Spoken language evolves constrained by the economy of speech, which depends on factors
such as the structure of the human mouth. This gives rise to local phonetic correlations in …

Phonotactic learning has been a fertile ground for research in the field of phonology.
However, the challenge of lexical exceptions in phonotactic learning remains largely …

The principle of least effort posits that a pressure towards communicative efficiency shapes
natural languages. In this thesis, we investigate the existence, the nature, and the impact of …

In this dissertation, I establish a research program that uses computational modeling as a
testbed for theories of phonological learning. This dissertation focuses on a fundamental …