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Yoonjung Kang

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ResearcherPhonologyUniversity of Toronto

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Yoonjung Kang

Researcher

Phonology

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 SSHRC), most recently in 2022.

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2

Publications

0

Collaborators

9

Grants

Publications by year

24

26

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Research

speech perception sound change speech rate speech production sociophonetics phonetics phonology Names

Latest papers

Speech rate and the perception of consonant and vowel length in Japanese: Neural entrainment and episodic memory.
JASA express letters · 2026 · senior author
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception.
Language and speech · 2024 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

New Sounds 2025: The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$44,915
Sound patterns of gender in personal names
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$31,091
Sound patterns of gender in personal names
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$23,371

All 9 grants and awards

New Sounds 2025: The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Schertz, Jessamyn

Keywords: linguistics; speech; phonetics; phonology; second language acquisition; doctoral workshop

$44,915

Sound patterns of gender in personal names

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: Names; Phonology; Gender; Phonetics

$31,091

Sound patterns of gender in personal names

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: Names; Phonology; Gender; Phonetics

$23,371

Speech rate variation and sound change: From today's variation to tomorrow's innovation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: sound change; speech rate; speech production; speech perception; sociophonetics

$45,342

Speech rate variation and sound change: From today's variation to tomorrow's innovation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: sound change; speech rate; speech production; speech perception; sociophonetics

$119,717

Bilingualism, perceptual drift, and regularization of loanwords

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: bilingualism; Korean; loanwords; language contact; phonetics; phonology; speech perception;sound change; English

$204,375

A corpus-based study of Korean dialects: microvariation and language universals

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: dialects; Korean; sound change; language contact; adaptive dispersion; linguistic atlas

$199,238

Cross-language perception and loanword adaptation under sound change in progress

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: loanword; language change; cross-language speech perception; dialects

$32,183

International Conference on East Asian Linguistics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Kang, Yoonjung

Keywords: Linguistics; Korean; Japanese; Chinese; phonology; phonetics; syntax; semantics; language acquisition

$8,940

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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