Graduate student, Linguistics
I am a fourth-year PhD student in Linguistics under the supervision of Liina Pylkkänen. For my dissertation, I am working on a large-scale MEG project investigating how neural representations are shaped by their functional roles and the surrounding context during serial and parallel presentation. I have also conducted an MEG project contrasting Danish two-word sentence to investigate syntactic dependencies in a working memory-free paradigm. Both of my MEG projects probe language comprehension when multi-word stimuli are presented in parallel and therefore freed from seriality constraints induced by the stimulus delivery technique. Outside of the realm of MEG research, I have done research on subject-oriented pronouns in Danish (also sometimes referred to as reflexives) showing that existing accounts of subject orientation do not fully capture speakers’ actual grammars.
Prior to joining NYU’s PhD program, I earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts in English Studies from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. While both degrees were interdisciplinary, my MA in particular offered many opportunities to engage with linguistically oriented questions, resulting in, for instance, an article examining language ideologies among long-term international students in Denmark. For my Master’s thesis, I conducted a psycholinguistic study on Danish-English bilinguals’ cognate processing in L1 and L2 tasks.
