About

Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences Of Language

(HIPCS)

Director: Taehong Cho, Ph.D.

#104, College of Humanities, Hanyang University,
222, Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul (04763), Korea
Tel: +82-2-2220-2507

Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS), formerly "The Institute for Performative Humanities" established in 2005, was newly re-established in the College of Humanities at Hanyang University in 2017, with a new name as part of an effort to promote the Hanyang University Specializing Projects for linguistic and interdisciplinary aspects of phonetics and cognitive sciences of language.

The main research areas of HIPCS are experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, L1 and L2 acquisitions. Current research topics of HIPCS include prosody-phonetics interface in speech production and comprehension, articulatory dynamics in spoken language, spoken word recognition, sentence processing, and neurolinguistic aspects of morphological processess and L1/L2 learning. 

HIPCS has two laboratories:

: which houses a speech recording studio, two speech perception studios, and 11 PCs for data recording and analysis; the state-of-the-art experimental facilities such as Electro-Magnetic Articulography (EMA) for articulatory movement tracking and Eye Link II for eye movement tracking.

: which houses a state of art EEG/ERP system (32 channel Neuroscan).