December 2021: I’m going to give an invited talk at the University of Maryland on my recent work in language acquisition!
November 2021: I presented a poster on the computational model of the acquisition of multiple variants. This is the work in collaboration with Colin Wilson. I also received the Diversity Travel Fellowship, yay.
September 2021: My paper, The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency is finally published on Language Acquisition.
June 2021: I was informed that my SLI fellowship is renewed for another year!
May 2021: The Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 6th conference was moved to an online format because of Covid-19, which means I (sadly) missed my chance to visit Iceland. I gave my virtual talk on my experiment on English-speaking children’s acquisition of wh-in-situ.
February 2021: Presenting a poster at the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2021, virtually again, of course.
November 2020: I gave a virtual Brown Bag talk on my first-year project titled The acquisition of English wh-in-situ to the department of Cognitive Science at JHU.
October 2020: I gave a virtual talk titled Testing syntactic simplicity: wh-in-situ vs. fronted wh-questions in L1 acquisition at the Many Paths to Language workshop, hosted by the Max Planck Institute Conference.
September 2020: After about 4 years of work, the paper I co-authored, Shaky Scaffolding: Age Differences In Cerebellar Activation Revealed Through Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysi, is now published on Human Brain Mapping. I got involved in this project as an APA Summer Undergraduate Research Scholar at Texas A&M University in summer 2016.
April 2020: I’m honored to receive the Science of Learning Fellowship from the Science of Learning Institute. This fellowship rewards graduate students for their multidisciplinary approaches to learning and cognition. You can read more about that here.
January 2020: Presented my poster at LSA 2020. The full paper is published in their proceedings, which you can find it here: Covert movement in English probing wh-questions..
November 2019: Successfully defended my master thesis.