Eun Jong Kong

Ph.D. Research associate at Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Research Interest

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 in 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.

- English, Japanese and Korean Prosody
: the role of pitch range variations in speech
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Educational Background

2009 - present
Post-doctoral researcher, Waisman center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

2001 - 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 & Conference presentations

Kong, Eun Jong, Bekcman, 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.

Kong, Eun Jong, Bekcman, 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.

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.

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.

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.
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Teaching

Introduction to Linguistics Ling201(2003 AU~ 2005 SP)
Analyzing Sounds of Languages Ling286 (2008 WI~2009 SP)
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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 at 2010, Feburary, 03