I’m a Master’s student (English Language and Linguistics — Research) at the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore. My research investigates (grammatical) patterns in Singapore English using experimental methods and corpus data. I received my BA in Linguistics at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Zheng Shen.
Backgrounded Constructions are Islands for wh-movement but not for wh-in-situ
Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB), 2024. Poster at The 30th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), 2024. (with Zheng Shen)
Islands for wh-extraction and wh-in-situ are backgrounded in Singlish
Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2024. (with Zheng Shen)
Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questions
Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2024. Poster at The 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), 2024. (as second author, with Zheng Shen)
Information Density Modulates Singlish Speakers’ Use of Contracted and Null Copulas
Talk at The 8th Asian Junior Linguists Conference, 2023. Poster at The 32nd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 2024.
Conditions on wh-the-hell licensing: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English
Talk at The 4th International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, 2023. Poster at The 25th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 2023. (with Zheng Shen)
Right Dislocation in Colloquial Singapore English: A Biclausal Movement Account
Poster at The 31st Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 2023.
Afterthoughts and Right Dislocation in Colloquial Singapore English: An Experimental Approach
Talk at Penn Linguistics Conference 46, 2022. Talk at The 6th Asian Junior Linguists Conference, 2021.