ABOUT us
Established in November 2008, the Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab at Indiana University studies how second language learners learn to perceive, pronounce and encode the sound system of the new language. Of course, non-native pronunciation or a foreign accent, as well as challenges during listening, are a direct, noticeable result of how difficult this task is.
Drawing on linguistics, cognitive science, and experimental psycholinguistics, we focus on the mechanisms and architecture underlying speech processing, spoken word recognition and phonological acquisition - be it of a second (or third) language, in adults or children, and for simultaneous or successive bilinguals. Our work integrates different methods of investigation that allow us to examine such phenomena as speech perception and production, listening and decoding of reduced speech, word learning, and spoken word recognition.
Drawing on linguistics, cognitive science, and experimental psycholinguistics, we focus on the mechanisms and architecture underlying speech processing, spoken word recognition and phonological acquisition - be it of a second (or third) language, in adults or children, and for simultaneous or successive bilinguals. Our work integrates different methods of investigation that allow us to examine such phenomena as speech perception and production, listening and decoding of reduced speech, word learning, and spoken word recognition.
