Tagalog morphosyntax and word order
Together with Prof. Evan Kidd at the Australian National University, I investigate the acquisition and processing of Tagalog morphosyntax and thematic role assignment. Older articles were for my PhD, supervised by Prof. Barbara Höhle.
Diversity in language acquisition research
In a project with Prof. Evan Kidd, we looked at the diversity of languages and researchers covered in our top acquisition journals. In a project with other researchers led by Leher Singh, we look at publication bias against non-US developmental research.
Infants' acquisition of phonology and phonotactics
In Prof. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan's C07 project (SFB 1287), we look at German- and Japanese-learning infants' acquisition of phonotactics. In a study funded by Uni Potsdam's UFSKW, we look at Tagalog-learning infants' discrimination of nasal contrasts.
The project on cross-linguistic acquisition of negation words (including Tagalog) is a collaboration with Roman Feiman and Scott AnderBois from Brown University, and the Speech Pathology department of the University of the Philippines Manila.
We are developing a Tagalog-English CDI. We also plan to build on Kathleen Amora's Tagalog adaptation of MAIN. I also co-supervise JB Pascual's PhD on developing Tagalog naming and semantic association tests for awake brain surgery.
Cross-linguistic study on word order
This is an MPI NL's Levelt award project on the order of given and new arguments in different languages. My collaborators are Natalia Levshina and Yevheniy Skyra (MPI NL).