Pedro M. Alcocer
1401 Marie Mount Hall
Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
Email: pealco at the umd domain
Education
2007-2012
Ph.D. Student, Linguistics
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Advisor: Dr. Colin Phillips
2003-2007
B.A. Linguistics, magna cum laude
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Honors Thesis: Processing Coordinated Structures: Parallelism and Syntactic Priming
Advisor: Dr. Edith Kaan
Awards
2008
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2007-2009
University of Maryland Fellowship
2006-2007
Ronald E. McNair Scholarship
2003-2007
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship
Full tuition for four years; merit-based.
Professional Experience
2005-2007 Research Assistant, Kaan Lab for Brain and Language, University of Florida
Supervisor: Edith Kaan

  • Assisted with design and execution of behavioral and electrophysiological (ERP) experiments.

Poster Presentations
2007

Semantic Garden Pathing: Subsets and New Discourse Referents

Edith Kaan, Pedro Alcocer, Christopher Barkley and Andrea Dallas, CUNY 2007.
Coursework
Fall 2007

  • Syntactic Theory with Howard Lasnik

  • Psycholinguistics with Colin Phillips

  • Quantitative Analysis of Biological Data with Jonathan Z. Simon

Spring 2008

  • Issues in Syntax with Norbert Hornstein

  • Issues in Psycholinguistics with Colin Phillips and Jeff Lidz

  • Issues in Phonology with Bill Idsardi

Memberships
Linguistic Society of America

Last updated 2008-04-02