Currently teaching in Fall 2024

English Phonetics (undergrad)
Seminar in English Linguistics: Articulation and Perception of Speech Sounds (graduate, taught in Korean)

Past courses

At Seoul National University

Graduate English Phonology (Spring 2023)
Research methods in English linguistics (Fall 2022)

Undergraduate Introduction to English Linguistics (Spring 2024)
English Phonetics (Fall 2023)
Understanding Anglophone Culture -- Through the Lens of Language (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)


At George Mason University

Undergraduate General linguistics (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
Generative phonology (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)

Graduate Introduction to linguistics (Spring 2020)
Phonology I (Fall 2019, Fall 2021)
Phonology II (Spring 2019, Spring 2022)
Phonetics (Fall 2021)
Advanced phonology seminar (Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Advanced qualifying seminar (Spring 2018)


At University of Michigan

Undergraduate Introduction to Languages (Spring 2013)
College Writing (Winter 2012, Fall 2011)


Student Advising

Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee

Ongoing Yalin Wang. English Learners' clarification strategies for midheard speech. Seoul National University.

2023 Abdulmajeed Alrashed. Loanword adaptation and emphasis spread in Najdi Arabic. (co-chair with Jim Blevins).
George Mason University (Currently at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia)

2022             Sarah Alamri. Cross-language non-native perception: Korean lax and tense obstruents and Saudi Arabic singleton and geminate obstruents.
George Mason University (Currently at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia)

2020             Yuting Guo. Production and perception of laryngeal contrasts in Mandarin and English by Mandarin speakers. George Mason University
(Currently a Language Data Researcher, Amazon)


Member of PhD Dissertation Committee:

2024 Kyungmin Lee. Perception of Mandarin Tones. Seoul National University

2024  Amal Alotaibi. Perception of regional spoken Arabic by native and nonnative speakers. George Mason University

2023 Junghee Byun. Developing and Validating a Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR)-Mediated English Speaking Assessment for Korean EFL High
School Learners. Seoul National University

2023         Hind Aldakheelallah. The Use of morphophonological cues in noun processing: The case of the Arabic definite article.
George Mason University

2022             Rachel Albar. Production and perception of French continuative contours by Japanese learners. Sciences du Langage,
Université Paris Diderot

2021             Omar Alkhonini. Underlying representation and acoustic and ultrasound analyses of two-consonant initial clusters and inserted vowels in
Najdi Arabic. George Mason University

2021             Chui-ching Tseng. An investigation of the effect of lexical tone on VOT in L1 and L2 speakers of Mandarin. George Mason University

2021 Alexandra Pfiffner. Cue-based features. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University

2020             Ali S. Alelaiwi. Perception and recoverability of modified English L2 codas. George Mason University

2020             Hussain Almalki. Prosodic marking of focus in Urban Najdi Arabic. George Mason University

2020             Sahar Almohareb. Listeners’ language background and the perception of foreign accent. George Mason University

2019             Abdullah Alfaifi. The production and perception of coda clusters in Najdi and Hijazi Arabic. George Mason University

2019         Zhiyan Gao. Weighing accentedness in foreign accented speech. George Mason University