About Me

News:

2024/11/16: New paper “Pronoun interpretation is more subject-biased than expected by the Bayesian Model” is accepted at Language, Cognition and Neuroscience!

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Hi! My name is Suet-Ying Lam. I am currently a third-year PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Before that, I got my BA in Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). At HKU, I worked with Dr. Heeju Hwang at HKU Language Processing Lab.

My research mainly focuses on how people process references. Through the lens of reference processing, I investigate how syntax and discourse take part in real-time production, as well as off-line choice of expression. Although I mainly work on production, I also investigate the relationship and the difference between production and interpretation.

About the photo: me petting Maayan Keshev’s dog Fudge, photo credit to Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara

About how to pronounce my name: it can be roughly transcribed as [syʔ jɪŋ], or in Mandarin [ɕyə jiŋ] 雪莹. If you still find it difficult, [jɪŋ] or [jiŋ] is also fine.

Download my CV (Last updated: 2025/03/20).