Liberal Arts and Sciences
Alayo Tripp Research Group
Led by Alayo Tripp · Linguistics
What we study
Dr. Tripp studies social cognition, phonology, sociophonetics and developmental psycholinguistics, including how ideas about language and social power shape research on language development.
What working here is like
- Reading, writing & theory
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Modeling Lexical Selection Response Times: A Probabilistic Explanation
This study builds a math model to explain how long it takes people to pick words in language tasks. It shows that word choice time depends mainly on how many phoneme options are considered and how many are checked before finding a word.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 112
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Recent papers, explained
- Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language
2026 · Cognition
Critiques how labels like 'native speaker' create unfair language divisions.
- Sociopolitical ramifications of language models make them worth worrying about
2026 · Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Warns that language models could harm society if misused.
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- Acknowledging language variation and its power: Keys to justice and equity in applied psycholinguistics
2023 · Applied Psycholinguistics
Shows how power shapes language research, calling for fairness in applied psycholinguistics.
- Abandoning inauthentic intersectionality
2023 · Applied Psycholinguistics
Argues that psycholinguists misuse 'intersectionality' by ignoring its Black feminist roots.
- Whose input matters?
2022 · Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
Tests whether adult learners prefer teacher input over student input in language learning.
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How to reach out
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