I’m a PhD candidate at the Linguistics Department at the University of British Columbia. My dissertation looks into the contribution of voice similarity and perceived standardness in speech processing. Do we have a easier time processing speech that is (1) perceived as more standard and (2) in a voice similar to our own? How do we define stadardness and similarity?

My supervisor is Molly Babel. My committee members are Márton Sóskuthy, Jian Zhu and Alexis Black.

Journal articles:

Faytak, M., Liu, S., & Sundara, M. (2020). Nasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidence. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 11(1), 23. [doi]

Conference proceedings:

Liu, S., Babel, M., Zhu, J. (2024) A comparison of voice similarity through acoustics, human perception and deep neural network (DNN) speaker verification systems. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 3674-3678. [pdf]

Liu, S. & Babel, M., (2023) Production and perception of Mandarin /i/-nasal rhymes. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 142–146). Guarant International. [pdf]

Cardoso, A., Liu, S., Pritchard, R., Babel, M.(2023). Simultaneous vowel changes in British Columbian English. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3006–3010). Guarant International. [pdf]

2024 Pei-Huang Tung and Tan-Wen Tung Graduate Fellowship

2023 IPA Student Award, International Phonetic Association

2023 Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award, UBC