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Dorothy Ahn

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in linguistics and metalinguistic discussions.


Gérard Avelino

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, studying syntax-semantics interface phenomena in Austronesian languages, particularly those of the Philippines. Semantics is generally understudied in this language family, and I hope to contribute


Shannon Bryant

Associate Member

Dr. Shannon Bryant is a post-doctoral associate in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science with an interest in experimental and theoretical approaches to the syntax-semantics interface. Specific research interests include


Siyuan Cao

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in indefinites and questions.


Jiayuan Chen

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in semantics and syntax. More broadly, I’m also interested in backing the linguistic data I report experimentally.


Vincent Czarnecki

Graduate Member

Vincent Czarnecki is a PhD student at Rutgers Linguistics working on mathematical and computational linguistics. Some interests include the syntax-phonology interface and spatial semantics.


André Eliatamby

Associate Member

I am a first language acquisition researcher interested in the acquisition of determiner phrase semantics and logical connectives, the early acquisition of functional categories, and theoretical issues concerning the semantics/pragmatics


Chenyu Feng

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate student at Rutgers University. Current research interests lie in Gesture Semantics, specifically co-speech gesture and QUD; I am also interested in fieldwork and Morphosyntax in African languages.


Karisma Garcia

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested broadly in semantics, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.


Hyunjung Joo

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in laboratory phonology, computational phonology, and prosody. I am specifically interested in the production, perception, and computation of intonation across languages.