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About the Lab

Welcome to the Speech Learning Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Our lab is built on reciprocity and shared investment. Lab members work on projects that fit their interests and expertise. We run design, pilot, and run projects and present and publish together, which creates opportunities for hands-on research and professional training.

Research Focus

Our research focuses on speech learning in additional languages, including the perception, production, and comprehension of speech. We work across several languages, but much of our work is related to Spanish as an additional language.

Latest News

August 2026 Shelby Bruun was awarded a Language Learning Dissertation Grant to support her work on L2 speech category learning
May 2026 Undergraduate Researcher Makai Moore was awarded a Rising Researcher Award by the College of Liberal Arts
April 2026 Declan Revenew successfully defended his qualifying paper, Evaluating L2 Learners’ Tap-Trill Contrast in Controlled and Spontaneous Speech
December 2025 Shelby Bruun successfully defended her dissertation proposal, Enhancing Perceptual Strategies for Second Language Speech Learning Through L1-Based Scaffolding in High-Variability Pronunciation Training

Contact

Principal Investigator: Dr. Charlie Nagle
Lab Office: BEN 3.105
Lab Email: speechlearninglab@austin.utexas.edu