
Harvard PhonLab

We study the sounds of human languages with a focus on how people produce and perceive speech, and how these aspects of our behavior can inform our understanding of the structure of language and its origins.
The 2024-2025 PhonLab!

Events
Lab News
- PhonLab at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting
Anabelle Caso (PhD student) and Alice Wang (PhD student) both had the opportunity to present their individual work at the 2026… - PhonLab featured in Harvard Gazette
Dr. Franich and members of the PhonLab were featured in an article in the Harvard Gazette on the impact of political… - Fridah Gam at LSA, and headed to UBC!
We’re so pleased for Fridah Gam, part of our Cameroon-based lab team, who has just completed 2 weeks of study at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Her next stop? University of British Columbia as a PhD student! Congratulations, Fridah!… - Post-doc Karee Garvin to OSU!
Congratulations to postdoc Karee Garvin, who has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University!… - New Study in the PhonLab!
We are excited to announce that the PhonLab is initiating a new child language study! The study aims to understand children’s…