Simon Todd

Simon Todd is a computational psycholinguist with a focus on speech perception. A central theme in his work is the way that small-scale cognitive processes associated with in-the-moment listening can have large-scale, long-term implications for linguistic knowledge and behavior. To this end, his research aims to identify the biases and constraints underlying speech perception and to understand their implications for the way that language is used and for the way that language use changes over time. He uses a three-pronged approach to this goal, combining computational modeling, psycholinguistic experiments, and large-scale corpus analysis. He also has a secondary interest in interactions between phonology and higher-order morphological and syntactic structure.

Prof. Todd is Director and PI of the UCSB Computational Psycholinguistics of Listening and Speaking Lab