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Hyunju Chung

Associate Professor

Address:
73 Hatcher Hall

Email Address:
hchung@lsu.edu

Office Phone:
225-578-2723

College:
Humanities & Social Sciences

Department:
Communication Sciences & Disorders

Courses

COMD 4381 Basic Articulation Disorders

COMD 4153 Acoustics in Speech and Hearing

COMD 7780 Seminar in Articulation & Phonological Disorders

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Research Interests

Hyunju Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at LSU and the director of the Child Speech Lab. Her main research interests are on the areas of phonological acquisition, speech acoustics, and speech sound disorders. Especially, her research focuses on 1) examining speech produced by children with and without speech sound disorders (SSDs) and 2) characterizing cross-linguistic differences in the speech of children and adults.

Awards & Honors 

  • 2020 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Humanity and Social Science. LSU
  • 2018 Invited attendee, Lessons for Success Conference, American Speech and Hearing Foundation
  • 2008 Paper selected as a World Wide Press Room presenter, Acoustical Society of America, “A vowel by the same name is not necessarily the same: Kids mimic adults’ vowels”.
  • 2006-2008 Fulbright Graduate Study Awards, Korean-American Educational Commission, $50,000
  • 2001, 2002, 2003 Academic Scholarship, KyungHee University, $1,000

Research Grants

NSF Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Linguistics Program (submitted)

  • Title: Four consonant sounds across dialects: Investigating children's productions and listeners' perceptual judgments
  • Role: Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Drs. Janna Oetting and Irina Shport)
  • Submission Date: Jan 2023
  • Total amount requested: $484,891 

Funded                                                                                                                                                   

LSU Manship and College of Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Grant

  • Title: Speech variations in nonmainstream American English-speaking adults from Louisiana
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Duration: 2023 summer
  • Total Amount Rewarded: $5,000

Louisiana Board of Regents- Research Competitiveness Subprogram

  • Title: Semivowel errors as Speech Sound Disorders diagnostic marker
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Duration: 2018- present
  • Total Amount Rewarded: $137,453 

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) New Investigators Research Grant 

  • Title: Facilitative phonetic contexts for English lateral liquid /l/ productions in young children 
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Duration: 2017- 2018
  • Total Amount Rewarded: $10,000 

Student Tech Fee, Louisiana State University

  • Title: Updating Speech Technology in Classroom and Clinical Practice with Ultrasound Devices
  • Role: Co-investigator (collaboration with Dr. Todd A. Gibson and Dr. Yunjung Kim)
  • Duration: 2018
  • Amount Rewarded: $45,692

LSU Manship and College of Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Grant     

  • Title: Facilitative phonetic contexts for English lateral liquid /l/ productions in young children 
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Duration: 2018
  • Total Amount Rewarded: $5,000

LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend Award                                                                       

  • Title: The longitudinal analysis four semivowel productions in young children
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Duration: 2017
  • Total Amount Rewarded: $5,000

Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Internal Grant, University of Alberta

  • Title: Rhotic vowel acquisition in children with and without Speech Sound Disorders,
  • Role: Co-investigator (PI: Dr. Karen Pollock, University of Alberta)
  • Duration: 2012-2013
  • Total Amount Rewarded: $8,000 

Academic Degrees

      Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison,    Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2011

Recent Publications (since 2012)

  • *Jackson., K. & Chung, H. (2023). Korean-English Bilingual Children’s Productions of Korean and English /l/. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups (SIG19).  
  • Chung, H., *Lemoine, G. E., *Sanders, J. & Schellinger, S. K. (2023). Effect of Speaker age on Listener Perceptions of Word-Final /l/. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 66 (3). 916-930. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00437.  
  • *Coniglio, E. A., Chung, H., Schellinger, S. K. (2022). Perception of children’s productions of /l/: Acoustic correlates and effects of listener experience. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 74 (6). 392-406. DOI:10.1159/000524395.  
  • Kim, Y-J. & Chung, H., & Thompson, A. (2022). English Semivowels /ɹ, l, w/ Produced by Adult Second-Language Speakers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 65(3), 890-905. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00152.  
  • Chung, H. (2022). Acoustic characteristics of pre- and post-vocalic /l/: Patterns from one Southern American English variant. Language and Speech. 65(2), 513-528. DOI: 10.1177/00238309211037368.  
  • Chung, H. & Kim, Y-J. (2021). Acoustic characteristics of Korean-English bilingual speakers' /l/ and the relationship to their foreign accent ratings. Journal of Communication Disorders. 94, 106157.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106157. 
  • Chung, H., & Weismer, G. (2021). Trajectory patterns of American English lateral /l/ produced by adults and children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 64(3), 809-822.
  • Chung, H., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2021). Cross-linguistic perceptual categorization of the three corner vowels: effects of listener language and talker age. Language and Speech. 64(3), 558-575. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920943240. 
  • Chung, H., & Pollock, K. E. (2021). Acoustic Characteristics of Rhotic Vowel Productions of Young Children. Folia Phoniatr Logop, 73(2), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1159/000504250.
  • Chung, H. (2020b). Acquisition and acoustic patterns of American English /l/ in young children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 63(8), 2609-2624. 
  • Chung, H. (2020a). Vowel acoustic characteristics of variation of Southern American English in Louisiana. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.147 (1), 541-553. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000505.
  • Chung, H., Farr, K. & Pollock, K. E. (2019). Rhotic vowel accuracy and error patterns in young children with and without Speech Sound Disorders. Journal of Communication Disorders. 80, 18-34.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2019.03.003. 
  • Chung, H., & Pollock, K. (2014). Acoustic Characteristics of Adults’ Rhotic Monophthongs and Diphthongs. Korean Journal of Communication Sciences & Disorders. 19(1), 113-119. 
  • Chung, H., Farr, K., & Pollock, K. (2014). Transcription-based and acoustic analyses of rhotic vowels produced by children with and without speech sound disorders: Further analyses from the Memphis Vowel Project. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 28(5), 297–315. 
  • Chung, H., Kong, E-J., Edwards, J., Weismer, G., Fourakis, M., & Hwang, Y. (2012). Cross-linguistic study of children's and adults' vowel spaces. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131 (1), 442-454.  
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