Conference/Workshop Presentations and Invited Talks

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

Invited Talks and Lectures

 

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops: (back to top)

Jun, Sun-Ah and Jason B. Bishop (May 19, 2009) “An acoustic study of /w/ in Korean”, a poster presented at the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon. 18-22 May, 2009.

 

Huang, Becky H. and Sun-Ah Jun (April 2, 2009) “Learning Second Language Prosody: The Earlier the Better?”, a poster to be presented at SRCD Biennial Meeting Program, Denver, Colorado. 

 

Oh, Janet, Terry K. Au, and Sun-Ah Jun (Nov. 1, 2008) "The Nature of Childhood Language Memory: Korean Adoptees Learning Korean as Adults", a talk given at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 33, Boston, MA, Oct. 31-Nov.2, 2008.

 

Huang, Becky and Sun-Ah Jun (Nov. 1, 2008) "Age Constraints on the Acquisition of Second Language Prosody", a poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 33, Boston, MA, Oct. 31-Nov.2, 2008.

 

Shue, Yen-Liang, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Markus Iseli, Sun-Ah Jun, Nanette Veilleux and Abeer Alwan (Sept.. 2008) "Effects of Intonational Phrase Boundaries on Pitch-Accented Syllables in American English", a paper to be presented at the INTERSPEECH 2008:  International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Brisbane, Australia.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah, Chad Vicenik, and Ingvar Lofstedt (July 24, 2008) "Intonational Phonology of Georgian", a talk given at the Special Session on Phonetics and Phonology, organized by Donca Steriade, the 18th meeting of International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Molly Shilman (May 8, 2008) “Default Phrasing and English Relative Clause Attachment Data”,  a poster presented at Speech Prosody 2008, May 6-9,  2008. Campinas, Brazil.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Hee-Sun Kim (August 10, 2007) "VP Focus and Narrow Focus in Korean", a poster presented at ICPhS, Saarbruecken, Germany.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah, Chad Vicenik, and Ingvar Lofstedt (August 5, 2007) "Intonational Phonology of Georgian", a poster presented at the Workshop on Intonational Phonology: Understudied or Fieldwork Languages. A satellite meeting of ICPhS, Saarbruecken, Germany.

 

Au, Terry, Janet S. Oh, Leah Mirasol Knightly, Sun-Ah Jun, and Laura Fajardo Romo (March 29-April 1, 2007) “Salvaging a Childhood Language”, a poster presented at the SRCD Biennial Meeting Program. Boston, MA.

Kim, Hee-Sun, Sun-Ah Jun, Hyuck-Joon Lee, and Jong-Bok Kim (2006) “Argument Structure and Focus Projection in Korean”, a poster presented at Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany. 

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Oct. 20, 2005) "Phonological acquisition of a Korean child: An acoustic study", a talk given at the 150th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 17-21 October 2005.

 

Arbisi-Kelm, Timothy & Sun-Ah Jun (Sept. 11, 2005) "A comparison of disfluency patterns in normal and stuttered speech", a talk given at the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, an ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, 10-12 September, 2005, Aix-en-Provence, France.

 

Schafer, Amy and Sun-Ah Jun (March 31-April 2, 2005) "Effects of focus on prosodic cues to clause boundaries", a poster presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah & Sahyang Kim (Oct. 8, 2004) "Default Phrasing and Attachment Preference in Korean", a poster presented at the INTERSPEECH 2004-ICSLP (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing), Jeju, Korea.

 

Jun, Jongho, Jungsun Kim, Hayoung Lee, Sun-Ah Jun (March 24, 2004) “The prosodic structure of Northern Kyungsang Korean”, a poster presented at Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan .

 

Jun, Jongho and Sun-Ah Jun (Jan. 10, 2004) “The Prosodic Structure and Pitch Accent of Northern Kyungsang Korean ”,  a talk given at the 78th Annual Meeting of 2004 Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA.

