Youtao Lu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (JSPS International Research Fellow), International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo
Email: lu.youtao [AT] mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp

I am interested in the cross-linguistic differences in language development and language processing. My current research focuses on the social-communicative cues infants need to learn novel words, and the learning and processing of words with identical or similar pronunciation but different meanings. Taking both experimental and computational approaches, I hope to address these questions: 1) how do the intrinsic constraints of languages shape the distribution of words; 2) how are phonologically confusable/ambiguous words learnt/processed differently across languages; 3) what are the available linguistic and non-linguistic cues that make disambiguation possible in the learning and processing of words in different languages.

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