Jiwon Hwang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2011

Topic Areas: Interlanguage phonology, second language acquisition, speech perception, speech accommodation, Korean phonetics/phonology

Office: 1128 Humanities

Email: jiwon.hwang@stonybrook.edu

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• Biography

   Jiwon Hwang is a lecturer in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University, where she teaches all levels of Korean language courses and Korean linguistics courses. Her research interests lie in phonetics, phonology and psycholinguistics, drawing data mainly from second language learners. The main goal of her research is to investigate characteristics of L2 speech, to understand the mechanisms underlying L2 production and perception, and to examine socio-cultural and cognitive factors associated with L2 learning.

• Courses Taught

  Elementary Korean I, II

  Intermediate Korean I, II

  Advanced Korean I, II

  Elementary Korean for Heritage Speakers

  Intermediate Korean for Heritage Speakers

  Structure of Korean

• Publications

  Peer-reviewed articles 

  Accepted The effect of distributional restrictions in speech perception: a case study from Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min. Language and Speech. [with Lu, Y.]

  2023 Differences between monolinguals and bilinguals in phonetic and phonological learning and the connection with auditory sensory memory.  Brain Sciences. 13(3), 488. [with Spinu, L. E. & Vasilita, M.]

  2022 Do L1 tone language speakers enjoy a perceptual advantage in processing English contrastive prosody? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 816-826. [with Takahashi, C., Baek, H., Yeung, A., & Broselow, E. ]

  2018 Is there a bilingual advantage in phonetic and phonological acquisition? The initial learning of word-final coronal stop realization in a novel accent of English. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(3), 350-370. [with Spinu, L. E., & Lohmann, R.]

  2016 The Korean prevocalic palatal glide: A comparison with the Russian glide and palatalization. Phonetica, 73, 85-100. [with Suh Y.]

  2015 Phonetic adaptation in non-native spoken dialogue: effects of priming and audience design. Journal of Memory and Language, 81, 72-90. [with Brennan, S. E., & Huffman, M. K.]

  2015 Phoneme substitution and positional asymmetry in second language learning. In Y. Hsiao and L-H. Wee (eds.) Capturing Phonological Shades within and across Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 414-433. [with Lu, Y. ]

  Conference papers

  2020 Exploring the use of an artificial accent of English to assess phonetic learning in monolingual and bilingual speakers. Proc. Interspeech 2020, 2377-2381. [with Spinu, L., Pincus, N., & Vasilita, M.]

  2020 Too little, too late: a longitudinal study of English corrective focus by Mandarin speakers. Proc Ling Soc Amer 5(1). 270-281. [with Yeung, A., Baek, H., Takahashi, C., Buttner, S., & Broselow, E.]

  2019 Pitch range, intensity, and vocal fry in non-native and native English focus intonation. Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 36(1), 060004. [with Yeung, A., Baek, H., Takahashi, C., Duncan, J., Benedett, S., & Broselow, E.]

  2018 Native and Non-native speaker processing and production of contrastive focus prosody. Proc Ling Soc Amer 3. 35:1-13. [with Takahashi, C., Kao, S., Baek, H., Yeung, A., & Broselow, E. ]

  2017 International teaching assistants' production of English focus marking. Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 26(1), 060006. doi: 10.1121/2.0000356 [with Kao, S., Baek, H., Takahashi, C., & Broselow, E.]

  2017 Illusory vowel in perception: The role of phonotactics and frequency. Proceedings of SICSS 2017. Seoul. [with Y. Lu]

  2015 The development of discourse competence by heritage learners of Korean. Proceedings of the 18th International Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE): Revisiting Curriculum Development in Teaching Korean as a Foreign/Second Language, 177-185. [with Jung, J.]

  2014 Phonotactic restrictions and phonological relationships in speech perception. In Susumu Kuno et al. (eds.) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XV. Hanshin Publishing Co. 149-159. [with Lu, Y. ]

  2012 Emergent Rankings in Foreign Word Adaptation. In N. Arnett and R. Bennet (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 30, 98-108. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [with Broselow, E., Huffman, M., Kao, S., & Lu, Y.]

  Language learner corpus

  2020 A Longitudinal Study of Language Adaptation at Multiple Timescales in Native- and Non-Native Speakers [Data Set]. https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/language-adaptation/ [with Baek, H., Brenna, S., Broselow, E., Charoy, J., He, A., Huffman, M., Kao, S., & Takahashi, C. ]