Dr Yuni Kim
Lecturer in Linguistics
Office: Room N.G.9, Samuel Alexander Building
Address: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 6565
Email: yuni.kim@manchester.ac.uk
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-4 p.m.
Personal Web Page: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yuni.kim/
Research specialisation
My research is primarily in phonology (both synchronic and diachronic) and the interfaces of phonology with morphology and phonetics. I am involved with fieldwork and documentation of Huave, an indigenous language of southern Mexico, and also do research on Swedish and Finnish.
Publications
Articles and proceedings
2008. "Liljendaldialektens fonologi i sprShistorisk belysning." [The phonology of the Liljendal (Eastern Nyland, Finland) dialect in historical perspective.] In Helena Palm}n, Caroline Sandstram and Jan-Ola ...stman, eds., Dialektforskning vol. 1. Helsinki: Nordica.
2006. "Variation and Finnish influence in Finland-Swedish dialect intonation." In Gilbert Ambrazaitis and Susanne Schatz, eds., Proceedings from Fonetik 2006. Working Papers from the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics 52. Lund University.
2005. "On the phonetics of unstressed /e/ in Stockholm Swedish and Finland Swedish." In Anders Eriksson and Jonas Lindh, eds., Proceedings of Fonetik 2005: the XVIIIth Swedish Phonetics Conference. Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University.
Selected conference presentations
2008. "Representational issues in Huave fission and diphthongization." 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul.
2008. "The interaction of phonological and morphological conditions on affix order in Huave." Workshop on Affix Ordering at the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna.
2007. "Consonant-vowel interactions and vowel copy epenthesis in Huave." 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
2006. "Tone rules and downstep in Tiriki." (With Mary Paster.) 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Eugene.
2005. "Finnish neutral vowels: subcontrastive harmony or V-to-V coarticulation?" Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Oakland.
Professional biography
I did my first degree in Linguistics with emphasis in Germanic languages at Harvard, and wrote a B.A. thesis in the area of phonological theory ("Phonological features: privative or equipollent?"). Following my undergraduate studies, I spent one year on a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Helsinki, conducting sociophonetic and dialectological research on Swedish as spoken in Finland. In 2008, I received my Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley with a fieldwork-based thesis on the phonology and morphology of the Mesoamerican language isolate Huave. I joined the staff at the University of Manchester in January 2009.
Teaching areas
I teach phonetics and phonology for students in Linguistics and for psychology students doing Speech and Language Therapy. I would be happy to supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students with research interests in phonetics, phonology, morphology, (socio-)historical linguistics, languages of the Nordic countries, or native languages of the Americas.