Academic Employment
January 2022– Research Fellow (sponsored by NSF's SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship)
Present Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
September 2021– Staff Research Associate II
March 2023 Department of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California, USA
July 2020–August Postdoctoral Scholar
2021 Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
June 2018–June 2020 Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California, USA
Spring 2020, Spring Lecturer
2021 Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
Education
2018 Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Dissertation: The prosodic substrate of consonant and tone dynamics [.pdf]
Committee: Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd (Co-Chairs), Khalil Iskarous and Sandrah Eckel
2014 M.A. in Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Thesis: Resolving lexical ambiguity using sub-phonemic duration cues: Did you hear “place
kin” or “play skin”?
Committee: Elsi Kaiser, Louis Goldstein (Co-Chairs) and Dani Byrd
2012 M.A. in English Linguistics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Thesis: Effects of prosodic strengthening and lexical boundary on /s/-stop sequences in
English
Committee: Sahyang Kim (Chair), Taehong Cho and Shinwoong Lee
2007 B.A. (early graduation) in English Language and Literature, Chungnam National
University, Daejeon, Korea
Undergraduate Thesis: Some notes on L1 and L2 English production – acoustic signatures of
the foreign segment production
Honors and Awards
May 2023 ASA Early Career Travel Subsidy, 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
Chicago, Illinois
May 2023 Casselberry Award of the American Laryngological Association, 144th Annual Meeting
of the American Laryngology Association with the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
April 2022 Casselberry Award of the American Laryngological Association, 143rd Annual Meeting
of the American Laryngology Association with the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting,
Dallas, Texas
2022 (FY 2021) National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral
Research Fellowships, Co-PI Jelena Krivokapić, "The Temporal Organization of Prosody in
Multimodal Speech and Co-speech Gestures," $138,000 (1/1/2022–12/31/2023) [abstract]
December 2019 Young Investigator Travel Grant, 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America's
Women in Acoustics Committee, San Diego, California
May 2019 ASA Early Career Travel Subsidy, 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
Louisville, Kentucky
July 2015 GSG Travel Grant, Graduate Student Government, University of Southern California
May 2015 IPA Student Award for ICPhS-2015, International Phonetic Association [link]
August 2013 Best student paper award in Speech Communication – second place, International
Congress of Acoustics 2013 in Montreal [link]
2012–2017 Dornsife Doctoral Fellowship, The Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at
University of Southern California
2008–2009 University Fellowship, The Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang
University
2005–2007 Scholarship, The Department of English Language and Literature, Chungnam National
University
Research Experience
January 2022– Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Present Michigan, as Principal Investigator with co-PI Professor Jelena Krivokapić (funded by NSF)
September 2021– Staff Research Associate II in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at University of
March 2023 California, Los Angeles, for Professors Dinesh Chhetri and Jody Kreiman
(UCLA Bureau of Glottal Affairs)
July 2020–August Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles, for Professors Pat Keating
2021 and Jody Kreiman (funded by NSF)
June 2018–June 2020 Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles, for Professor Jody Kreiman
(UCLA Bureau of Glottal Affairs / funded by NIH & NSF)
September 2015–May MRI Acquisition Team, Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge group at
2018 University of Southern California with Professor Shrikanth Narayanan (USC SPAN group)
August 2015–May 2018 Research Assistant at University of Southern California for Professor Dani Byrd (Prosody
and articulatory dynamics in spoken language / funded by NIH)
August 2014–August Research Assistant at University of Southern California for Professor Louis Goldstein
2015 (ToPIQQ: Tonal Placement – the Interaction of Qualitative and Quantitative Factors /
funded by the Volkswagenstiftung)
February 2008–July Research Assistant at Hanyang University for Professor Taehong Cho (Interface between
2013 phonetics and phonology/prosody: acoustic and articulatory patterns of hyper-articulated
speech in Korean and English)
Publications
+ denotes MD candidate traineeJournal Articles
Under review Allen Shamsi, Matthew Masapollo, Jessica Goel, Yoonjeong Lee and Ratree Wayland.
Concurrent visualization and analysis of acoustic, flesh-point motion and
electroglottography signals during speech production: A tutorial.
