Lab People
DS:J.D. Purdy
I'm a doctoral student in the applied linguistics program. My research focuses on the acquisition of morphosyntax by second language learners. In addition, I teach English as a second language at Stevens Institute of Technology, and introductory linguistics at Teachers College. In my current study, violations of target-language 
phrase structure are used to elicit ERPs from learners who speak different native languages. Future research will focus on the interaction between verbal subcategory and the initial building of syntactic structure on the basis of word category information.
Email: jdp28@columbia.edu