I'm a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
My research interests lie in the nature and time-course of semantic and pragmatic interpretation, and the peculiarities of narrative and conversation. I study these topics as both a psycholinguist and a semanticist. I also work on the structure and processing of Santiago Laxopa Zapotec and Udi.
I am a co-organizer of S-Circle, UCSC's informal forum for research in syntax and semantics, with Maziar Toosarvandani. I also contribute to the Zapotec Language Project and Nido de Lenguas, and formerly co-organized s/lab, the UC Santa Cruz Syntax, Semantics, and Language Processing Lab.
Virtual office hours for Spring 2021:
Fridays, 3-4 PM Pacific
Contact: jduff@ucsc.edu