Seung Suk Lee

seungsuklee at umass.edu
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
650 N Pleasant St, Amherst
MA 01003
ILC N421A
Github
CV (updated: May 2023)

My name is Seung Suk Lee (이승석 [i.sɨŋ.sʌk]), and I also go by Josh.

I'm a fourth year PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

I am interested in how we perceive sounds categorically from the varying input signal, and also in the relations between the linguistic representation and learning.
In particular, I am interested in how the segmental realization is conditioned by the prosodic structure and how humans might learn this interdependency from the acoustic signal.

I mostly focus on Korean but I also have worked on other languages such as Hakha Chin and Luganda.


Research Interests
  • Phonetics-prosody interface
  • Corpus phonetics
  • Computational phonology
  • Categorical perception
  • Phonological learning

Recent updates
  • Aug 2023 I am presenting a poster and a talk at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023) in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • May 2023 I am presenting a poster at the HISPhonCog in Seoul, South Korea.
  • May 2023 SoftStress : a python software to test the representability and learnability of a constraint set (foot/grid based) on a stress pattern. Implemented in a google colab notebook with guidelines and examples.
  • Oct 2022 I presented a poster at AMP 2022 at UCLA. [poster] [paper]
  • Jun 2022 I got married!!!

Publications

  • Lee, S. S. To appear. Detecting Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean using tonal and segmental cues. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf]

  • Hughes, C., Lee, S. S., Farinella, A., and Yu, K. M. To appear. Detecting Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean using tonal and segmental cues. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf]

  • Lee, S. S., Hughes, C., Farinella, A., and Pater, J. To appear. “Learning Stress with Feet and Grids: Annual Meeting on Phonology”. In Noah Elkins, Bruce Hayes, Jinyoung Jo and Jian-Leat Siah (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. [pdf]

  • Darcy, I., Rocca, B., Hancock, Z., and Lee, S. S. 2020. Do individual differences in stress perception and in selective attention relate to improvements in spontaneous speech? Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (FLuL), 49(2): 28-45. doi:10.2357/FLuL-2020-0017 [link]

  • Lee, S. S. and Berkson, K. 2019. Speech-rate effects in a 3-category language: Evidence from Hakha Chin. Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures, 1(1). [link]