Curriculum Vitae (Updated July 26, 2017)
Hiya!
I am a fifth year Doctoral Student in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. My research interests lies in studying how children and adults use lexical semantic information to help them acquire and process syntax. My research can be summarized in two-folds: (1) what is the time course of children’s acquisition of syntax and why are children sometimes delayed in acquiring certain syntactic structures such as passives sentences; and (2),using neurolinguistic methodologies, how do adults process sentences and what do adults do when they encounter semantically-weird sentences.
Currently, in children, I’m looking into English-speaking children’s acquisition of the passive construction as a case study where I will hopefully be able to build a theory of lexical semantics to explain English-speaking children asymmetric understanding of verbs in passive sentences. And in adults, I am interested in how people grapple with processing sentences that violate their expectations.
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(Last updated: July 31, 2017)
[UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS]
Snyder, W. , & Nguyen, E. (upcoming, September). On Semantic Coercion in Children’s Raising and Passives. Talk at the International Conference of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 13), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Nguyen, E. & Martinez Vera, G. (upcoming, October). A surprising comparison: a unified account of degree “surprisingly” with bare adjectives and comparatives. Poster at the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 48), University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Nguyen, E., & Snyder, W. (upcoming, November). It’s hard to coerce: a unified account of Raising-Past-Experiencers and Passives in Child English. Poster at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston.
Nguyen, E., Sprouse, J. (upcoming, November). The (non-) satiation of P600/SPS effects to distinct grammatical violations. Poster at the 9th Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, Maryland.
