Hello! I am a 4th-year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at UConn. My research focuses on natural language semantics, pragmatics, and their acquisition by children. I combine theoretical and experimental methods in my research to investigate how linguistically encoded meanings and their compositional details are reflected in children's developmental trajectory. My current work primarily deals with questions, disjunctions, attitudes, modality, counterfactuals, and formal and experimental techniques applicable to natural language semantics/pragmatics.  

Prior to UConn, I received my M.A. degree in Linguistics from CUHK, and completed my master's thesis on distributivity in child Mandarin under the supervision of Margaret Lei. 

“Presupposition of AltQs revisited: The view from child language." Talk at (biennial) Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4 (ELM 4), June 10th-12th, University of Pennsylvania, USA. 

“Children learn the subcategorization of attitude verbs by speech acts in a wh-in-situ language." Invited talk at Acquisition/ Rescursion Meeting, UMass Language Acquisition Lab, Mar. 5th, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.  (virtual)

“Presupposition of alternative questions: The view from child Mandarin." Talk at the 2026 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2026), Jan. 8th – 11th, New Orleans, USA. [slides]