Tal Linzen

linzen@nyu.edu

I'm a second year Ph.D. student in the Linguistics program at NYU.

You can download my CV here.

Partial list of academic subfields I'm interested in: cognitive neuroscience of language, psycholinguistics, language variation, verb argument structure, phonology, experimental methods in linguistics.

I spend most of my time in the Neuroscience of Language Lab, where I've been studying predictive mechanisms in language processing — what guesses do listeners make about the next words in the sentence based on what they've heard so far?

I'm also interested in linguistic variation: in cases where there are several forms that mean roughly the same thing, how do speakers choose among them? If a certain form is disfavored in a certain context, is it also less common in other languages?

Last updated: November 2011