Ongoing projects:

double_gap_exp1

For my dissertation project, I have run a series of factorial-design acceptability experiments to examine (i) whether relativization out of a relative clause island (double relative) in Japanese exhibits an island effect, and (ii) which factors modulate the size of the relative clause island effect in English and Japanese.
Results presented in multiple conferences (CUNY 34, CAMP 4, CLS 58, HSP 36).

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 (slides)

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 Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (slides)

RC_attachment

I evaluated neural language models like LSTM and GPT-2 to find out if they are capable of capturing grammatical constraints like islands in Japanese.
Findings to be presented at SCiL 6 (link to proceedings)

Past projects:

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)