Aletheia Cui

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Appointments

2023-2025

Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

2021-2023

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany


Education

2020

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Dissertation: The Emergence of Phonological Categories

Advisor: Charles Yang

Committee: Jianjing Kuang, Don Ringe

2013

B.A. in Linguistics, magna cum laude, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


Journal Publications

in prep

Kuang, Jianjing, and Aletheia Cui. Perceptual equivalence between co-varying cues in the register contrast of Southern Yi.


Refereed Conference Proceedings

2022

Liao, Sishi and Hoole, Phil and Cunha, Conceição and Kunay, Esther and Cui, Aletheia and Shigemori, Lia Saki Bučar and Kleber, Felicitas and Voit, Dirk and Frahm, Jens and Harrington, Jonathan. Nasal Coda Loss in the Chengdu Dialect of Mandarin: Evidence from RT-MRI. In Proceedings Interspeech 2022.


Fellowships and Awards

2021-2023

Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

2019-2020

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

2014-2019

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

2019

Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

2019

Dean's Travel Subvention, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

2018

Dean's Travel Subvention, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

2010

Martijn Zwart Prijs for Dutch Language and Culture Immersion


Conference Presentations

2019

Cui, Aletheia, and Kuang, Jianjing. The effect of musicality on cue selection in pitch perception by English and Mandarin Speakers. Poster presented at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.

2018

Kuang, Jianjing and Aletheia Cui. Perceptual equivalence between co-articulated cues during a sound change in progress. Poster presented at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Lisbon, Portugal.

2016

Kuang, Jianjing, and Aletheia Cui. Relative cue weighting in perception and production of a sound change in progress. Talk presented at the 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2016

Kuang, Jianjing, Aletheia Cui, and Yan Lu. Relative cue weighting of the register contrast in Southern Yi. Talk presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC.

2015

Cui, Aletheia, and Yang, Charles. Minimal pairs and vowel categories. Talk presented at the Northeast Computational Phonology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

2015

Cui, Aletheia, and Jones, Taylor. An investigation of intervocalic affricate simplification in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.


Research and Fieldwork Experience

2017

Research Assistant at the Penn Phonetics Lab; Supervisor: Prof Jianjing Kuang

2016

Independent fieldwork on Southern Yi in Yunnan, China, NSF EAPSI China Fellow

2015

Fieldwork on Southern Yi in Yunnan, China as Research Assistant to Prof Jianjing Kuang


Teaching

Spring 2025

Instructor for LING 2300/5300: Sound Structure of Language

Spring 2025

Instructor for LING 2220/5220: Phonetics II: Data Science

Fall 2024

Instructor for LING 2700: Language Acquisition

Fall 2024

Instructor for LING 0001: Introduction to Linguistics

Spring 2024

Instructor for LING 0001: Introduction to Linguistics

Spring 2024

Instructor for LING 2220/5220: Phonetics II: Data Science

Fall 2023

Instructor for LING 2700: Language Acquisition

Fall 2023

nstructor for LING 4000: Tutorial in Linguistics

Fall 2016

Teaching Assistant for LING115: Writing Systems

Summer 2016

Guest Lecturer, Experimental Methodology in Phonetics, Yunnan Minzu University

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

Teaching Assistant for LING120: Introduction to Speech Analysis


Service

2014-2019

Copy Editor, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics

2017-2018

Panel Organizer, Penn Linguistics Conference 42

2016-2017

Co-President, Penn Graduate Linguistics Society

2015-2016

Co-Chair, Penn Linguistics Conference 40

2014-2015

Department Representative at the Graduate Student Government of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

2014-2015

Organizing Committee, Penn Linguistics Conference 39

2013

Chair, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium 7

2012-2013

President, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Club

2009-2012

Organizing Committee, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium 4, 5, 6

2011-2012

Vice President, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Club


Skills

Languages

English (Fluent), Mandarin (Fluent)

Fieldwork

Southern Yi

Programming

Python, R, LaTeX, Matlab, Octave, Praat script, bash, HTML, CSS