I’m a PhD candidate at the Linguistics Department at the University of British Columbia. My research interests revolve around the relationship between speech perception and production. Specifically, I’m interested in the role one’s own production plays in their perception of others.

My dissertation looks into the relative contribution of listener-talker similarity, prototypicality, standardness and articulator movements in speech processing. 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., (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]

2023 IPA Student Award, International Phonetic Association

2023 Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award, UBC