Hyowon Kwon

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh

City
Post code
EH8 9AD

Biography

Background

I am a PhD student working on bilingual language processing and psycholinguistics. My PhD research focuses on how children with different language experiences—including monolingual, heritage, and returnee bilingual children—acquire and process morphosyntactic properties, such as case marking. Using Visual world eye-tracking paradigm, I investigate how children use grammatical cues to predict and interpret language in real time, and how these predictive skills translate into offline sentence comprehension and language production accuracy. More broadly, I am interested in how bilingual experience shapes language acquisition and cognitive processing across diverse bilingual populations.

Qualifications

PhD in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh (2024–present)

MSc in Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (2016–2017)

Responsibilities & affiliations

PPLS Senior Student Leader (Postgraduate) (November 2025–present)

Chair, Bilingualism and Developmental Linguistics Research Group (September 2024–present)

Undergraduate teaching

  • First Language Acquisition (2025-2026)
  • Second Language Acquisition (2024-2025)

Research summary

Bilingual Language Acquisition, Child Language Development, Predictive Language Processing, Psycholinguistics

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