Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a B.A. in Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Wilson's research explores argument structure using theoretical and experimental methods, focusing on how verb and argument meanings interact with syntactic structures. He investigates computational language models' performance on psycholinguistic tasks, examining how their knowledge compares to human linguistic cognition.

His recent publications center on syntactic phenomena like resultatives and verb alternations, computational linguistics, and the capabilities of large language models. Research trends show a strong emphasis on bridging theoretical linguistics with computational experiments.

Dr. Wilson collaborates extensively with researchers like Bob Frank and Tom Roeper on projects involving recursion acquisition and computational model behavior analysis.