Graduate Students

Mariam Asatryan
masatryan@umass.edu
AsatryanResearch interests:
Semantics
Year started:
2019
Maggie Baird
mbaird@umass.edu
BairdResearch interests:
Phonology, variation and learning
Year started:
2018
Özge Bakay
obakay@umass.edu
OzgeResearch interests:
Sentence Processing, Prosody, Turkish and Laz
Year started:
2021
Nawal Bahrani
nbahrani@umass.edu
NawalResearch interests:
Phonetics,Phonology, and Typology of understudied languages of Iran, especially Khuzestani Arabic
Year started:
2023
Mariana Calderón
mcalderoncor@umass.edu
CalderonResearch interests:
Fieldwork, Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, language contact, Zapotec and Otomanguean languages
Year started:
2022
Yi-Shih Helen Chen
yishihchen@umass.edu
CalderonResearch interests:
Semantics, Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Logic, Taiwan Mandarin, Time (tense and aspect), Propositional Attitude, Logophoricity
Year started:
2022
Erine-Caitlin Desir
erinecaitlin@umass.edu
DesirResearch interests:
African American Language (AAL)
Year started:
2023
Alessa Farinella
afarinella@umass.edu
AlessaResearch interests:
Prosody, syntax-prosody interface, Tagalog, Indonesian
Year started:
2020
Angelica Hill
amhill@umass.edu
OzgeResearch interests:
Formal semantics of tense, aspect, modality; Psycholinguistics: modality, causation
Year started:
2020
Cerys Hughes
ceryshughes@umass.edu
SongResearch interests:
Computational Modeling, Phonology
Year started:
2020
Polina Kasyanova
pkasyanova@umass.edu
AlessaResearch interests:
Syntax, Chukchi
Year started:
2020
Jaieun Kim
jaieunkim@umass.edu
KimResearch interests:
Language acquisition, syntax, Korean
Year started:
2015
Mari Kugemoto
mkugemoto@umass.edu
AlessaResearch interests:
Psycholinguistics, syntax, Japanese
Year started:
2020
Suet-Ying Lam
suetyinglam@umass.edu
LamResearch interests:
Pycholinguistics
Year started:
2022
Seung Suk Josh Lee
seungsuklee@umass.edu
LeeResearch interests:
Phonetics, Phonology and Computational Linguistics
Year started:
2019
Andrea Matticchio
amatticchio@umass.edu
MatticchioResearch interests:
Semantics and the Syntax-Semantics interface from theoretical and experimental perspectives
Year started:
2023
Yosho Miyato
ymiyata@umass.edu
MiyataResearch interests:
Syntax, Syntax-Prosody interface, Production, Japanese
Year started:
2019
Anissa Neal
anneal@umass.edu
NealResearch interests:
Psycholinguistics, syntax and semantics, African-American English
Year started:
2018
Eva Neu
eneu@umass.edu
EvaResearch interests:
Syntax, Syntax-
Semantics interface
Year started:
2021
Ali Nirheche
anirheche@umass.edu
NirhecheResearch interests:
phonology, morphology, phonology-morphology interface, Moroccan Arabic
Year started:
2022
Satoru Ozaki
sozaki@umass.edu
OzakiResearch interests:
Syntax, Japanese, case, computational linguistics (grammar induction)
Year started:
2022
Shaunak Phadnis
sphadnis@umass.edu
PhadnisResearch interests:
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, also interested in Syntax/Semantics interface
Year started:
2023
Jonathan Pesetsky
jpesetsky@umass.edu
PesetsyResearch interests:
Semantics
Year started:
2018
Jia Ren
jiaren@umass.edu
AlessaResearch interests:
Syntax, Mandarin
Year started:
2020
YixiaoSong
yixiaosong@umass.edu
SongResearch interests:
Computational Linguistics and Semantics
Year started:
2019
Carla Spellerberg
cspellerberg@umass.edu
SpellerbergResearch interests:
Syntax, Semantics, and especially the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Year started:
2023
Ayana Whitmal
awhitmal@umass.edu
WhitmalResearch interests:
AAE, tense and aspect, contact relative clauses, Karuk agreement
Year started:
2019
Brynne Wilkerson
bewilkinson@umass.edu
WilkersonResearch interests:
Formal Semantics, specifically Tense Semantics, the Syntax-Semantics Interface, and Historical Linguistics



Year started:
2023