Yevgeniy Melguy

Hi! I'm an NSF postdoctoral research fellow in the department of linguistics at the University of Chicago.

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

The current 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?