Yuri is a PhD student in Second Language Studies from Brazil. He received his M.A. in Linguistics, along with a TESOL certificate, from Syracuse University. Prior to that, he completed his B.A. in Portuguese and English in Brazil, where he taught English for eight years. At IU, he is part of the Second Language Psycholinguistics lab, and his current interests include L2 Phonology, bilingual lexical access and L2 phonotactics.