Aletheia Cui

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

Dissertation: The Emergence of Phonological Categories

Advisor: Charles Yang

Committee: Jianjing Kuang, Don Ringe

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

Cui, Aletheia and Kuang, Jianjing. The effects of musicality and language background on cue integration in pitch perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(6), 4086–4096.

Kuang, Jianjing, and Aletheia Cui. Relative cue weighting in production and perception of an ongoing sound change in Southern Yi. Journal of Phonetics, 71, 194-214.

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

Cui, Aletheia, and Taylor Jones. An investigation of intervocalic affricate simplification in Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

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

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

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

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

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

NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship to Yunnan Minzu University

Martijn Zwart Prijs for Dutch Language and Culture Immersion

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Teaching Assistant for LING115: Writing Systems

Guest Lecturer, Experimental Methodology in Phonetics, Yunnan Minzu University

CTL Teaching Certificate, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching Assistant for LING120: Introduction to Speech Analysis

Copy Editor, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics

Panel Organizer, Penn Linguistics Conference 42

Co-President, Penn Graduate Linguistics Society

Co-Chair, Penn Linguistics Conference 40

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

Organizing Committee, Penn Linguistics Conference 39

Chair, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium 7

President, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Club

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

Vice President, Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Club

English (Fluent), Mandarin (Fluent)

Southern Yi

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