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Naomi Feldman
Department of Linguistics
1401 Marie Mount Hall
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-5800
nhf (at) umd (dot) edu
I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland with a focus in computational psycholinguistics and phonology. My research uses methods from statistics and machine learning to formalize questions about how people learn and represent the structure of their language. I use computational models to identify strategies that would allow people to process language effectively, and then I use behavioral experiments to determine which of these strategies people actually use. I have primarily applied these methods to studying speech sound category representations, investigating how people learn sound categories robustly from limited data and how those categories affect their subsequent perception of sounds.

I'm affiliated with the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab, the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and the Infant and Child Studies Consortium. I'm an active member of the university's interdisciplinary Language Science community.

There are lots of things going on at Maryland that are related to computational psycholinguistics. Here's a sampling:
NECPhon 2012: Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop
Mayfest 2012: The Role of Computational Models in Linguistic Theory
LING 848: Bayesian Nonparametrics (co-taught with Jordan Boyd-Graber and Hal Daume)

I'm in a web comic! I play the role of "some girl" at Brown University.