I am a postdoctoral researcher focusing on language acquisition and figuring out how humans, endowed with the same neurobiology, can learn the diversity of the languages of the world. I am currently a scientific staff of the University of Potsdam, and a guest researcher at the Language Development department of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

My main interest is in children's acquisition of morphosyntax and phonology. I use corpus data analysis and psycholinguistic methods like eye-tracking to investigate how children process sentences on-line and how they acquire their ambient language.

I had previously worked in Manila, Philippines as a speech-language pathologist for children with special needs, before I took graduate studies in Clinical Linguistics at the Universities of Potsdam, Groningen, and Eastern Finland. I received my PhD in Cognitive Science under the joint programme, International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB), from the Universities of Potsdam, Groningen, Trento, Newcastle, and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. My dissertation was on children's acquisition of thematic role assignment and word order in Tagalog. My first postdoc was at Dr. Evan Kidd's Learning through Processing group in MPI Nijmegen.