 

Scarborough, Rebecca & Sun-Ah Jun (Aug.8, 2003) “ Intonational Phonology and the Domain of Liaison in French”, a poster presented at the 15th ICPhS , Barcelona, Spain , August 3-9, 2003 .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah ( Aug. 3, 2003) “The effect of phrase length and speech rate on prosodic phrasing”, a talk given at the 15 th ICPhS, Barcelona, Spain . August 3-9, 2003

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Chisato Koike (Aug.2, 2003) “Default Prosody and RC Attachment in Japanese”, a talk given at the 13th Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference, East Lansing, Michigan. 

 

Oh, Janet. S., Terry K. Au, Leah Knightly, and Sun-Ah Jun (May 3, 2003), “Late Second Language Learners: What Predicts Good Outcomes?”, a talk given at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Arizona State University, April 30-May 3, 2003.  

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Chisato Koike ( March 29, 2003), “Prosody and Attachment Preference in Japanese: Production and Perception,” a poster presented at the International Workshop on Prosodic Interfaces.  Nantes, France. March 27-29, 2003. 

 

Brown, Rebecca and Sun-Ah Jun (December 2002). “ Intonational phonology and the domain of French liaison”, a poster presented at the First Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Iberoamerican Federation of Acoustics, and Mexican Institute of Acoustics. 2-6 December, 2002, Cancun , Mexico .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Sept. 2002) “Syntax over Focus”, a poster presented at International Conference on Spoken Language Proceesing. Denver, Colorado. 

 

Oh, Janet. S., Terry K. Au, & Sun-Ah Jun (November 2001).  "Benefits of Childhood Language Experience for Adult L2-learners' Phonology.", a poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

 

Schafer, Amy & Sun-Ah Jun (July 2001) “Effects of focus on prosodic reflections of phrase structure in American English”.  Poster presented at the Prosody in Processing Workshop, Utrecht , Netherlands .

 

Knightly, Leah M., Olivia Martinez, & Sun-Ah Jun (April, 2001).  “Second language pronunciation: The role of childhood language experience”.  Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN .

 

Oh, Janet. S. & Sun-Ah Jun (April 2001) "Does Early Passive Exposure to a Language Help Adult Learners?",  Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN .

 

Schafer, Amy & Sun-Ah Jun (Jan. 2001) "Effects of focus on prosodic disambiguation of PP attachment", Talk presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of 2001 Linguistic Society of America, Washington , D.C.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah, Sook-hyang Lee, Keeho Kim & Yong-Ju Lee (2000) “Labeler Agreement in Transcribing Korean Intonation with K- ToBI ”, ICSLP (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing), Beijing, China

 

Jun, Sun-Ah & Mira Oh (2000) “Acquisition of 2nd Language Intonation”, ICSLP, Beijing,   China

Schafer, Amy & Sun-Ah Jun (June 2000) “Accentual Phrasing and Syntactic Disambiguation  in Korean”, Laboratory Phonology VII.  Netherlands .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah & Mira Oh (May 2000) “Acquisition of Second Language Intonation”, Acoustical Society of America,  Atlanta, Georgia .

 

Oh, Janet, Sun-Ah Jun & Terry Au (May 2000) “Does early speaking experience in Korean  help adult learners?”, Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Cho, Taehong & Sun-Ah Jun (April 2000) “Enhancement of laryngeal features as domain   initial strengthening in Korean: An aerodynamic evidence”, Chicago Linguistics  Society.

 

Schafer, Amy & Sun-Ah Jun (Jan. 2000) “Prosodic Phrasing Effects in Korean Sentence  Comprehension”, at the 74th Annual Meeting of 2000 Linguistic Society of  America, Chicago, IL.

 

Baltazani, Mary & Sun-Ah Jun (Aug. 1999) “Focus and Topic intonation in Greek”, at the  XIVth meeting of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco,  CA.

 

Fosnot, Suzi & Sun-Ah Jun (Aug. 1999) “Prosodic characteristics in children with stuttering  or autism during reading and imitation”, at the XIIIth meeting of the International  Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA.

