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 (7)：
2025 - 2030 The elucidation of the relationship between production and perception of Japanese stop consonants and its application to Japanese pronunciation education
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 Developmental Theory and Empirical Investigation of Public Language
2022 - A Multifaceted Study of Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Japan
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 (49)：
Hi-Gyung Byun. Teaching pronunciation in the winter teaching practice: How to use materials for pronunciation instruction. Bulletin of Japanese Language Teaching Practices. 2025. 16. 279-285
Hi-Gyung Byun. The Role of Vowel Devoicing in the Perception of Standard and Local Japanese: A Comparison among Tohoku, Kanto, and Kinki Listeners. NINJAL Research Papers. 2025. 28. 127-149
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
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 (38)：
Perceptual cues for distinguishing voicing contrasts in word-initial Japanese stop consonants: focusing on voice onset time and post-stop fundamental frequency
(2025)
The influence of accent on the rates of vowel devoicing in various Japanese dialects
(The 170th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2025)
Teaching and assessment of Tokyo Japanese accent using JP-lab and Iwashi-test
(Tokyo Association of Phonetics and Speech 2025)
What students learn in Japanese Phonetics class
(Tokyo Association of Phonetics and Speech 2024)
Japanese pronunciation teaching by non-native teachers
(2024 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) 2024)
Japanese Pronunciation Laboratory (JP-lab) www.jp-lab.com
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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 (2)：
2025/04 - 2031/03 Journal of the Phonetic Society ofJapan Councillor
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
