Hae-Sung Jeon 전혜성

I'm a phonetician and Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies at School of Language and Global Studies, the University of Central Lancashire.

Research interests: the production and perception of speech prosody; pitch perception across the lifespan; hearing sensitivity and speech perception; linguistic variation and change; Korean linguistics

Google Scholar link

Blog on Korean Linguistics link

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7536-5571

Current Collaborations

Acoustic studies on sound change in Korean fricatives with Charles Chang (Boston University, USA)
Pitch perception in linguistic and non-linguistic context with Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge) and Antje Heinrich (Unitersity of Manchester), funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust
Prosody and attention with John Everett March (University of Central Lancashire)
Interpreting prosody in a second language: an experimental study of cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Korean prosody with Heather Marsden (University of York), Kook-Hee Gil (University of Sheffield), Sunyoung Park (Sejong University) and Sam Hellmuth (University of York)
Intercultural pragmatics with Chisa Matsukawa (University of Central Lancashire)
Intonational variation in Korean with Constantjin Kaland (University of Cologne, Germany) and Martine Grice (University of Cologne, Germany)

Other research activities

I'm on the Editorial Board of the Korean Language in America and Journal of Korean Linguistics.

I am reviewing for the following journals and councils:

- Journal of Phonetics; Language and Speech; Speech Communication; Lingua; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of the International Phonetic Association; Phonetica; National Science Foundation (USA); Linguistics Vanguard; Modern Language Journal; Languages; PLoS One; Music & Science; Korean Language in America; the Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

I am a member of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) and the Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon).

I am External Advisor for the K-Teachers programme developed by the National Institute of Korean Language (2023 – 2024).

Conference & workshop organisation

Workshop: Speech Prosody and Beyond, 20–22 June 2023, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Seoul, South Korea
Workshop: Methodological Advances in Prosody Research (28 June-4 July, Seoul National University, South Korea, OSF link
Pedagogical Approaches to Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23 September 2023 Saturday (14:00 - 17:00 UK), information here
The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (7-20 September 2020) and satellite events: Special Lectures on Multimodal Communication, Workshop on Pedagogical Approaches to Japanese/Korean Linguistics and Workshop on Experimental Phonetics and Phonology.