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My research falls primarily in computational linguistics, language acquisition, and theoretical phonology, though my interests are much broader. My main research goal is to make concrete theoretical proposals about language acquisition—in particular the acquisition of phonology and morphology—to evaluate those proposals and to work out their implications for linguistic theory. I use computational, corpus-based, and experimental approaches to contribute to fundamental questions around the relationship between morphophonological generalizations and representations. A fundamental idea underlying my contributions is that learners construct and refine representations in response to being unable to successfully generalize without them. I call my approach to phonology algorithmic because it involves hypothesizing learning algorithms, grounded in independently-established psychological mechanisms, by which learners may form and refine generalizations and representations.

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