FACULTY
Becky gained her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2019. Her research focuses on the processing and syntactic representation of long-distance dependencies, ambiguous pronouns, and their interaction with phenomena such as case marking, agreement, and subjecthood.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Juyeon is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Before coming to the University of Delaware, she received her B.A. from Ewha Womans University and her M.A. from Seoul National University. Juyeon is interested in how experimental syntax can provide evidence to support syntactic theories; her current research focuses on the processing of long-distance dependencies.
Xiaoyi Tang is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics and Cognitive Science . She holds a M.S. in Educational Linguistics and worked as a research assistant at University of Pennsylvania. Her main research interests are sentence processing and psycholinguistics. She is working on how classifiers influence the processing of relative clauses in Mandarin. She is also interested in using experimental measures to study speech production and perception.
Dissertation title: Sluicing, islands, and sentence processing.
Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware.
Dissertation title: The role of semantic and syntactic features in dependency interference effects.
Currently a postdoctoral researcher at The National University of Singapore.
