Evelyn Milburn

Evelyn Milburn is a cognitive scientist interested in how we use knowledge above and beyond words to quickly and flexibly comprehend complicated real-life language use. Her research addresses critical questions at the intersections of language processing, ambiguity resolution, prediction, and learning: How does the language comprehension system cope with ambiguity? How does the balance between word-by-word and whole-phrase processing change during language acquisition and in language-impaired populations? She completed her postdoctoral research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, and was a Visiting Teaching Professor at the University of Delaware before joining the faculty at NDSU in 2025.

Dr. Milburn is recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026.

• Psycholinguistics
• Sentence Processing
• Figurative Language