About

Catherine Pham is a fourth-year Ph.D. student working with Dr. Elisabeth Karuza at the Pennsylvania State University pursuing a dual-title in Psychology and Language Science. She received her M.S. in Psychology from Penn State in 2021 and a B.A. in Linguistics with a minor in Spanish from the University of Kansas in 2019.

She is interested in language production and how speakers plan their utterances, specifically in communicative contexts. Applying insights from the language comprehension and speech recognition literatures, her dissertation explores how speakers alter the syntactic complexity of their language production when speaking under adverse conditions (e.g., in the presence of background noise).