About Me
I'm currently working as a Research Fellow in Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Before coming to Frankfurt, I was a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Computer Science at The University of Manchester (UK). And before that, I was an ESRC-funded PhD candidate in Linguistics and the Psycholinguistics Lab Manager, also at The University of Manchester.
Broadly speaking, I'm interested in how compositional semantics and contextual factors interact during online sentence processing. My work spans two main strands. First, deriving and experimentally testing processing predictions from a range of formal and psycholinguistic theories and models in a theory-neutral, data-driven way. Second, developing cognitively plausible mechanistic processing models that not only account well for human processing behaviour, but also integrate relevant formal insights on the logico-semantic underpinnings of compositional and contextually derived meaning.
At the minute, I'm very much interested in quantification. For instance, when we read a sentence like every beach looked beautiful, how (and when) do we combine the meanings of each word to give us the full meaning of the sentence? What kinds of representations are being dealt with and when? And to what extent does context influence how we process such a sentence?
To find out more about me, take a look at my CV or my Slides & Posters. You may also be interested in my Free Materials.
