skoruppa (at) ens (dot) fr

I am currently working on my  Ph. D. thesis “Mechanisms of early phonological acquisition”, supervised by Sharon Peperkamp at the “Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique” in Paris / France.

In my psycholinguistic experiments with adults, children and infants I study the nature of

• statistical learning – an acquisition device that is based on the frequency of occurrence of sound structures and


• linguistic biases – they might constrain these probabilistic analyses (for example,  phonetically natural alternations might be easier to learn than unnatural ones).
  

I try to compare the impact of these two factors on various aspects of phonology that are acquired in the native language, such as:

• phonetic categories
• word stress patterns
• phonological alternations

My further research interests are : 

• phonological processing in adults
• native language acquisition and its impairments in general.