Mi-Hyun Kim

  • Teaching Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics
  • Korean Program Coordinator
  • Estuary: Language

Office Hours

Spring 2019: Monday 12:00-2:00

Courses Taught

  • Beginning Korean
  • Intermediate Korean
  • Advanced Korean
  • Korean Culture
  • Language and Society in Korea
  • Korean Linguistics

Education & Training

  • Ph.D., Korean Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
  • M.A., Linguistics, Seoul National University
  • B.A., Linguistics, Seoul National University

Representative Publications

  • In press: Oh, S. & Kim, M. "Collocation usage by learners of Korean: Analysis and pedagogical implication," Festschrift for Professor Ho-min Sohn.
  • 2004, Kim M. "Transfer of Korean manner assimilation to English," Language Research 40(3), 713-736.

Conference Presentations

  • (with Sang-suk Oh) "Acquisition of Three Korean Conjecture Modal Patterns," 17th Annual Conference and Workshop. American Association of Teachers of Korean. June 29–July 1, 2012.
  • (with Sang-suk Oh) "Collocation Usage by Learners of Korean: Analysis and Pedagogical Implication," 16th Annual Conference and Workshop. American Association of Teachers of Korean. June 23–25, 2011.
  • "Oral Corrective Feedback," 14th Annual Conference and Workshop. American Association of Teachers of Korean. June 25-27, 2009.
  • "Asymmetrical Behavior of Word-Initial Liquids in Korean," Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics XI. Harvard University, August 5–7, 2005.

Research Interests

  • Korean Linguistics: Concentrating Phonology and Phonetics
  • Teaching Korean as a foreign language