Charley Beller

3rd year graduate student
The Johns Hopkins University
Department of Cognitive Science
Room 237 Krieger Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD, 21218




Office: Krieger 136
Office Phone: 410-516-2887
beller (at) cogsci (dot) jhu (dot) edu
Interests
Prosody/Semantics interface, intonational phonology, epithets, Yiddish linguistics, syntax, anaphora resolution, language processing.

Research
Beller, C. (2009). Feedback in the spelling system: Capturing human error regularities in a connectionist simulation. Unpublished Master's Thesis. The Johns Hopkins University. download (supervised by Michael McCloskey)

Beller, C. (2007). The role of argument structure in Arabic impoverished agreement constructions. In L. Wolter and J. Thorson (Eds.), University of Rochester Working Papers in the Laguage Sciences (URWPLS), 3(1), 2-25. download

Education
B.A., Linguistics, 2006, University of Rochester (Honors) Advisor: Jeff Runner
Ph.D. Cognitive Science (expected) 2012, The Johns Hopkins University

Teaching Assistantships
2009 Fall AS.050.101 Cognition (Dr. C. Wilson)
2009 Spring AS.050.203 Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the Living Brain (Dr. B. Rapp)
2008 Fall AS.050.205 The Structure of English (Dr. L. Burzio)
2008 Spring AS.050.333 Psycholinguistics (Dr. W. Badecker)

Coursework
Fall 2009
AS.050.617 Semantics I (Dr. K. Rawlins)
AS.050.817 Research Seminar in Semantics (Dr. K. Rawlins)
AS.050.832 Research Seminar in Phonology and Axiomatics (Drs. P. Smolensky and C. Wilson)
AS.210.263 Intermediate Yiddish I (Dr. B. Caplan)

Spring 2009
AS.050.614 Classic Papers in Language Learning (Dr. B. Landau)
AS.050.817 Research Seminar in Semantics: Modification (Dr. K. Rawlins)
AS.210.164 Elementary Yiddish II (Dr. B. Caplan)

Fall 2008
AS.050.670 Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Language (Dr. K. Rawlins)
AS.210.163 Elementary Yiddish I (Dr. B. Caplan)

Summer 2008
EN.600.107 Introduction to Programming in Java (Dr. P. Froelich)

Spring 2008
AS.050.625 Phonology I (Dr. C. Wilson)
AS.050.626 Foundations in Cognitive Science (Dr. P. Smolensky)
AS.050.832 Research Seminar in Language Processing (Dr. W. Badecker)

Fall 2007
AS.050.621 Syntax II (Dr. R. Frank)
AS.050.672 Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Neural Networks (Dr. P. Smolensky)
AS.050.821 Research Seminar: Grammatical Structures (Drs. Badecker, Burzio, and Legendre)
AS.200.314 Advanced Statistical Methods (Dr. S. Yantis)

Links
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