Research

I'm currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in Paris. My research explores how a language's lexicon changes over time; specifically, how a word's phonological properties affect that word's ability to survive and spread in a speech community. The first chapter of my dissertation is a good introduction to my work in this area.

I'm also currently working on understanding early phonological learning. How do children, once they have segmented the speech they hear into individual sounds, cluster those sounds into categories? This is joint work with Sharon Peperkamp and Emmanuel Dupoux.

Download my CV here: [pdf]

Updated January 2009