Yuhan Zhang holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Tsinghua University, China, and is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard, working with Kathryn Davidson. She is interested in using experimental and quantitative methods to understand semantics and pragmatics during communication and information interpretation. She also works on adult language processing by using the self-paced reading method to unravel the cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension and production. Her current experimental semantic project involves identifying contextual factors in conversations that cause referential opacity in belief reports. She is also using corpus linguistic methodologies to investigate the phonological correlation between stress shift and vowel reduction in English verb nominalization.