About Me

I am a Research Scientist at NYU Abu Dhabi, working in the Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab) with Liina Pylkkänen and Alec Marantz.

Apart from linguistics, I pass my time reading, doing nerd stuff, attending shows, being active, and entertaining my cat Ernie.

  • Email: dustin.alfonso squigglysymbol nyu.edu

  • Twitter: @lingdustin

  • OSF: osf.io/ucvrp

News

10/06/2020. Catch my virtual presentation Society of Neurobiology of Language 2020 with Liina Pylkkänen, the timing of semantic interpretation in processing long-distance dependencies! Sneak-peak the poster here!

09/23/2020. My collaborator Linnea Stockall was recently awarded a 3-year grant to study the morphological decomposition of complex words in Tagalog, Arabic, Bengali, Slovenian, and Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian in EEG and MEG! This is a collaboration between Linnea Stockall, Christina Manouilidou, Rok Žaucer, Samantha Wray, Alec Marantz, and myself. Stay tuned for more details!

08/30/2020. I will be presenting a poster at SAFAL-1, a satellite session of AMLaP 2020, entitled The time course of Hindi agreement in the cognitive neuroscience of language (a proposal) with Rajesh Bhatt, Brian Dillon, and Alec Marantz. The poster and pre-recorded presentation can be found on my OSF here: [https://osf.io/es9bv/] !

03/29/2020. Conference updates over the last few months:

    • I had a talk at the 2020 Linguistic Society of America, Inactive Gap Formation: An ERP Study on the processing of extraction from adjunct clauses. Expect it in the proceedings shortly!

    • I had a (virtually presented) poster at CUNY 2020 with Russell Simonsen, Defining native-like argument interpretation in SVO-OVS Spanish sentences! Check it out on OSF: [https://osf.io/6gc7x/]

    • I had another (virtually presented) poster as FASAL 10 with Rajesh Bhatt and Brian Dillon, Feature specification in the processing of closest conjunct agreement in Hindi! Check it out on OSF: [https://osf.io/6ef43/]

09/07/2019. Big news! I'm now a Research Scientist working in the NeLLab at NYU Abu Dhabi!

06/21/2019. I'm happy to report that Minding The Gap?: Mechanisms underlying Resumption in English was published in Glossa!