Katie Schuler

Katie Schuler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how children acquire language, particularly through distributional learning and regularization of linguistic variation. She leads the Child Language Lab, which investigates topics like recursive structures, statistical learning, and phonological development.

• Key research areas: Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Statistical Language Learning.
• Teaching: Courses include Neurolinguistics, Data Science for Studying Language and the Mind, and Introduction to Linguistics.

Her recent publications examine how similarity and consistency shape language learning, children’s regularization of variation, and constraints on recursive structure acquisition. She has received awards such as the Best paper by untenured scientists (2023).