Hi, I'm John R. Starr!

I am a third-year PhD student at Cornell University, where I study Linguistics with a minor in Cognitive Science. For my undergraduate studies, I attended the University of Pittsburgh and graduated in 2020 with a BA in Linguistics, a BA in English Writing, and a minor in Persian.

My primary research interests lie within the interfaces of linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and natural language processing. At the moment, I am researching the effect of phonology on incremental processing. See the Research page for an up-to-date list of projects I am working on.

I am a member of the Cornell University Computational Psycholinguistics Discussions Group, or CPsyd for short. I am advised by the director of the lab, Dr. Marten van Schijndel. I am also a member of the Linguistic Meaning (LiMe) lab at Cornell University, and the Senior Editor of the SALT 32 Proceedings.

In my spare time, you will likely find me skipping rocks on either Cayuga Lake or one of the various creeks in Ithaca. I also arrange a cappella music professionally and am a washed-up former Music Director for The Songburghs, an award-winning co-ed collegiate group based out of Pitt. In the early months of the year, I may even be judging a cappella music!