about

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at University of Maryland, advised by Jeff Lidz and Norbert Hornstein. For more information about my research, see my research page.

Outside of linguistics, I’m also interested in web development, programming, and system administration. 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

• April 12, 2019

  I gave the invited keynote talk at the 2019 Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, “Why do you think why kids produce medial wh-phrases: Grammar or performance?”, which is joint work with Elaine Grolla and Jeff Lidz.

• March 21, 2019

  Alan Munn presented our paper with Rachel Stacey, Robert Felster, Adam Smolinski, and Cristina Schmitt called “Context effects in children’s calculation of scalar implicatures: The case of disjunction” at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

• January 4, 2019

  Hanna Muller and Phoebe Gaston presented our paper with Bethany Dickerson, Karthik Durvasula, Mina Hirzel, Kasia Hitczenko, Maggie Kandel, Paulina Lsykawa, Jackie Nelligan, Max Papillon, and Laurel Perkins called “Gender bias in representation and publishing rates across subfields” at the LSA 2019 Annual Meeting in New York, NY. This paper is part of ongoing work with the Bias in Linguistics working group.

• July 12, 2018

  Rachel Stacey, Robert Felster, and Adam Smolinski presented our paper with Alan Munn and Cristina Schmitt called “Scalar Implicature Variability in Adults and Children: The Case of ‘or’” at the Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration workshop, hosted by Università di Siena in Siena, Italy.

• March 23, 2018

  My paper “Grammaticalized number, implicated presuppositions, and the plural” with Tess Huelskamp, Chris Heffner, and Cristina Schmitt was published in Glossa.