Ongoing projects:

double_gap_exp1

For my dissertation project, I have run a series of factorial-design acceptability experiments to examine the island effect exihibited by relative clauses in Japanese and other languages, and investigated why the effect itself often has only a small impact on sentence acceptability.
Results presented in the following conferences (with link to slides/posters): CUNY 34, CAMP 4, CLS 58, HSP 36(1/2)).

only_presupposition

I conducted multiple experiments to find out what is presupposed by English focus marker ‘only’; is it the prejacent of the sentence (e.g., “John ate only bananas” presupposes that “John ate (at least) bananas”), or something else? My focus is on whether a certain experimental paradigm, namely the one that proffers alternative propositions in the form of response options, can change the presuppositional component of ‘only’.
Presented at AMLaP 2021

online_implicature

I examined the effect of presentation modality (video/picture/text), as well as the presence of an in-person experimenter, on the way participants engage in pragmatic reasoning, with a focus on the well-known “some-but-not-all” implicature.
Presented at 2022 ELM (Experiments in Linguistic Meaning)

RC_island_LM

I evaluated neural language models like LSTM and GPT-2 to find out if they are capable of capturing grammatical constraints such as islands in Japanese.
Findings presented at SCiL 6
Link to code

Past projects:

Computational modelling of relative clause attachment preference in Japanese (write-up available here)
Evaluating correlations between environmental and linguistic features (presented at 2022 JcoLE workshop “Machine Learning and the Evolution of Language”; slides)
English-speaking children’s acquisition of passive structures (write-up available here)
Japanese-speaking children’s acquisition of the syntactic constraints on floating quantifiers (write-up available here)
Examination of verb restructuring in purpose clause and gerundive clause in Japanese (write-up available here)