Hyunah Ahn

Ph.D student

M.A. Michigan State University

hyunah.ahn@hawaii.edu

Starting from the question how L2 acquisition can be influenced by learners’ L1 background and/or age of initial exposure to L2, Hyunah’s research interests range from sentence processing on the interface of phonology and semantics/syntax to morpheme acquisition in relation to the metrical structures of learners’ L1 and L2 phonology.

Research Interests
-       Child/adult Korean/Japanese L1 speakers’ English acquisition
-       Child/adult English/German L1 speakers’ Korean acquisition
-       Intonational Phrase boundary tones and thematic role disambiguation in Korean
-       Metrical structures of English and Korean phonology and their influence on morpheme acquisition in L1-L2 English and Korean

Teaching Experience
-       ELI 73: Writing for foreign students
-       SLS441: Language concepts in second language learning and teaching