"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
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Contact Info
katya.pertsova AT tufts.edu |
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I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cognitive studies at Tufts. My research lies at the intersection of theoretical linguistics, computational modeling and psycholinguistics. In particular, I'm interested in questions related to learnability, lexical knowledge, complexity, productivity and exceptions in the areas of morphology, phonology, and lexical semantics. In my research, I often use data from Russian, my native language.
In my current work, I am extending the learner proposed in my dissertation to cover a wider range of empirical facts, as well as testing its predictions using computational modeling and psycholinguistic experiments.
Downloadabilia
- my CV
- dissertation "Learning Form-Meaning Mappings in Presence of Homonymy" (abstract; full text)
- a draft of a paper on an experimental and theoretical study of the Russian genitive plural allomorphy (pdf) (do not cite)
- a handout on the priming study of Russian inflection (with Sarah VanWagenen) (pdf)
- a paper on the paradigm gaps in Russian nouns (pdf)