I am a Master's student in the linguistics department with a focus in teaching English as a secondary language. My current interests lie in language acquisition and the barrier in spoken production of an additional language. I have a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa in Psychology.

Kezia Walker-Cecil is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics. Her research interests include second language acquisition, the syntax-pragmatics interface, information structure, and the acquisition of multiword expressions.

Wenqi Zeng is a doctoral student in Linguistics. Her research interests include laboratory phonology, the interface between phonology and phonetics, and speech processing, with a special focus on bilingual and bidialectal speakers.