Samer Al Khatib
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Ph.D., Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Semantics
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
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. Linguistics from New York University M.A. Linguistics from New York University M.A. Social Studies Education, New York University B.A. German, Barnard College, Columbia University
Area of Interest: Sociolinguistics, language and identity, language ideologies, sociolinguistics of writing, computer mediated communication, language activism, orality in digital writing
Joseph C Davis
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Ph.D. Linguistics, Columbia University
Area of Interest: Columbia School linguistics, Italian grammar, English grammar and education, Linguistics theory and methodology
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
Eva Fernández
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Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
M.A. in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A. in Linguistics (German), New York University
Area of Interest: Cross-linguistic differences in language processing; faculty development impact on student learning
Elena Filatova
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PhD., Columbia University
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing
Matthew Garley
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Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Area of Interest: Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Language Contact, Historical Linguistics, Youth Culture, Linguistics of Hip Hop, Computer-Mediated Communication
Alberta Gatti
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Ph.D. Boston University
Area of Interest: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Literacy Development of Heritage Language Learners, Literature of the Sixteenth Century Spain.
Kyle Gorman
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PhD. University of Pennsylvania
Area of Interest: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, phonology, sociolinguistics
Bill Haddican
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Ph.D. NYU
Area of Interest: Language Change, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
Christina Hagedorn
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Ph.D., University of Southern California
Area of Interest: Area of Interest: Phonetics, Articulatory Phonology, Laboratory Phonology
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
Jason Kandybowicz
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Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Area of Interest: Syntactic theory, syntax-phonology interface, field linguistics and language documentation, African linguistics
Daniel Kaufman
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PhD 2010 Cornell University
Area of Interest: Morphology, syntax, phonology, language documentation
Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan
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Ph.D. Columbia University
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Sociolinguistics, Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue
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
Michael Mandel
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Ph.D. Columbia University
Area of Interest: computational linguistics, noise robust speech processing, psychoacoustics of speech perception, phonetics
Gita Martohardjono
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Ph.D., Cornell University
Area of Interest: Second language acquisition, bilingualism and biliteracy, “heritage” and minority language studies
William McClure
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Ph.D., Cornell University
Area of Interest: Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, syntax
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
Jonathan Nissenbaum
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Ph.D. Linguistics, MIT
Area of Interest: Syntax, Semantics
Loraine K. Obler
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Ph.D., University of Michigan
Area of Interest: Neurolinguistics, bilingualism, language in aging and dementia dyslexia
Sandeep Prasada
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Ph.D., MIT
Area of Interest: Lexical and Conceptual representation and development
Alla Rozovskaya
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Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Area of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, Grammar Correction, Machine Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Processing for Educational Applications, Noisy Data
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. in Linguistics from The Graduate Center, CUNY M.A. in Linguistics from The Graduate Center, CUNY
Area of Interest: Bilingualism, heritage languages, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, sentence processing, the Visual World eye-tracking paradigm, eye movements in reading, Slavic languages, Russian, Bulgarian
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
Nancy Stern
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Ph.D., Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY M.Phil., Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY B.A., Sociology, The College of William and Mary
Area of Interest: Functionalist linguistics, bilingualism, language and education
Christina Tortora
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Ph.D., University of Delaware
Area of Interest: Syntactic theory, syntactic variation, Italian dialects, varieties of English, parsed corpora of vernacular speech
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, innateness and learnability, computational corpus analysis, bilingualism
Douglas Whalen
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Ph.D., Yale University
Area of Interest: Speech Perception and Production, endangered languages
(non-tenure track)
Suzanne V.H. van der Feest email | webpage
PhD., Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Area of Interest: First Language Acquisition, Phonology and Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Perception and Production
(Not eligible to serve as primary advisor and/or Committee Chair)
Susan Fischer (Adjunct) email
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Sign Language, Typology, Morphosyntax, Psycholinguistics
Andrew Rosenberg (Adjunct) email
Google LLC
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics
Nava Shaked (Adjunct) email
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Area of Interest: Natural Language Processing, AI, Computational Linguistics, Multimodal Human Machine Interaction Systems, Multimodal Architectures and Applications, Speech Processing Systems
(Not accepting advisees.)
Dianne C. Bradley
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, phonology, bilingualism, L1 acquisition
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.
Janet Dean Fodor
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, learnability theory and L1 acquisition
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.
Arthur Spears
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Ph.D. University of California at San Diego
Area of Interest: Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, pidgins/creoles and language contact, grammatical analysis
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