 

Knightly, Leah M., Sun-Ah Jun, Terry K-F. Au, & Motoko Ueyama (April 1999)  “Overhearing Spanish in Childhood: Does it help adult learners sound better?”,  a poster presented at 1999 Biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child  Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Hyuck-Joon Lee (Dec. 1998) “Phonetic and Phonological markers of  Contrastive Focus in Korean ”, presented at the International Conference on  Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Cécile Fougeron (Sept. 1997) “A Phonological model of French   intonation”, a poster presented at the ESCA Workshop on Intonation, Athens,  Greece .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Gorka Elordieta (Sept. 1997) “Intonational structure of Lekeitio Basque”,   a poster presented at the ESCA Workshop on Intonation, Athens, Greece .

 

Hsu, Chai-shune and Sun-Ah Jun ( Jan. 3, 1997) “Prosodic strengthening in Taiwanese:   Syntagmatic or Paradigmatic ?”, at the 71st Annual Meeting of 1997 Linguistic  Society of America, Chicago, IL .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Christina Foreman (Dec. 1996) “Boundary tones and focus realization in  African American English intonation”, at the 132nd meeting of the ASA and the  3rd joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the Acoustical  Society of Japan (ASJ), Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

Hsu, Chai-Shune and Sun-Ah Jun (Dec. 1996) “Is Tone Sandhi Domain Part of the   Prosodic Hierarchy in Taiwanese?”, at the 132nd meeting of the ASA and the  3rd joint meeting of the ASA and the ASJ, Honolulu, Hawaii .

 

Kim, Hyun-Gi, Sun-Ah Jun, and Seiji Niimi (Dec. 1996) “Acoustic and aerodynamic   studies of Korean vowel devoicing”, at the 132nd meeting of the SA and the  3rd joint meeting of the ASA and the ASJ, Honolulu, Hawaii .

 

Ueyama, Motoko and Sun-Ah Jun (Nov. 9, 1996 ) “Focus Realization of Japanese English   and Korean English Intonation” at the 7th Japanese Korean Linguistics  conference, Los Angeles , CA .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (July 1996) “Influence of microprosody on macroprosody: a case of phrase   initial strengthening”, at the fifth meeting of the Laboratory Phonology  conference, Evanston , IL.

 

McDonough, Joyce and Sun-Ah Jun (July 1996) “An experimental study of oral and nasal  airflow in Korean n/l sequences across various phonological boundaries”, at the  fifth meeting of the Laboratory Phonology conference, Evanston , IL.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Nov. 1995) “An acoustic study of Korean Stress” at the 130th meeting of  Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Cécile Fougeron (Aug. 1995) “The Accentual Phrase and the Prosodic Structure of French” at the XIIIth meeting of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm , Sweden .

 

Fougeron, Cécile and Sun-Ah Jun (Aug. 1995) “Properties of French intonation at Fast  Speech Rate” at the XIIIth meeting of the International Congress of Phonetic  Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Mary Beckman (Sept. 1994) “Distribution of Devoiced High Vowels in  Korean,” at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,  Yokohama, Japan

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Mira Oh (Sept. 1994) “A Prosodic Analysis of Three Sentence Types  with “wh” Words in Korean,” at the International Conference on Spoken  Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Jan. 1994) “Accentual Phrase and syntax in Korean”, at the 68th meeting of  the Linguistics Society of America, Boston, MA .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Aug. 1993) “Asymmetry of prosodic effects on the glottal gesture in  Korean” at the Laboratory Phonology IV conference, Oxford University, England.

 

Beckman, Mary, Jennifer Venditti, and Sun-Ah Jun (Feb. 1993) “Prosody, syntax, and  other organizational structures in Japanese, Korean and English”, at the  conference ‘From Signal to Syntax’, Brown University .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Mary Beckman (Jan. 1993) “A gestural -overlap analysis of vowel devoicing in Japanese and Korean ,” at the 67th Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, CA .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Aug. 1992) “The Status of Lenis Stop Voicing Rule in Korean,” presented at  the 8th International Conference on Korean Linguistics, Washington, D.C.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah and Mira Oh (July 1992) “The Domain of Spirantization and /s/- palatalization ,” presented at the 3rd Seoul International Conference on  Linguistics, Seoul, Korea .

