I’m Jane Li (she/her), a fourth year PhD student in the Cognitive Science Department at Johns Hopkins University working with Kyle Rawlins, Paul Smolensky, and Colin Wilson. I’m interested in psycholinguistics, specifically questions at the intersection of morphology, phonology, and language production.

Prior to joining Hopkins, I completed my B.A. in Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. When I’m not doing stuff related to linguistics, you'll find me cross-stitching or making modular origami.

News

[June 2024] Presented a poster at SCiL 2024 on phonological featural representations and their relationship to allomorphy in RNN-LSTMs. This is joint work with Kyle Rawlins and Paul Smolensky!

[June 2024] Gave a talk at AFLA 31 with my collaborator Gérard Avelino (Rutgers) on plural morphology/semantics in Tagalog! [link to slides]

[May 2024] Honoured (with a u) to receive the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, which will support my research on psycholinguistics and allomorphy for the next couple years! 🦫

[March 2024] Gave a talk at the 48th Penn Linguistics Conference on the generalizations RNNs form while learning allomorphy.

Research Interests

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• How are allomorphs represented and retrieved in the language production system?
• How can we improve data collection/analysis techniques in language production research?
• Neural networks that learn morpho-phonological patterns: what types of computations are they performing, and how is it similar to human knowledge of morpho-phonology?

Documents & Contact Info

Please feel free to reach out and chat!

My CV is available here:

CV

Email: sli213 at jhu dot edu

Address: Dept of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD. 21218.