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Research interests
 
My main areas of research interest are phonology and language acquisition. Some related publications can be downloaded from here.

Topics

  • Prosodic structure of early words
  • Development of pitch phonology
  • Lexical representations in development
  • Phonetics and phonology in atypical populations

Recent projects and collaborators

  • Memory consolidation in L2 word learning
  • Lexical representations of variable prosodic patterns in infants
    • Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute & Duke)
    • Naoto Yamane (RIKEN Brain Science Institute & Tokyo Gakugei University)
  • Autism and lexical effects on speech perception
  • Prosody in autism
    • Mary Stewart (Heriot Watt)
    • Sue Peppé (Queen Margaret)
    • Joanne McCann (Queen Margaret)
  • Influence of L1 on L2 word recognition
  • Formal learnability of split phonological systems