Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition–but we know little about the
extent of phonetic variability in the learner's input. In this study, we phonetically annotated …

This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic
generalization. In a series of artificial grammar learning experiments, English learners were …

By around 12 months, infants have well-specified phonetic representations for the nouns
they understand, for instance looking less at a car upon hearing 'cur'than 'car'(Swingley and …

In this thesis, I compare phonological patterns that are fully general across a language
(which apply predictably based on sound, without exception) to phonological patterns that …

Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a
key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological …

Introduction to Korean as a Second Language introduces the basic linguistic make-up of
Korean and provides basic knowledge of second language acquisition and up-to-date …

Phonological alternations often happen to conform to phonotactic regularities, from which a
single mechanism for phonotactics and alternations has been claimed. We note, however …

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 …