Sylvia Cho
PhD Candidate, Sessional Lecturer
Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research Themes: Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism
Sylvia Cho is a Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia and Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on phonetic variation in multilingual speech as well as multilingual voice quality. 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.
Cho also 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.
Research Interests
- multilingualism
- voice quality
- acoustic phonetics
- speech perception
- speech production
- sound change
