Hyesun Cho

[hɛsʌn ʧo]

 

4th year graduate student

at MIT Linguistics 

Research Interests

My research area is phonetics and phonology.

I have been working on modeling H peak timing in Seoul Korean Intonation. 

Current project: Korean phonotactics learning using a maximum entropy model by Hayes and Wilson (2008)

Praat

 

Talks

· Sep 15-17, 2008 “Effects of speech rate on segmental anchoring: A model of F0 timing as a function of the slope and alignment targets”, TIE 3 (Tone and Intonation in Europe), Lisbon, Portugal Handout

· July 21-26, 2008 (with Maria Giavazzi) “Perception of voicing in fricatives”, CIL18 (The 18th International Congress of Linguists), Seoul, Korea  Handout

· March 29, 2008 “Effects of speech rate on segmental anchoring: A model of F0 timing as a function of slope and alignment targets”, MUMM 2 (The MIT-UMass Meeting in Phonology). Cambridge, MA Handout

· Nov 19, 2007 “Modeling F0(pitch) movements: The interaction between articulatory and alignment constraints”, Phonology Circle at MIT. Cambridge, MA Abstract 

 

Publication

Kenstowicz, Michael, Hyesun Cho, and Jieun Kim. 2008 “Contrasts, Mergers, and Acquisitions in Kyungsang Accent”, Toronto working papers in Linguisitcs, Vol.28: 107-122 (Proceedings of the International Conference on East Asian Linguistics) pdf

 

Teaching

· Spring 2008, TA for Introduction to Linguistics (24.900) (Professor Suzanne Flynn)

· Fall 2007, TA for Introduction to Linguistics (24.900) (Professor David Pesetsky)

 

Education

· July 2007 LSA Summer Institute at Stanford University

· Aug 2003 M.A. in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

· Feb 1998 B.A. in English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Mailing Address:

MIT Linguistics and Philosophy

77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D808

Cambridge, MA 02139

USA

Office: 32D-962

Office Tel: (617)253-2526

E-mail: ruby1004@mit.edu

I am from South Korea.

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