Ph.D. candidate Farrah Neumann has received a Dissertation Grant from the journal Language Learning to support her dissertation research. Farrah’s dissertation project uses a laboratory training paradigm to investigate how novice learners begin to acquire mental representations for phonetic and phonological categories. The grant will allow Farrah to test 25 learners in each of two conditions to address the question of whether sound structure acquisition differs depending on the teaching methods used. Congratulations, Farrah!