Directed by Asst. Prof. Emilie Destruel Johnson, MAIA Lab conducts research that deals with pragmatics and its interface with semantics, syntax and prosody, both in native speakers and second language learners.
Some of our core questions examine:
To address these issues, we use linguistic analysis and a variety of experimental methods, including acceptability judgment tasks, elicitation tasks, self-paced readings tasks, and reading and response time measurements. |