2023 Hye Rhyn Chung+, Yoonjeong Lee, Neha Reddy, Zhaoyan Zhang and Dinesh Chhetri. Effects
of thyroarytenoid vibratory asymmetry on voice acoustics and perception. Lanyngoscope, 00,
2022 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Acoustic voice variation in spontaneous speech.
Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 151(5), 3462–3472. [.pdf] [link]
2022 Neha Reddy+, Patrick Schlegel, Yoonjeong Lee and Dinesh Chhetri. 3D reconstruction of
vocal fold medial surface deformation: Effects of superior and recurrent laryngeal
nerve stimulation on vibration and acoustics. Lanyngoscope, 00, 1– 9. [.pdf] [link]
2021 Yongwan Lim, Asterios Toutios, Yannick Bliesener, Ye Tian, Sajan Lingala, Colin Vaz, Tanner
Sorensen, Miran Oh, Sarah Harper, Weiyi Chen, Yoonjeong Lee, Johannes Töger, Mairym
Montesserin, Caitlin Smith, Bianca Godinez, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Krishna Nayak and
Shrikanth Narayanan. A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production
real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images. Scientific Data, 8, 187. [.pdf] [open access]
2021 Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein, Benjamin Parrell and Dani Byrd. Who converges?
Variation reveals individual speaker adaptability. Speech Communication, 131, 23–34.
[.pdf] [open access]
2021 Jody Kreiman, Yoonjeong Lee, Marc Garellek, Robin Samlan and Bruce Gerratt. Validating
a psychoacoustic model of voice quality. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 149(1),
2020 Yoonjeong Lee, Elsi Kaiser and Louis Goldstein. I scream for ice cream: Resolving lexical
ambiguity with sub-phonemic information. Language and Speech, 63(3), 526–549. [.pdf]
[link]
2019 Yoonjeong Lee, Patricia Keating and Jody Kreiman. Acoustic voice variation within and
between speakers. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 146(3), 1568–1579. [.pdf] [link]
2018 Miran Oh and Yoonjeong Lee. ACT: An Automatic Centroid Tracking tool for analyzing
vocal tract actions in MRI speech production data. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, Express Letters, 144(4), EL290–EL296. [.pdf] [open access]
2018 Yoonjeong Lee, Samantha Gordon Danner, Benjamin Parrell, Sungbok Lee, Louis Goldstein
and Dani Byrd. Articulatory, acoustic, and prosodic accommodation in a cooperative maze
navigation task. PLoS ONE, 13(8): e0201444. [.pdf] [open access]
2014 Taehong Cho, Yoonjeong Lee and Sahyang Kim. Prosodic strengthening in V#sCV versus
Vs#CV and its effect on phonetic implementation of an allophonic rule in English. Journal
of Phonetics, 46, 128–146. [.pdf] [open access]
2011 Taehong Cho, Yoonjeong Lee and Sahyang Kim. Communicatively driven versus
prosodically driven hyper-articulation in Korean. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 344–361. [.pdf] [link]
Conference Proceedings
2022 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Linguistic versus biological factors governing
acoustic voice variation. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, the 23rd Annual Conference of
the International Speech Communication Association. ISCA 2022. [.pdf]
2022 Miran Oh and Yoonjeong Lee. Dynamic vertical larynx actions under prosodic focus.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, the 23rd Annual Conference of the International
Speech Communication Association. ISCA 2022. [.pdf]
2022 Neha Reddy+, Yoonjeong Lee, Zhaoyan Zhang and Dinesh Chhetri. Optimal thyroplasty
implant shape and stiffness for treatment of acute unilateral vocal fold paralysis:
Evidence from a canine in vivo phonation model. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022,
the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
ISCA 2022. [.pdf]
2019 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Within and between speaker variation in voices.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [.pdf]
2015 Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan. Systematic variation in the
articulation of the Korean liquid across prosodic positions. Proceedings of the 18th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [.pdf]
