Samer Al Khatib   email | webpage
Ph.D., Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Semantics

Jason Bishop   email | webpage
Ph.D. UCLA
Area of Interest: phonetics and laboratory phonology, prosody and intonation, psycholinguistics, speech perception, information structure, and sentence processing

Juliette Blevins   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: computational linguistics (corpus-based statistical approaches), human sentence processing

Cecelia Cutler   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
Ph.D. Linguistics, Columbia University
Area of Interest: Columbia School linguistics, Italian grammar, English grammar and education, Linguistics theory and methodology

José del Valle   email | webpage
Ph.D., Georgetown University
Area of Interest: Linguistics ideologies, language policy, Glottopolitical history of Spain and Latin America

Eva Fernández   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
PhD., Columbia University
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing

Matthew Garley   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
PhD. University of Pennsylvania
Area of Interest: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, phonology, sociolinguistics

Bill Haddican   email | webpage
Ph.D. NYU
Area of Interest: Language Change, Sociolinguistics, Syntax

Christina Hagedorn   email | webpage
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Area of Interest: Area of Interest: Phonetics, Articulatory Phonology, Laboratory Phonology

Alan Huffman   email | webpage
Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of Interest: Semantics of morphemes and word order; grammar as theory; historical linguistics and dialectology; ESL

Jason Kandybowicz   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
PhD 2010 Cornell University
Area of Interest: Morphology, syntax, phonology, language documentation

Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan   email | webpage
Ph.D. Columbia University
Area of Interest: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Sociolinguistics, Spoken Language Processing, Dialogue

Sarah Ita Levitan   email | webpage
Ph.D. Columbia University
Area of Interest: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, Dialogue, Paralinguistics

Miki Makihara   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
Ph.D. Columbia University
Area of Interest: computational linguistics, noise robust speech processing, psychoacoustics of speech perception, phonetics

Gita Martohardjono   email | webpage
Ph.D., Cornell University
Area of Interest: Second language acquisition, bilingualism and biliteracy, “heritage” and minority language studies

William McClure   email | webpage
Ph.D., Cornell University
Area of Interest: Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, syntax

Stephen Neale   email | webpage
Ph.D., Stanford University
Area of Interest: semantics, logic, pragmatics, anaphora, linguistics and law

Michael Newman   email | webpage
Ed. D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Area of Interest: Sociolinguistics, variationist and language attitudes and applied linguistics, particularly literacy theory

Jonathan Nissenbaum   email | webpage
Ph.D. in Linguistics, MIT
Area of Interest: syntax, semantics, speech perception, articulation and perception of tone

Loraine K. Obler   email | webpage
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Area of Interest: Neurolinguistics, bilingualism, language in aging and dementia dyslexia

Sandeep Prasada   email | webpage
Ph.D., MIT
Area of Interest: Lexical and Conceptual representation and development

Alla Rozovskaya   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
Ph.D., The City University of New York
Area of Interest: Psychocomputational models of first language acquisition

Irina Sekerina   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
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   email | webpage
Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University; M.A. in Linguistics from Harvard University
Area of Interest: Phonology, First Language Attrition

Virginia Valian   email | webpage
Ph.D., Northeastern University
Area of Interest: First language acquisition, innateness and learnability, computational corpus analysis, bilingualism

Douglas Whalen   email | webpage
Ph.D., Yale University
Area of Interest: Speech Perception and Production, endangered languages

Computational Linguistics

     Martin Chodorow
     Elena Filatova
     Kyle Gorman
     Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan
     Michael Mandel
     Alla Rozovskaya
     William Sakas

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Endangered Languages

     Juliette Blevins
     Jason Kandybowicz
     Daniel Kaufman
     Miki Makihara
     Douglas Whalen

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Language Acquisition/Bilingualism

     Martin Chodorow
     Eva Fernández
     Alberta Gatti
     Gita Martohardjono
     Loraine K. Obler
     Sandeep Prasada
     Valerie Shafer
     Nancy Stern
     Virginia Valian

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Phonology

     Jason Bishop
     Juliette Blevins
     Kyle Gorman
     Christina Hagedorn
     Michael Mandel
     Robert M. Vago
     Douglas Whalen

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Sociolinguistics

     Cecelia Cutler
     José del Valle
     Matthew Garley
     Kyle Gorman
     Bill Haddican
     Rebecca (Rivka) Levitan
     Miki Makihara
     Michael Newman

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Syntax/Semantics

     Samer Al Khatib
     Bill Haddican
     Jason Kandybowicz
     William McClure
     Jonathan Nissenbaum
     Christina Tortora

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(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   email | webpage
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, phonology, bilingualism, L1 acquisition

Charles E. Cairns   email | webpage
Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of Interest: phonology and the phonology/phonetics and phonology/morphology interfaces

Helen Smith Cairns   email | webpage
Ph.D., University of Texas
Area of Interest: L1 acquisition, learnability, human sentence processing

Robert W. Fiengo   email | webpage
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax.

Janet Dean Fodor   email | webpage
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Area of Interest: Human sentence processing, learnability theory and L1 acquisition

Alexander Orenstein   email | webpage
Ph.D., New York University
Area of Interest: Philosophy of language, semantics, logic

David Rosenthal   email | webpage
Ph.D., Princeton University
Area of Interest: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of psychology.

Arthur Spears   email | webpage
Ph.D. University of California at San Diego
Area of Interest: Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, pidgins/creoles and language contact, grammatical analysis

Virginia Teller   email | webpage
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