Currently, I am a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, where I work on the LINGUIST crew. To that note, I am extremely grateful to be in this position and I look forward to future opportunities.

I am interested in how we acquire, represent, and process language. My research builds upon the fundamental notion that there is a set of complex computational processes underlying the production and comprehension of linguistic structures, and I believe that researching the mental representations of those structures provides insight into the human capacity for language and the architecture of the human cognitive system.

Some topics of interest to me:

• The structural and non-structural constraints on (co-)reference and anaphora resolution, binding
• Ellipsis Resolution
• Theoretical and experimental syntax, formal semantics, the syntax/semantics interface, interface conditions
• Intonational Phonology, Focus
• Speech Perception
• Psycholinguistics: first language acquisition, real-time language processing and comprehension, experimental design and methodologies

In addition to these interests, I am also working with fellow LINGUIST Hunter Lockwood to develop a series of psycholinguistic experiments to research how (co-)referential elements are interpreted during ellipsis resolution.

linguist, semantics, syntax, syntax/semantics, ellipsis, vp-ellipsis, interface, interfaces, cognitive, science