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Hyunju Chung

Assistant 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 Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at LSU and the director of the LSU 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

  • Chung, H.  (Principal Investigator). Semivowel errors as Speech Sound Disorders diagnostic marker, Louisiana Board of Regents Research Competitiveness Subprogram, $137,453 awarded (June 2018 – June 2021).
  • Chung, H. (Mentor),  Powery, Kaela. (Student). Undergraduate Research Program, LSU Discover Fall Research Grant, $900 awarded (Fall 2019) and $1,200 (Spring 2020). 
  • Chung, H. (Mentor), Powery, Kaela. (Student). LSU College of Humanities & Social Sciences ASPIRE Undergraduate Summer Research Program, $1000 awarded per summer (2019)
  • Chung, H. Lessons for Success Conference, American Speech and Hearing Foundation, ASHA Research Conferences Travel Grant Recipients (April 23-25, 2018). 
  • Chung, H.  (Principal Investigator). Facilitative phonetic contexts for English lateral liquid /l/ productions in young children, ASHF Foundation New Investigator Research Grant, $10,000 awarded (Dec 2017- Dec 2018). 
  • Chung, H. (Principal Investigator). Manship & College Summer Research Fellowships, $5,000 awarded (2018).
  • Chung, H., Gibson, T.A., & Kim, Y-J. Updating Speech Technology in Classroom and Clinical Practice with Ultrasound Devices, Student Tech Fee, Louisiana State University, $45,692 awarded (2018).
  • Chung, H. (Mentor), Lauren, M (Student) & Lauren, D.M (Student). LSU College of Humanities & Social Sciences ASPIRE Undergraduate Summer Research Program, $1000 per summer (2017-2018).  
  • Chung, H. Junior Faculty Travel Grant, LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, $750 awarded (Nov 2017).
  • Chung, H (Mentor). LSU College of Humanities & Social Sciences ASPIRE Undergraduate Summer Research Program (Summer 2017).
  • 2017 PI, A longitudinal analysis of young children’s semivowel production, LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend Award, $5,000.
  • 2012-2013 Co-PI (PI: Dr. Karen Pollock), Rhotic vowel acquisition in children with and without Speech Sound Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Internal Grant, University of Alberta, Canada, $8,000
  • 2009, Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin Madison, $500.

Academic Degrees

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

Recent Publications (since 2012)

  • Chung, H. (accepted). Acquisition and acoustic patterns of American English /I/ in young children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
  • Chung, H., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (accepted) Cross-linguistic perceptual categorization of the three corner vowels: effects of listener language and talker age. Language and Speech.

  • Chung, H. (2020). Vowel acoustic characteristics of variation of Southern American English in Louisiana. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147 (1), 541-553.                                      DOI: 10.1121/10.0000505.

  • Chung, H. & Pollock, K. E. (2019). Acoustic characteristics of rhotic vowel productions of young children. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 1-12. doi: 10.1159/000504250.

  • 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., Nearey, T. M., Hodge, M., Pollock, K. E., & Tucker, B. V. (2012). Preliminary Statistical Pattern Recognition Methods in the Study of Vowels Produced by Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders. Proceedings of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Canadian Acoustics – Acoustique Canadienne, 40 (3), 18-19.
  • 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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