About
Edward Holsinger
Hi. I'm Ed. I'm currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California.
I currently live in Long Beach, CA in a little loft apartment with my lovely wife Maria, who I imported from England. I am a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California, and she is a project coordinator or some such, for some company or other.
She works less than I do, yet makes a lot more money. That’s fair though, because I get to do cool things all day.
I did my undergrad at GMU, near where I grew up. Then I did a 2 year jaunt of an M.Phil at Oxford, where I met Maria who was doing a Physics degree at the time (scary). Finally, I ended up here in sunny southern California, working on my PhD. I’ve been here for what seems like forever (but is really closer to 6 years).
Research
My research focuses on the representation of linguistic knowledge and the architecture and dynamics of the cognitive systems which contain that knowledge. In addition, I am interested in the real-time utilization of linguistic and non-linguistic information during the processes of language production and comprehension. My primary research program examines the architecture and dynamics of the mental lexicon. A closely related secondary program investigates interfaces between systems within the language faculty and between linguistic and non-linguistic systems. This research relies heavily upon the application of experimental, statistical and computational methods to linguistic data and linguistic theory.
The broad goal of this program is to enrich formal linguistic theory by providing concrete implementations of theoretical constructs, enhance the computational, experimental and statistical tools used in language research, and contribute to the development of applications of linguistic data. In a more narrow sense, my research also seeks to provide concrete empirical models of lexical space, lexical representation and the interactions between linguistic representations, linguistic behavior and other cognitive systems.
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