Hi, this is Baorian. I am a Ph.D candidate in Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. My research interest lies in how defective speech is processed by human. To explore this topic, I studied the relationship between computational linguistics, second language (L2) speech, and psycholinguistic data. Recently, I adopted a mutual-information-based functional load model to quantify the information loss of L2 Chinese speech. Then I explored the relation between information loss and comprehensibility.