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2004-2010 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Ph.D. in Linguistics (Minor in Cognitive Science).
2002–2004 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
M.A. in Linguistics.
2001–2002 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
B.A. in Linguistics, with honors, summa cum laude.
1998–2001 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Majored in Nuclear Engineering.
Education
Hyun kyung hwang [hjʌn kjʌŋ hwaŋ]
Research Scientist
Laboratory for Language Development
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2017- RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan.
Research Scientist
2016- International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
Part-time lecturer: Advanced Seminar II
2015- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
Part-time lecturer: Interactive English, Oral Communication
2013–2015 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
Project Postdoctoral Fellow
2012-2014 International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
Part-time lecturer: Phonetics, Phonology, Experimental Linguistics
2010–2012 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Employment
2017–2020 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (Project No. 17K13458):
Principle investigator, Fricative acquisition by Japanese- and Korean-
speaking infants.
2017–2020 Scientific Research (B) (Project No. 17H02331):
Co-investigator (P.I. Makoto Minegishi), Typology of information
structure in Southeast Asian languages.
2015–2018 Scientific Research (C) (Project No. 15K0247):
Co-investigator (P.I. Oshima Yoshikazu), Semantic, syntactic, and
prosodic characteristics of negative questions in Japanese.
2014–2016 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (Project No. 26770157):
Principle investigator, A cross-dialectal study of semantic structure and
prosodic effect on Korean Sais-Sori.
2014–2016 Challenging Exploratory Research (Project No. 26580081):
Co-investigator (P.I. Masashi Nomura), Scope, information structure,
and prosody of Nominative/Accusative Objects: An empirical study.
2010–2012 Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
Research title: Focus and Intonation: A Contrastive Study of Japanese
and Korean.
Research grant