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Linguistics Program

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The Linguistics Program adheres to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language. Its faculty represent a range of departments and schools across the university.

Core Faculty

Amit Almor

Amit Almor

Associate Professor

Psycholinguistics, Neuroimaging of Language, Language Impairments

Anne Bezuidenhout

Anne Bezuidenhout

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Semantics, Pragmatics

Elaine Chun

Elaine Chun

Associate Professor

Sociolinguistics, Language and Race

Stanley Dubinsky

Stanley Dubinsky

Professor

Descriptive and Formal Linguistics, Language Conflict and Rights 

Lewis Esposito

Lewis Esposito

Assistant Professor

Sociolinguistics, Language variation & change, Sociophonetics, Style, Language, gender, and sexuality

Kurt Goblirsch

Kurt Goblirsch

Professor

Historical Linguistics, Phonology, Dialectology, Germanic Linguistics

Eric Holt

D. Eric Holt

Associate Professor

Hispanic Linguistics, History and Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese, Second Language Spanish Pronunciation, Phonology, Optimality Theory

Jiang Liu

Jiang Liu

Associate Professor

Language acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Chinese linguistics (Chinese tones, Chinese character recognition)

Qiandi Liu

Qiandi Liu

Assistant Professor

Second Language Acquisition, ESL Writing, Grammar Pedagogy

Paul Malovrh

Paul Malovrh

Professor

Second Language Acquisition, Hispanic Applied Linguistics, Learner Development of Form-Function Mapping, Psycholinguistic Processing Strategies

Emily Manetta

Professor and Director of Linguistics Program

 Theoretical syntax, Indic languages (Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, and Romani), Wh-questions and displacement to the clausal peripheries, ellipsis phenomena, and verb-second word orders

Nina Moreno

Nina Moreno

Professor

Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning 

Jennifer F. Reynolds

Jennifer F. Reynolds

Professor

Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatics, Language Ideology,  Language Socialization,Narrative and Performance,Language Discourse and Migration

Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva

Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva

Research Associate Professor

Second Language Acquisition, Morpho-syntax

Dr. Tracey Weldon

Dr. Tracey Weldon

Professor of Linguistics and English

 

Affiliated Faculty

Junko Baba

Junko Baba

Associate Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/Japanese

Dirk den Ouden

Dirk den Ouden

Associate Professor

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Lala Ducate

Lara Ducate

Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/German

Lisa Fitton

Lisa Fitton

Associate Professor

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders                                                                                                                                                    

Dan Fogerty

Daniel Fogerty

Associate Professor

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 

Julius Fridriksson

Julius Fridriksson

Professor

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Scott Gwara

Scott Gwara

Professor

Department of English Language and Literature

Lara Lomicka-Anderson

Lara Lomicka-Anderson

Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/French

William Matchin

William Matchin

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Brett Sherman

Brett Sherman

Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy

Sherry Warren

Sherry Warren

Academic Director of the International Accelerator Progam

 

 Emeriti

Name

Department

Annie Dumenil Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures/French
Robin Morris Department of Psychology
Dorothy Disterheft Department of English Language and Literature
Alexandra Rowe English Programs for Internationals

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