Welcome

I am a phonetician interested in how linguistic experience shapes speech perception and production, with a focus on the domains of second language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation. I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas. [ɹɑk̚ ʧʰɔk̚ ʤeɪhɔk̚]! I also serve as an associate editor at Second Language Research and as treasurer of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

Before coming to Kansas in 2023, I worked for eight years in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Korea University, in Seoul. Before that, I worked for three years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Second Language Studies (which was recently merged with the Department of Linguistics) at Indiana University Bloomington, where I was affiliated with the Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab, directed by Isabelle Darcy. And before that, I received my PhD in 2012 from the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University under the supervision of Mary Beckman.