Mingi Park completed her B.A. in English Language and Literature at Hanyang University in 2024 and began her graduate studies in English Language in the same year. Her academic interests focus on how speakers' prior linguistic experience serves as a source of variation in speech production patterns. In her previous research, “Does Phrase-Initial Denasalization Extend Beyond Seoul Korean? Evidence from North Gyeongsang Korean,” she investigated phrase-initial denasalization across dialects and found that speakers' dialectal background was associated with the degree of denasalization under identical prosodic conditions within a single language. This led her to extend this line of inquiry to her M.A. research on cross-linguistic influence on speech production. She investigates which prosodic and phonetic realizations native speakers of American English and Korean speakers of L2 English employ to disambiguate syntactic ambiguity and how these realizations pattern across speakers. She further aims to examine disambiguation patterns in Korean and their possible influence on L2 production.

Junseo Choi is an M.A. student in English Linguistics at Hanyang University. His research focuses on the prosodic encoding of pragmatic meaning and the acoustic differences between L1 and L2 speech production. He is particularly interested in how Korean learners of English realize intonational patterns and how these differences can be modeled using AI-based approaches.
He has developed AI-driven pronunciation and prosody evaluation systems using contrastive learning and acoustic feature analysis, aiming to visualize and quantify the L1-L2 prosodic gap. His long-term goal is to integrate experimental phonetics and machine learning to build interpretable speech feedback systems that bridge theoretical phonology and practical language education.