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Sarah VanWagenen
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Sarah VanWagenen
UCLA Linguistics Dept.
3125 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles CA 90095-1543
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Interests
- Morphology
- Lexical Representations
- Learnability and Mechanisms of Acquisition
- Probabilistic Inference
Current Projects
Manuscripts
- The Morphologically Organized Mental Lexicon: Further Experimental Evidence. Master's thesis. University of California, Los Angeles. [pdf][abstract][bibtex]
Talks/Posters
- 2005. A Probabilistic Segmenter based on Phonotactics. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Ghent, Belgium. [handout][bibtex]
2005. The Morphologically Organized Mental Lexicon. (poster) Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Ghent, Belgium. [handout][bibtex]
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Research
- 2001 (spring)- present. Psycholinguistic research on morphological representations with Professor Carson Schutze.
- 2003 - 2004. Aiding the development of databases for Professor Russel Schuh for the Yobe Language Project.
- 2002. Research on learning in the context of the `lack of invariance' problem with Professor John Hummel.
- 2002. Conducting fieldwork in Tongan (Austronesian) with a native speaker.
- 2001 - 2002. Research on lateralization of grammaticality judgments with Professor Eran Zaidel and Professor Carson Schutze.
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Teaching
- 2005 (spring). Teaching Assistant to Prof. Carson Schutze: Language Processing.
- 2005 (winter). Teaching Assistant to Prof. Susan Curtiss: Neurolinguistics.
- 2004 (fall). Teaching Assistant to Prof. Marcus Kracht: Introduction to Linguistics.
- 2003 (fall). Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dominique Sportiche: Syntax I.
- 2002 - present. PhD program, University of California, Los Angeles.
- 2002. BA, Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles. Summa cum laude.
- 2004-2005. Graduate Linguistics Circle representative to the Graduate Student Association Council.
- 2004-2005. Graduate Student Association Council Treasurer.
- 2005. Organizing committee member. The Fifteenth Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT 15).
- 2005-2006. UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship
- 2005. UCLA Summer Graduate Research Mentorship
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