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What we do
Welcome to the Phonetics and Phonology Lab (PhonLab) at Harvard! Our research seeks to understand the sound systems of human languages: how they are structured, how do they vary across languages, and how do we produce and perceive them? We take a combined approach to answering these questions which includes experimental methods (aimed at looking at the acoustics, articulation, and perception of speech), statistical and computational modeling, and the use of archival materials, such as grammars and other texts.