Christine MoonKyoung Cho

Position:

Assistant Professor in English
College:

College of Liberal Arts
Office:

GEH B317
您的邮箱:

mcho@wku.edu.cn

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of Oxford

Biography

Dr. Cho is originally from South Korea, but she spent her formative years in the United States and completed her Ph.D. in the United Kingdom. Before joining WKU, she taught linguistics courses at Ohio University. Dr. Cho’s love for music naturally spills into her research and teaching — she’s fascinated by the musical aspects of language, especially intonation.

Dr. Cho is all about staying active and eating healthy. Whenever she finds some free time, she’s probably running around, doing grocery shopping, cooking, or running around a grocery store.

Research interests

Emotional intonation, Acoustic analysis, Second language speaking, and AI and Human emotional interaction

Selected Publications/scholarly and creative work

“Prosodic Expression of Emotion in Chinese-English Bilinguals: Effects of Language, Emotion types, and Lexical items”, 2026 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference (accepted)

“Influence of pitch modulations on Chinese English learner’s perception of the degree of offensiveness”, Poster presentation, 2024 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference

Cho, C. M., & Dewaele, J. M. (2021). A crosslinguistic study of the perception of emotional intonation:Influence of the pitch modulations. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000674