Faculty

Brett is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology. Currently he is acting as a Senior Research Scientist working on the acquisition of writing and reading in the lab. This work is supported by the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as project 5R01HD102346-03, “Learning statistical orthographic patterns in disyllabic English words and using them in reading and spelling.”  He is interested in computational and statistical approaches to language, particularly in the fields of phonology, historical linguistics, and the lexicon. His PhD dissertation in the Stanford Department of Linguistics explored how to statistically test the historical connections between languages. A few more specifics in his CV.