My research focuses on answering questions in theoretical phonology using techniques from a wide variety of areas, including experimental phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and information theory.

The kinds of questions I am interested in are:

• what discrete categories of sound or form do language users extract from a continuous acoustic or visual signal?
• what relationships may hold between these categories in a given language?
• what patterns and processes apply to these categories?
• what linguistic information do these categories convey?
• how do language learners acquire these categories?
• to what extent are these categories, relationships, and processes psychologically real and reflected in perception and production?
• what cognitive processes have led to these categories, relationships, and processes?
• how can these categories, relationships, and processes be modeled in an objective and predictive way?

Please see https://blogs.ubc.ca/kathleencurriehall/publications/ for the most up-to-date information about my publications.