HUMSS - Adriana Hanulikova

Patterns of variation in language processing and learning

We learn and use language in a social context that is shaped by diverse speech communities. We are surrounded by various regional varieties and, at the same time, many children grow up speaking several languages or varieties. In addition, social interactions frequently take place in the context of learner varieties and foreign accents. One line of my research deals with the linguistic, cognitive and social consequences of such diverse environments. In today‘s talk I will show how diverse speech input affects vowel production, adaptation to accented speech, and word learning from virtual peers in heterogenous input conditions.