I am an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology. Currently I am acting as a Senior Research Scientist working on the acquisition of writing and reading with Rebecca Treiman in the Reading and Language Lab. This work is supported by the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as “Learning statistical orthographic patterns in disyllabic English words and using them in reading and spelling.” For latest reports, search by project ID “5R01HD102346” at NIH RePORTER. I am interested in computational and statistical approaches to language, particularly in the fields of phonology, historical linguistics, and the lexicon. My PhD dissertation in the Stanford Department of Linguistics explored how to statistically test the historical connections between languages. A few more specifics below and in my CV.