Suyuan Liu
柳苏源 [ljo214 su55 jyɐn35]
pronoun: she/her
suyuan97 [at] student [dot] ubc [dot] ca
Hello! I’m a PhD candidate at the Linguistics Department at the University of British Columbia. My dissertation looks into the contribution of voice similarity and perceived standardness in speech processing. Do we, as listeners, have an easier time processing speech that is (1) perceived as more standard and (2) in a voice similar to our own? How do we define stadardness and similarity?
My supervisor is Molly Babel. My committee members are Márton Sóskuthy, Jian Zhu and Alexis Black.
news
| Jan 09, 2026 | 🕊 I will be at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting participating in the Language, Conflict and Peace-Building Symposium. |
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| Dec 31, 2025 | 👩🏻🏫 I put together a new teaching game: The TA Simulator, a 15-week glimpse into the choices and constraints TAs navigate behind the scenes. |
| Dec 03, 2025 | 🌺 I presented a poster at the 189th ASA Meeting at Honolulu, Hawaii titled “Acoustic consistency of Mandarin–English bilingual voices: Evidence from the Mandarin–English Language Interview (MELI) Corpus” (3pSC18). |
selected publications
- InterSpeechA comparison of voice similarity through acoustics, human perception and deep neural network (DNN) speaker verification systemsIn Proceedings of the 25th Interspeech Conference, 2024
- ICPhSProduction and perception of Mandarin /i/-nasal rhymesIn Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023
- LabPhonNasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidenceLaboratory Phonology, 2020