| Kevin Liang (梁炎龙) Kevin Liang | I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at UCLA. Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the areas of phonology and language acquisition. I also love anything to do with Catalan.

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at UCLA. Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the areas of phonology and language acquisition. I also love anything to do with Catalan.

Through a series of adult and infant experiments, my dissertation investigates the learnability of so-called "unnatural" phonological patterns in Catalan (specifically, saltation and opacity). My committee consists of Megha Sundara (co-chair), Bruce Hayes (co-chair), Victoria Mateu, and Kie Zuraw.

My MA thesis investigated the role of phonotactics in suffix discovery in 6-month-old English-learning infants. I was advised by Megha Sundara, Laurel Perkins, and Bruce Hayes.