2013 Yoonjeong Lee. Effects of prosodic strengthening on /s/-stop sequences in English.
Proceedings of the 21st International Congress on Acoustics with 165th Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America and 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association. [.pdf]
2011 Yoonjeong Lee. Prosodic strengthening of /sCV/ sequences in English. Proceedings of the
17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [.pdf]
Databases
2021 (LDC edition) Patricia Keating, Jody Kreiman, Abeer Alwan, Adam Chong and Yoonjeong Lee. The UCLA
Speaker Variability Database. LDC 2021S09. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data
Consortium. https://doi.org/10.35111/c5gk-6j49
2021 Yongwan Lim, Asterios Toutios, Yannick Bliesener, Ye Tian, Sajan Lingala, Colin Vaz, Tanner
Sorensen, Miran Oh, Sarah Harper, Weiyi Chen, Yoonjeong Lee, Johannes Töger, Mairym
Montesserin, Caitlin Smith, Bianca Godinez, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Krishna Nayak and
Shrikanth Narayanan. A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production
real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images. [dataset] [code]
2020 Patricia Keating, Jody Kreiman, Abeer Alwan, Adam Chong and Yoonjeong Lee. The UCLA
Speaker Variability Database. (Download from the UCLA Speech Processing and Auditory
Perception Laboratory website [link])
2019 Yoonjeong Lee, Patricia Keating, and Jody Kreiman. Dataset for "Acoustic voice variation
within and between speakers" (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Journal of Acoustical Society of
America. Zenodo. [link]
2017 Yoonjeong Lee, Samantha Gordon Danner, Benjamin Parrell, Sungbok Lee, Louis Goldstein
and Dani Byrd. Dataset for "Articulatory, Acoustic, and Prosodic Accommodation in a Cooperative
Maze Task" (Version 1.0) [Data set]. PLOS ONE. Zenodo. [link]
Conference Presentations and Abstracts
May 12, 2023 Yoonjeong Lee, Jelena Krivokapić, McLaren Lindsey, Vikas Tatineni and Lynn Yambaye. The
phrasal organization in speech gestures and co-speech head and eyebrow beats. Poster at the
184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago, Illinois, USA. [poster]
May 11, 2023 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Within- versus between-speaker acoustic variability in
Thai. Poster at the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
May 5, 2023 Hye Rhyn Chung, Yoonjeong Lee, Neha Reddy, Zhaoyan Zhang and Dinesh Chhetri.
Effects of thyroarytenoid vibratory asymmetry on voice acoustics and perception.
Talk at the 144th Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association in Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
December 9, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee. Understanding production variability in multimodal communication.
Invited talk in the cross-disciplinary special session Mapping Acoustic Features
to Production Mechanisms in Speech and Animal Communication, at the 183rd Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
December 7, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee, Jelena Krivokapić and Ruaridh Purse. Temporal organization of cross-modal
gestures in prosodic structure. Talk at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
December 6, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee, Neha Reddy, Hye Rhyn Chung, Zhaoyan Zhang and Dinesh Chhetri. Effects of
laryngeal vibratory asymmetry on voice acoustics and perception. Poster at the 183rd Meeting
of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
December 5, 2022 Jessica Goel, Matthew Masapollo, Yoonjeong Lee and Ratree Wayland. Concurrent visualization
and analysis of acoustic, flesh-point motion, and electroglottography signals during speech
production. Poster at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville,
Tennessee, USA.
September 20, 2022 Neha Reddy, Yoonjeong Lee*, Zhaoyan Zhang and Dinesh Chhetri. Optimal thyroplasty
implant shape and stiffness for treatment of acute unilateral vocal fold paralysis: Evidence
from a canine in vivo phonation model. Presentation at Interspeech 2022, the 23rd Annual
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association in Incheon, South
Korea. (See Proceedings above.) [slides]
September 19, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Linguistic versus biological factors governing acoustic
voice variation. Talk at Interspeech 2022, the 23rd Annual Conference of the
International Speech Communication Association in Incheon, South Korea. (See
Proceedings above.) [slides]
September 19, 2022 Miran Oh and Yoonjeong Lee. Dynamic vertical larynx actions under prosodic focus.
Talk at Interspeech 2022, the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech
Communication Association in Incheon, South Korea. (See Proceedings above.) [slides]
May 23, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Linguistic and personal influences on speaker variability.
Poster at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Denver, Colorado, USA.
April 29, 2022 Neha Reddy, Patrick Schlegel, Yoonjeong Lee and Dinesh Chhetri. (Full paper received the
ALA's Casselberry Award) 3D reconstruction of vocal fold medial surface deformation:
Effects of superior and recurrent laryngeal nerve stimulation on vibration and acoustics.
