Current Projects

• Articulatory and acoustic study of laryngeal contrasts 

  • Tongue position in Seoul Korean obstruents (with Harim Kwon)

  • Articulatory and acoustic study of voicing and register using lingual and laryngeal ultrasound 

    • Laurentian French (with Marc Brunelle, Daniel Schweizer and Anika Audet)

    • Javanese (with Marc Brunelle, Daniel Schweizer)

    • Fieldwork: Raglai (Summer 2024, with Marc Brunelle, Đinh Lư Giang, and Tấn T. Tạ)

• An acoustic study of Korean intervocalic stops (with Daniel Schweizer and  Harim Kwon)

• Articulatory and acoustic study of Vowel laxing in Laurentian French (with Beth MacLeod and Phillip Burness) 

• Correlation between articulation and acoustics (with Beth MacLeod)

• NNA (non-native articulatory) corpus - French (with Harim Kwon, Vincent Chanethom, and Florian Lionnet)

• Phonetics and phonology in Korean pop music (with Kie Zuraw)

Grants

SSHRC Insight Grants (2025-2028): Developing a Canadian French articulatory corpus to explore the relationship between articulation and acoustics (My role: PI, Co-applicant: Beth MacLeod, Collaborators: Harim Kwon, Vincent Chanethom,  Florian Lionnet)

SSHRC Insight Development Grants (2023-2025): Individual variation in the perception-production link: evidence from phonetic imitation (My role: Co-applicant/Co-investigator, PI: Beth MacLeod)

SSHRC Insight Grants (2022-2025): Sound change and the interaction between production and perception: Register in Austronesian and Austroasiatic (My role: Co-applicant/Co-investigator, PI: Marc Brunelle, Collaborators: James Kirby, Pittayawat Pittayaporn)

Research interests

Correlation between articulation and acoustics, ultrasound tongue imaging of speech, laryngeal ultrasound, laryngeal contrasts, speech production, phonetics-phonology interface, bilingualism, phonology-morphology interface, phonological and phonetic representations

Contact
Hamelin Hall, room 438
70 Laurier Ave. East
Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 6N5

suzy [dot] ahn [at] uottawa [dot] ca