Department of Linguistics

Patrick Rebuschat conducted his doctoral research at the Research Centre for English & Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. His PhD investigated the implicit learning of natural language syntax, i.e. how humans come to acquire syntactic knowledge incidentally and without awareness of the information they have acquired. In addition to his interest in implicit learning processes, Patrick has also been conducting research on the cognitive basis of language and music. In 2007, he co-organized an international conference on "Language and Music as Cognitive Systems", which focused on the cognitive, neural and evolutionary aspects of language and music, and he is currently editing - together with Martin Rohrmeier, John Hawkins and Ian Cross - a selection of the talks for publication with Oxford University Press. His other research interests include Artificial Grammar Learning, the role of grammatical complexity in learning, and connectionist modelling of language acquisition.