Soonja Choi, Ph.D., SDSU

Soonja Choi, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita of Linguistics

Dept. Linguistics & Asian/Middle Eastern Languages

San Diego State University

schoi@sdsu.edu

Ph.D.: 1986, Linguistics, SUNY, Buffalo.

Maîtrise: Applied Linguistics, Université de Paris IV.

M.A.: French Language & Literature, Seoul National U.

I am a professor emerita of linguistics and senior advisor to the Korean Studies Program at San Diego State University; I also conducted research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna, Austria (2012-2021), with support from WWTF, Vienna Science and Technology Foundation (2016-2021).

About my research

My primary research interest is to understand the relationship between language and cognition from infancy to adulthood, comparing Korean to other languages. Current projects involve cross-linguistic comparisons (Korean, English, French, German) with database from both naturalistic speech samples and controlled experiments. Specific topics include:

Relationship between language and cognition in Space and Evidentiality;
First language acquisition in Korean;
Development of spatial semantic categories;
Development of complex sentences in clause chaining and syntactic expressions for motion events.

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