Joan Lee Tu

Joan Lee Tu (b. 1981) is a Canadian linguist, data scientist, and medical student. Her Master of Arts thesis entitled What does txting do 2 language: The influences of exposure to messaging and print media on acceptability constraints (2011) made a notable contribution to the academic literature on text messaging. The thesis used acceptability judgment tasks to test a relationship between exposure to text messaging and word acceptance. It received international media attention.

Lee's lesser known works include the paper The opacity of s-irregular verbs in Korean: Confronting Optimality Theory approaches (2011) which was written in 2005, and later published in the Calgary Papers in Linguistics. Lee also presented the paper The distribution of Turkish articles: Implications for L2 English at the Linguistic Society of America 2006 Summer Meeting in East Lansing, Michigan.