John Drury’s research focuses on connecting psycholinguistics with cognitive neuroscience. He is a recent PhD from the Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, and trained in cognitive neuropsychology as a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Department of Neuroscience before coming to McGill. His 2005 dissertation (supervised by Juan Uriagereka) dealt with
foundational issues in syntactic theory and developed a novel framework
drawing together aspects of minimalist syntax and Tree Adjoining
Grammar formalisms.
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Hyekyung Hwang’s research explores the role of prosodic information in sentence processing, focusing primarily on second language comprehension. Coming to McGill after earning her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii, Dr. Hwang’s dissertation (supervised by Amy J. Schafer) examined perception and processing of prosodic phrasing in English sentence comprehension with native English speakers and native Korean-speaking second language learners of English.
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Erin is a postdoctoral fellow in Rushen Shi’s lab in the psychology department at L’Université du Québec à Montréal, where she is conducting language acquisition research. Erin’s work with Rushen Shi examines the role of function words (e.g. le, ma) in word segmentation. Function words have distinct distributional and acoustic characteristics that could potentially differentiate them from upcoming nouns (le ballon).
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