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My primary focus at the moment is on auditory word recognition and specifically the ways in which it is or isn’t influenced by syntactic category knowledge. I’m currently working on a series of experiments that aim to provide evidence for the nature of the mechanism for syntactic category constraints, and to reconcile conflicting findings on whether or not the generation of lexical candidates can be constrained by syntactic context. My goal is to eventually tie this back to work exploring the neural and cognitive mechanisms involved in syntactic prediction. Broadly, I’m interested in online syntactic structure-building, its time-course, and the nature of the mechanisms and representations it involves.
To get at these issues I have mainly used MEG (working quite a bit with MNE-Python) and, more recently, eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm. I also have experience with EEG and fMRI, and have recently begun to use jTRACE for computational modeling of auditory word recognition.
With Hanna Muller, as part of the Bias in Linguistics working group, I am also researching gender bias in representation and publication rates in linguistics.