He received his PhD From the University of Arizona. His research interests include psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and formal syntax. He has published articles on treebank and corpus design and measures of corpus representativeness through psycholinguistic measures. He teaches both upper-division undergraduate courses for the Spanish major/minor and core courses for the linguistics minor. Education 2004-2009: PhD Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Arizona (Dissertation: Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure – evidence from rating and reading tasks.)