When people get confused about this story \u2013 an Israeli-Italian couple who lived in Berlin, then Paris and now NJ \u2013 my wife says: \u201cmy husband is a linguist\u201d, and people say Ah! and nod as if with this piece of information makes sense of everything.<\/em><\/p>\n I love languages and I\u2019m passionate about how they work and how people use them. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m attached to any field of linguistics in particular. In my PhD I worked on relative clause processing in children (using eye-tracking); in my Paris job I worked on sentence processing in adults and on a minority language called Pomak; now I\u2019m here working on the processing and perception of intonation meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n In the past couple of years I came to be passionate also about the process of how we derive conclusions from the data we collect and observe in linguistic experiments. I became interested in understanding better the statistical analysis methods, how to do them more appropriately and what they actually tell us. This made me also a researcher who follows first and foremost the data, rather than a particular theoretical framework. In other words, I\u2019d rather take any given theoretical framework and try to make it fit to the data, rather than the other way round.<\/em><\/p>\n
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