What are the representational primitives underlying the language system? What are the essential mechanism of language processing? How do these components interact with cognitive resources like memory? In the MathEmatics of Language and cOgnition Lab at the University of Utah, we approach these questions by drawing insights from linguistic theor(ies), theoretical computer science (formal languages, computational complexity theory, and parsing theory), and a vast array of experimental methods.
Principal Investigator
Aniello De Santo
Assistant Prof.
Linguistics
he/him
Affiliated Students
Andrea Gutierrez
UG Student
Linguistics/Computer Science
she/her
Britta Bolander
UG Student
Linguistics/Phil. of Science
she/her
Casey Miller
UG Student
Computer Science/Linguistics
he/him
Daniel Del Valle
MA Student
Linguistics
he/him
Jacob Johnson
UG Student
Linguistics/Computer Science
he/him
Jillian Chang
Visiting HS Student
Linguistics
she/her
Jon Hunt
MA Student
Linguistics
he/him
Kelly Kendro
MA Student
Linguistics
she/her
Matteo Fiorini
PhD Student
Linguistics
he/him
Recent News
Happenings of the last few months- Dan, Matteo, Jillian, and Aniello have posters at this year's meeting of the Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2023) conference! If you are in Pittsburgh, come say hi!
- Several Utah high school students made it to the invitational round of NACLO! We will be hosting them for the second part of the competition on March 16!
- Lab members submitted papers to SCiL 2023! Wish us luck!
- The Lab is assisting the Linguistics Department is hosting NACLO practice rounds!
- Congrats to Britta for being awarded a UROP scholarship for Spring 2023! Her project is titled 'Bridging the Ethics Divide: Expanding the Scope and Context of AI Ethics'. She is going to be co-mentored by Aniello and Prof. Joyce Havstad (dept. of Philosophy).
- Congrats to Casey and Jacob, for getting accepted to this year's UCUR conference! Casey's presentation will be about 'Mathematical models of Tone in Thai reduplication', and Jacob's will present results on 'Tool assisted induction of MITSL Languages'