Language Development Lab

Our research explores the acquisition, representation, and processing of sound systems across languages. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms that allow humans to learn and process phonological structures by examining cross-linguistic sound patterns.

Combining behavioral experiments with infants, children, and adults and computational modeling, we seek to understand how the human mind encodes, learns, and applies complex phonological knowledge.

At LDL, we bridge theory and experimentation to uncover the universal principles and constraints that shape phonological learning — pushing the boundaries of what is linguistically possible and cognitively attainable.

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