sound change of the lexical pitch accent in Kyungsang Korean, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(5), EL385-391.
Lee, H, Zhang, J & Jongman, A (2016). Variation and diachronic change in the nominal pitch accent system of South Kyungsang Korean. Phonology 33, 325-351.
Lee, H & Jongman, A (2016). A diachronic investigation of the vowels and fricatives in Korean: An acoustic comparison of the Seoul and South Kyungsang dialects, Journal of the international phonetic association. 46(2), 157-184.
Alan C. L. Yu & Lee, H. (2014). The stability of perceptual compensation for coarticulation within and across individuals: A cross-validation study. J Acoust Soc Am. 136(1):382-8.
Lee, H. (2014). Effect of attention on L2 speech perception: Perception of the Korean three-way stop contrast by English learners. Journal of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences, 6(4), 47-52.
Sereno. J & Lee, H. (2014). The contribution of segmental and tonal information in Mandarin spoken word processing. Language & Speech.
Lee. H & Zhang. J (2014). The nominal pitch accent
system of South Kyungsang Korean. Journal
of East Asian Linguistics. 23(1). 71-111.
Lee. H, Politzer-Ahles. S & Jongman. A (2013). Speakers
of tonal and non-tonal Korean dialects use different cue weightings in the
perception of the three-way laryngeal stop contrast. Journal of Phonetics 41(2), 117‒132.
Lee. H & Jongman. A (2012). Effects of tone on the
three-way laryngeal distinction in Korean: An acoustic and aerodynamic comparison of the Seoul and South
Kyungsang dialects. Journal of the International
Phonetic Association 42 (2), 145‒169.
Lee, H & Jongman,
A. (in preparation).
Acoustic cue weighting in consonant distinction is changing
as a result of diachronic sound change.
Sereno. J & Lee. H.
(in preparation). Temporal change in Mandarin tone
due to speaking rate variation.
Peer Review
Reviewer for Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Reviewer for
Journal of Phonetics.
SCHOLARSHIPS
& AWARDS
Fall 2014 – Spring 2015 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Basic Research Program ($12,000)
Fall 2014 – Spring 2015 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Basic Research Program ($12,000)
Fall 2012 – Spring 2013 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Kansas ($16,000)
Fall
2011 Best Student Paper
Award at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America (San Diego,
California) ($200)
Summer
2011 Doctoral Student Research Fund,
University of Kansas ($2,000)
Fall
2010 – Spring 2011 `Frances
Ingemann Linguistics
Scholarship Award ($2,500)
Spring 2010 Conference Travel Fund,
University of Kansas ($400)
Spring
2003 – Fall 2004 `Merit-based
Scholarship, Hankyong
National University
INVITED TALKS
Lee. H. Effect of
attention on L2 speech perception: Perception of the Korean three-way stop
contrast by English learners, Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation, University of Chicago,
Chicago, February 14, 2014.
Lee. H. Evidence
for sound change in the prosody of Kyungsang Korean. Colloquia
series, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, September
27,
2013.
Lee.
H.
Evidence of sound change in the phonetics
and phonology of lexical pitch accent in Kyungsang Korean: How does a prestigious national standard
language affect dialect re-formation? Linguistics
Colloquy series, University of Kansas, November 8, 2012.
Lee.
H.
An acoustic and aerodynamic study of
stops in tonal and non-tonal dialects of Korean Linguistics
Colloquy series, University of Kansas, October, 2009.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Summer 2013
Acoustic evidence for sound change
in the lexical pitch accent of Kyungsang Korean, 2013 Annual Meeting of Harvard
International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (2013 Harvard ISOKL) (single author,
August 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Spring 2013 Evidence
for sound change in Kyungsang Korean: The case of stop consonants 2013 Annual
Meeting of Midwest Speech and Language Days (single author, May 2013, Chicago, Illinois)
Spring 2013
Evidence of sound change in the phonology of lexical pitch accent in
Kyungsang Korean, 2013 Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (first author, January 2013, Boston, Massachusetts)
Fall 2012 Speakers of tonal and non-tonal Korean
dialects use different cue weightings in the perception of
the three-way laryngeal stop contrast, 164th Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America (first author, October 2012, Kansas City, Missouri)
Fall 2012
Lexical tone
in Mandarin spoken word processing, 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (second author, October
2012, Kansas City, Missouri)
Fall 2011 Perception of initial stops in tonal and
non-tonal Korean, 162nd
Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America (first author, November 2011, San
Diego, California)
Fall 2011
Perceptual
accommodation to rate, talker, and context in Mandarin, 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (second author, November 2011, San
Diego, California)
Spring 2011 Perception
of initial stops in tonal and non-tonal Korean, Graduate Research
Competition hosted by the University of Kansas
(Lawrence, Kansas)
Spring 2010 Effect of tone on the
three-way laryngeal distinction in Korean, 159th
Meeting of
the Acoustical Society of America
(first author, April 2010, Baltimore, Maryland)
Spring 2010 Temporal change in Mandarin tone due to speaking rate
variation, 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
(second author, April 2010, Baltimore, Maryland)
Fall 2009 An
acoustic and aerodynamic study
of stops in tonal and non-tonal dialects of Korean, Mid America Linguistics
Conference (October 2009, Columbia, Missouri)
Fall 2009
An acoustic and aerodynamic study of stops in tonal and non-tonal dialects
of Korean, Linguistics Colloquy,
University of Kansas (October 2009, Lawrence,
Kansas)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & ORGANIZATIONS
Experimental tools: Expert in Praat (scripting),
MultiSpeech (software for speech analysis)
Paradigm,
E-Prime (software for perception experiments),
SPSS,
R (software for statistical analysis)
MacQuirer
X16 system (aerodynamic data analysis tool)
`Basic
familiarity with MATLAB, VoiceSauce
Languages: Korean
(native), English (fluent)
Organizations:
member, Acoustical Society of America
` member, Linguistic Society of America
MS Office, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
