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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


Chaoyi Chen

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in headless relative clauses, concessive scalar particles, verbal reduplications, limited ellipsis, null categories, and reflexives.


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.


Indira Das

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in nominal semantics with a focus on definite expressions in bare argument languages, number interpretation of such expressions and how such constructions are influenced


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.


Deshik Iyengar

Undergraduate Member

I am an undergraduate student at Rutgers University. My current research interests are in experimental and formal semantics, L1 and L2 acquisition, modality, and pragmatics. I am also interested in


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.


Alex Kenney

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in Japanese, Romance, and Slavic linguistics, semantic content in binding relations, and syntax-semantics interface in “What” phrases with unpronounced elements.