Suzy Ahn
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Ottawa
Co-Director
Sound Patterns Lab
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)
Grants
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