Rachel Soo

PhD Candidate


I am a fifth year PhD Candidate broadly interested in psycholinguistics, speech perception and phonetics. My dissertation examines phonetic variation through the lens of an ongoing sound change in Cantonese. I investigate the effects of regular exposure to pronunciation variants in a heterogeneous bilingual community, and the perceptual flexibility this breeds from a dual-lexical mapping perspective. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, integrating linguistic theory with methods from cognitive science and acoustic phonetics. I invite you to visit my personal website for a full list of my work.