Update 1/2/12
I've uploaded a short tutorial on running reading time experiments over Mechanical Turk. You could be running experiments in less than an hour!
About
I am an M.A. student in Linguistics at Stanford University. My advisor is Dan Jurafsky. Almost everything I do involves information theory or predictability in general. I'm interested in how language structure does and doesn't facilitate prediction, and how the pressures of managing information transfer between speakers can explain cross-linguistic patterns in grammatical structure.
* Grammatical gender and noun classifiers,
* Language change and grammaticalization,
* Variation, especially involving word order,
* Typological generalizations such as the Accessibility Hierarchy,
* Models of language production,
* Almost everything else!
My languages of interest so far are Mandarin, German, and Hungarian.