Suyuan Liu

柳苏源 [ljo214 su55 jyɐn35]

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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.
Dec 03, 2025 🌺 I will be at the 189th ASA Meeting at Honolulu, Hawaii presenting a poster (3pSC18) titled “Acoustic consistency of Mandarin–English bilingual voices: Evidence from the Mandarin–English Language Interview (MELI) Corpus”.
Nov 07, 2025 🕊 I presented a talk at NWAV 53 in Ann Arbor, Michigan titled “Rethinking “Standard Mandarin”: Introducing the Mandarin-English Language Interview (MELI) Corpus”.

selected publications

  1. InterSpeech
    A comparison of voice similarity through acoustics, human perception and deep neural network (DNN) speaker verification systems
    Suyuan Liu, Molly Babel, and Jian Zhu
    In Proceedings of the 25th Interspeech Conference, 2024
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  2. ICPhS
    Production and perception of Mandarin /i/-nasal rhymes
    Suyuan Liu and Molly Babel
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023
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  3. LabPhon
    Nasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidence
    Matthew Faytak, Suyuan Liu, and Megha Sundara
    Laboratory Phonology, 2020
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