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.

My research builds upon the fundamental notion that there is a set of complex computational processes that underlie language production and comprehension, and I believe that researching the cognitive representations of those processes provides a vast amount of insight into the human capacity for language and cognitive development in general. My broad research objective is to develop cognitively realistic models of linguistic structures that are informed and supported by experimental and computational methods, as they are critical for assessing the empirical adequacy of current linguistic theory.

Some topics of interest to me:

• The structural and non-structural constraints on (co-)reference and anaphor resolution
• Experimental syntax and semantics, the syntax/pragmatics/semantics interface
• The ways in which the linguistic faculty integrates information from various cognitive sources during on-line language processing
• Psycholinguistics: first language acquisition, accessibility, 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