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<h1 class="ftwp-heading" style="text-align:left;"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">Allison Dods</span></h1>
<img src="IMG_6808.jpeg" width="144px" align="left" style="margin-right: 16px; border-radius: 2px;" />
<p>I'm a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where I'm advised by Drs. Jeff Lidz</a> and Colin Phillips</a>.</p>
<p>My main area of interest is the <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">acquisition, representation, and processing of syntactic structure</span></strong>, which I study with a combination of formal, behavioral, computational, and corpus analytic methods.</p>
<p>Currently I'm spending most of my time working on the first language acquisition of constructional homonyms that have (or appear to have) three arguments, such as ditransitives, benefactives, and possessor datives, across multiple languages. </p>
<p>Other ongoing projects are in the areas of syntactic category acquisition, sentence production, formal analysis of possessor raising, and differences in processing between autistic and nonautistic conversation participants.</p>
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<p>My email address is, totally coincidentally, easy to glean from what I work on: the <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">a</span></strong>cquisition of <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">d</span></strong>ouble <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">o</span></strong>bject <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">d</span></strong>ative<strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47);">s</span></strong>, i.e., adods@umd.edu.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Background</span></p>
<p>Before coming to Maryland, I got an MS in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington's Computational Linguistics Masters program, where I was advised by Dr. Emily M. Bender</a>. For my thesis, I wrote an algorithm to automatically infer morphosyntactic strategies for the marking of adnominal possession across languages.</p>
<p>My undergrad degree is a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford, where I was advised by Dr. Michael C. Frank</a> and wrote an honors thesis on the effect of referential gaze on first language word learning mechanisms.</p>
<p>I also spent several years as a program manager at Microsoft, where I worked on the Word spelling and grammar checker (among other things) and spearheaded responsible AI efforts. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Output</span></p>
<p>Dods, A. (2026). Representing constructional homonyms: Evidence from LMs and children's input. Poster presented at the Human Sentence Processing conference (HSP).</p>
<p>Howitt, K., Nair, S., Dods, A., & Hopkins, R. (2024). Generalizations across filler-gap dependencies in neural language models. Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).</p>
<p>Nair, S., Howitt, K., Dods, A., & Hopkins, R. (2024). LMs are not good proxies for human language learners. Talk presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).</p>
<p>Dods, A., MacDonald, A., Turk, U., Mancha, S., & Phillips, C. (2024). Is the octopus regenerating?: Comparing timing effects in sentence recall and picture description tasks. Poster presented at HSP.</p>