Yoonjeong Cynthia Lee (she/her)


Department of Linguistics

University of Michigan

440 Lorch Hall

611 Tappan Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220


linguistylee.com

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  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 Communicationsecond 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 trainee

  Journal 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,

  1–6. [.pdf] [link]

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), 

  457–465. [.pdf] [link]

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.

  [abstract] [poster]

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. 

  [abstract] [poster]

​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

  Linguistic Society of America

  Acoustical Society of America


  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