Graduate Students
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Yue Chen
[website] Yue is a third-year PhD student in Linguistics. She is interested in psycholinguistics, multilingualism, and language acquisition. |
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Esra Eldem
[website] Esra is a fifth-year PhD student in Linguistics at USC. Her broad research interests are psycholinguistics and heritage bilingualism. Specifically, she focuses on sentence processing, lexical access, and morphological processing in L1, L2, and heritage speakers. |
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Emma Kealey
Emma is a third-year PhD student. She is broadly interested in the mental lexicon: How are words stored within the mind, and what information is accessed during word recognition and processing? |
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Metehan Oğuz
[website] Mete is a sixth-year graduate student in Linguistics. He is interested in Syntax and experimentally testing the predictions of syntactic theories. |
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Linh Pham
[website] Linh is a fifth-year PhD student in linguistics at USC. She is interested in sentence processing and bilingualism. |
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Sophie Rodriguez-Bell
Sophie is a first-year PhD student in linguistics. She is broadly interested in heritage multilingualism and psycholinguistics. |
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Anna Runova
Anna is a fourth-year PhD student in Linguistics. She is interested in language processing, heritage bilingualism, and language acquisition. |
Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Cecilia Balarin de Siqueira
URAP recipient Spring 2026 Cecilia is a senior majoring in computational neuroscience with a minor in artificial intelligence applications. She is particularly interested in how distinct brain regions of bilingual individuals are activated during language processing for different languages. |
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Abigail Kim
Abigail is a sophomore majoring in psychology. She is interested in language acquisition and exploring the interplay of psychology and linguistics when it comes to shaping bilingual and heritage speakers' identity and language development. |
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Leo Mermelstein
Leo is pursuing a dual degree in jazz voice and cognitive science. He is most interested in the relationships between music and language, and their impacts on cognition. |
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Catherine Pan
NSF REU recipient Spring 2026 Catherine is a senior majoring in computer science. As a heritage speaker of Mandarin, she is interested in learning more about heritage bilingualism and language acquisition in general. |
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Julian Patiño
Recipient of USC Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Fall 2025 Julian is a senior studying Industrial & Systems Engineering. As a heritage speaker of Spanish, Julian is interested in how language exposure and acquisition shape proficiency, language development, and language maintenance in bilingual contexts. |
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Adriana Wool
URAP recipient Fall 2025 Adriana is a senior majoring in Linguistics and Cognitive Science with minors in Spanish and Speech-Language and Hearing Professions. She is interested in communication sciences and disorders, language acquisition, and bilingualism. |
Research Communication Specialist
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Jiwoo Kim
Jiwoo is a junior majoring in Media Arts and Practice. She is interested in using data analytics and visualization to communicate linguistic research in more accessible and engaging ways, combining creative practice with information design. |
International Affiliate Research Assistants
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Volha Antonenka
Volha is a second-year Master’s student in Cognitive Science at the University of Warsaw. She is interested in language processing and bilingualism, as well as the intersection of educational technology and neuroscience. |
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Emmanuel Furaha
Furaha is a PhD student at Moi University in Kenya and is interested in phonetics and phonology. |