I am an associate professor at UCLA in the Department of Linguistics, and advise the UCLA Language Processing Lab. My research investigates how language users develop a sufficiently rich linguistic meaning during online comprehension. Recent topics include the processing of ellipsis and the assignment of focus, as well as the role of other semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic defaults in sentence interpretation.

I am committed to using experimental methods in my research, including Internet-based questionnaires, corpora, and online methods such as self-paced reading and eye tracking. See this page for a description of the various methods and data collection tools used in the lab.

I am an organizer for the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), and hosted the inaugural meeting at UCLA in 2017. CAMP 2018 was held at the University of Southern California. CAMP 2019 was held at UC Santa Cruz. CAMP 2021 was held virtually at UC Irvine. In 2023, CAMP5 returned to UCLA.

As a person who stutters, I’m proud to serve on the Board of Directors of the Myspeech, a non-profit dedicated to facilitating access to high-quality, client-centered speech therapy to people in underserved communities, as well as providing resources on disability rights for students who stutter and education for speech-language pathologists in training.

Before UCLA, I was an assistant professor at Pomona College, in the Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science.

Finally, I regularly participate in the Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics Seminar; the current schedule may be found here.