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Seunghun J. Lee (이승훈, 李勝勲)
I am a Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University, a liberal arts college in Tokyo, Japan. I am also an Adjunct Professor of African Languages at the University of Venda in South Africa. Currently, I am the chair of the department of Psychology and Linguistics (2023.4-2027.3).
Email: seunghun AT icu DOT ac DOT jp
Address: 3-10-2 Osawa Mitaka 181-0015 Japan
Current projects (updated March 25, 2024)
2021.12-2027.3. Microvariation in Bantu languages of South Africa: Building theories from typology data [JSAntu] PI: Seunghun Lee [Kaken(B) #21KK0005]
2023.4-2025.3. Aging effects on real-time complex sentence processing by crosslinguistically comparing Korean and Japanese 複文のリアルタイム文処理における年齢の影響：韓国語と日本語の比較から. JSPS Bilateral Grant with NRF of Korea in 2023 令和5年度(2023年度) 独立行政法人日本学術振興会韓国との共同研究(NRF) [#JPJSBP120238812] PI: Seunghun Lee
2023.4-2028.3 The Parameter-driven approach to cross-Bantu typology: Exploring the variation and universals in Bantu languages PI: Daisuke Shinagawa, Co-I: Seunghun Lee [Kaken(B) #23H00622]
2024.4-2027.3. Audiphon (Auditory models for automatic prediction of phonation). PI: Julián Villegas, Co-I: Seunghun J. Lee (Kakenhi (C) 24K03872).
2024.7.1 - 10.30. The Role of Mother Tongue in Education, Health, and Community Service in two East African countries (PI: Seunghun LEE) JICUF Faculty Grant (¥1,011,160)
2024.4-2027.3 AA研共同利用・共同研究課題 「Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives: Phase 2」 The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Lee) [Phase 1 was conducted from 2021.4-2024.3]
2021.8.1-2022.7.31. 令和３年度（2021年度）共同利用型共同研究（登録型）「日本語の有声性の対立への複数の音響指標の影響」 NINJAL (Lee) [host researcher at NINJAL: Yosuke Igarashi]
Recent publications
Lee, Seunghun J. & Daisuke Shinagawa (2025, forthcoming) Phonetics of voiceless laterals in five Southern Bantu languages, Gengo Kenkyu 168: 57-76,
Villegas, Julián & Seunghun J. Lee (2025.9) A meta-analysis of phonation research in the past 10 years. Proceedings of the 39th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. pp. 31-35.
Lorenzo, Ambrocio G., Seunghun J. Lee, Julián Villegas (2025.9) Interaction of phonation and tone in San Miguel del Valle Zapotec. Proceedings of the 39th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. pp. 27-30.
Kurabe, Keita & Seunghun J. Lee (2025.9) Breathy phonation in Burmese: a preliminary study. Proceedings of the 39th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. pp. 19-22.
Lee, Seunghun J. (2025.8) Depressor consonants. In: The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages. Edited by: Lutz Marten, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nancy C. Kula, and Jochen Zeller, Oxford University Press.
Recent and upcoming presentations
Lee, Seunghun J. (2025) Promoting linguistic research for social inclusion: cases from Asia and Africa. The 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, & Education (IConLICE). The University of 17 Agustus 1945 (Semarang, Indonesia) October, 2025.
Villegas, Julián & Seunghun J. Lee (2025) A meta-analysis of phonation research in the past 10 years. The 39th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Kobe University. September 21, 2025.
Lorenzo, Ambrocio G., Seunghun J. Lee, Julián Villegas (2025) Interaction of phonation and tone in San Miguel del Valle Zapotec. The 39th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Kobe University. September 21, 2025.
Kurabe, Keita & Seunghun J. Lee (2025) Breathy phonation in Burmese: a preliminary study. The 39th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Kobe University. September 21, 2025.
Lee, Seunghun J. (2025) Selected topics Southern African languages: building theory from empirical data. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Class Lecture "Comparing Languages". August 12, 2025.
Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karen Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Seunghun Lee, Margot Mieskes, Minzhi Li, and Adriana Pagano (2025) Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers. Tutorial Session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025). Vienna, Austria. July 27, 2025. [LINK]
Database and Archive
Bantu Microvariation Digital Archive (https://renelda.aa-ken.jp/)
Digital Archive of "Phonetics, Phonology and New Orthographies in Roman and Indigenous Script: Helping Native Language Communities in the Himalayas" (https://phophono.aa-ken.jp/)
Bantu Language Digital Archive (https://bantudarc.aa-ken.jp/)
Nuosu Yi Digital Archive (https://nyda.aa-ken.jp/)
"Effects of Syntactic Constituency on Phonology and Phonetics of Tone” Digital Archive (ECPPT) (https://ecppt.aa-ken.jp)
Health Questionnaire Digital Archive (HealthQDA) (https://healthqda.aa-ken.jp/)
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