We conduct research on many aspects of speech processing in bilinguals.
The Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab at Indiana University studies how second language learners learn to perceive, pronounce and encode the sound system of their new language(s). The lab's research focuses on the mechanisms and architecture underlying speech processing, spoken word recognition and phonological acquisition. Our findings help us better understand the linguistic representations that multilinguals create for the words and the phonological units of each of their languages, and how the precision of these representations changes over time. The lab also addresses the pedagogical applications of these findings and explores which methods are most effective for helping learners improve their pronunciation, word learning, and listening in a second language.
