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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.


Julianna Meglio

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, interested in Romance and Japanese linguistics, as well as the syntax-semantics interface in regards to second language acquisition.


Nayan Nagaraja

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate at Rutgers University. Broadly interested in the intersection of semantics and syntax and their applications in the field of language acquisition. Personal interests within linguistics are the fields of


Jamie Oliver

Undergraduate Member

Hello, my name is Jamie Oliver, and I am an undergraduate student at Rutgers University double majoring in Linguistics and Cognitive Science with minors in Philosophy and Archaeology. My current research


Yagmur Sag-Parvardeh

Associate Member

Dr. Yagmur Sag-Parvardeh is a lecturer at Rutgers Linguistics, with interests in theoretical and experimental approaches to semantics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface.


Aidan Sharma

Graduate Member

Graduate student at Rutgers Linguistics. Within semantics and syntax, my interests include bridging, attitudes, and ellipsis. I’m also interested in understudied Turkic languages in Central Asia, specifically Kazakh and Kyrgyz.


Kiran Sojan

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate student at Rutgers Linguistics, broadly interested in the interplay of syntax and semantics in subfields such as psycholinguistics and language acquisition.


John Thatcher

Undergraduate Member

Undergraduate student at Rutgers University. Current research involves differential object marking and relative clauses in Spanish. Interested in English, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic linguistics.