Research on Language Learning Yields Mitchell Prize for UT Austin Statisticians

July 12, 2021 • by Marc Airhart

Giorgio Paulon and Abhra Sarkar researched how nonnative English speakers learned another language's tonal differences.

Illustration of human brain processing language

Statisticians from UT Austin developed a new way to model how the brain learns language over time. Combined with data from an experiment in which non-native speakers learned to differentiate tones of Mandarin Chinese, they gained new insights into how we learn languages.


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