Nielson Hul

Dr. Nielson Sophann Hul joins the department as Khmer Lecturer. He has earned a BA in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MA In Linguistics from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University. He is the former Khmer Language Coordinator for SEASSI at University of Wisconsin, Madison and has taught Khmer at Cornell University, Yale, and for various governmental entities. He is interested in the sociophonetics and phonology of Khmer in Cambodia and the American diaspora. He is also interested in the development and acquisition of languages in heritage speakers in general.