Hiyon Yoo

Enseignant-chercheur

Présentation générale

After completing my PhD on the interface between prosody, syntax, and information structure, I was appointed as a maître 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. 

 

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

 

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/

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.