Research Interests
Language acquisition of morpho-syntax, Natural Language Processing, Psycholinguistics
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
accepted
Hwang, H. The impact of subordination type and finiteness on second language development in timed impromptu writing: An NLP-based analysis using the Subordination Sophistication Analyzer. Written Communication.
in press
Kim, H., & Hwang, H. Effects of pronominal reference on the integration of syntactic and semantic information in second language processing. International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
2024
Hwang, H., & Kim, H. Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP tool for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production.
Language Testing. https://doi.org/10.1177/02655322231222596
2023
Hwang, H. Wanna contraction in first language acquisition, child second language acquisition, and adult second language acquisition.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000640
2023
Kim, H., Kim. K., Jo, K.,
Hwang, H. Sensitivity to syntactic dependency formation in child second language processing: A study of numeral quantifiers in Korean.
Language and Cognition, 15, 763–785.
https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.16
2023
Hwang, H., & Kim, H. Automatic analysis of constructional diversity as a predictor of EFL students’ writing proficiency.
Applied Linguistics, 44, 127–147.
https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amac046
2022
Kim, H., &
Hwang, H. Assessing verb-construction integration in young EFL learners: Analyses of written and spoken production.
Language Learning, 72, 497–533.
http://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12480
2022
Hwang, H. Syntactico-semantic realizations of pronouns in the English transitive construction: A corpus-based analysis.
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 18, 115–143.
http://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2019-0061
2020
Kim, H., Shin, G-H., &
Hwang, H. Integration of verbal and constructional information in the second language processing of English dative constructions.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42, 825–847.
http://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000743
2020
Hwang, H., Jung, H., & Kim, H. Effects of written versus spoken production modalities on syntactic complexity measures in beginning-level child EFL learners.
The Modern Language Journal, 104, 267–283.
http://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12626
2017
Kim, H.,
Hwang, H., & Rah, Y. Young EFL students’ reliance on path-breaking verbs in the use of English argument structure constructions.
Journal of Cognitive Science, 18, 341–366.
http://doi.org/10.17791/jcs.2017.18.3.341
Conference Proceedings
2018
Deen, K., Bondoc, I., Camp, A., Estioca, S., Hwang, H., Shin, G.-H., Takahashi, M., Zenker, F., & Zhong, J. (2018). Repetition brings success: Revealing knowledge of the passive voice. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 200–213). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Research Grants and Awards
2024-
Future Leaders in Digital Humanities Fellows Program
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Amount: USD$7,000 (for a Professional Certificate in Artificial Intelligence)
2024-2026
Research Data Management Development Fund
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
“Corpus and artificial intelligence: A step toward automated essay scoring”
Amount:HK$100,000
2023-2024
Direct Grant for Research
Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
“Predictive processing in native and nonnative language: An interdisciplinary study combining psycholinguistics and computational linguistics”
Amount: HK$94,971
2022
Granite Tower Best Teaching Award
Korea University, Republic of Korea
2022
Teacher Award
Seoul Bukbu District Office of Education, Republic of Korea
2020
College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature Excellence in Doctoral Dissertation Research Award
University of Hawai‘i, USA
“Contrasts between VP-ellipsis and Gapping in L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, and L2 processing”
Amount: US$500
2019
Dai Ho Chun Scholarship
University of Hawai‘i, USA
“How do different processes of speaking and writing affect syntactic complexity in child second language production?”
Amount: US$4,000
2015-2020
Fulbright Scholarship, US Government, USA
Amount: US$70,000
