About me

Hi! I’m Muxuan, a fourth-year PhD student in linguistics at the University of Southern California. My advisor is Elsi Kaiser.

As a psycholinguist, I study how comprehenders/listeners perceive and process information received, especially at the pragmatics level. Some of the questions that leads to include whether different kinds of information are treated equally and what do comprehenders actually gain from the information received. In my research, I work with behavioral data that uncovers real-time sentence processing and off-line sentence comprehension that probes pragmatic inferences. A key aspect of my work also involves computational methods, such as probabilistic modeling, to make explicit predictions about recursive reasoning in communication.

I also have started to work on phonetics (both learning and doing research), particularly devoted to my beloved and unstudied dialect, Wuxue Mandarin.