This series of studies examines the learning of complex sound patterns by adults and children. Specifically, we ask whether and how individual phonological patterns can be combined, and how that ...

Many of us have mixed feelings when remembering painful lessons in German or Latin grammar in school. Languages feature a large number of complex rules and patterns: using them correctly makes the ...

My research focuses on phonetics and phonology, with an emphasis on cognitive processes, particularly the relationship between speech perception and production, L2 speech, and the acquisition of ...