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Linguistics Faculty

Beverly Adams

Assistant Dean of the College (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1990).
Sentence processing, reading, language comprehension.

Peter S. Baker

Professor, English (Ph.D. Yale University, 1978).
Old English language and literature, Germanic linguistics, history of the English language.

John D. Bonvillian

Associate Professor, Psychology (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1974).
Child language acquisition, child development, sign languages, cognitive processes, psycholinguistics, deafness, child autism.

Ellen Contini-Morava

Professor, Anthropology; (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983).
Discourse, pragmatics, cognitive and functional linguistics, theories of grammar, tense-aspect-modality, noun categorization, Bantu languages, Swahili.

Janay Crabtree

Instructor, Center for American English Language & Culture (Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2010).
Second language acquisition, English as a second language, perception of non-native speakers and speech, adaptation to accented and non-native speech, interaction of native and non-native speakers, particularly in institutional venues.

Eve Danziger

Associate Professor, Anthropology (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1991).
Verb argument structure, semantic typology, language and cognition, anthropological linguistics, child language and cultural socialization, ideologies of symbolic representation, Mayan linguistics, spontaneous sign languages.

Dudley Doane

Lecturer; Director, Center for American English Language and Culture (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2003).

Lise Dobrin

Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1999).
Morphology, phonology, endangered language linguistics, language description and preservation, Arapesh languages (Papua New Guinea), Tok Pisin, Hebrew.

Hoyt N. Duggan

Emeritus, English (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1969).
Historical linguistics, medieval studies, Old and Middle English language and literature.

Mark J. Elson

Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1973).
Linguistic theory, morphology, historical linguistics, Slavic and Balkan linguistics.

Coulter George

Assistant Professor, Classics (Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2002).
Greek and Indo-European linguistics, diachronic syntax and pragmatics

Mitchell S. Green

Associate Professor, Philosophy (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1993).
Philosophy of mind and language; pragmatic approaches to issues concerning linguistic meaning, reference, truth, and propositional attitudes.

Peter Hook

Emeritus, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1973).
Typological and historical linguistics, Indo-Aryan languages, linguistics and literature.

Virginia Hymes

Emerita, Anthropology (M.A. Indiana, 1954; A.B.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1972).
Native American languages, linguistic anthropology, ethnopoetics.

Vikram Jaswal

Assistant Professor, Psychology (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2003).
Early word learning, pragmatics, cognitive development.

Amanda Kibler

Assistant Professor, Curry School of Education (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2009).
Bilingualism, second language acquisition, ESL pedagogy, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language policy.

Daniel Lefkowitz

Associate Professor, Anthropology and Middle East and South Asian Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1995).
Language and culture, language and identity, language and emotion, sociolinguistics, semiotics, Semitic languages, intonation, discourse analysis.

Filip Loncke

Assistant Professor, Psychology (Ph.D. University of Brussels, 1990).
Atypical communication, internal phonology, sentence processing, augmentative and alternative communication.

Jan L. Perkowski

Emeritus, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965).
General and Slavic linguistics, dialectology, folklore, Russian and Eastern Europe.

Joel Rini

Professor, Spanish (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1987).
Medieval Spanish language and diachronic linguistics, historical Spanish syntax, Ibero-Romance morphosyntax, morphophonology, phonology.

Gladys E. Saunders

Associate Professor, French (Ph.D. University of Michigan).
French phonetics and phonology, history of the French language, Romance dialectolog,; French applied linguistics, contact linguistics.

Mohammed Sawaie

Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1980).
Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics, Arabic dialectology, history of linguistics, syntax, discourse analysis.

Emily Scida

Associate Professor, Spanish (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1998).
Historical and comparative Romance linguistics, historical syntax, dialectology, Spanish and Portuguese syntax, Relational Grammar.

Omar Velázquez-Mendoza

Assistant Professor, Spanish (Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2010).
Historical Spanish sociolinguistics, diachronic and synchronic Spanish morphosyntax, linguistic variation in Late Latin/Early Romance, development of advanced literacy in first and second languages, systemic functional linguistics.

Ashley Williams

Lecturer, American Studies and Anthropology (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2006).
Language & identity, bilingualism, Chinese American & Asian American identity, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics.

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