Sun-Ah Jun

Sun-Ah Jun (born November 6, 1959) is a Korean-American professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.¹

Jun received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Ohio State University in 1993, with a dissertation entitled, The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody.²

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.³ 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.

In 2014-2015 Jun was the President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics.⁴

In 2024-2026 Jun is the President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.⁵

In 2025 Jun was elected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.⁶

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