[1][2] After this she went to study in France, and received a master's degree in applied linguistics from Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in 1980.
[3] In 2008, she founded the Korean Studies Program at SDSU, and she remains its senior advisor.
From 1988 to 1996, she was active as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where she collaborated with Melissa Bowerman.
A recurring theme, especially in work with Melissa Bowerman, has been the extent to which these domains provide evidence for or against the hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
[4] More recently, she has worked on evidentiality (linguistic coding of information source) and clause chaining construction in Korean.https://sites.google.com/view/soonja-choi-ph-d-sdsu/home