research.md

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research

Broadly, I'm interested in syntax, language acquisition, learnability, and semantics.

More specifically, I'm interested in studying grammatical competence (i.e., what it is that we know when we know a language). However, we only have access to this knowledge via its use in individual humans. One major strand of my research involves careful investigation into how we can parcel out performance factors to ensure we're identifying aspects of grammatical competence. I do this type of psycholinguistic research both with children and with adults.

The other major strand of my research involves investigations into learnability. Grammatical theories and their concomitant representations are often evaluated on the basis of data fit. I'm interested in furthermore using learnability considerations to help adjudicate between theories and representations.

Below you'll find a selected list of specific research projects. Things that are not listed here but that are listed on my [CV][cv] are available upon request.

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[cv]: {{ site.url }}/content/adamlitercv.pdf