Sun-Ah Jun

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Sun-Ah Jun (born November 6, 1959) is a Korean-American professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1]

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Education

Jun received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Ohio State University in 1993, with a dissertation entitled, The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody. [2]

Research

As a professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, Jun is known for her research in the areas of Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Intonational Phonology, Prosody, and Language Acquisition. [3] She is the editor of two influential volumes on cross-linguistic studies of intonation: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing as well as of Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing.

Honors and distinctions

In 2014-2015 Jun was the President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. [4]

In 2024-2026 Jun is the President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. [5]

In 2025 Jun was elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [6]

Selected Publications

Jun Sun-Ah. 1998. The Accentual Phrase in the Korean prosodic hierarchy. Phonology 15(2):189-226. doi:10.1017/S0952675798003571.

Jun, Sun-Ah, ed. 2005. Prosodic Typology: the Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199208746.

Jun, Sun-Ah, ed. 2015. Prosodic Typology: the Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198745402.

Jun, SA. & Fougeron, C. 2000. A Phonological Model of French Intonation. In: Botinis, A. (eds) Intonation. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 15. Dordrecht: Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4317-2_10

References

  1. "Sun-Ah Jun 전선아". linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  2. "The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody". ohiolink.edu. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
  3. "Sun-Ah Jun". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  4. "Past ICKL Presidents – ICKL". ickl.net. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  5. "Executive Council | Labphon". labphon.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
  6. "Fellows". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved 13 February 2025.