Research keywords (10)：
contrastive study
, Japanese accent
, dialectal variation
, Korean
, 韓国語
, Japanese
, vowel devoicing
, language change
, phonetic variation
, Phonetics
Research theme for competitive and other funds (6)：
2022 - 2026 Development of "Japanese Pronunciation Laboratory" a pronunciation practice tool to support autonomous learning of Japanese language learners
2019 - 2025 日本語と韓国語の閉鎖音における音響的特徴とピッチアクセントの関係
2020 - 2023 公共用語の発展的理論と実証調査
2018 - 2022 Development of a Tokyo accent online self-learning program for native Japanese teachers
2017 - 2020 A contrastive study of Japanese and Korean stops: production and perception
2014 - 2016 A contrastive study of Japanese and Korean consonants for Korean pronunciation practice
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Papers (47)：
Hi-Gyung Byun. The effect of post-stop fo on the perception of Japanese stops and its stability within individuals. 2024. 159-164
Hi-Gyung Byun. Teaching pronunciation in the winter teaching practice: The effects of teacher feedback on accent learning. Bulletin of Japanese Language Teaching Practices. 2024. 15. 387-393
Hi-Gyung Byun. Teaching pronunciation in the winter teaching practice: Listening skills of Tokyo accents by JLT students. Bulletin of Japanese Language Teaching Practices. 2023. 14. 322-328
Hi-Gyung Byun, Emi Yanagisawa. Development of a website that supports teacher-driven Japanese pronunciation teaching. Proceedings of CASTEL/J 2023. 2023. 134-137
Hi-Gyung Byun. The role of voice onset time (VOT) and post-stop fundamental frequency (F0) in the perception of Tohoku Japanese stops*. Phonetics and Speech Sciences. 2023. 15. 1. 35-45
일본어 음성 교육 : 연구와 실천
도서출판 지식나무 2023 ISBN:9791187170570
日本語教育実践
凡人社 2014 ISBN:4893588788
Lectures and oral presentations (34)：
Japanese pronunciation teaching by non-native teachers
(2024 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) 2024)
Can vowel devoicing serve as a perceptual cue in identifying local and standard Japanese? Comparison among Tohoku, Kanto, and Kinki listeners
(Project-Meeting "A Multifaceted Study of Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Japan 2024)
Perception of word-initial stops in Japanese
(The 340th Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2019)
Perception of intervocalic stop consonants in Seoul Korean
(The 33rd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2019)
Pitch patterns in two-, three-, and four-syllable words of Seoul Korean
(2019 Spring Conference of Korean Society of Speech Sciences 2019)
Japanese Pronunciation Laboratory (JP-lab) www.jp-lab.com
Education (3)：
2012 - PhD, the University of Tokyo
2008 - The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Language and Information Sciences
2003 - Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Professional career (1)：
Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
Committee career (1)：
2019/04 - 2022/03 The Phonetic Society of Japan Editorial Committee member
Awards (1)：
2020/09 - Phonetic Society of Japan Phonetic Society of Japan Awards, Outstanding Article Award “Acoustic Characteristics for Japanese Stops in Word-initial Position: VOT and Post-stop fo” Volume 23, Number 3, 174-197.
Association Membership(s) (5)：
THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF SPEECH SCIENCES
, THE SOCIETY FOR TEACHING JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
, THE SOCIETY FOR JAPANESE LINGUISTICS
, THE PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
