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 (5):
2022 - 2026 Development of "Japanese Pronunciation Laboratory" a pronunciation practice tool to support autonomous learning of Japanese language learners
2020 - 2023 公共用語の発展的理論と実証調査
2019 - 2023 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
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
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
Emi Yanagisawa, Hi-Gyung Byun. Development of "Japanese Pronunciation Laboratory (JP Lab)" A website to support learners' autonomous learning of pronunciation. Proceedings of the JSET Spring Conference 2023 (42nd). 2023. 301-302
Hi-Gyung Byun, Emi Yanagisawa. Development of a learner-oriented Japanese pronunciation learning tool. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 2022. 133-138
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)
Pitch patterns in disyllabic words of Seoul Korean
(The 262nd Meeting of the Society for Korean Linguistics in Japan 2019)
Tokyo accent perception ability for native speakers of two-pattern accent: A case of Kagoshima dialect
(The 338th Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2018)
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