Christian Muxica
I study how infants and adults interpret language (i.e., semantics) with particular emphasis on the role of linguistic context (i.e., pragmatics). As for adults, I am interested in how/when linguistic context is accessed in order to support the real-time interpretation of language. As for infants, I am interested in how/when linguistic context is leveraged in order to support early language acquisition. I primarily make use of experimental methods (e.g., eyetracking) in my research, but formal and computational methods often make an appearance as well. If I am not doing linguistics, I am probably making music or doing something outdoorsy.
Kevin Liang
I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at UCLA. Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the areas of phonology and language acquisition. I also love anything to do with Catalan. My MA thesis investigated the role of phonotactics in suffix discovery in 6-month-old English-learning infants. I was advised by Megha Sundara, Laurel Perkins, and Bruce Hayes.
This manuscript has recently been submitted for publication. You can read the first submitted draft here
Jahnavi Narkar
I am broadly interested in acoustic phonetics, speech perception and experimental phonology with a particular interest in learning and learnability in crowded acoustic spaces and with impoverished input. I use a combination of experimental, computational and corpus methods in my research. One collaborative project I am working on attempts to evaluate the learnability of vowels in infant directed speech using different machine learning algorithms that simulate phonetic acquisition. In my free time, I enjoy traveling, reading, and spending time with my cats, Murderface and Toki.
Iza Solá-Llonch
I am interested in the acquisition of morphology, especially with regards to how infants learn to distinguish morphological processes from phonotactic ones. In the lab, I am currently working with Megha Sundara to investigate whether the perceptual saliency of harmony patterns causes all infants, regardless of language background, to become sensitive to harmony before they gain sensitivity to other phonotactic dependencies. I also do a lot of fieldwork on San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec. Outside of school, I like to read detective novels and play video games.
Lily Xu
I’m a second-year PhD student at the linguistics department. I use experimental and computational methods to study (morpho)phonological knowledge and how it is learned. One specific area of interest is how morphological environments affect phonology, and I think understanding how early morphological and phonotactic learning interact with each other lends important insight on this question. I am also interested in the learning and representation of non-concatenative morphology. One hobby I have is collecting stuffed animals.
Evan Hochstein
I am a second-year PhD student in UCLA’s linguistics department. I am interested in how the mind processes language and how the language system interfaces with broader cognition. Currently I am conducting an experiment with Dr. Laurel Perkins on whether babies use information from animacy to form expectations about the meanings of novel verbs. Before joining the linguistics department at UCLA, I completed my bachelor’s and master’s at Yale University, where I conducted research on the cognitive basis for animacy in the English pronominal system. In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, cooking, playing the piano, and listening to music from around the world.
Shalinee Maitra
I study language acquisition, computational linguistics, syntax, semantics.
Marisabel (Isa) Cabrera Sanchez
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