CVRESEARCH INTERESTS


Speech production, speech perception and their relation
The role of coproduction (or coarticulation) and prosody in lexical access
The cognitive processes of reading

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EDUCATION

2003 Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Honours), University of Sydney, Australia
Majors: Linguistics, Psychology
Minor: Germanic Studies
Thesis: Perception and Positional Asymmetry in Korean Phonology
Supervisor: Toni Borowsky
Associate supervisor: Caroline Jones

2001 Study Abroad Program
University of British Columbia, Canada

2003- Graduate student, Department of Linguistics, USC
2005 M.A. Department of Linguistics, USC

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PUBLICATIONS

D. Byrd and S. Choi (2005). Syllable and phrase structure effects on consonant sequence timing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118: 2035.
S. Choi and D. Byrd (2005). Evaluating gestural overlap as an influence on perception of consonant clusters. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118: 2036.
D. Byrd and S. Choi (to appear). At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics-The interaction of phrasal and syllable structure in shaping the timing of consonant gestures. Papers in Laboratory Phonology X.

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HONOURS AND AWARDS

Graduate Merit Award Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC, 2003
Honours Class I, University of Sydney, 2003
International Office Merit Exchange Scholarship, University of Sydney, 2001
University of Sydney Union Outstanding Leader, Australian discussion groups for international students, 2001
Total Australia Award for French 1AB, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, 1999

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EMPLOYMENT

Teaching Assistant USC, Language and Mind (LING 275), Fall 2004 for Profs Dani Byrd and Toben Mintz
Teaching Assistant USC, Language and Mind (LING 275), Fall 2005 for Profs Todd Haskell and Abigail Kaun
Teaching Assistant USC, Language and Mind (LING 275), Spring 2006 for Profs Todd Haskell and Barry Schein
Research Assistant to Prof. Dani Byrd, Summer 2005
USC Phonetics Laboratory Manager, Summer 2004, 2005, 2006; Academic year 2006-2007
Supervising Linguist, Appen Pty Ltd (Speech Technology), 2001-2002


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SERVICE

Western Conference on Linguistics, Call for Papers and Abstract Committee, 2004
Founder, Sydney University Linguistics Society, 2001; President, 2001-2002
Treasurer, Sydney University Liberal Studies Degree Society (LSDS), 2001

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LANGUAGES

English - native
German - intermediate
French - intermediate
Korean - basic

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