Academic appointments
Academic appointments
2022- Associate Professor
Department of English language and literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2022-2025 Affiliate Faculty
Department of English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
2018-2022 Assistant Professor
Linguistics Program, Department of English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
2015-2017 Postdoctoral research fellow
Laboratoire CLILLAC-ARP, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France
Education
2015 PhD in Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2007 MA in English Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2005 BA in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Selected publications
2026 Schweizer, D., Ahn, S., & Kwon, H. Acoustic properties of Seoul Korean stops in phrase-initial and word-medial positions.
Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
2026 Cho, J., & Kwon, H. The effect of talker identity and language expereince in perceiving foreign-accented speech.
Applied Psycholinguistics 47, e11, 1-34.
2026 Chitoran, I. & Kwon, H. Timing lag matters in native speakers' perception of Georgian stop sequences.
Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 17(1).
2024 Ahn, S. Kwon, H., & Faytak, M. Tongue position in Mandarin Chinese voiceless stops. JASA Express Letters 4, 025027.
2024 Kwon, H., & Chitoran, I. Perception of illusory clusters: the role of native timing. Phonetica 81, 153-184.
2021 Kwon, H. A non-contrastive cue in spontaneous imitation: comparing mono- and bilingual imitators.
Journal of Phonetics 88C, 101083.
2019 Kwon, H. The role of native phonology in spontaneous imitation: Evidence from Seoul Korean.
Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 10: 10, 1-24.
2017 Kwon, H. Language experience, speech perception and loanword adaptation: Variable adaptation of
English word-final plosives into Korean. Journal of Phonetics 60, 1-19.
Selected presentations
2025 Kwon, H., & Oh, S. Visualizing multilingual speech articulation: A corpus-based approach.
The 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Honolulu, HI, USA, December 1-5.
2024 Kwon, H., & Ahn, S. Underlying and derived tense stops in Seoul Korean. LabPhon19. Seoul, Korea, June 27-29.
2023 Alkhonini, O., & Kwon, H. Temporal organization of word-inigial consonant sequences in Najdi Arabic.
The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic, August 7-11.
2022 Alamri, S., Kwon, H., & Chanethom, V. The effect of voicing, gemination, and manner on tongue root position
in Saudi Arabic coronal obstruents. Ultrafest X. Hybrid conference, November 3-4.
2021 Chanethom, V., Masella-Soldati, G., Todd, H., Brennan, H., Myers, J., Hannon, D., Yaghmour, B., & Kwon, H.
The Non-Native Articulatory corpus—French: an ultrasound corpus of French as an additional language.
The 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Seattle, WA, USA, November 29-December 3.
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