Psychology 891PL - S-Phonological Learning

We will explore multiple types of phonological learning in several populations and using several different approaches. Phonological learning includes how infants initially form categorical representations of speech sounds, how listeners learn the phonotactic rules of a language, how both infants and adults learn to recognize boundaries between words in continuous speech, the types of phonological patterns that are more and less difficult to learn, and the phonological knowledge native speakers share about their language. We will base our discussions on both empirical evidence and computational models of learning.

Open to Graduate Psychology majors only.