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

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

Education

Jun received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

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

Career

As a professor at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

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

Phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

Laboratory Phonology Laboratory phonology is an approach to phonology that emphasizes the synergy between phonological theory and scientific experiments, including laboratory studies of human speech and experiments on the acquisition and productivity of phonological pat ...

, 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, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to ...

. She is the editor of ''Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing'' as well as of ''Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jun, Sun-Ah 1959 births Living people Ohio State University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Linguists from the United States Women linguists