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  • Jonathan Barnes

    Professor, Department of Linguistics

    phonetics, phonology, speech perception, prosody and intonation

  • Charles B. Chang

    Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

    phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism

  • Jenna Conklin

    Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

    second language acquisition, vowel acoustics, laboratory phonology, and Germanic languages

  • Elizabeth Coppock

    Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

    semantics and pragmatics, cross-linguistic variation and universals

  • Daniel Erker

    Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Romance Studies

    language variation and change, sociolinguistics, language contact, Spanish in the USA

  • Michael Everdell

    Lecturer, Department of Linguistics

    syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface

  • Paul Hagstrom

    Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

    syntax, semantics, language acquisition

  • Najoung Kim

    Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science

    computational semantics/pragmatics, generalization in humans and machine learning models

  • Kate Lynn Lindsey

    Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

    phonology, language variation, language description, Papuan languages

  • Neil Myler

    Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

    morphology, (micro-)comparative syntax, interaction between syntax and morphophonology, argument structure, Quechua, Bantu (especially isiXhosa), English dialect syntax

  • Catherine O’Connor

    Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Education Program; Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies, WED

    language documentation, linguistic fieldwork, discourse analysis, education

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