about

I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at University of Maryland, advised by Jeff Lidz and Norbert Hornstein. I am also a Language Science Fellow in University of Maryland’s Language Science Center. For more information about my research, see my research page.

Outside of linguistics, I’m also interested in web development and programming. I enjoy tinkering with computers as well as teaching others about computers. I’ve put together materials for a LaTeX workshop, loosely aimed at linguists, which I’ve taught several times. I’ve also put together materials for a git workshop, loosely aimed at scientists who do human subjects research, which I’ve taught once over the course of 7 weeks.

I also enjoy snowboarding, backpacking, and hiking. And I really like coffee. I worked as a barista, off-and-on, for a few years at the Dunn Bros at the Smith Douglas More House, now known as Smith.

recent updates

• August 1, 2021

  Along with Jeff Lidz, I was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant by the National Science Foundation, titled Subjacency, the Empty Category Principle (ECP), and the nature of constraints on phrase movement, to fund the work for my dissertation in my final year of the Linguistics PhD program at University of Maryland.

• May 23, 2021

  My paper with Jeff Lidz, “Non-Actional Passives Can Be Comprehended by 4-Year-Olds”, is out now in the BUCLD 45 proceedings.

• November 5, 2020

  Myself and Jeff Lidz presented our poster “Non-actional passives can be comprehended by 4-year olds” at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development, hosted virtually by Boston University.

• October 22, 2020

  “The Development of Language and Its Interaction with Other Aspects of Cognition: The Case of Medial Wh-Questions in English and in Brazilian Portuguese”, a paper by Elaine Grolla, me, and Jeff Lidz, is out now in Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies.

• August 11, 2020

  My paper with Karthik Durvasula, “There is a simplicity bias when generalising from ambiguous data”, is out now in Phonology.