She teaches classes in syntax, the structure of languages like English and Slavic, generative second language acquisition and linguistic pragmatics. She specializes in the second language acquisition of meaning, and her overarching research question focuses on the psychological representation of meaning in the brain and how second language learners compute the meaning of sentences and discourse. More specifically, she has worked on the acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect, interpretation of nominal phrases, and scalar implicatures. Her future projects will look at the acquisition of temporal meanings and the interaction of quantifier meanings. She is on the editorial board of Second Language Research and the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Her native language is Bulgarian.