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Research Interest
Eun Jong Kong
Ph.
D. Research Associate
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research Interest
My research interests focus on first-language phonological development (Paidologos Project:http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~edwards/). To study this, I have examined differences across languages in the fine phonetic detail of a contrast, both in production and perception. Most of my recent work focuses on the role of fine-grained phonetic differences in explaining cross-linguistic patterns of mastering the ¡®same¡¯ phonological categories in English, Japanese, Greek and Korean. Particularly, I put an emphasis on adult listeners¡¯ utilization of language-specific speech cues to their judgments of children¡¯s productions. This research highlights an importance of detailed acoustic descriptions in evaluating developmental universals.
As a post-doctoral research associate in Waisman Center, UW-Madison, I have been continuing to study first-language phonological acquisition, extending the experimental paradigm to include perception studies using an eye-tracker. More specifically, I have conducted cross-linguistic perception experiments using the anticipatory eye-movement paradigm with adult listeners of English and Korean, aiming to capture language-specific sensitivity to acoustic parameters for a laryngeal contrast. The same task paradigm will be conducted with English- and Korean-speaking children (aged 3;0~5;0) to infer when and how language-specific perceptual sensitivity occurs in children¡¯s speech perception.
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics
- Cross-linguistic aspect
of phonological acquisition (Paidologos Project:http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~edwards/)
: developmental pattern of voicing/aspiration contrastive plosive categories
across languages.
: fine-grained acoustic details in child speech production.
: cross-linguistic adult perception of child speech production.
: children/infant's speech perception and its relationship with the acoustic
details of the speech signal.
- Cross-linguistic perception
using visual world paradigm
: adult listeners' gradient perception of multiple acoustic cues for stop voicing
contrast (VOT, f0 and more).
: children/infant's language-specific patterns of anticipatory eye-movement
while listening to the speech signal.
: time-series data analysis using mixed effects regression models with eyetracking
data.
- English, Japanese and
Korean Prosody
: the role of pitch range variations in speech production and perception.
[download CV in pdf, last updated on Nov 16, 2010]
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Educational Background
2009 - present
Post-doctoral researcher, Waisman center,
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
2002 - 2009
Ph.D., Linguistcs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Dissertation: The Development of Phonation-type Contrasts in Plosives: Cross-linguistic
Perspectives.
1999-2002
M.A. English Linguistics, Graduate School at Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Thesis: Informational structure and intonational realization of English focus
particle.
1994-1999
B.A. English Language and Literature, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Selected publications
Articles in journal/refereed conference proceedings
Kong, Eun Jong (2010).
The role of pitch range reset in Korean sentence
processing. Journal of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences, pp 33-40.
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2007).
Fine-grained phonetics and acquisition of Greek voiced stops, In Proceedings
of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 865-868.
Kong, Eun Jong (2004). The role of pitch range variation in discourse structure and intonation structure of Korean, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
In submission/preparation
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan. Why are Korean tense stops acquired so early: The role of acoustic properties. (ms. under revision; Journal of Phonetics).
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan. Fine-grained phonetics and the acquisition of voiced stop in Greek and Japanese. (ms. submitted to Journal of Phonetics).
Kong, Eun Jong & Weismer, Gary. Correlation of acoustic cues in stop productions of Korean and English adults and children. (ms. submitted to Journal of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences).
Chung, H., Kong, E., Edwards, J., Weismer, G., Hwang, Y. & Fourakis, M. Acquisition of Vowels: Cross-linguistic Studies of Cantonese, English, Greek, Japanese and Korean. (ms. submitted to Journal of the Acoustical Society of America).
Kong, Eun Jong, Syrika, Asimina & Edwards, Jan. Dialectal variations of Greek voiced stops. (ms. in preparation).
Arbisi-Kelm, T., Kong,
E., Beckman, M. E. and Edward, J. Psychoacoustic Measures of Stop Production
In Cantonese, English, Greek, Japanese, and Korean. (ms. in preparation).
Conference presentations
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2010). Different gestures explain different acquisition patterns for Japanese and Greek voiced stops. Poster presented at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, New Mexico.
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2010). VOT trumps other measures in predicting Korean children¡¯s early mastery of fortis stops. Paper presented at LSA, Baltimore, Jan, 2010. [presentation slides]
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., Edwards, Jan (2009). Nasal venting and the early mastery of Greek voiced stops. Paper presented at International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Chicago, Oct 30, 2009. [presentation slides]
Kong, Eun Jong (2009). The Development of Phonation-type Contrasts in Plosives: Cross-linguistic Perspectives. Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University [email me for an e-copy].
Kong, Eun Jong, Beckman, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2009), VOT is necessary but not sufficient for describing the voicing contrast in Japanese. Paper presented at LSA, San Fransico, Jan 10, 2009.
Li, Fangfang, Kong, Eun Jong, Mary E., and Edwards, Jan (2008), Adult Acoustics and Developmental Patterns for Gender-marked Phonetic Variants in Mandarin Fricatives and Japanese Stops, Poster presented at 11th Laboratory Phonology, Wellington, New Zealand, June 30, 2008.
Arbisi-Kelm, T., Beckman, M. E., Edwards, J., & Kong, E. (2007). Acquisition of stop burst cues in English, Greek, and Japanese. poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, June 7-9, 2007.
Kong, Eun Jong., Beckman, Mary E. (2006).Fine-grained Phonetics and Developmental Universals for Glottal Features, a poster presented at 10th Laboratory Phonology, Paris, France, June 29- July 1, 2006.
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Teaching
Introduction to Linguistics
Ling201(2003 AU~ 2005 SP): 5 credit hours, The Ohio State University
Analyzing Sounds of Languages Ling286 (2008 WI~2009 SP): 5 credit hours, The
Ohio State University
Lecturing an hour session
of R scripting for Tutorial Series by The Laboratory and Computing
Committee (LCC) at Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University 2008.
Two hour guest lecture
on Korean intonation structure and the K-ToBI system in summer 2007 (ToBI Practicum,
taught by Dr. Julie McGory).
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Contact Info
e-k-o-n-g (at) wisc.edu(with
no "-")
1500 Highland Avenue
Waisman Center #493
Madison WI 53705, USA
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Updated on Nov 16, 2010