Sun-Ah Jun
Sun-Ah Jun is a Korean-American professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Education
Jun received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Ohio State University in 1993, with a dissertation entitled, The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody.Research
As a professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, Jun is known for her research in the areas of Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Intonational Phonology, Prosody, and Language Acquisition. She is the editor of two influential volumes on cross-linguistic studies of intonation: Prosodic Typology: 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 Linguistic Society of America.
Selected publications
Jun Sun-Ah. 1998. The Accentual Phrase in the Korean prosodic hierarchy. Phonology 15:189-226. 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. Intonation. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 15. Dordrecht: Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4317-2_10