Lab Director

Vsevolod Kapatsinski, PhD

Research program:

• Developing a domain-general learning-theoretic approach to language acquisition, providing explanations for pathways of language change
  • We are currently looking into how we learn
    • …novel categories of sounds (tones, intonation contours): Which ones are the same? And are they really?
    • …cue and dimension weights: What to attend to
    • …form-meaning mappings: Cues to meaning, cues to form
    • …morphosyntactic creativity: How we say things we’ve never said or heard before
    • …articulatory routines: What to do to say something
  • Most publications are found here

Graduate Researchers

Nadia Lake Clement

Faculty collaborators

R. Harald Baayen, Karl Eberhard Universität Tübingen

Colin Bannard, University of Manchester

Gabriela Caballero, UC San Diego

Ying Chen, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Kaori Idemaru, UO East Asian Languages & Literatures

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, UO East Asian Languages & Literatures

Melissa Redford, UO Linguistics

Meghan Sumner, Stanford U

Malathi Thothathiri, George Washington U

Cynthia Vakareliyska, UO Linguistics

Charlotte Vaughn, U Maryland

Ruben van de Vijver, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Lab Alumni

Graduate Alumni:

Danielle Barth (Australian National University)

Zara Harmon (University of Maryland / University of Iowa)

Paul Olejarczuk (California State University, Chico)

Amy Smolek

Hideko Teruya

Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya (University of Strathclyde)

Undergraduate Alumni:

Zachary Houghton (UC Davis)

Kira Seretan