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Academic positions

2023.03 - Associate Professor, Dept of Chinese Language and Literature, Hanyang University

2021.08 Associate Professor, Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

-2023.02

2017- 2021 Assistant Professor, Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2014-2015 Lecturer, Dept of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2009-2014 Ph.D. in Linguistics, New York University

2007 Fall (non-degree study) The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2005-2007 M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Seoul National University

2003-2004 (non-degree study) Beijing Normal University

1998-2003 B.S. in Biology Education, Seoul National University

2024 Qin, Zhen, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, and Haifeng Qi. The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners' use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones. Second Language Research.
2024 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im and Yun-Chieh Chou. Unmerging the sibilant merger via phonetic imitation: Phonetic, Phonological, and social factors. Journal of Phonetics 103, Article 101298.
2023 Weng, Wei-Cheng and Sang-Im Lee-Kim. Loss of unreleased final stops among Mandarin-Min bilinguals: Structural convergence of languages in contact. Journal of Phonetics 101, Article 101279.
2022 Gussenhoven, Carlos, Yu-an Lu, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Chunhui Liu, Hamed Rahmani, Tomas Riad, and Hatice Zora. The Sequence Recall Task and lexicality of tone: Exploring tone "deafness". Frontiers in Psychology 13, Article 902569.
2022 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im and Yun-Chieh Chou. Unmerging the sibilant merger among speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. Laboratory Phonology 13(1), Article 10.
2021 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im, Xinran Ren, and Peggy Mok. Phonological similarity effects in cross-script word processing: Evidence from Sino-Korean word processing by Cantonese learners. The Mental Lexicon 16(2/3), 325-361.

2021 Lu, Yu-an and Sang-Im Lee-Kim. The effect of linguistic experience on perceived vowel duration: Evidence from Taiwan Mandarin speakers. Journal of Phonetics 86, Article 101049.
2021 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. Development of Mandarin tones and segments by Korean learners: from naïve listeners to novice learners. Journal of Phonetics 86, Article 101036.
2021 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. Contrastive perception of duration and F0 cues for stop categorization. JASA Express Letters 1(2), Article 025203.
2020 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. Stop laryngeal distinction driven by contrastive effects of neighboring tones. Language and Speech 64(1), 98-122.
2020 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. Tone-induced split in stop category mapping by Korean learners of Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics 21(1), 54-79.
2016 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. Syntax-based phonological asymmetries: The case of adjective reduplication in Mandarin Chinese. Lingua 179, 1-23.
2014 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im. Revisiting Mandarin “apical vowels”: An articulatory and acoustic study. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 44(3), 261-282.
2014 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im, Shigeto Kawahara, and Seunghun J. Lee. The “Whistled” fricative in Xitsonga: Its articulation and acoustics. Phonetica 71(1), 50-81.
2013 Lee-Kim, Sang-Im, Lisa Davidson, and Sangjin Hwang. Morphological effects on the darkness of English intervocalic /l/. Laboratory Phonology 4(2), 475-511.