Before moving to Johns Hopkins, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he worked with Emmanuel Dupoux and Benjamin Spector, and was affiliated with the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique and Institut Jean Nicod. Dr. Linzen obtained his PhD from the Department of Linguistics at New York University in 2015, under the supervision of Alec Marantz. His interests are in developing and testing cognitive models of human language; particular problems he has worked on are probabilistic prediction in language comprehension, generalization in language learning and the linguistic capacities of artificial neural networks.