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Jan. 1992) “The Domain of Nasalization and the Prosodic Structure of  Korean,” presented at the 66th Linguistic Society of America, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah, Sook-hyang Lee, Mary E. Beckman, and Ken de Jong (Nov. 1991) “The  Role of the Jaw in Consonant Articulation,” presented at the 122nd meeting of the  Acoustical Society of America, Houston, Texas.

 

Cowie, Islay and Sun-Ah Jun (May 1991) “Interference: A Study of ‘new’ vs. ‘similar’   vowels in Korean and English,” presented at the 121st  meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore , Maryland.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (Aug.1990) “The Prosodic Structure of Korean - in terms of voicing,”  presented at the 7th International Conference on Korean Linguistics, Osaka,  Japan.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (May 1990) “The Domain of Laryngeal Feature Effects in Chonnam Korean,”  presented at the 119th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State  College, Pennsylvania.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (May 1990) “Labial Position and Acoustics of Korean and English High  Vowels,” presented at the 119th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,  State College, Pennsylvania.

 

Jun, Sun-Ah (May 1989) “The Accentual Pattern and Prosody of Chonnam Dialect of  Korean,” presented at the 117th meeting of the Acoustical Soc. of Am.,  Syracuse, New York.  (A revised version was presented at the Harvard   Workshop on Korean Linguistics, Cambridge, Mass. August 1989.)
 

Invited Talks and Lectures:  (back to top)

Feb. 19-21, 2010  (Title: TBA) An invited speaker of “Special session: Prosody in Grammar, Acquisition and Processing”, the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Univ. of Southern California, CA.

 

Nov. 12, 2009    “Focus Domains and Complex NP focus in Korean”, Invited speaker of 19th Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

 

July 27, 2008.     “Prosodic Structure of Korean: Adding an Intermediate Phrase”, a talk at the 2nd Workshop on Korean-ToBI (K-ToBI), Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

 

April 25, 2008.    “Focus: Domains, Types, and Realizations”, a Colloquium talk at the Dept .of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

 

April 15, 2008.    “Focus: Domains, Types, and Realizations”, a Colloquium talk at the Dept .of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

 

Apr. 12, 2008.    “Default Phrasing and Relative Clause Attachment”, Invited speaker, Workshop on “Prosody: Production and Perception", organized by Michael Wagner (Cornell) and Duane Watson (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-champaign), Ted Gibson (MIT), Cornell Univ. April 12-14, 2008.

Jan. 19-23, 2008. “Realizations of Focus in Korean: Focus Types and NP Focus”. Workshop on Prosody and Information Structure: Forms and Functions of Prosodic Structure. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

 

Sept. 14, 2007.   “Defining and Explaining Prosodic Phrasing: An Overview”, an invited talk at the Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure 3, Indiana University. Sept. 14-15, 2007.

 

Nov. 4, 2006.     “Focus: The domain and realizations”, an invited speaker at the International Symposium in honor of Prof. Di Cristo's retirement, Aix-en-Provence, France. 

 

June 16, 2006.    “Focus in English and Korean”, a special lecture at the Annual Conference of Korean Society of Language and Information (KSLI), Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea.    

 

June 21-22, 2006. “How to prepare to study abroad”, an invited talk at the Language Education Center and Department of English Language and Literature, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea.

 

Dec. 1, 2005.      “The Role of Intonation in Sentence Processing”, an invited speaker of the International Symposium of Korean Language and Culture, Choongnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Dec. 1-3, 2005.

 

Nov. 30, 2005. “How to write academic papers in English", "Preparing for Admission to a graduate program in the States”, invited talks at the Language Education Center, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea.

 

Nov. 28, 2005.   “Implicit Prosody Hypothesis and the Intermediate Phrase in Korean Intonation”, at the department of Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

 

Aug. 7, 2005.      “Phonological Development of Korean: a case study”, an invited speaker at the 11th meeting of the Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (Harvard-ISOKL) , Aug. 5-7, 2005, Boston, MA.

 

Nov. 6, 2004.     “Intonational Phonology of Korean Revisited”, an invited speaker at the 14th Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference, Tucson, Arizona. Nov. 5-7, 2004.

