Allison Verbil

I’m a 3rd year PhD student in the UCLA Department of Linguistics. As a computational phonologist, I’m interested in formally characterizing why we find the phonological patterns we find, and why we don’t find the ones we don’t find. Recently, I’ve been using experimental methods like artificial grammar learning to probe the learnability of phonological processes that have been described as computationally complex in both vowel harmony and tone. I’m advised by Megha Sundara, Kie Zuraw, and Tim Hunter.

My last name is pronounced ['vɝbɫ̩].