Seung Kyung Kim

I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah. My teaching and research interests include phonetics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

My current curriculum vitae can be found here.

Publications

    (2021) M. Sumner & S. K. Kim. Psycholinguistic aspects. In J. Setter & R.-A. Knight (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics (pp. 430--456), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    (2019) C. Frenck-Mestre, S. K. Kim, H. Choo, A. Ghio, J. Herschensohn & S. Koh. Look and Listen! The online processing of Korean case by native and non-native speakers. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 34(3), 385-404. (Link)
    (2017) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Beyond lexical meaning: The effect of emotional prosody on spoken word recognition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, EL49--EL55. (Link)
    (2015) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Effects of emotional prosody and attention on semantic priming. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1099--1104. (Link)
    (2015) R. Podesva, A. D'Onofrio, J. Van Hofwegen & S. K. Kim. Country ideology and the California Vowel Shift. Language Variation and Change 27, 157--186. (Link)
    (2014) M. Sumner, S. K. Kim, E. King & K. McGowan. The socially-weighted encoding of spoken words: A dual-route approach to speech perception. Frontiers in Psychology 4:1015. (Link)
    (2012) S. K. Kim. Perceptual similarities in Korean vowel epenthesis. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 34, 2008), 209--220.

Selected Presentations

    (2018) S. K. Kim. The effect of emotional prosody on word recognition. Talk given at the Center for Research in Language, UCSD, CA, Oct 23.
    (2018) C. Frenck-Mestre, S. K. Kim, H. Choo, A. Ghio & S. Koh. Online processing of case in auditory and written Korean sentences as revealed by eye movements in native speakers and L2 leaners. Poster to be presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2018, Berlin, Germany, September 6-8.
    (2018) S. K. Kim, S. Jeong & J. German. The social component of phonetic recalibration in speech perception. Talk given at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salk Lake City, UT, January 4-7.
    (2017) S. K. Kim. Social effects in spoken language processing. Invited talk given at Accueil Master Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Paris Diderot, France, September 11.
    (2017) S. K. Kim, S. Jeong & J. German. Facial expression and phonetic recalibration in speech perception. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2017, Lancaster, UK, September 7-9.
    (2017) C. Frenck-Mestre, S. K. Kim, H. Choo & S. Koh. Online processing of case in Korean in native speakers and adult learners. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2017, Lancaster, UK, September 7-9.
    (2017) S. K. Kim. Word length modulates the effect of emotional prosody. Poster given at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA, June 25-29.
    (2017) S. K. Kim. Interaction between word length and emotional prosody. Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Cologne, Germany, June 12-14.
    (2017) S. K. Kim. Word length modulates the effect of emotional prosody. Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics. Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, May 3-5.
    (2017) S. K. Kim. The interaction of word length and emotional prosody. The 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX, January 5-8.
    (2016) S. K. Kim. Effects of emotional prosody in lexical processing. Linking Social Effects in Language Processing to Social Effects in Language Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, September 15-16.
    (2015) S. K. Kim. The effect of emotional prosody on word recognition. Talk given at SIRL Kickoff Workshop: Social Interaction in the Representation of Language, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, France, Nov 20-21.
    (2015) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Effects of emotional prosody and attention on semantic priming, The 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Soceity, Pasadena, CA, July 23-25.
    (2015) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Understanding spoken words: The role of phonetically-cued talker information in spoken language understanding, The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, January 8-11.
    (2014) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. The effects of emotional prosody on word recognition, Linguistic Evidence 2014, Tuebingen, Germany, February 13-15.
    (2014) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. The effects of emotional prosody on word recognition, The 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, January 2-5.
    (2013) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Effects of emotional prosody on word recognition, The 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, December 2-6.
    (2013) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Phonetic variation in speech cues emotions and words simultaneously and independently, The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada, November 14-17.
    (2013) R. Podesva, J. Calder, H. Chen, A. D’Onofrio, I. Flores Bayer, S. K. Kim, & J. Van Hofwegen. The California Vowel Shift in a rural inland community, The 9th UK Language Variation and Change, The University of Sheffield, UK, September 2-4.
    (2013) S. K. Kim & M. Sumner. Preliminary investigation of effects of emotional prosody on word recognition, Workshop on Current Issues and Methods in Speaker Adaptation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 6-7.
    (2013) S. K. Kim. Interaction of social evaluations and interdental fricative stopping in perception, Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 20-22.
    (2013) S. K. Kim. Interaction of social categories and a linguistic variable in perception, The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, January 3-6.
    (2013) R. Podesva, J. Calder, H. Chen, A. D’Onofrio, I. Flores Bayer, S. K. Kim, & J. Van Hofwegen. The status of the California Vowel Shift in a non-coastal, non-urban community, The Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Boston, MA, January 3-6.
    (2010) S. K. Kim. Young children’s production of direct objects in spontaneous speech, The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD, January 7-10.
    (2008) S. K. Kim. Perceptual similarities in English-to-Korean loanwords, The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, February 8-10.

Contact

My e-mail is seungkyung dot kim at utah dot edu