Sylvia Cho, PhD Student
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Interests
Acoustic phonetics; speech perception; speech processing; neurolinguistics
About
Sylvia Cho (she/her) is a PhD student and Sessional Instructor at the Department of Linguistics of 尤物视频. Due to her childhood experiences growing up in Alberta and BC, during which she learned to speak both Korean and English, Sylvia is fascinated by the ways that exposure to multiple languages shape and affect the way people speak and sound. Her research interests include multilingualism, speech perception, speech production, second language acquisition, voice quality, neurolinguistics, and sociophonetics.
In particular, she is interested in whether multilingual speakers (e.g., Korean-Canadians in Vancouver) change their voice quality based on the language they are using and whether these multilinguals participate in the ongoing sound changes of Canada in the same way as their monolingual counterparts. Through her research, Sylvia aims to explore the bigger question of how sound change and voice quality contribute to one's identity as well as how different languages are represented within a speaker in speech production and perception.
Publications and presentations
- Research Gate profile:
- April 10, 2025: Presentation at the SFU 3MT Finals, titled Same Person, Different Voice? How Multilingualism Shapes Voice Perception. Video of the presentation will be shortly.
Awards
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship