About me

I am a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where I'm advised by Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz. My interests are mainly in language acquisition, semantics, and their intersection: I study how children learn the meanings of their language. 

Some specific topics I am working on include:

• The development of tense–aspect marking

• The acquisition of attitude verbs such as think and want

• Infants' understanding of clause types (e.g., interrogative, declarative) and their functions (e.g., asking questions, making assertions)

• Children's comprehension of connectives such as but and so

Prior to coming to Maryland, I earned my B.A. in Linguistics and French at Stanford University, where I worked with Judith Degen and Michael Frank. After that, I completed my Master's degree in Cognitive Science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, under the supervision of Alex de Carvalho.