Graduate Students

Yue Chen
Yue is a first-year PhD student in Linguistics. She is interested in psycholinguistics, multilingualism, and language acquisition.

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Esra Eldem
​Esra is a third 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 first year PhD student at USC and she is interested in language acquisition and language processing. ​

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Metehan Oğuz
Mete is a fourth year graduate student in Linguistics. He is interested in Syntax and experimentally testing the predictions of syntactic theories.

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Linh Pham
Linh is a third year PhD student in linguistics at USC. She is interested in sentence processing and bilingualism. ​

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Anna Runova
​Anna is a second year PhD student in Linguistics. She is interested in language processing, heritage bilingualism, and language acquisition.

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JK Subramony
JK is a first year PhD student in linguistics. He is primarily interested in morphosyntax and sentence processing, and also wants to learn some semantics.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Seoyoon Hong
Seoyoon is a senior studying Linguistics and Cognitive Science at USC. She is hoping to go into the field of Speech-Language Pathology. 

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Leo Mermelstein
Leo is a junior 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
Catherine is a sophomore majoring in computer science. As a heritage speaker of Mandarin, she is interested in learning more about heritage bilingualism and language acquisition in general.​