Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson
Office location
University of Delaware
15 Orchard Road
Ewing Hall, Room 431
Newark, DE 19716, USA
Education
- Ph.D. – University of Massachusetts Amherst
- B.A. – University of Texas at Austin
Biography
Michael Wilson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his B.A. in linguistics and Hispanic linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Wilson's research interests lie in the area of argument structure, which he explores using a variety of theoretical and experimental methodologies. In particular, he focuses on questions about how verbs’ and their arguments’ meanings relate to the syntactic structures they occur in. He addresses these questions with both generative models and experimental evidence.
He also investigates the performance of computational language models on a variety of psycholinguistic tasks. Computational language models have achieved a high level of success on a variety of linguistic tasks, but it is still unclear how similar the knowledge they demonstrate is to humans’ knowledge of language.
