About me
Hi! My name is Pham Le Nhat Linh (I love it when people call me Nhat Linh /ɲət lɪŋ/). I'm a third year PhD student studying linguistics at The University of Southern California (USC), where I am supervised by Professor Elsi Kaiser.
My main research area is psycholinguistics with a focus on sentence processing. Specific topics I am currently working on and am interested in are similarity-interference in wh-constructions, anaphora resolutions and encoding interference.
I have started to learn and do research in bilingualism. I am interested in the shared-syntactic models in bilingual language processing.
Pursuing equality in education is another major mission in my life. Thus, I am operating social projects to provide education to underpriviledged groups – Daffodils Education Project
When I’m not doing linguistics or education, I love singing (you can check my channel HERE), and taking pictures of the sun, the sky and the stars.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Simpson, A., & Pham, L., (2025). Reflexivization and Mình- Exceptional Local Binding by a Monomorphemic Anaphor? Languages, 10(3), 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10030044Pham, L. L. N, Nguyen, H. T., & Le, V. T. K. (2021). Triggering Students’Learning Autonomy Using the Combination of M-Learning and Gamification: A Case Study at Nguyen Tat Thanh University. Teaching English withTechnology, 21(2), 66–91. https://tewtjournal.org/volume-2021/volume-2021-issue-2/
Pham, L. L. N, Le, V. T. K. (2021). M-Learning and Learning Autonomy - Needs Analysis and Suggested Model. Education Quarterly Reviews, 4(4), 191–199. https://doi.org/10.31014/aior.1993.04.04.383
Book chapters
Le, V. T. K. & Pham, L. L. N. (2021). Tackle students’ negative feelings – an application of positive education in an online driver blended classroom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.PRESENTATIONS
March 2025
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2024). Syntactic islands as a gradient phenomenon? Evidence from Vietnamese. Poster at The 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2025) @University of Maryland, Mar 2025.
Mar 2025
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2025). Re-examining the necessity of a local domain in first-person blocking: On the Vietnamese reflexive mình in embedded subject position. Poster at The Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 14 (TEAL 14) @University of Southern California, Mar 2025.
Jan 2025
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2025). Constructing dependencies with optional elements: Insights from Vietnamese. Talk at Linguistic Annual Meeting 2025 (LSA 2025) @Philadelphia, Jan 2025.
Dec 2024
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2024). Constructing dependencies with optional elements: Insights from Vietnamese. Talk at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia) @National University of Singapore, Dec 2024.
Oct 2024
Pham, L. L. N., & Simpson, . (2024). Reflexivization and mình – exceptional local binding by a monomorphemic anaphor?. Talk at the 12th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 12) @Payap University, Oct 2024.
Sept 2024
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2024). Constructing dependencies with optional elements: insights from Vietnamese. Talk at Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (XPPL2024) @University of Zurich, Sept 2024.
May 2024
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2024). Exempt reflexive mình in Vietnamese: Effects of person features and verb type. Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2024) @University of Michigan, May 2024.
May 2024
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2024). Constructing dependencies between wh-words and Q-particles in in-situ languages: The case of Vietnamese questions. Poster at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2024) @University of Michigan, May 2024.
March 2024
Simpson. A, & Pham, L. L. N. (2024). Reflexivization and mình – exceptional local binding by a monomorphemic anaphor? Talk at International Scholars of Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-4) @National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, March 2024.
January 2024
Pham, L. L. N., & Kaiser, E. (2023). Exempt Reflexive mình in Vietnamese: Effects of person features and verb type. Talk at the 5th California Meeting on Pyscholinguistics (CAMP6) @Stanford University, January 2024.
March 2023
Pham, L. L. N., T. Bui, A. Göbel & Kaiser, E. (2023). Anaphora resolution in Vietnamese: On the effects of person feature constraints on the interpretation of reflexive ‘mình’. Poster at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2023) @University of Pittsburgh, March 2023.
January 2023
Pham, L. L. N., T. Bui, A. Göbel & Kaiser, E. (2023). Anaphora resolution in Vietnamese: On the effects of person feature constraints on the interpretation of reflexive ‘mình’. Talk at the 5th California Meeting on Pyscholinguistics (CAMP5) @University of California, Los Angeles, January 2023.
March 2022
Pham, L. L. N., T. Bui & A. Göbel (2022). Processing and interpreting anaphoricity and logophoricity: a long-distance reflexive in Vietnamese. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022) @UC Santa Cruz (virtually), March 2022.
November 2019
Le, V., Pham, L. L. N., Nguyen, T.,, "Modernizing students' perception in EFL writing using culture-based approach and cognitive perspective”, The 18th Symposium on Second Language Writing and SSLW Institute, Arizona, America, 2019.
June 2019
Le, V., Pham, L. L. N., Nguyen, T, “A-born-to-be couple: M-learning and gamification”, The 17th Asia TEFL International Conference and the 6th FLLT International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand,2019.
February 2018
Le, V., Pham, L. L. N., Nguyen, A., “Grammar and writing: Oh so boring couple?”, 16th Annual Camtesol Conference on English Language Teaching (CamTESOL), Phnompenh, Cambodia, 2017.
RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS
May - Dec 2020
Thuy Bui Thanh Tuong, Alexander Göbel, Linh Pham Le Nhat, "Psychological factors affecting language processing: Presupposition accomodation mechanisms in Vietnamese, English and German", sponsored by Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 2021.
Grant
Research Grant, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 60 000 000 VND (Around $2800 USD)
May - Dec 2020
Linh Pham Le Nhat, Van Le Thi Kieu, Tan Nguyen Hoang, "Evaluate the effectiveness of M- learning & Gamification application in teaching and replicate the model in the Faculty of Languages", sponsored by Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 2020.
Grant
Research Grant, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 30 000 000 VND (Around $1400 USD)
Jun – Dec 2019
Linh Pham Le Nhat, Van Le Thi Kieu, Tan Nguyen Hoang, "Apply M-learning and gamification into the classroom: A case study in the Faculty of foreign languages in Nguyen Tat Thanh University", 2019.
Grant
Research Grant by Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 30 000 000 VND (Around $1400 USD)
Jan – May 2019
Van Le Thi Kieu, Linh Pham Le Nhat, Tan Nguyen Hoang, "Mobile Game Application to bridge the gap between 4.0 technology and traditional classrooms", 2019.
Grant
Research Grant by Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 30 000 000 VND (Around $1400 USD)
2017 – 2018
Van Le Thi Kieu, Linh Pham Le Nhat, Tung Nguyen Quoc, Anh Nguyen Ky Mai, Vy Le Thi Tuong, DARE Project-English to the Visually impaired students, 2017-2018.
Grant
Embassy of Ireland, 44 000 EUR (Around $ 51 000 USD)
2019
Grant
International Conference travel funding by Nguyen Tat Thanh University at SSLW 2019 in Arizona State University, U.S.A.
TEACHING
Fall 2023 – Present
Teaching courses
Professors
Oct 2018 – Oct 2021
Teaching courses
Achievements
Oct 2018 – Sep 2019
Responsibilities