I am currently an  Assistant Teaching Professor in the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University where I Direct the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science. 

My primary research interests are in language acquisition and learning more generally. My dissertation focused on the relationship between linguistic structure and learnability. I am also interested in how the structure of the input constrains learners' generalizations as well as what we can learn about the nature of their representations. 

I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Georgetown University (mentor Elissa Newport), an M.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University, and my B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from Smith College (mentors Jill and Peter de Villiers).