Principal Investigator
Melissa Baese-Berk, PhD
Melissa is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Chicago. Her broad research interests include speech perception, speech production, second language acquisition. She is currently working on a number of projects examining the relationship between speech perception and production, the role of variability in perception and production of non-native speech, and how expectations in perception shift when listening to non-native speech.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Yevgeniy Melguy
Hi! I am interested in speech perception and production, with a focus on perceptual learning, accented speech, multilingualism, and second-language acquisition. I am currently working on a project that investigates the mechanisms underpinning listeners' adaptation to unfamiliar accents, and how this kind of learning can generalize to novel speech contexts.
Graduate Students
Carissa Diantoro
Carissa is a PhD candidate in the Linguistics department at University of Oregon. She does psycholinguistics research, with expertise in acoustic phonetics, speech perception and production, and language acquisition.
Victoria Xiaohan Weng
Victoria is a MAPSS-Psychology student with a broad interest in language and cognition in humans and machines. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in Psychology and Communication Sciences & Disorders with a minor in Data Science. She plans to work on her master's thesis on the phonetic and pragmatic comparison between humans and deep-learning augmented automated speech recognition (ASR) systems.
Coco Song
Coco Song is a student in the Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences (MAPSS). She received her B.A. in Psychology with minors in Music & Cognition and East Asian Studies from Oberlin College. As a language learner herself, she is interested in second language acquisition and the impact of bilingualism on cognition.
Cecelia Staggs
Cecelia is a PhD student at University of Oregon interested in speech production and perception within the Spanish Heritage community, as well as how language ideologies and attitudes influence identity construction through language.
Undergraduate Students
Petra Chinsangaram
Petra is a sophomore in the Clark Honors College at University of Oregon , majoring in Psychology with a minor in Linguistics. She’s new to linguistics, so she's exploring different areas and enjoying the process!
Eric (Aoxi) Tu
Eric is a fourth-year at the University of Chicago, majoring in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. He is interested in cognitive and computational linguistics, particularly the alignments between LLM simulations and human behavioral/neural patterns in understanding word meanings and sentences.
Mia Karathanasis
Mia is a third-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago majoring in Linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies. She loves learning languages and is very interested in researching methods of second language acquisition through perception and production.
Alumni
Undergraduate Alumni
Chasen Afghani, Isabel Crabtree, Cydnie Davenport, Toby Graham, Zoë Haupt, Zach Houghton, Spencer Hutchinson, Audrey Kirkpatrick, Drew McLaughlin, Mary Mugeki, Cedar O’Konski, Sydney Ozmat, Sabrina Piccolo, Zac Post, Isabel Preligera, Anna Robinson, Jennie Shen, Tillena Trebon, Kayla Walker, Maggie Wallace, Orion Wesson, Anna Wood
Graduate & Postdoctoral Alumni
Zachary Jaggers - Amazon
Misaki Kato - ETS
Dae-yong Lee - Postdoctoral Scholar Hanyang University
Amos Teo - Amazon
Jonathan Wright - Postdoctoral Scholar Penn State University
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