NSF Postdoc for Pizarro-Guevara

Alumnus Jed Sam Pizarro Guevara (PhD, 2020) has been awarded an NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellowship. Under the sponsorship of Brian Dillon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), he will carry out a 2-year research project on the processing of reflexive pronouns in Tagalog. He will be deploying a series of visual world experiments to investigate the extent to which structural information (e.g., c-command and locality relations) and semantic information (e.g., thematic relations) are leveraged to guide the real-time interpretation of reflexives in the language. Over the course of this project, he will be working with scholars at UMass and the University of the Philippines, Diliman.