Scholar
Canaan Breiss
Google Scholar ID: _vUbgoEAAAAJ
University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
211
H-index
7
i10-index
7
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Teaching a class called 'Phonology and the Lexicon' at the LSA Summer Institute and co-running a two-day workshop on 'Abstract vs. Item-specific Knowledge' from July 26-27, supported by NSF Grant #2502830. Also presenting a poster titled 'Do speech models use phonological features?' with Jon Gauthier (UCSF) at CogSci 2025 in San Francisco.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Southern California. Previously worked in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, supervised by Roger Levy, and affiliated with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
Education
- Completed PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Bruce Hayes in the Linguistics Department at UCLA.
Background
- A phonologist who works on questions of linguistic theory using computational and experimental methods. Particular interests include learning/acquisition, the representation of overlapping and interacting phonological processes, and phonology’s interfaces with (morpho)syntax and the lexicon.
Miscellany
- Open to supervising PhD students and postdocs if the fit is good. Interested individuals are encouraged to email directly before submitting an application.