Computational Linguistics

Dr. Frans Adriaans

Dr. Frans Adriaans

Assistant Professor

f.w.adriaans@uu.nl

 

My research focuses on computational models of language acquisition. In particular, I investigate how infants learn the sound categories (consonants and vowels) and sound combinations (phonotactics) of their native language. I use a multifaceted approach which involves analyses of speech addressed to infants, computational modeling of language learning mechanisms, and psycholinguistic experiments with human language learners.