​Invited Speakers
​Taehong Cho (Hanyang University, Korea)
Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Helen de Hoop (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Taehong Cho (Hanyang University, Korea)

Taehong Cho is a HYU Distinguished Research Fellow and Professor of Phonetics in the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Director of the Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language at Hanyang University. He earned his PhD degree in phonetics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 and subsequently worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen until 2005. His main research interest is in the interplay between prosody, phonology, and phonetics in speech production and its perceptual effects in speech comprehension. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Phonetics, and as book series editor for Studies in Laboratory Phonology (Language Science Press). He is also a member of Executive Council (Secretary) of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020-2024) and of the editorial board for Laboratory Phonology.

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Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Klaus von Heusinger (PhD 1992 and Habilitation 1999, University of Konstanz) is Professor in General and German Linguistics at the University of Cologne and the director of the Center for Language, Information and Philosophy. His main research interests are in theoretical and comparative linguistics with a focus on the semantic and pragmatic categories of nominal expressions and their syntactic, morphological and phonological encodings (definiteness, specificity, information status, focus and topic structure, discourse management). His current research projects include the discourse properties of definite and indefinite noun phrases, indefinite demonstratives, partitivity and Differential Object Marking in Romance and Altaic languages.
He is a member of Academia Europaea and is also serving as editor of the book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Brill and Linguistische Arbeiten, de Gruyter.
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Helen de Hoop (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Helen de Hoop (PhD 1992, University of Groningen) is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics and principal investigator of the research group ‘Grammar and Cognition’ at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. With her research she aims to gain more insight into how form relates to interpreation in context. Her work investigates both directions, i.e. from form to meaning (semantics/ pragmatics) and from meaning to form (syntax), as well as the interplay between the two. She uses empirical data obtained from experimental and corpus-based methods to contribute to linguistic theory. Her current research interests include pronouns (in particular second person pronouns), (differential) case-marking, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, and animacy. She is one of the editors of Journal of Linguistics.
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