Full Professor, 2004 to present
Department of English Education, Pusan National University
Pusan 609-735, Republic of Korea
http://www.englishedupnu.com/

Research Interests

Speech production, perception & synthesis
Speech recognition & therapy
English education & e-learning

Professional Experience

Editor-in-Chief, Speech Sciences ( http://www.speechsciences.or.kr/ ), Jan., 2006-Dec., 2007.
Professor, English Lang. & Litt. Dept., Dongeui University, 1991-2004.
Director, Center for American Studies, Dongeui University, 2003-2004.
Director, Foreign Language Education Center, Dongeui University, 2000-2002.
Visiting Scholar, Foreign Language Education Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2000.

Education

Ph.D., Foreign Language Education, The University of Texas at Austin, 1990.
Dissertation title: Development of vowel normalization procedures: English and Korean. http://fonetiks.info/bgyang/db/yangphd.pdf
M.A., English Language & Literature, Pusan National University, 1984.
Thesis title: A study on 'swing' toward heaven and earth in Robert Frost's poetry.
B.A., English Language and Literature, Pusan National University, 1982.

Academic Honors

Best Lecturing Professor, Pusan National University, 2010.
Best Presentation Award, The Korean Association of Speech Sciences, 2003.
Best Article Award, The Korean Association of Speech Sciences, 2002.
Rotary International Scholarship, The Rotary International, 1987-1988.
Hyowon Academy Award, Pusan National University, 1981.

Grants

Production and perception link in formant trajectories of American English vowels, Visiting Professors Program (Haskins & Yale Linguistics Dept), National Research Foundation of Korea, 2011.

Formant trajectories of English vowels produced by American children, National Research Foundation of Korea, 2010.

Formant trajectories of English high tense and lax vowels produced by Korean and American speakers, Pusan National University, 2004-2007.

A statistical analysis of phonetic features of laryngeal speech, Korea Health Industry Development Institute, 2002-2003.

A study on speakers’ inherent features and adaptation models for speaker recognition, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, 1999-2003.

Current Membership

The Acoustical Society of America
The Korean Association of Speech Sciences
The Acoustical Society of Korea
The Applied Linguistics Association of Korea
The Korean Association of Teachers of English
The Linguistic Society of Korea

Selected Publications

pdfs available at http://fonetiks.info/bgyang/kpapers.htm

Differences between vocalization evoked by social stimuli in feral cats and house cats. Behavioural Processes 87(2), 183-189. 2011. (co-author)

Formant trajectories of English high tense and lax vowels produced by Korean and American speakers. Korean Journal of Linguistics 35(2), 407-423, 2010.

An analysis of the English l sound produced by Korean students. Speech Sciences 15(1), 53-62, 2008.

An acoustical study on the syllable structures of Korean numeric sounds. Speech Sciences 14(1), 137-147, 2007.

Discrimination of synthesized English vowels by American and Korean listeners. Speech Sciences 13(1), 7-27, 2006.

Korean students' pronunciation of minimal pairs of English words with a fricative. JACET Annual Review of English Learning and Teaching 10, 35-45, 2005.

A comparative study of glottal data from normal adults using two laryngographs. Speech Sciences 10(1), 15-26, 2003.

An acoustical study of English word stress produced by Americans and Koreans. Speech Sciences 9(1), 77-88, 2002.

Perceptual experiment on number production for speaker identification. Speech Sciences 8 (1), 7-19, 2001.

A comparative study of English and Korean monophthongs produced by male and female speakers. Journal of Phonetics 24, 245-261. 1996.

A voice onset time comparison of English and Korean stop consonants. Dongeui Journal 20, 41-59, 1993.

An acoustical study of Korean monophthongs produced by male and female speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 91(4), 2280-2283, 1992.

A review of contrastive analysis hypothesis. Dongeui Journal 19, 133-149, 1992.

Presentations at International Conferences

An acoustical study of English diphthongs produced by American males and females. May, 2011. Seattle, Oregon.

Formant trajectories of English vowels. VOICE 2010: The 4th World Voice Congress. September, 2010. Seoul, Korea.

Improving English pronunciation using a free software Praat. ASIA TEFL. August, 2009. Bangkok, Thailand.

An acoustical comparison of English tense and lax vowels. Acoustical Society of America. May, 2009. Portland, Oregon.

An analysis of the English l sound produced by Korean students. Acoustical Society of America. November, 2008. Miami, Florida.

An acoustical study of English consonant-vowel syllables. Acoustical Society of America. June, 2007. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Identification of English consonants by Korean students. Acoustical Society of America. December, 2006. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Korean students' repetition of English sentences mixed with noise at various speed. Acoustical Society of America. October, 2005. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Teaching English pronunciation using a speech software Praat. IATEFL China. August, 2005. Tonghua, China.

Discrimination of synthesized English vowels by American and Korean listeners. Acoustical Society of America. May, 2004. New York, New York.

Speaker identification by difference sum and correlation coefficients of narrow-band spectrum. Acoustical Society of America. April, 2003. Nashville, Tennessee.

An acoustical study of English word stress produced by Americans and Koreans. Acoustical Society of America. June, 2002. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

A study on the production-perception link of English vowels produced by native and non-native speakers. EuroSpeech. September, 2001. Aalborg, Denmark.

Perceptual experiment on Korean number production. Acoustical Society of America. June, 2001. Chicago, Illinois.

Production and perception of English vowels. Acoustical Society of America. May, 2000. Atlanta, Georgia.

Measurement and synthesis of the vocal tract of Korean monophthongs. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. July, 1999. San Francisco, California.

Vowel perception by formant variation. Acoustical Society of America. June, 1998. Seattle, Washington.

Perceptual contrast in the Korean and English vowel system normalized. International Congress of Speech and Language Processing. June, 1996. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

An acoustical study of Korean vowels. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics. January, 1993. Boston, Massachusetts.