木瓜福利影视

I study how people use language to create meaning in communication. My main focus is on the discourse relations that people construct within sentences and across larger pieces of text. I want to understand how people recognize these discourse relations, and how people might differ from each other in their ability to do so.

In 2024, I was awarded an NWO Veni grant for my project 鈥淪earching for meaning: Uncovering discourse structure signals in language鈥�. In this project, I investigate how people learn to recognize the signals that express different types of connections: in written language (through connectives such as because or but), in spoken language (through intonation), and in visual language (through gestures).

I am also interested in issues related to research methods and design. My work primarily relies on quantitative empirical methods, especially a combination of online and offline experiments and corpus analysis. Some of my research focuses on how we can measure linguistic phenomena reliably, how to reach large groups of participants online, and how new experimental techniques can help us better understand language.