Tiana V. Simovic

Hi! I'm a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Toronto. I'm advised by Dr. Craig Chambers in the Perception, Action, and Language Lab. I'm interested in how we process and understand ambiguous language, especially how interpretation varies with context and perspective. My thesis research shows how readers use pragmatic reasoning via perspective inferencing in ambiguous pronoun interpretation. You can read about the first set of experiments of that work here. I am conducting a large-scale corpus study to identify and model similar naturalistic language patterns.

I received my MA in Psychology from the University of Toronto (advised by Dr. Craig Chambers), and you can read more about my MA thesis research here. I received my Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Toronto, double majoring in Psychology and Philosophy and minoring in Philosophy of Science.

Before my grad studies, I worked in marketing at VICE, taught English as a second language (via CELTA), and hosted a weekly (mostly shoegaze/electronic/ambient) college radio show during my undergrad.

Outside the lab, I spend my time cycling, stargazing, playing lots of video games, and hanging out with my cat, Porky.

✉️ tiana dot simovic @ mail dot utoronto dot ca

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