¡Hola! - Xin Chào - Hi There!

I'm Hannah Forsythe. I earned my Ph.D. in linguistics from Michigan State University and a two-year NSF postdoctoral fellowship at UC Irvine's Computation of Language Lab with Dr. Lisa Pearl. I also completed a data science fellowship at The Data Incubator.

Nowadays I work for the Sate of Michigan Division of Immunizations tracking COVID vaccination rates. Be safe and get vaccinated!

​¿Y Vos? - Còn Ban, Thì Sao? - And You?

Research Topics
My linguistic research asks how children map the forms of language to their meaning(s), especially when these mappings are ambiguous, variable, or noisy. I use formal, behavioral, corpus, and computational methods.
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¿? How do children map pronouns to their antecedents?
​¿? How do children map a meaning onto competing sociolinguistic variants?
​¿? How do children growing up with mixed input handle inconsistent form-meaning mappings?
​¿? How do children map the same semantic primitives to different syntax across English, Spanish, and Vietnamese?
​¿? How is gradability mapped to syntactic categories like verbs and prepositions?