Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
18 Seminary Pl, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1184, USA
huteng.dai[at]rutgers.edu

Huteng's thinking

I'm Huteng Dai (xu˨˩tʰəŋ˧˥ tai˥˨ 戴虎腾; meaning). I am a computational linguist and theoretical phonologist. My research focuses on understanding how humans learn sound patterns from noisy, real-world data. I build interpretable models of phonological learning that are not only mathematically well-defined but also succeed on real-world corpora.

I recently completed my PhD at Rutgers Department of Linguistics. I am affiliated with Center for Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics Lab, and UCI Language Processing Group.

Research interests

(with links to introductory materials and resources)
Theoretical and methodological:
  • Acquisition
  • Formal Language Theory
  • Grammar-lexicon interface
  • Machine Learning (especially Anomaly Detection)
  • Psycholinguistic methods
  • Information Theory
  • Empirical:
  • Child-directed speech
  • Harmony
  • Morphophonology
  • Tone and prosody
  • Low-resource corpora
  • Turkic and East Asian languages
  • Recent activities:

    Resources: