Hiyon Yoo

Enseignant-chercheur

Présentation générale

After completing my PhD on the interface between prosody, syntax, and information structure, I was appointed as a maîtresse de conférences (Associate Professor) at the Department of Linguistics at Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 in 2004.

I am currently the Deputy Director of the Department of Linguistics. I am also managing the First Year of the Master Track Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics, part of the Linguistics Master Degree. 

I defended my Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) on the following topic: " Questioning Prosody: from sounds to discourse"

 

Since my PhD, my research interests have expanded to include corpus linguistics and the study of prosody acquisition in second language learning.

• Phonetics and phonology

• Prosodic structure

• Prosody and its interfaces

• Corpus linguistics

• French as a Foreign Language (speaking skills)

• ICT for oral language teaching

• First and second language acquisition

• Game based pedagogy applied to language teaching

 

Projets de recherche

• member of the InIdex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (2025-2031)
• member of the LABEX Project Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (http://www.labex-efl.org) (2011-2025-
  • Co-manager, with Giuseppina Turco, of the subproject "Language-specific prosodic cues to sentence processing" within Axis 2; also a member of several other subprojects.
• IdEX Emergence in Research Project, coordinated by Ioana Chitoran: "Son-Discours – From Sound to Discourse: Computer-based modelling of large-scale data to study linguistic change over time" (2020–2022), Université de Paris.
• Hubert Curien Program – Parrot: "Surprise Questions from a Comparative Perspective" (2019–2020), coordinated by Agnès Celle (France) and Anu Treikelder (Estonia).
• Hubert Curien Program – Procope: "Surprise Questions from a Comparative Perspective" (2019–2020), coordinated by Agnès Celle (France) and Andreas Trotzke (Germany).
• ANR–DFG Project “PATHS”, coordinated by Ioana Chitoran: "Paths to phonological complexity: Onset clusters in speech production, perception, and disorders" (2015–2018).
• Bilateral project between Université Paris Diderot and Seoul National University: Construction of a bilingual corpus (French learners of Korean and Korean learners of French), initiated and led by myself (2015–2017).
• ANR CONTINT Project PHOREVOX (2012–2014), coordinated by Olivier Boëffard (IRISA, Lannion): A multidisciplinary project aiming to develop a tool to support the learning of written French through the use of speech technologies.
• IARI Project (2015) Participation in the working group including Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge), Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA), Trudel Meisenburg (Universität Osnabrück), and Mathieu Avanzi (Université de Neuchâtel) for the development of a ToBI system for French. This work was part of a broader collaboration aiming to compare Romance languages and propose a linguistic atlas (under the direction of Pilar Prieto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and Sonia Frota, Universidade de Lisboa). http://prosodia.upf.edu/iari/

Tools of scientific mediation for the general public:

• Goose game for children : A-t-on besoin des mots pour parler ? : You can download the game board and the associated cards from here 

Enseignement

• Phonétique générale et expérimentale (introduction à niveau avancé), niveau licence et master
• Phonétique et phonologie du français pour le cursus FLE (Licence)
• Phonétique et didactique (Master 1)
• Prosodic analysis and Topics in prosody (Master 1 et 2)
• Speech perception (M2)
• Phonologie de laboratoire
• TICE, ludopédagogie et enseignement des langues (Master 1 dt 2)
• Description du français parlé (Licence)
• Initiation aux outils d'analyse de la parole (Praat, Winpitch etc.), de statistiques (R) et de montage d'expériences de perception (Praat, Psychopy)

Direction de thèses

 

• Hồng Quang Châu (co-supervision with Ioana Chitoran) Prosody in Contact: Systematicity and Adaptation in Northern Vietnamese Tones among French-Dominant Heritage SpeakersContrat Doctoral funding
• Erik Morris     (co-supervision with Doris Mücke for U. of Köln and Ioana Chitoran) : “Dialect exposure and speaker variability in L2 aquisition: Segmental and Prosodic features of Greek” - ARTES funding
• Liu Ziqi            (co-supervision with Jalal Al-Tamimi) : "Phonological transfer in L3 acquisition of ironic tone of voice: An acoustic and perceptual study of Mandarin-English bilinguals learning French as a third language" (Université Paris Cité, Paris, 2023-ongoing) – Chinese Scholarship Council funding
• Rachel Albar   “Production et perception des contours continuatifs français par des apprenants japonophones, Université Paris Cité, 2017-2022) - Contrat doctoral funding 

A selection of master students preparing the track Phonetics and Phonology

• Sophie Weller            (co-supervision with Giuseppina Turco) Mode of Processing & Motivation: Examining the Automatic Selective Perception Model through L1 French speakers’ imitations of English /iː/ and /ɪ/ 2025
• Hồng Quang CHÂU    F₀ and voice quality: Effects of tonal training on Northern Vietnamese tone perception among naïve L1 French listeners - 2025
• Yelien Ma                   Analyse prosodique des questions sur le wh-mot 어떻게 ettehke ‘comment’ en coréen - 2025
• Haohan Zhang           (co-supervision with Lisa Brunetti), Quand aussi nous confond - Ladésambiguïsation prosodique de l’association avec le focus et le bilinguisme. 2024
• Erik Morris                 (co-supervision with Ioana Chitoran) The effect of multiple dialect exposure on non-native perception: A case study in Greek - 2024
• Bénédicte Grandon   Production et perception d’un « accent étranger » : Prosodie de locuteurs coréanophones en français - 2013
• Delphine Griffet         Autour de l'affrication : une étude transversal dans l'espace francophone - 2017

A selection of Master students preparing the track Applied linguistics to French as a Foreign Language

• Estella Gu                   Améliorer la compétence orale des apprenants sinophones par le biais de la ludopédagogie - 2024
• Sz-Wei CHen              (co-direction avec Claire Saillard) La distinction entre l’exclamative et l’interrogative du français par le public sinophone: à l’aide de la prosodie ou de la pragmatique? – 2020
• Sarah-Nio Coulibali    Enseigner le FLE par le jeu pour travailler la compétence orale : Élaboration d’un Escape Game – 2019
• Sumera Shamsi          L’interférence et l’influence de l’intonation de l’Ourdou en classe de FLE - 2017
• Chae-Yeon KIM          « Conception d’un programme de formation de FLE en ligne avec suivi personnalisé » - 2015

Bibliographie

You can find my recent publications here.