I'm fascinated by the mechanics and dynamics of language and everyday conversation, and by the statistical models we can build to capture the features that matter most. My research takes two complementary directions:

1. Examining how people read, produce, and interpret language, from single words to the timing and flow of real conversation.
2. Building and testing computational models of language and perception that capture the patterns we see in human behavior.

My years spent wrangling both text and toddlers still inform the way I make sense of, and try to model, naturalistic phenomena as I pursue my doctorate at Florida State University with Michael Kaschak in the Learning, Memory, and Language Lab. I previously completed master's degrees at the University of Colorado Boulder, advised by Michael Paul, and at the University at Buffalo, advised by Rui Chaves, after earning my undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

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