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.
Recent / Upcoming Presentations
“John knows Mary likes what: Learning attitude verbs by speech acts in a wh-in-situ language." Poster at the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50), Nov. 6th-9th, Boston University, USA. [poster]
“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.
“Children learn the subcategorization of attitude verbs by speech acts in a wh-in-situ language." Invited talk at UMass Language Acquisition Lab, TBD (Spring 2026), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.