Scholar
Kathryn Davidson
Google Scholar ID: h4XlQ0EAAAAJ
Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University
Citations & Impact
Citations
833
H-index
11
i10-index
17
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Two recent outputs that she is most excited about are an Element (long form journal/short form book) on 'Semantics and Depiction' and a book on 'Formal Semantics and Pragmatics in Sign Languages', both published with Cambridge University Press.
Research Experience
- Directs the Meaning & Modality Laboratory, which uses a balanced approach of traditional linguistic theory for hypothesis creation and psycholinguistic experimental methods for gathering and analyzing behavioral data based on a wide variety of spoken and signed languages. Also collaborates with computational linguists to better understand language by comparing human linguistic behavior in experiments to highly capable artificial models (e.g., Large Language Models) across similar tasks.
Background
- Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, with research interests including semantics, pragmatics, and language development. Her work explores how we understand an infinite number of sentences we've never encountered before, how we incorporate contextual information into these meanings, and how we learn to do this.
Miscellany
- Her CV can be found here, and she can typically be found in Boylston Hall (home of Harvard Linguistics) or 1100 Mass Ave. (M&M Lab).
Co-authors