Current/recent projects:
Language Comprehension
- Memory in the processing of anaphoric presuppositions (with E. Matthew Husband)
- Processing tenses/lifetime effects in a superficially tenseless language
- Comprehending and: the developmental path of English conjunction in child grammar (with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi)
Semantics/Pragmatics
- Accommodating the presupposition of too
- Zero as a degree quantifier: numerosity, intensification & negative polarity.
- Reduplicated numerals and distributivity (with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi)
- “Tenselessness” and the Future/Non-Future tenses in Chinese (with Nick Huang)
Syntax
- Wh-correlatives and wh-movement in Mandarin Chinese
- Double topicalization
Others: Tonal Phonology, Computational Linguistics, NLP
- Psycholinguistic approaches to language model evaluation (with Jennifer Hu and Roger Levy)
- Tone sandhi and the tonal domain in Longyou Wu (with Michael Kenstowicz)
- Tonal Near Merger: Computational Implementations of Examplar-based theories Using Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Model (under Adam Albright‘s guidance)
For more details, check out Papers and Presentations.
