PEOPLE
Helena Aparicio
Principal Investigator
My research focuses on understanding what aspects of linguistic meaning are hard-coded as opposed to derived during linguistic interactions. To answer this question, I combine insights from theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science more broadly, with experimental and computational methods.
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Zander Lynch
I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics. My current research interest is coordination in Goidelic languages past and present. I have previously worked on on questions about the processing of adjectives incrementally and how semantics affects adjective ordering. When I am not coding experiments I can be found learning dead languages including Hittite, Latin, and Luwian.
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Yifan Wu
I’m a second-year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Cornell University, where I spend most of my time thinking about how we use and interpret language in real-time. My research interests include psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and semantics/pragmatics. Right now, I am particularly interested in questions revolving around imprecision, scalar inferences, and adaptation. I am also interested in applying computational methods to better understand incremental themes.
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Ashlyn Winship
I'm a PhD candidate, and I use computational and psycholinguistic methods to examine how people process different features of linguistic input. My general interests are computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, codeswitching, and similarity evaluation.
Personal websiteMasters and Undergraduate Students
Tab Hajamaideen
I'm an M.Eng. student in Computer Science at Cornell University with a focus on natural language processing and computational linguistics. I'm particularly interested in the interface between syntax and semantics, and in how structure and meaning shape one another in language.
Jake Donovan
I am an undergraduate student studying Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. I'm broadly interested in computational linguistics and grammar structures for both spoken and programming languages.
Carissa Zheng
I am an undergraduate studying Linguistics and Computer Science. I am broadly interested in experimental pragmatics and computational linguistics.
Gio McBride
I am an undergraduate student studying Economics & Italian. I am interested in the impacts of bilingualism on linguistic development and phonetic differentiation, as well as how language can serve as an economic variable.
Alumni
PhD Alumni
John Starr - Postdoc, John Hopkins University
Nianpo Su - Lecturer, Columbia University
Kaelyn Lamp - Data Scientist, Stitch Studio
Masters Alumni
Undergraduate Alumni
Manxin Lan - PhD Student, University of Southern California
Xulián “Yumi” Romano - PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
Emily Pecsok - PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Altria Wang - MS, Columbia University
Curtis Chen - PhD Student, University of Edinburgh