miran.kim

Miran Kim
Ph.D. Student
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º Study interest: Phonetics and Phonology of prosody, including lexical stress/accent/tone, F0-alignment and linguistic variation, intonation & meaning, isochrony, and rhythm.
º Paper presentations & publications

/miran/ thinks,

"to study languages without sound would be
to appreciate food with no taste or
Monet in black and white."
Photos taken by Miran Kim - "Water Lilies (1920-1926)", Claude Monet, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.

• 30: Linguistics Recording room reservation
For Stonybrook linguists: we are currently using a yahoo calendar for sharing the information regarding the recording room availability. Following this link, make sure that you are not looking at your own calendar page.Technical problems/questions can be asked to Miran.

• Educational Background
- Doctoral dissertation in progress. •Tentative title:
Phonetic details of prosody-driven segment variation:
variability, syllable constituency, and rhythm
• Dissertation advisor: Dr. Marie K. Huffman
- M.A. in LinguisticsKorea University Graduate School, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• Thesis title:
Focus and intonation of interrogative sentences in Korean
• Thesis co-chairs: Dr. Jae-Woong Choe & Dr. Keeho Kim

- B.A. in Linguistics Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

• Current projects
• Sardinian Prosody - Languages in focus (map)
• Prominence Perception study
• Synchronous speech

• ♪ Praat scripts: download (under revision)
- TextGrid maker, TextGrid update/chekup, Temporal measurement, COG measurement, Harmonics, etc.
- Useful links for Praat script download

• Working papers: [+full version]
Topic-specific linkº Variability in speech production and perception
º Prosody and segment interaction:
º Prominence, phonological phrasing, and focus
º Non-native phoneme perception
º Synchronous speech: speech rate and F0 variation
º Fricatives


• Curriculum Vitae- as of Spring 2009

•Teaching ExperiencesInstructorTeaching Assistant
º LIN522 Phoneticsº LIN201/522 Phonetics
º LIN344 Literacy Developmentº LIN344 Literacy Development
º LIN301 Phonology
º LIN200 Languages in the US
º AAS201 Introduction to Indian Civilization


• Personal interests:La Verda mondo, Esperanto




I. Paper Presentation Download
    ºKim, Miran. 2010. "Cross-dialectal study on temporal modulation patterns in stress manifestation," 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, 8-10 July, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[Abstract]
    ºKim, Miran & Lori Repetti. 2010. "Identifying stress placement with clitics in Arborese Sardinian: How phonetics helps us to understand phonology and syntax," Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) Conference 2010 Sound, Structure, Meaning: Explorations at the Interface, 12-14 February, Gergetown University, Washington D.C.
[Abstract]
    º Kim, Miran & Hosung Nam. 2009. "A comparative study of stress manifestation in Latin American Spanish," PaPI09 Phonetics and Phonology in Iberian Languages, June 17-19, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
[Abstract]
    º Kim, Miran & Hosung Nam. 2009. Pitch accommodation in synchronous speech, 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May.
[Abstract][poster]
    º Kim, Miran. 2009. "Prominence perception: conflicting cues and linguistically encoded bias," 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech: Cross-language perception and variations in Linguistic Experience, Portland, Oregon, 22-23 May.
[poster]
    º Kim, Miran & Hosung Nam. 2008. "Synchronous speech and speech rate," Acoustics '08 Paris, The 2nd ASA-EAA Joint conference, (ASA: the Acoustical Society of America, and EAA: the European Acoustics Association), June 28- July 4, Paris, France.
[handout ; paper]
    º Kim, Miran. 2006. "Multiple cue interpretation in non-native phoneme perception:Korean listeners’ perception of English [s] in varied prosodic contexts," 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii.
[poster handout]
    º Kim, Miran. 2006. "Prosodic effects on segments and non-native phoneme perception: a case study of English /s/ perception by Korean listeners". CUNY/SUNY/NYU Conference, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.
[slide handout]
    º Kim, Miran. 2005. "Focus-Driven Prosodic Restructuring: Deaccenting in English and Dephrasing in Korean," LISM 04 (The Long Island Sound Meeting), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
[abstract]
    º Kim, Miran. 2001. “The Implicational Meaning and Prosody of Conjunctive Marker ‘-ko’ in Korean,” Conference of the Korean Association of Speech Sciences, Jeju University; Jeju, Republic of Korea.
    º Kim, Miran. 2000. "The pitch patterns of question sentences related to focus," Conference of the Korean Association of Speech Sciences, Republic of Korea.
II. Publications Download
    º Miran Kim & Hosung Nam. 2008. "Synchronous speech and speech rate," Proceedings of Acoustics '08 Paris. Online access through HAL (the open archives of the CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
[paper]
    º Miran Kim. 2006. "Multiple cue interpretation in non-native phoneme perception:Korean listeners’ perception of English [s] in varied prosodic contexts," JASA Vol.120, Issue 5, pp. 3172-3173, PACS: 43.71.Hw.
    º Miran Kim. 2001. “The Implicational Meaning and Prosody of Conjunctive Marker ‘-ko’ in Korean”, Korean Journal of Speech Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 4
    º Miran Kim, Jae-woong Choe, Keeho Kim & Shin Donghyun. 2000. “Pitch Patterns of Interrogative Sentences in relation to Focus”, Korean Journal of Speech Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 4.


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