About Me

I am an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in Linguistics and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Linguistics and Psychology at The University of Manchester (UK), where I am also the Lab Manager of the Psycholinguistics Lab. I am Supervised by Dr. Vera Hohaus and Prof. Andrew Stewart.

Broadly speaking, I'm interested in the way in which people get meaning from written text. My work falls into two main strands:

  1. The use of behavioural methods like semantic priming, eye-tracking and reading time measures to 'get at' some of the hidden semantic processes that are at play when we understand sentences.

  2. Developing, and building on existing, semantic models that capture theoretically relevant insights from formal semantics while providing a plausible mechanistic processing model based on empirical data collected in experimental tasks.

More specifically, I'm interested in quantification. For instance, when we read sentences such as every cyclist ignored the warnings, how (and when) do we combine the meanings of every cyclist and ignored the warnings to give us the full meaning of the sentence? While this may seem trivial, as native speakers, it is largely an open question as to how this happens on a word-by-word basis. This is the focus of my PhD work.

To find out more about my work, take a look at my CV or my Slides & Posters. You may also be interested in my Free Materials.

Free Materials

Below, you'll find links to a set of video tutorials on formal semantics, psycholinguistics, data science in R, as well as other topics. The list below will be periodically updated, so keep checking back!

  1. Formal Semantics 101
  2. Sentence Processing 101
  3. Analysing Psycholinguistic Data in R
  4. Quantifiers in Semantics and Psycholinguistics
  5. Type-setting your first page in

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