Welcome!

Welcome/Willkommen/Dobrodošli/どうぞよろしく/Hoş geldiniz! I am a PhD student in General Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf). My areas of interest are Phonetics, Phonology and Psycholinguistics, with a recent interest in Morphology and Computational Linguistics.

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About me

I investigate the learning mechanisms behind phonetic, phonological and morphophonological learning, and how these mechanisms allow linguistic structure to emerge. I approach language learning from a discriminative error-driven learning perspective. For my PhD-project, I investigate the learning mechanisms behind phonetic category acquisition (phonetics), sound pattern acquisition (phonology) and form-meaning associations (morphophonology). To answer these questions, I use computational and experimental methods.

I hope to better understand why certain linguistic properties are harder to learn than others. I’m also interested in finding out what kinds of representations emerge during learning.