chris kim

Christina Kim
graduate student
UCLA Department of Linguistics
3126A Campbell Hall
email

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Hello here is some stuff about me. I'm officially no longer a 4th year graduate student at UCLA. In the fall, I'll officially be a 1st year at Rochester.

Research interests:

Interpretation of focus-sensitive operators; domain restriction in sentence comprehension
Timecourse of processing presuppositions/different inference types, accomodation
Processing of scopal ambiguity
Structural priming in sentence production (and what it tells you about argument structure and the lexicon)
The scope of utterance planning in sentence production

Papers, presentations:

2007 (upcoming). What strategies for verifying/falsifying sentences tell us about processing presupposition. GLOW XXX. Tromsoe, Norway. [handout pdf]
2007. Processing presupposition: verifying sentences with ‘only’. 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium. [pdf][handout pdf]
2006. Structural and Thematic Information in Sentence Production. Proceedings of NELS 37. [pdf][handout pdf]
2006. A novel approach for studying speech errors. (Co-author: Carson Schütze.) Poster at the 3rd International Workshop on Language Production, Northwestern University.
2006. Structural Priming and Non-surface Representations. MA thesis, UCLA. [pdf]
2005. Order and Meaning: Numeral Classifiers and Specificity in Korean. Proceedings of WCCFL 24, ed. John Alderete et al., 218-226. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [pdf]

Education:

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2006. MA in Linguistics, UCLA. Thesis: Structural priming and non-surface representations. Committee: Carson Schütze (chair), Dominique Sportiche, Vic Ferreira.
2005, summer. LSA summer institute (MIT/Harvard).
2003. BS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (minor in Linguistics), MIT. Advisors: Ted Gibson (BCS), David Pesetsky (Linguistics)

Teaching, other:

Spring 2007. TA for Neurolinguistics/Ling 135C (undergrad/grad), Susie Curtiss
Fall 2006. Visiting student at the University of Rochester (Linguistics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Fall 2005. TA for Syntax I/Ling 200B (graduate), Dominique Sportiche
Spring 2005. TA for Syntax II/Ling 165B (undergraduate), Anoop Mahajan
Spring/Summer 2005. Proofing for Daniel Büring's Binding Theory book
Winter 2005. TA for Introduction to Linguistics/Ling 20 (undergraduate), Bruce Hayes
Fall, 2004. TA for Syntax I/Ling 120B (undergraduate), Dominique Sportiche

Honors/awards:

2006-2007. UCLA Pauley Fellowship
2006, summer. UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Program fellowship
2006, summer. UCLA Linguistics Dept, experimental research grant
2005-2006. UCLA Research Mentorship Program fellowship
2005, summer. LSA Summer Institute scholarship
2005, summer. UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Program fellowship
2004, summer. UCLA Linguistics Department summer grant

Service:

UCLA East Asian/Field Linguistics search committee (2007)
Organizing committee--2005 LSA Summer Institute, Speech Errors workshop
Organizing committee--SALT XV, UCLA
Linguistics Dept Grad admissions Open House committee
Helped with AFLA 2005 (UCLA), CUNY 2003 (MIT)
Departmental party MP3-selection committee, with Asia Furmanska

Fun activities:

I don't do anything fun. But here is the coolest thing ever. Here is another coolest thing ever.

The other day I drew a picture of Jack Kerouac using only the touchpad on my laptop.
This is something Sameer made for me (notice the total agreement on grayness).
Where possible, avoid using passive voice.

And finally here is a picture of my punky little sister looking like Jenny Shimizu. She is a highly educated all-purpose humanities bum who lives in NY.