Brandon Waldon

You can find a current (as of 10/29/2023) version of my CV here.

I research the ways in which context, linguistic structure, and social cognition jointly enable successful linguistic communication. To better understand the division of labor between these three things, I’ve worked on a variety of topics including linguistic vagueness/imprecision, modality, referring expression production, and implicature.

I am affiliated with Stanford ALPS Lab and, for the 2022-2023 academic year, Stanford’s Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) through their Seed Research Grant program (project title: Towards Clear, Transparent, and Scalable Computational Contract Technology).

I’m currently in my final year of the Linguistics PhD program at Stanford. My dissertation project is advised by Cleo Condoravdi and Judith Degen. Before coming to Stanford, I was a Fulbright scholar at Leibniz-ZAS Berlin and a BA student at UChicago.

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