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photoI am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. My research interests involve child language acquisition and the development of linguistic phenomena that lie at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. My dissertation focuses in particular on the acquisition of the negative polarity item any, going beyond children's sensitivity to NPI licensing conditions, to explore their knowledge of domain widening and the exhaustification of subdomain alternatives that are triggered by any. I am also more generally interested in formal semantics, experimental syntax/semantics/pragmatics, theoretical syntax, and bilingual first language acquisition. My doctoral committee consists of Diane Lillo-Martin, William Snyder, and Jon Gajewski.

I'm originally from Toronto /təˈrɒnoʊ/, where I completed my Honours Bachelor of Science and MA in Linguistics at the University of Toronto. When I'm not puzzling over how children can possibly pick up on linguistic phenomena that linguists still can't completely figure out, you'll probably find me listening to music (or playing floor plans on the piano) while taking photos of everything. 



                                                                                                                                                                                             




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