Hi! 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. 


“Declarative but not inquisitive disjunctors derive conjunctive inference in child language: What to flatten?" Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30), Sept. 23rd - 27th, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. (with Yitong Luo) [slides]

“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]

*Received Paula Menyuk Award

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