Sun-Ah Jun (born November 6, 1959) is a Korean-American professor of

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at the

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Education

Jun received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from

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in 1993, with a dissertation entitled, ''The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody''.

Research

As a professor at

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's Department of Linguistics, Jun is known for her research in the areas of

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, Laboratory Phonology, Intonational Phonology, Prosody, and

Language Acquisition Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and s ...

. She is the editor of two influential volumes on cross-linguistic studies of intonation: ''Prosodic

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: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing'' as well as of ''Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing''.

Honors and distinctions

In 2014-2015 Jun was the President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. In 2024-2026 Jun is the President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. In 2025 Jun was elected as a Fellow of the

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Selected Publications

Jun Sun-Ah. 1998. The Accentual Phrase in the Korean prosodic hierarchy. ''Phonology'' 15(2):189-226. doi:10.1017/S0952675798003571. Jun, Sun-Ah, ed. 2005. ''Prosodic Typology: the Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing''. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199208746. Jun, Sun-Ah, ed. 2015. ''Prosodic Typology: the Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing''. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198745402. Jun, SA. & Fougeron, C. 2000. A Phonological Model of French Intonation. In: Botinis, A. (eds) ''Intonation.'' Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 15. Dordrecht: Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4317-2_10

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jun, Sun-Ah 1959 births Living people Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Linguists from the United States Women linguists Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America