Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Lee, S. S. Under revision. Lenition of lenis obstruents in Seoul Korean spontaneous speech.
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• Lee, S. S., Pater, J., Prickett, B. Under revision. Representing and Learning Stress: A MaxEnt Framework for Comparing Learning Across Grammatical Theories.
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• Darcy, I., Rocca, B., Hancock, Z., and Lee, S. S. 2020. Do individual differences in stress perception and in selective attention relate to improvements in spontaneous speech? Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (FLuL), 49(2): 28-45.
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Dissertation

• Lee, S. S. 2025. Simultaneous encoding and decoding of laryngeal contrasts and prosodic structure in Seoul Korean. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Conference Proceedings

• Lee, S. S., Pater, J., Prickett, B. 2025. Representing and learning stress in a MaxEnt framework. Supplemental Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
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• Lee, S. S. 2023. Detecting Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean using tonal and segmental cues. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1681–1685). Guarant International.
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• Hughes, C., Lee, S. S., Farinella, A., and Yu, K. M. 2023. Phonetic implementation of phonologically different high tone plateaus in Luganda. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1985–1989). Guarant International.
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• Lee, S. S., Hughes, C., Farinella, A., and Pater, J. 2023. Learning Stress with Feet and Grids: Annual Meeting on Phonology. In Noah Elkins, Bruce Hayes, Jinyoung Jo, and Jian-Leat Siah (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
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Editorial reviewed article

• Lee, S. S. and Berkson, K. 2019. Speech-rate effects in a 3-category language: Evidence from Hakha Chin. Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures, 1(1).
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Oral presentations

• Lee, S. S. and Sonderegger, M. 2026. Cross-linguistic word-medial stop lenition: A functional PCA approach. Laboratory Phonology 20. UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada. June 26-28.
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• Yu, K. M., Kaiser, C., Farinella, A., and Lee, S. S. 2025. Cross-linguistic evidence for prosodic domains: are tones “different”?. Exploring Boundaries. UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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• Lee, S. S. 2024. Predictability and phonological context interact in conditioning the acoustic reduction of Seoul Korean lenis obstruents. CorpusPhon (A satellite workshop for Laboratory Phonology 19). Seoul, South Korea.
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• Lee, S. S. 2024. Modeling the variability of the obstruent lenition in Seoul Korean: prosody, phonological context, and predictability. PhphoNE. Amherst, MA.
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• Hughes, C., Lee, S. S., Farinella, A., and Yu, K. M. 2023. Phonetic implementation of phonologically different high tone plateaus in Luganda. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Posters

• Byun, H. and Lee, S. S. 2026. The causal relationship between vowel devoicing and duration in Japanese and Korean. Laboratory Phonology 20. UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada. June 26-28.
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• Lee, S. S., Pater, J, and Brandon P. 2024. Representing and learning stress in a MaxEnt framework. Annual Meeting on Phonology, Rutgers University, NJ.
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• Lee, S. S. 2024. Prosodically conditioned lenition, not voicing, of lenis obstruents in Seoul Korean spontaneous speech. Laboratory Phonology 19, Seoul, South Korea.
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• Farinella, A. and Lee, S. S. 2024. The perception of tonal and segmental cues to phrasing in Seoul Korean. Laboratory Phonology 19, Seoul, South Korea.
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• Lee, S. S. 2023. Detecting Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean using tonal and segmental cues. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
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• Lee, S. S. 2023. Detecting Accentual Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean using tonal and segmental cues. HISPhonCog, Seoul, South Korea.

• Lee, S. S., Hughes, C., Farinella, A., and Pater, J. 2022. Learning Stress with Feet and Grids. Annual Meeting on Phonology, University of California Los Angeles, CA.
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• Hughes, C., Lee, S. S., Farinella, A., and Yu, K. M. 2022. Phonetic implementation of phonologically different high tone plateaus in Luganda. Laboratory Phonology 18, Virtual.
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• Lee, S. S. 2022. Finding Accentual Phrases in a spontaneous speech corpus of Seoul Korean using segmental allophony. Laboratory Phonology 18, Virtual.