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About Me
About Me
I'm a linguistics PhD student at the University of Maryland, where I'm advised by Professors Omar Agha and Valentine Hacquard. I primarily work on pragmatics and language acquisition, with a specific interest in the types of inferences listeners are and aren't willing to make during conversation. I also do work in the acquisition of semantics as part of UMD's Project on Children's Language Learning.
I grew up in Rochester, NY (pictured left) and received my linguistics BA from McGill University in 2024.
Papers
Papers
Zumchak, W. & Schwarz, B. (2026)
Gricean views of exhaustification: A note on Westera (2022)
To appear in Semantics & Pragmatics
Talks
Talks
Zumchak, W. (2024)
How Should We Formulate Quantity?
Talk presented at the 16th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (handout)
Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations
Swanson, E., Zumchak, W., Lidz, J., & Hacquard, V. (2026)
Three- and four-year-olds’ understanding of tense/aspect marking in finite and nonfinite embedded clauses
To be presented at ELM-4 (abstract)Swanson, E., Zumchak, W., Lidz, J., & Hacquard, V. (2025)
Four-year-olds comprehend tense/aspect markers in finite and nonfinite embedded clauses
Poster presented at BUCLD 50{Zumchak, W., Tang, C., Shi, M. G., Laun, A., Chakraborty, A.}, & Lau, E. (2025)
The Role of Contextual Information in Auditory Perception: Investigating N400 Effects Under Speech Degradation
Poster presented as part of the Sandbox Series at SNL 2025 (abstract)
Contact
Contact
Email: wzumchak [at] umd [dot] edu
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