Research

In the Breiss Lab, we carry out research focused on better understanding the nature of phonological knowledge, how it is acquired in humans and machines, how it is used in real time, and how it relates to other types of linguistic and cognitive systems. Methodologically, we use all whatever tools give us the best hope of gaining answers to the above questions. Typically, however, our research involves some amount of experimental work with infants or adults, analysis of corpora or pretrained speech models, and using computational or statistical tools to link verbal theory to these rich datasets.