Jieun Lee


Jieun Lee
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics and Speech Perception and Production

Contact Info

423 Blake Hall
Lawrence
1541 Lilac Lane
Lawrence, KS 66045

Biography

Biography/Professional Employment:

2022-Present: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), 2022, Madison, Wisconsin
B.E. in English Language and Literature, Kangwon National University, 2015, Chuncheon-si, Korea

Research

Dr. Lee’s research interests include second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and speech perception and production.

Teaching

Courses offered at University of Kansas:

LING 110: Language and Mind

LING 111: Language and Mind (Honor)

LING 420: Capstone: Research Language Science

LING 715: Second Language Acquisition I

LING 435/735: Psycholinguistics

LING 720: Research Methods in Linguistics

 

Selected Publications

Conference Proceedings:

Lee, J., & Park, H. (2024). Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation to nonnative phonological contrast learning. Journal of Phonetics, 104, 101327.

Lee, J., Kim, D. J., & Park, H. (2024). Native listeners’ perceptual assessments of native and foreign-accented speech and their associations with various speech properties. Linguistic Research, 41(1), 27-63.   

Lee, J. and Park, H. (2021). Individual differences in non-native phonological contrast learning: the role of within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception. Online Proceedings of 2021 the Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea Summer Conference.

Lee, J., Kim, D. J., and Park, H. (2019). Native listener’s evaluations of pleasantness, foreign accent, comprehensibility, and fluency in the speech of accented talkers. In J. Levis, C. Nagle, & E. Todey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, ISSN 2380- 9566, Ames, IA, September 2018 (pp. 168-178). Ames, IA: Iowa State University.

Selected Presentations

Lee, J., Kim. H., Yang. T., & Evans. P. (2024). English listeners' perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar lexical stress contrast. Laboratory Phonology 19 (LabPhon 19)

Lee, J. and Park, H. (2023). Within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception and its relation to non-native phonological contrast learning. HISPhonCog 2023. 

Lee, J. and Park, H. (2023).  The Visual Analogue Scaling (VAS) Task as a pre-instructional Assessment in tailoring the L2 phonetic training paradigm. the 184th Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America.

Park. H. and Lee, J. (2023). "Perceived" taker variability in high-variability perceptual training. the 184th Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America.

Lee, J. and Park, H. (2022). The benefit of reduced inhibitory control in learning English vowels by Korean learners. Poster at theLaboratory Phonology 18 (LabPhon18).

Park, H., Kim, D. J., and Lee, J. (2021). What can non-native speakers do to improve speech communication with native speakers? A case study of Koreans living in the US. Talk at 2021 Korea Speech, Media and Communication Association Spring Conference.

Lee, J. and Park, H. (June 2021). Individual differences in non-native phonological contrast learning: the role of within-category cue sensitivity in native language perception. Talk at 2021 The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea Summer Conference.

Lee, J. and Park, H. (January 2021). Is strong inhibitory control always better in learning non-native phonological contrast? Talk at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA95).

Lee, J. and Park, H. (July 2020). Individual differences in categorical perception and novel phonological contrast learning. Poster at the Laboratory Phonology 17 (LabPhon17).

Lee, J., Kim, D., and Park, H. (September 2019). Contribution of Speech Properties in Evaluating Pleasantness, Fluency, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in the Speech of Accented Talkers. Talk at the 11th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (PSLLT).

Pattillo, K. E., Clark, L., and Lee, J. (March 2019). Dialectology, prevelar raising, and collaborative language research in the undergraduate classroom. Talk at the 16th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics.

Lee, J. and Park, H. (October 2017). The role of speech rate in high phonetic variability training: The case of Korean stops. Poster at the 22nd Annual Mid- Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon).

Awards & Honors

Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, UWM, 2020

Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, UWM, 2019