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Emeritus Faculty

  • Jean Berko Gleason

    Professor Emerita, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the former Applied Linguistics Program

    lexical development, aphasia, developmental sociolinguistics

  • Robert Hoffmeister

    Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Education and the former Applied Linguistics Program

    ASL acquisition, Deaf culture, education of the Deaf

  • John Hutchison

    Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and the former Applied Linguistics Program

    African languages, creole languages, language typology, language policy, language teaching and curricular development, minority language publishing, literacy

  • Carol Neidle

    Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics; Affiliated Faculty, Hariri Institute for Computing

    syntactic theory, American Sign Language linguistics

  • Catherine O’Connor

    Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics and Language Education Program

    language documentation, linguistic fieldwork, discourse analysis, education

  • Marnie Reed

    Clinical Professor Emerita, Language Education Program (WED)

    second language acquisition, applied phonology, auditory feedback, metalinguistic feedback, metacognition

  • Helen Tager-Flusberg

    Professor Emerita, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

    language, communication, and associated social-cognitive deficits in autism (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders

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