People

Principal Investigator

Canaan Breiss

Assistant Professor, UChicago Linguistics

Canaan received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2021 under the supervision of Bruce Hayes, and completed postdoctoral training in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab at MIT under Roger Levy. His research is in theoretical, computational, and experimental phonology.

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Members

Po-Hsuan Huang

Grad student, UPenn Linguistics

I am a second-year PhD student at UPenn, working on phonetics, phonology, and their interface.

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Dhanya Charan

Grad student, UCSD Cognitive Science

Hi, I’m Dhanya!  I’m a PhD student in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), studying how learners acquire, process, and represent language; in the Breiss Lab, I’m working with Dr. Breiss to investigate how stress clash affects syllabification of sesquisyllabic words—like fire, or hour.

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Darby Grachek

Grad student, USC Linguistics

Hello! I’m a phonologist and psycholinguist at USC interested in how lexical knowledge and real-time parsing affects processes in the phonological grammar.

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Natsumi Taniguchi

Grad student, USC Linguistics

Hello! I'm a PhD student at USC working on interactions betweeen phonological and musical knowledge.

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Jane Li

Postdoc, McGill Linguistics

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Haley Hsu

Grad student, USC Linguistics

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Muxuan He

Grad student, USC Linguistics

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Muxuan He

Grad student, USC Linguistics

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Yue Chen

Grad student, USC Linguistics

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Collaborators

Isa Cabrera (UCLA)
Hailang Jiang (Harvard)
Jennifer Kuo (Cornell)
Yang Wang (U. Utah)

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Undergraduate Researchers

Interested in working in the lab? Send an email with a short introduction and what kind of work you’re interested in getting involved in to cbreiss@uchicago.edu.

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