Linh Pham

About Me

Hi! My name is Pham Le Nhat Linh (I love it when people call me Nhat Linh /ɲət lɪŋ/). I'm a 5th year PhD student studying linguistics at The University of Southern California (USC), where I am supervised by Professor Elsi Kaiser and Professor Zuzanna Fuchs

My main research area is psycholinguistics, with a focus on sentence processing. In particular, I investigate the mechanisms underlying dependency formation during real-time language comprehension. I use phenomena such as similarity-based interference and the active filler–gap strategy as diagnostics to understand how forward-looking prediction and backward-looking, memory retrieval interact and contribute to dependency formation. I am also interested in how other cognitive resources influence this process. My research primarily uses experimental methods, and I am currently learning to extend the work with evidence from computatinal analyses of neural data.

I'm also interested in bilingualism, particularly my research focuses on 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 underprivileged groups – Daffodils Education Project.

Interests

• Psycholinguistics
• Bilingualism / Multilingualism
• Computational Linguistics

Education

• PhD in Linguistics (2022 - Present) — University of Southern California, USA
• M.A. in Linguistics (2024) — University of Southern California, USA
• BSc Teaching English as a Foreign Language — Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam
• Certificate of Pedagogical Training — Hue University of Education, Vietnam