I am a second-year graduate student in Linguistics at The University of Washington, Seattle. I received my BA in Linguistics and Computer Science from The University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, with study in the Cognitive Science. Under the guidance of a handful of mentors there I learned to pilot a joy in linguistics research in the context of formal language theory. I am thankful for the opportunity to pursue a PhD here at UW in sunny-side up Seattle.
Curriculum Vitae:
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Interests:
Formal syntactic theory.
Human language learning and learnability.
Grammar engineering.
American Sign Language.
Syntactic Prosody.
M.A. Agenda: Non-manual syntactic prosody in American Sign Language interacts with manual syntactic boundaries on the phrasal level. This analysis employs an Agree-based Phase account of prosody working with the syntax to show that the prosodic features for wh-"double constructions", focus questions and topic fronting accommodate for word order, in line with preliminary results from a pilot study of native ASL speakers.
M.A. Advisors: Sharon Hargus, Emily Bender, Barbara Citko, Toshiyuki Ogihara.
