Department of Linguistics
Woonil Baik, Ph.D.
My research interests are in the field of Phonetics and Phonological analysis with emphasis on coarticulation. Under the supervision of Prof. Sara, I plan to show the articulatory difference between the Korean affricates and the English affricates using Electropalatography. Though the Korean affricates, by many phoneticians, are considered having the same place and manner of articulation as the English affricates, the articulation of Korean affricates is quite different from that of English affricates. My research goal aims to show that the articulatory difference between the Korean affricates and the English affricates results from the different coarticulatory pattern of the stop portions and the fricative portions composing the affricate sounds.
Kyong-Sook Song, Ph.D.
During my visiting research at Georgetown University, I plan to explore the cross-cultural issues in computer-mediated communication (CMC). I am especially interested in cross-cultural differences in implicature among American students and Korean students in the U.S. in/between face-to-face conversation and the Internet Relay Chat (IRC). I have been interested in CMC for about 5 years, and I've presented papers at the international conferences and published papers on comparative analysis of English and Korean CMC. I have received a grant from the LG Yonam Foundation, and Dr. Deborah Tannen is my departmental sponsor.