I study the information infants use to learn and recognize words at the early stages of language acquisition, specifically the role of consonants and vowels.  Adults preferentially process consonants during lexical processing and I am interested in what age this preference develops in infancy and both the mechanisms that drive the development of this preference and the consequences of its acquisition for language acquisition in general.

I completed my doctoral degree at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) where I studied lexical and phonological processing in bilingual infants and adults.