I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. I work in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab with Colin Phillips. I am also pursuing a certificate in Cognitive Neuroscience through the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program.

My research focuses on the cognitive processes that enable sentence comprehension. In particular, I am interested in how we encode and navigate linguistic structure in real time. For more information, please visit my research page.

Prior to coming to UMD, I received an MA in Linguistics from Eastern Michigan University, where I worked on syntax with T. Daniel Seely. I was also a research assistant and programmer at The LINGUIST List. Before EMU, I received a BA in English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Toledo.

Email me at dparker3 [at] umd [dot] edu with any questions or comments, or to obtain supplemental materials (items, graphs, data analysis scripts, etc.).

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