Yevgeniy Melguy

Hi! I'm an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the department of linguistics at the University of Chicago (officially starting September 2024!). 

My work is on speech perception and production. I'm especially interested in multilingualism, non-native language acquisition, accented speech, and perceptual learning. 

A focus of my research is on understanding the mechanisms that allow listeners to adapt to an unfamiliar non-native accent. How do listeners achieve rapid, long-lasting learning, and how do they generalize such learning to new speakers?