Faculty
Jason Bishop
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Ph.D. UCLA
Area of Interest: phonetics and laboratory phonology, prosody and intonation, psycholinguistics, speech perception, information structure, and sentence processing
Juliette Blevins
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Phonology, Phonetics, Historical linguistics and language change, documentation of endangered languages, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, Native American languages
Dianne C. Bradley
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, phonology, bilingualism, L1 acquisition
Martin Chodorow
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: computational linguistics (corpus-based statistical approaches), human sentence processing
Cecelia Cutler
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Ph.D., New York University
Area of Interest: sociolinguistics, language and identity, youth language and hip hop culture, general linguistics
José del Valle
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Ph.D., Georgetown University
Area of Interest: Linguistics ideologies, language policy, Glottopolitical history of Spain and Latin America
Marcel den Dikken
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Ph.D., University of Leiden
Area of Interest: Syntax, and its interface with morphology
Eva Fernandez
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Ph.D., The City University of New York
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, bilingualism, second language acquisition, instructional technology
Janet Dean Fodor
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, learnability theory and L1 acquisition
Bill Haddican
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Ph.D. NYU
Area of Interest: Language Change, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
Matt Huenerfauth
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Area of Interest: Computational linguistics, American Sign Language (ASL), assistive technologies for people with disabilities or literacy impairment
Alan Huffman
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Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of Interest: Semantics of morphemes and word order; grammar as theory; historical linguistics and dialectology; ESL
Miki Makihara
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Ph.D., Yale University
Area of Interest: Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, anthropology; ethnography of speaking, discourse analysis, political economy of language, language ideology, language contact, bilingualism, ethnicity; Polynesia, Pacific
Gita Martohardjono
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Ph.D., Cornell University
Area of Interest: Second language acquisition, bilingualism, syntax, L1 acquisition, learnability, sociolinguistics
William McClure
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Ph.D., Cornell University
Area of Interest: Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, syntax *Dr. McClure is not accepting new advisees at this time
Richard Mendelsohn
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: philosophy of language, semantics, logic
Stephen Neale
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Ph.D., Stanford University
Area of Interest: semantics, logic, pragmatics, anaphora, linguistics and law
Michael Newman
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Ed. D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Area of Interest: Sociolinguistics, variationist and language attitudes and applied linguistics, particularly literacy theory
Loraine Obler
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Ph.D., University of Michigan
Area of Interest: Neurolinguistics, bilingualism, language in aging and dementia dyslexia
Ricardo Otheguy
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Ph.D., The City University of New York
Area of Interest: sociolinguistics, language contact, functional linguistics
Sandeep Prasada
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Ph.D., MIT
Area of Interest: Lexical and Conceptual representation and development
Andrew Rosenberg
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Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics, Prosody, Speech, Machine Learning
William Sakas
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Ph.D., The City University of New York
Area of Interest: psychocomputational models of first language acquisition
Irina Sekerina
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Ph.D., The City University of New York
Area of Interest: Sentence processing, eye-tracking, bilingualism, Slavic and Russian linguistics and psycholinguistics, language acquisition.
Valerie Shafer
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Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo
Area of Interest: Speech perception in SLA, Morphosyntactic info. in acquiring language, Brain development and language acquisition, Auditory processing and language learning
Arthur Spears
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Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Area of Interest: Pidgin and creole languages, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, African American English, Haitian Creole
Christina Tortora
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Ph.D., University of Delaware
Area of Interest: Syntax, Lexical Semantics-syntax interface, Italian dialects, Romance languages
Robert M. Vago
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Ph.D., Harvard University
Area of Interest: phonological theory, moraic structure and vowel harmony within the framework of optimality theory, first language attrition
Virginia Valian
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Ph.D., Northeastern University
Area of Interest: First language acquisition, learnability
Douglas Whalen
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Ph.D., Yale University
Area of Interest: Speech Perception and Production, endangered languages
Temporary and Adjunct Faculty
Sam Al Khatib (Visiting Assistant Professor) email
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Formal Semantics, Pragmatics, Logic, Gradability, Association with Focus
Susan Fischer (Adjunct) email
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Sign Language, Typology, Morphosyntax, Psycholinguistics
Emeritus Faculty
Charles E. Cairns
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Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of Interest: phonology and the phonology/phonetics and phonology/morphology interfaces
Helen Smith Cairns
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Ph.D., University of Texas
Area of Interest: L1 acquisition, learnability, human sentence processing
Robert W. Fiengo
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax.
Alexander Orenstein
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Ph.D., New York University
Area of Interest: Philosophy of language, semantics, logic
David Rosenthal
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Ph.D., Princeton University
Area of Interest: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of psychology.
Virginia Teller
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Ph.D., New York University
Area of Interest: Cognitive and computational models of Clinical cognition and emotions; machine translation; computational linguistics; natural language processing; articial intelligence