Welcome! I am a mixed methods PhD researcher at the UCLA Department of Linguistics specializing in first language acquisition. My primary interest is how behavioral data can inform us about human cognition and behavior.

 

Within my dissertation, I am investigating how the integration of multimodal input can lead to successful learning of complex verbs. In another project, I am developing a computational model of early sentence processing in tandem with more general cognitive constraints that arise early in development.

 

Previously, I led a project phonetically annotating a corpus of infant-directed speech to produce the largest corpus of its type and level of detail. As part of this project, I am now developing a data visualization tool that allows non-specialists to explore the nature of children's early language input.