Tovah Irwin

I’m interested in the ways both the human brain and computational language models learn and understand language. I have a special interest in bilingual processing, particularly in syntactic processing in second language learners, and comparisons between multilingual large language models and bilingual brains. I’m currently a second year PhD student at University of California, Los Angeles in the BlankLangLab.

I received my B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was an R.A. in the UIUC Electrophysiology and Language Processing Lab. After graduating, I spent two years as an RA advised by Alec Marantz at the Neuroscience of Language Lab of New York University Abu Dhabi.