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  • Catherine Caldwell-Harris

    Associate Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

  • Naomi Caselli

    Associate Professor, Deaf Studies Program (WED)

    early language experience, language deprivation, language development in deaf children, American Sign Language (ASL) lexicon

  • Charles B. Chang

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

    phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism

  • Juliet Floyd

    Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy and Director, BU Center for the Humanities

    philosophy of language, logic

  • Mary Hughes

    Senior Lecturer, Language Education Program (WED)

    first and second language acquisition, language education, minority language revitalization, integration of competence-based and usage-based linguistic approaches

  • Kathy Kim

    Clinical Assistant Professor

    second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, implicit L2 learning, explicit and implicit grammar knowledge; measurement validity; SLA-assessment interface

  • Amy Lieberman

    Associate Professor, Deaf Studies/Language & Literacy (WED)

    acquisition and processing of American Sign Language (ASL) in deaf individuals, development of visual attention in deaf children

  • Lionel Mathieu

    Senior Lecturer in French, Department of Romance Studies

    phonetics and phonology (with a focus on the orthography interface), second language acquisition and teaching, psycholinguistics, contact linguistics, French linguistics

  • Michelle Mentis

    Clinical Professor and Chair, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (SAR)

    pediatric language disorders with special interests in language analysis and preschool language intervention

  • Fallou Ngom

    Professor, Department of Anthropology and African Studies Center

    sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, African sources of knowledge in non-Roman scripts, Ajami sources in Africa and the diaspora, Islam and grassroots literacies in Africa

  • Tyler Perrachione

    Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (SAR)

    developmental disorders of language and reading, human voice recognition and social auditory perception, mechanisms of plasticity in human auditory cortex, brain bases of complex auditory processing

  • Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

    Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology

    linguistic anthropology, gender and sexuality, courtship and marriage, anthropology of youth, anthropology of education, Islam, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia)

  • Derry Wijaya

    Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science

    natural language processing and knowledge bases, information extraction, machine learning, deep learning, machine translation

  • Jennifer Zuk

    Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SAR)

    early speech, language, and reading acquisition, developmental cognitive neuroscience, music cognition, education

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