eonsukko

Personal Information:

Research Assistant Professor
109B Cary Hall
Communicative Disorders and Sciences
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14214
Email: eonsukko@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-829-5572
Fax: 716-829-3979

Current Work:

Dr. Ko’s current research interests include the following topics:

1. Developmental changes and dynamics in mother-child speech: How, why, and when do mothers change their speech characteristics over the course of child language development?

2. Acoustic characteristics of child-directed speech: Do mothers’ speech characteristics systematically enhance certain aspects of speech directly relevant to language learning?

3. Prosodic bootstrapping in infant language processing: Infants use stress/accent cues and phrase-boundary cues for segmentation of speech stream. What are the relative contributions of these cues in infants’ speech segmentation?

4. Tempo-dependent mapping of phonological features on the acoustic level: How do speakers implement durational cues under varying speaking rates and how do listeners map them to the right phonological category? These questions are being investigated with focus on the vowel duration conditioned by consonantal voicing.

Website:
http://www.buffalo.edu/~eonsukko

Education / Training:

Ph. D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

M. A. English Linguistics, Seoul National University.

B. A. English Language and Literature, Seoul National University

Research and Creative Activities:

Publications:
https://sites.google.com/site/eonsuk/publications

Teaching:

CDS 286 Phonetics

Member for:
1 year 30 weeks