I received my B.A. in Linguistics with Honors from the Linguistics Department at the University of Rochester in May of 2006. My honors thesis was a syntactic analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement asymetries (Impoverished Agreement) in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). My analysis uses the framework of Head Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar (HPSG) as outlined in Sag, Wasow, and Bender's Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction 2nd Edition.

I was the Lab Manager for Professor Jeff Runner's Eye-Tracking Lab. While there I ran psycholinguistic experiments for him dealing with real time processing of pronouns and reflexives in English. The experiments ran in Psyscope and in ExBuilder, a software developed by Edward Longhurst for Michael Tanenhaus's Lab; we used a lightweight head-mounted eye-trackers made by IScan and EyeLink to record where participants look on the computer screen.

I am now a first year Ph.D. student in Johns Hopkins' Cognitive Science PhD program. My primary advisor is Professor William Badecker.

Publications:

Beller, C. (2007). The role of argument structure in Arabic impoverished agreement constructions. In L. Wolter and J. Thorson (Eds.), University of Rochester Working Papers in the Laguage Sciences (URWPLS), 3(1), 2-25. download

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