 

Sept 10, 2004.    “The Intermediate Phrase in Korean Intonation: Evidence from Sentence Processing Data”, an invited speaker at the International Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe, Santorini, Greece. Sept. 9-11, 2004.

 

May 10, 2004     “Default Phrasing and Attachment Preferences in Japanese and Korean”, Dept. Colloquium talk at the Dept. of Linguistics, UCSD, San Diego, CA

 

April 29, 2003.    “Prosody and Attachment Resolution” an invited talk at Berkeley Bonwit-Heine Lecture series, Berkeley.

 

April 25, 2002.    “Default Phrasing and Attachment Preferences”, Colloquium talk at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara . Santa Barbara , CA .

 

March 21, 2002. “Factors Affecting Prosodic Phrasing: Syntax over Focus", an Invited talk at the 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing , CUNY Graduate School and University Center. March 21-23, 2002.

 

July 20, 2001.     “Focus, Phrasing and Scope”.  Invited talk at the Workshop on Topic, Focus and Intonation .  UC, Santa Barbara , in conjunction with the 2001 LSA Summer Institute.

 

June 25 – Aug. 3, 2001.  “Intonation and its linguistic function ”, 6 week lectures at the Summer Institute of Linguistic Society of America, UCSB, Santa Barbara , CA .

 

May 10, 2001.    “Intonation and Prosodic Phonology”; “Accentual Phrasing and Sentence Processing in Korean”, invited talks at the Department of Linguistics (Prof. Leben's class and Phonolgoy Workshop), Stanford University .

 

July 14, 2000.     “Accentual Phrasing in Sentence Processing” at the International Conference on Korean Linguistics, Prague, the Czech Republic (could not attend).

 

July 7, 2000.       “Prosody in Sentence Processing”.  A keynote speaker at the Acoustical Society of Korea. Korea (could not attend).

 

Aug. 2, 1999.      “Effects of Accentual Phrasing on Adjunct Attachment in Korean”, at the International East Asian Psycholinguistics Workshop. Columbus, Ohio . (with Amy Schafer)

 

Aug. 1, 1999.      “Korean ToBI: phonetic and phonological tone tiers”, at the Workshop on Intonation: Models and ToBI Labelling , a satellite meeting of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco , CA.

 

Sept. 8, 1998.     “Intonational Phonology of English and Korean”, Invited talk at Chonbuk National University , Jeonju , Korea .  Also in Sept. 7, 1998, at Chonnam National University , Kwangju, Korea .

 

Sept. 4, 1998.     I: “Intonational Phonology of English, Japanese, Korean, and Korean Tone and Break Indices (K- ToBI )”, II: “Review of studies related to prosody in recent American framework”, & III: K- ToBI model and its problems”.  Lectures at Workshop on Korean Prosody , Taejeon , Kwangju .  Sponsored by Taedeok Sori Sarang , Korea

 

Aug. 22, 1998.    “K-ToBI and Intonational Phonology of English, Japanese, and Korean”, lectures at K-ToBI Workshop, Seoul, Korea .   Sponsored by Korean Association of Speech Science and Korean Phonology Circle .

 

May 11, 1998.   “Intonational Phonology of Korean and French”, Dept. Colloquium talk, Dept. of Linguistics. UC Berkeley.

 

Feb. 25, 1997.    “What is Prosody?”, an invited talk at the Speech Lab, Department of  Electrical Engineering, UCLA.

 

Sept. 15, 1994.  “Is it possible to pronounce a correct English as a Korean speaker ?”, an invited talk at the Chonnam National University, Korea.

 

Jan. 6, 1994.       “The Prosodic Structure of Korean”, an invited talk at the Haskins Laboratories, Connecticut .

 

Jan. 5, 1994.       “The Prosodic Structure of Korean”, an invited talk at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, Boston, MA.

 

Feb.20, 1993.     “The domains of laryngeal feature lenition in Korean”. Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.

 

Feb.19, 1993      “The Intonation and the Prosodic Structure of Korean”. Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.
 
 
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