Sunyoung Oh

Dr. Sunyoung Oh serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies within the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia, holding a PhD in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia. She actively contributes to academic governance as a Board Member of The Korean Society of Bilingualism since 2024 and maintains an ORCID profile (0009-0005-3511-1450).

Her academic credentials include:

• BA in Sociology from Sogang University (thesis: Women's status in family and education in North Korea)
• MA in Linguistics from Sogang University (thesis: Subject-drop in English and Korean children)
• PhD in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia (thesis: Articulatory gestures of English /l/ in speech development)

Dr. Oh's research spans Korean linguistics, historical linguistics (Chinese-Korean-Japanese), sociolinguistics, and language development with specialized focus on articulatory phonetics, bilingualism, discourse analysis, and pre-modern Korean studies. Her work integrates cultural literacies and identity within language education frameworks, directly advancing UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).

Her publication record reveals a consistent trajectory in cross-linguistic phonetic analysis, particularly examining affricates, fricatives, and liquids across East Asian languages and English. This research demonstrates practical applications in speech perception training and second language acquisition, with her 2006 Journal of Phonetics article accumulating 98 Scopus citations.

No scientific awards or prizes are documented in the current profile.

She actively supervises Higher Degree by Research students at UWA, offering projects in language pedagogy, translingualism, historical linguistics, and articulatory phonetics. Her supervision approach emphasizes teacher education and discourse analysis methodologies within Asian language contexts.

Through her board membership in The Korean Society of Bilingualism, Dr. Oh engages with international research networks focused on multilingualism. While no dedicated laboratory facilities are specified, her work is institutionally embedded within UWA's Asian Studies department and leverages cross-institutional collaborations in phonetic research.