Jiwon Hwang

About

Jiwon Hwang is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Asian Languages in the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. She earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from Stony Brook University, specializing in second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. Her research focuses on investigating the characteristics of second language speech, understanding the underlying mechanisms of speech production and perception, and examining sociocultural and cognitive factors associated with language learning and intercultural communication. Since joining the department in 2013, she has taught courses in Korean language and linguistics, and her research has expanded to include intercultural communicative language teaching, which aligns with her teaching interests. Currently, she is leading a research project funded by the US Department of Education on intercultural engagement and language learning.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Political Science
• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Linguistics
• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Neuroscience
• Cognitive psychology
• Speech recognition

Selected publications

• Phonetic adaptation in non-native spoken dialogue: Effects of priming and audience design

  Journal of Memory and Language · 2015-02-14 · 44 citations

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• Is there a bilingual advantage in phonetic and phonological acquisition? The initial learning of word-final coronal stop realization in a novel accent of English

  International Journal of Bilingualism · 2016-12-08 · 15 citations

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  Research question: We address the question of whether the cognitive advantage of the bilingual mind, already demonstrated in the case of auditory processing or novel word acquisition, also applies to other linguistic domains, specifically to phonetic and phonological learning. Design: We compare the performance of 17 monolinguals and 25 bilinguals from Canada in a production experiment with two tasks: imitation and spontaneous reproduction of a novel foreign accent, specifically Sussex English.…

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• Native and non-native speaker processing and production of contrastive focus prosody

  Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America · 2018-03-03 · 13 citations

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  Several studies have found that the presence of L+H* accent on a contrastive adjective assists native-speaking listeners in narrowing the referent of the noun following the adjective (e.g., Ito & Speer 2008, Weber et al. 2006). Our study addresses two questions: whether non-native speakers use prosodic cues in processing, as previous studies have shown for native speakers, and whether there is a relationship between the use of prosodic cues in processing and in production. Twenty-one Mandari…

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• From intercultural engagement to intercultural communicative competence: The case of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

  Foreign Language Annals · 2023 · 8 citations

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  Abstract As the objective of language teaching is shifting from producing so‐called “native‐like” speakers to fostering speakers competent in intercultural communication, it has become necessary to identify the kinds of learning resources that may be related to the learner's development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in today's context of globalization and technological innovation. Employing a mixed‐method approach with focus group interviews ( n = 46) and a survey ( n = 342), t…

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• Exploring the Use of an Artificial Accent of English to Assess Phonetic Learning in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers

  Interspeech 2022 · 2020 · 8 citations

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Recent grants

• IBSS: Communication in the Global University: A Longitudinal Study of Language Adaptation at Multiple Timescales in Native and Non-Native Speakers

  NSF · $1000k · 2015–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Ellen Broselow

  12 shared

• Chikako Takahashi

  Columbia University

  9 shared

• Hyunah Baek

  9 shared

• Marie K. Huffman

  Stony Brook University

  5 shared

• Laura Spinu

  City University of New York

  5 shared

• Alex Hong-Lun Yeung

  Stony Brook University

  5 shared

• Sophia Kao

  5 shared

• Yunju Suh

  Dong-A University

  5 shared

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