Talk at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association in Dallas,
Texas, USA. [slides]
December 1, 2021 Yoonjeong Lee, Marc Garellek, Christina Esposito and Jody Kreiman. A cross-linguistic
investigation of acoustic voice spaces. Poster at 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America in Seattle, Washington, USA. [abstract] [poster]
December 1, 2021 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Acoustic spaces for normal and pathological voices.
Poster at 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle, Washington, USA.
December 9, 2020 Miran Oh and Yoonjeong Lee. Focusing on vertical larynx action dynamics. Poster at 179th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics Virtually Everywhere. [abstract]
[iposter]
December 7, 2020 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Language effects on acoustic voice variation within and
between talkers. Poster at 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics
Virtually Everywhere. [abstract] [iposter]
December 4, 2020 Jody Kreiman and Yoonjeong Lee. The role of between- versus within-speaker acoustic
variability in vocal identity perception. Poster at 12th International Conference on Voice
Physiology and Biomechanics. [link].
January 3, 2020 Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein and Dani Byrd. Laryngeal consonant and tone dynamics in
Seoul Korean. Talk at the Linguistics Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting in New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [abstract]
December 5, 2019 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Within- and between-speaker acoustic variability:
Spontaneous versus read speech. Poster at 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America in San Diego, California, USA. [abstract] [poster]
December 5, 2019 Jody Kreiman and Yoonjeong Lee. The role of between- versus within-speaker acoustic
variability in vocal identity perception. Poster at 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America in San Diego, California, USA. [abstract] [poster]
August 8, 2019 Yoonjeong Lee, Patricia Keating, and Jody Kreiman. Within and between speaker variation
in voices. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Talk given
in the special session, Interpreting Acoustic Measurements of Voice Quality at the 19th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. (See Proceedings
above.) [slides]
May 17, 2019 Yoonjeong Lee and Jody Kreiman. Variation in voice quality within speakers. Poster at
177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. [abstract]
[poster]
January 4, 2019 Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein and Dani Byrd. Dynamical systems model of prosodic
asymmetries in the co-expression of phrasal and segmental tone. Talk at the Linguistic
Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting in New York City, New York, USA. [abstract]
November 8, 2018 Yoonjeong Lee and Louis Goldstein. The role of vertical larynx movement in the tense-lax
contrast of Seoul Korean stops across phrasal position. Poster at the 176th Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America in Victoria, Canada. [abstract] [poster]
December 4, 2017 Yoonjeong Lee and Louis Goldstein. Prosodic asymmetry in phonetic reorganization of
Seoul Korean 3-way voiceless stop contrast. Poster at the 174th Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [abstract] [poster]
December 1, 2016 Yoonjeong Lee, Samantha Gordon Danner, Benjamin Parrell, Sungbok Lee, Louis Goldstein
and Dani Byrd. Acoustic and articulatory measures of prosodic convergence in a
cooperative maze navigation task. Poster at the 5th Joint Meeting Acoustical Society of
America and Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. [abstract] [poster]
October 14, 2016 Yoonjeong Lee and Louis Goldstein. Global and local interaction of consonant type and
tone in the Korean Accentual Phrase. Poster at the 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics
Conference in Tokyo, Japan. [abstract] [poster]
July 17, 2016 Yoonjeong Lee, Samantha Gordon Danner, Benjamin Parrell, Sungbok Lee, Louis Goldstein
and Dani Byrd. Prosodic convergence during and after a cooperative maze task. Poster at
the 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology in Ithaca, New York, USA. [abstract] [poster]
August 10, 2015 Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan. Systematic variation in the
articulation of the Korean liquid across prosodic positions. Talk at the 18th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Glasgow, Scotland. (See Proceedings above.) [slides]
June 30, 2015 Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan. Articulatory characteristics of
Korean liquid production: Position-sensitive realization. Poster at Phonetics and
Phonology in Europe 2015 in Cambridge, England. [abstract] [poster]
October 2, 2014 Yoonjeong Lee, Elsi Kaiser and Louis Goldstein. I scream for ice cream: Resolving lexical
ambiguity with sub-phonemic cues. Poster at the 9th International Conference on the
Mental Lexicon in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. [abstract] [poster]
September 6, 2014 Yoonjeong Lee, Elsi Kaiser and Louis Goldstein. Resolving lexical ambiguity using sub-
phonemic duration cues: did you hear “place kin” or “play skin”? Poster at the 20th
Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing in Edinburgh, Scotland. [abstract]
[poster]
June 6, 2013 Yoonjeong Lee. (Best student paper award in Speech Communication – second place)
Effects of prosodic strengthening on /s/-stop sequences in English. Poster at the 21st
International Congress on Acoustics / 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America /
52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association in Montreal, Canada. [poster] (See
Proceedings above.)
