Figure 2. MA Thesis

Syntactic Retrieval Cues

My thesis investigates the granularity of syntactic cues leveraged during the resolution of long distance subject-verb dependencies, with particular emphasis on the cue-combinatorics specific to the distinct grammatical functions associated with subject retrieval operations.

Investigating Syntactic Gating during Subject Retrieval with English Ditransitives. Talk at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) 6, Stanford, January 2024. (with Matt Wagers)


Maintaining Syntactic Positions and Thematic Roles in Memory: Evidence from Ditransitive Alternations in English. Poster at AMLaP 29, BCBL, September 2023. (with Matt Wagers)







Game of Tones

In collaboration with members of the Zapotec Language Project, I developed an online game, the Game of Tones, intended to teach participants about lexical tones in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. This work was developed into a special session on field methods and digital games at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

Implementing Game of Tones. Tutorial in special session 'Engaging the Community: Using field methods classes for community out reach' at SSILA Annual Meeting, January 2023. (with Andrew Hedding, Jack Duff, and Mykel Lorne Brinkerhoff)

Figure 3. Mean ORC reading times

Contextual Animacy

As a Research Assistant with r/lab, we investigated the contextual sensitivity of animacy in relative clause processing using the Maze task. We presented our findings at the 35th Conference on Human Sentence Processing. slides

"It's alive!": Animacy based structural expectations rapidly update with context Poster at HSP (35), UCSC, March 2022. (with Stephanie Rich, Lalitha Balachandran, Jack Duff, Nicholas Van Handel, Maya Wax Cavallaro, and Matt Wagers)

Implicit Prosody

As an undergraduate research assistant for Nick Van Handel, we explored implicit prosody during silent reading using delexicalized melodies in self-paced reading and Maze tasks.

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