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Hyekyung Hwang, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2008-2012
Funding: CRLMB + Rotary Club Postdoctoral Scholarship

Hyekyung Hwang's main research area is psycholinguistics, with specializations in prosody and the interaction between phonology and syntax. Her research interests focus on the role of implicit and explicit prosody in sentence comprehension, and the relationship between comprehension and production patterns. Hyekyung hold a postdoctoral position supported by the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM) and is being co-supervised by Dr Steinhauer and Drs Lydia White and Heather Goad in the Linguistics Department.

John Drury, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2006-2010
Funding: CIHR/NSERC
Current position: Assistant Professor at Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University

John Drury’s research focuses on connecting psycholinguistics with cognitive neuroscience. He is a recent PhD from the Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, and trained in cognitive neuropsychology as a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Department of Neuroscience before coming to ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ. His 2005 dissertation (supervised by Juan Uriagereka) dealt with foundational issues in syntactic theory and developed a novel framework drawing together aspects of minimalist syntax and Tree Adjoining Grammar formalisms. The primary focus of his ongoing research is on studies using event related brain potentials to probe the nature of sentence level logical semantic processing, concentrating on two sets of phenomena that have been subject to intense scrutiny in linguistics: the Definiteness Effect in existential constructions and Negative Polarity Item licensing.