CV
Education
- MA in Mind & Language, University of Edinburgh, 2010
- University of Pennsylvania: International Student at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 2012-2013
- University of Chicago: Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, 2015
- PhD in Linguistics, UC San Diego, 2019 (expected)
Publications
Talks
Asymmetries in voice-mismatched VP-ellipsis
Talk at 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL
Reconsidering asymmetries in voice-mismatched verb phrase ellipsis
Poster at The 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, CA
Verb Phrase Ellipsis as discourse reference
Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Potsdam, Germany
Verb Phrase Ellipsis is discourse reference: novel evidence from dialogue
Talk at Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis, Lexington, KY
Verb Phrase Ellipsis is discourse reference: novel evidence from dialogue
Talk at Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, USA
The president gave her inauguration speech: Explicit belief and implicit expectations in language production and comprehension
Talk at The 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA
Structure-sensitive noise inference: comprehenders expect exchange errors
Poster at The 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, USA
Resolving Quantity and Informativeness Implicature in Indefinite Reference
Poster at The 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL
Resolving Quantity and Informativeness Implicature in Indefinite Reference
Poster at Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington, DC
Structure-sensitive noise inference: comprehenders expect exchange errors
Talk at Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington, DC
How do we learn vowels?
Poster at The EUYSRA Interdisciplinary Student Conference 2014, University of Edinburgh
Why did Mary grop? Inferring word meanings from the semantic context
Talk at Annual Meeting of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, The University of Edinburgh
How do we learn vowels?
Talk at Penn Psychology Undergraduate Research Fair, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching
Awards & Honors
- Dean’s List (University of Pennsylvania), 2012-2013
- James Hutchison Stirling Prize (University of Edinburgh, Philosophy), 2012
- Certificate of Merit (University of Edinburgh, Psychology), 2011
- Simon Gray Prize (University of Edinburgh, Psychology), 2011
- CertiLingua Label of Escellence (Maria-Waechtler Gymnasium), 2009
Funding
- 2015: Graduate Student Association Travel Grant (UCSD)
- 2015: Linguistics Society of America Summer Instiute Fellowship
- 2014-2016: German National Academic Foundation: Master’s Fellowship
- 2014-2018: Kroner Family Fellowship (UCSD)
- 2012-2013: German National Academic Foundation: Foreign Studies Award
- 2012-2014: German National Academic Foundation: Undergraduate Fellowship
- 2011-2013: Stuart Brusary (University of Edinburgh)