Soonja Choi - Curriculum Vitae#

• Ph.D. 1986 Linguistics, University of Buffalo, New York
  
• Maîtrise 1980 Applied Linguistics, Université de Paris III, France
  
• M.A. 1976 Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  
• B.A. 1972 French, Sacred Heart Women's College, Seoul, Korea
  

• 1988 - 1996 Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands Development of spatial terms in Korean and English-speaking children. (Collaboration with Dr. Melissa Bowerman)
  
• 1986 - 1987 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada
  

• 9/08 - present Director, Korean Program, Dept of Linguistics & Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
  
• 9/02 - 5/12 Graduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics, SDSU
  
• 8/01 - 6/02 Chair, Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages, SDSU
  
• 9/00 - 8/01 Graduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics, SDSU
  
• 8/97 - 8/00 Chair, Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages, SDSU
  
• 1/93 - 7/97 Graduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics, SDSU
  
• 1/93 - 5/96 Member, Academic Planning Committee, College of Arts and Letters, SDSU
  

• 2013 - present: On Editorial board for Language, Interaction, and Acquisition
  
• 1988 - present: Ad hoc reviewer of Journal of Child Language, Cognitive Development, Child Development, First Language, Cognition, Lingua
  
• 1999 - 2001: AATK (American Association for Teaching Korean) board member
  
• 1995 - 1998: Member of the advisory panel in the Linguistics Program at National Science Foundation
  

• 2016 - 2020: Vienna Science and Technology Fund (CS15-001); How language shapes Perception/Cognition in Space and Evidentiality: A contrastive study of German and Korean; Co-PI with Ulrich Ansorge. EUR 600,000.
  
• 2007 - 2011: National Science Foundation (BCS-0721263); Language-specific input, Crosslinguistic differences and spatial cognition: A case of ‘support’ relation. $165,004
  
• 2003 - 2006: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1 R03 HD043831-01); Spatial semantics and cognition from infancy to adulthood. $151,000
  
• 2001 - 2003: National Science Foundation (BCS-0091493); A crosslinguistic study of spatial categorization from the preverbal stage to adulthood $198,217
  
• 2002 - 2002: Research, Scholarship, a& Creative Activity Grant, College of Arts and Letters, SDSU; The relation between semantics and cognition: A study of spatial categorization from the preverbal stage to adulthood in English and Korean. $2500
  
• 1993 - 1996: National Science Foundation (Grant #SBR-9310494); The origins of children's spatial semantic categories: A cross-linguistic study of English, Korean, and Dutch. $160,747
  
• 1994 - 1995 Daewoo Research Foundation; Linguistic Theory and the Acquisition of Korean Semantics and Syntax II. (collaboration with ten co-principal investigators); $10,000
  
• 1990 - 1992: National Science Foundation (Grant #BNS-9010883); The origins of children's semantic categories of spatial relations: A cross-linguistic study of English, Korean, and Dutch. $35,000
  
• 1984 - 1985: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant (#BNS-8405033); $4403