August 21, 2011 Yoonjeong Lee. Prosodic strengthening of /sCV/ sequences in English. Talk at the 17th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Hong Kong, China. (See Proceedings above.)
Invited Talks, Colloquia and Guest Lectures
March 6, 2023 Yoonjeong Lee. The interdisciplinary study of voice. Virtual guest lecture for LING 413
Speech Science at University of Michigan (Instructor: Dr. Jelena Krivokapić) in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA.
Feb. 10, 2023 Yoonjeong Lee. The representation and choreography of linguistic prosody in articulation.
Colloquium talk at the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, Stanford,
California, USA.
Feb. 9, 2023 Yoonjeong Lee. Speech accommodation in interactional spoken language behavior.
Talk at the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Jan. 24, 2023 Yoonjeong Lee. Articulatory methodologies in phonetic research. Virtual guest lecture for
LIN4325 Speech Production at University of Ottawa (Instructor: Dr. Suzy Ahn) in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada.
Dec. 9, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee. Understanding production variability in multimodal communication.
Talk in the cross-disciplinary special session Mapping Acoustic Features to
Production Mechanisms in Speech and Animal Communication at the 183rd Meeting of
the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Nov. 22, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee. Dynamic characteristics of prosody in multimodal communication.
Virtual colloquium talk at the Department of the Communicative Sciences
and Disorders at New York University in New York City, USA.
Oct. 8, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee. Speech accommodation in dyadic interaction. Talk at the Phonology-Morphology
Circle of Korea in Seoul, Korea.
May 27, 2022 Jody Kreiman and Yoonjeong Lee. Factors governing acoustic voice variation. Guest lecture
for the infinite variability of VOICE, Linguistic Research Infrastructure at the Universität Zürich
in Zürich, Switzerland.
January 25, 2022 Yoonjeong Lee. Articulatory methodologies in phonetic research. Virtual guest lecture for
LIN4325 Speech Production / LIN6301 Experimental Phonetics: Physiology
at University of Ottawa (Instructor: Dr. Suzy Ahn) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
December 17, 2021 Yoonjeong Lee. Talker identity from acoustic voice variability. Colloquium talk at the
Séminaires de Recherches en Phonétique et Phonologie at the Laboratoire de Phonétique
et Phonologie, CNRS at the l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris 3 in Paris, France.
September 1, 2021 Yoonjeong Lee. Voice and linguistics. Virtual talk at UCLA Voice Rounds.
March 16, 2020 Yoonjeong Lee. Sound initiation in the vocal tract. Invited lecture at the Faculty of Modern
and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
February 14, 2020 Yoonjeong Lee. The prosodic substrate of consonant and tone dynamics. Colloquium talk
at Harvard Linguistics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
November 25, 2019 Yoonjeong Lee. Phonology in speech gestures. Guest lecture for LING 119A Phonological
Structures at University of California, Los Angeles (Instructor: Dr. Suzy Ahn) in Los Angeles,
California, USA.
September 26, 2019 Yoonjeong Lee. The prosodic dynamics of consonant and tone. Colloquium at the English
Department at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
October 8, 2018 Yoonjeong Lee. The prosodic substrate of consonant and tone dynamics. Invited
Phonetics Seminar talk at UCLA Linguistics in Los Angeles, California, USA.
August 9, 2015 Yoonjeong Lee and Louis Goldstein. Tonal targets for the Seoul Korean Accentual Phrase
across various phonological contexts. Talk at the ToPIQQ project meeting pre-ICPhS 2015
in Glasgow, Scotland.
