Welcome

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter. I am part of a research team with Nicolas Dumay and Arthur Samuel, working on the role of sleep in language learning and memory consolidation. We are particularly interested in the nature of lexical representations and the time course of word learning. Prior to joining the current research team, I completed my PhD in Linguistics with Meghan Clayards at McGill University. My PhD research focused on plasticity in speech learning in native and second-language speakers.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in phonetics, laboratory phonology, speech perception and production, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition. My research focuses on understanding the linguistic representations and cognitive processes involved in speech perception and production, second-language speech learning, and word recognition and learning. I am particularly concerned with how these processes differ across individuals and how they can inform language learning and processing.

• Individual differences in perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar phonetic categories

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• Individual differences in the link between perception and production and the mechanisms of phonetic imitation

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• A longitudinal study of individual differences in the acquisition of new vowel contrasts

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• Individual differences in second language speech perception across tasks and contrasts: The case of English vowel contrasts by Korean learners

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• Reconciling subphonemic mismatch effects and other psycholinguistic tests of lexical engagement

  Nov 21, 2020, 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics 2020)

• Individual differences in plasticity in speech perception under cognitive load

  Jul 5, 2020, The Satellite Workshop of the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17)

• The role of cognitive abilities in speech perception under cognitive load: An individual differences approach

  Sep 27, 2019, 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019)

• Individual differences in plasticity in speech perception under cognitive load

  Jun 11, 2019, 5th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM2019)

• Individual differences in perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar speech sound categories

  Jun 10, 2019, 5th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM2019)

I was a teaching assistant for the following courses:

• Phonetics at McGill University (LING 330, Winter 2017)
• Introduction to the Study of Language at McGill University (LING 200, Fall 2016)
• Introduction to the Study of Language at McGill University (LING 200, Winter 2016)
• Introduction to the Study of Language at McGill University (LING 200, Fall 2015)
• College English at Seoul National University (2012)
• Modern Society and Global Language at Seoul National University (2011)
• Intensive English Course for College Students at Andong National University (2009)

• dkim@kumoh.ac.kr
• Washington Singer Building, Room 218, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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