Suyuan Liu
柳苏源 [ljo214 su55 jyɐn35]

pronouns: 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.
selected publications
- InterSpeechA comparison of voice similarity through acoustics, human perception and deep neural network (DNN) speaker verification systemsProceedings of the 25th Interspeech Conference, 2024
- ICPhSProduction and perception of Mandarin /i/-nasal rhymesProceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023
- LabPhonNasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidenceLaboratory Phonology, 2020