June 4, 2012 Yoonjeong Lee. Effects of prosodic strengthening and lexical boundary on /s/-stop
sequences in English. Invited talk at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, Korea.
Pedagogical Education
April 24–June 8, 2023 Completion of Stanford University's Code in Place
December 6–7, 2019 Completion of Early Career Acousticians Retreat hosted by the Acoustical Society of
America
Fall 2013 Completion of Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts: Linguistics at University of Southern
California
August 22–23, 2013 Completion of Dornsife College TA training Program at University of Southern California
August 5–9, 2013 Completion of International TA training from the Center for Excellence in Teaching at
University of Southern California
Teaching Experience
Spring 2021 Instructor for the undergraduate course LING 102 Introduction to Applied Phonetics at
University of California, Los Angeles
Spring 2020 Instructor for the graduate course LING 239 Research Design & Statistical Methods at
University of California, Los Angeles
2013–2014, Spring Teaching Assistant for the G.E. course LING 275 Language and Mind at University of
2016 Southern California (Instructors: Profs. Elsi Kaiser & Rachel Walker, Profs. Toby Mintz &
Barry Schein)
Service
Journal Ad-hoc Reviewer
2022 Language
2020, 2021 Journal of Phonetics
2020 Language and Speech
2019, 2020 Journal of Acoustical Society of America
Conference Reviewer
Linguistic Society of America 2020, 2021, 2022 (abstracts)
Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, 2019, 2021 (abstracts)
Interspeech 2019, 2021, 2022 (proceedings)
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, 2021 (proceedings)
Organizing Role
Spring 2022–Present Technical Committee Representative for Speech Communication, the Acoustical Society of
America's Committee of Standards (ASACOS). [link]
Fall 2022 Organizer of the Speech Communication Student Poster Competition, 183rd Meeting of
Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Spring 2022 Organizer of the Speech Communication Student Poster Competition, 182nd Meeting of
Acoustical Society of America, Denver, Colorado, USA
Fall 2021 Organizer of the Speech Communication Student Poster Competition, 181st Meeting of
Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington, USA
Fall 2020 Technical Program Organizing Committee (Speech Communication), 179th Meeting of
Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics Virtually Everywhere
Spring 2020 Technical Program Organizing Committee (Speech Communication), Meeting of
(canceled) Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Fall 2019 Technical Program Organizing Committee (Speech Communication), 178th Meeting of
Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, USA
2014–2015, Graduate Student Government Representative, Graduate Students in Linguistics,
2017–2018 University of Southern California
2017–2018 Colloquium Coordinator, Graduate Students in Linguistics, University of Southern
California
October 2016 Student Volunteer, 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology at University of Southern
California
May 2015 Student Representative for Speech Communication, ASA Student Council, 169th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
March 2015 Volunteer, 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at
University of Southern California
2014–2015 Event Coordinator, Graduate Students in Linguistics, University of Southern California
Other
May 12, 2023 Session Chair (Speech Production II - Speech Articulation | Sociophonetics), 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
May 23, 2022 Session Chair (Speech Acoustics and Production II), 182nd Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, Denver, Colorado, USA.
January 3, 2020 Session Chair (Phonetics II: Articulation), Linguistics Society of America 2020 Annual
Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Fall 2019 Session Chair (Speech and Hearing Disorders and Child Speech), 178th Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, USA.
Professional Societies
International Speech Communication Association
Association for Laboratory Phonology
International Phonetic Association
Professional Skills
Data acquisition and experimental design using real-time MRI (USC SPAN) and
electromagnetic articulography (NDI WAVE, Carstens)
Acoustic data analyses using Praat, MATLAB and VoiceSauce
Articulatory data analyses using MView (Tiede) and Emalyse (Carstens)
rtMRI image analyses using ACT (Oh) and rtMRI-vocal-track-analysis (USC SPAN)
Designing/conducting experiments using Mouse Tracker (Freeman), JavaScript and
HTML (PCIbex Farm)
Statistical/computational analyses using R, MATLAB, Python and SPSS
Korean and English ToBI transcription
Languages
Native Korean
Fluent English
Basic Japanese, Mandarin, Dutch, American Sign Language
Research Seoul Korean, English, White Hmong, Gujarati, Thai, American Sign Language
