Website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sylvia-Cho

Interests

Acoustic phonetics; speech perception; speech processing; neurolinguistics

About

Sylvia Cho (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Being a BC local from the Fraser Valley who grew up speaking both Korean and English, Sylvia is fascinated in how 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

See my Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sylvia-Cho

Awards

• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship