Research Interest (with ongoing work and past/current collaborators)
Generative Syntax: the derivational algorithm, Merge, occurrences, correlatives, coordinations
Cognitive Science: Speech perception (Mark Scott),
Psycholinguistics: Eye tracking study: reading (Arabic (Meera Al Kaabi), Thai (Suphasiree Chantavarin), Vietnamese (Phạm Hiển)), codeswitching (Ji Young Shim, Heeju Hwang), Cantonese topicalization (Heeju Hwang), corrective written feedback (Khaled Karim)
Bilingualism: The syntax of codeswitching (Ji Young Shim)
Second Language Acquisition: subtitles and vocabulary acquisition (Ji Young Shim)
Typological Grammar: Emirati Arabic, Amharic (Girma Halefom), Thai, Tamil (Akeela), Cantonese, Vietnamese