Jeremy Zehr

Jeremy Zehr is a linguist and software developer at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) of the University of Pennsylvania. His work bridges theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics, focusing on pragmatics, semantics, and the processing of literal and non-literal meanings in language.

His research explores questions such as how the brain distinguishes between literal and non-literal meaning, the interaction of these meanings in sentence computation, and the role of presuppositions in eye-tracking experiments. He has developed PennController for IBEX, a web-based experimental tool supported by a University Research Foundation (URF) grant and ILST funding, now used by over 200 researchers.

He has conducted workshops at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) and the LSA Summer Institute. His publications span topics like vagueness, implicature, presupposition projection, and formal logic in linguistics, with key contributions in Linguistics & Philosophy, Language and Cognition, and conference proceedings.