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	Edith Aldridge Assistant Professor - aldr	PhD. 2004, Cornell University syntactic theory, historical syntax, Austronesian and East Asian languages

	Emily M. Bender Associate Professor - ebender	PhD. 2001, Stanford University computational linguistics, syntax, sociolinguistics

	Barbara Citko Associate Professor - bcitko	PhD. 2000, SUNY Stony Brook syntactic theory, syntax/semantics interface, Slavic linguistics

	Heles Contreras Professor Emeritus - helesc	PhD. 1961, Indiana University syntactic theory and the structure of Spanish

	Betsy Evans Assistant Professor - evansbe	PhD. 2001, Michigan State University sociolinguistics

	Scott O. Farrar Acting Assistant Prof. - farrar	PhD. 2003, University of Arizona computational linguistics, language documentation, semantics ontology

	Lance Forshay ASL Lecturer & Coord. - lforshay	MS 1998, Southern Christian University ASL, deaf culture studies, sign language etymology

	Sharon Hargus Professor - sharon	PhD. 1985, University of California at Los Angeles phonology, morphology, Athabaskan languages, lexicography, phonetics

	Julia Herschensohn Prof. & Dept. Chair - herschen	PhD. 1976, University of Washington romance linguistics, French syntax, second language acquisition

	Ellen Kaisse Professor - kaisse	PhD. 1977, Harvard University phonology, historical linguistics, ancient and modern Greek/Spanish, phonology-syntax interface

	Jurgen Klausenburger Professor Emeritus - jklaus	PhD. 1969, University of Michigan romance linguistics

	Gina-Anne Levow Assistant Professor - levow	PhD. 1998, MIT discourse and dialogue, prosody in spoken language understanding

	Laura McGarrity Lecturer - lauramcg	PhD. 2003, Indiana University, Bloomington phonology, prosody, optimality theory, opacity, first language acquisition, phonological disorders

	Frederick Newmeyer Professor Emeritus - fjn	PhD. 1969, University of Illinois theoretical and English syntax, history of linguistics

	Toshiyuki Ogihara Associate Professor - ogihara	PhD. 1989, University of Texas at Austin formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, structure of Japanese

	Clarissa Surek-Clark Lecturer - surekcla	MA, 1998, University of Pennsylvania sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, Portuguese and isiZulu, translation and interpreting

	Marina Tarlinskaya Research Prof. Emerita - marinat	PhD. 1976, Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages theory of translation, theory of versification, second language acquisition, semantics

	Alicia Beckford Wassink Associate Professor - wassink	PhD. 1999, University of Michigan (Howard and Frances Nostrand Professor of Linguistics) sociolinguistics, phonetics, creoles

	Kristi Winter Lecturer - kwinter2	MA. 2008, Gallaudet University 1st & 2nd language acquisition of ASL, ASL Phonology, SL Morphology, Sociolinguistics

	Richard Wright Associate Professor - rawright	PhD. 1996, University of California at Los Angeles phonetics, phonetics-phonology interface, Austronesian and African languages

	Fei Xia Associate Professor - fxia	PhD. 2001, University of Pennsylvania computational linguistics, Chinese syntax

	Karen Zagona Professor - zagona	PhD. 1982, University of Washington syntactic theory, tense and aspect, Spanish syntax

An Adjunct member in the Department of Linguistics is a person who holds a primary appointment in another department of the University.
This appointment is intended to recognize the contributions to and mutual scholarship with the Department of Linguistics by such faculty members (e.g. serving on graduate committees, teaching cross-listed courses, collaborating on research).

Professors


Augerot, James E.	PhD. 1968, University of Washington - Slavic linguistics, Romanian, Bulgarian

Barrack, Charles M.	PhD. 1969, University of Washington - Germanic linguistics

Dziwirek, Katarzyna A.	PhD. 1991, University of California (San Diego) - linguistics, syntax, and typology

Etzioni, Oren	PhD. 1990, Carnegie Mellon University - Artificial intelligence and information retrieval, natural language interfaces

Kuhl, Patricia K.	PhD. 1973, University of Minnesota - Speech perception

Ladner, Richard	PhD. 1971, University of California (Berkeley) - Computational linguistics, American Sign Language

Ostendorf, Mari	PhD. 1985, Stanford University - speech synthesis & understanding, spoken doc. retrieval, stat. pattern recognition

Osterhout, Lee E.	PhD. 1990, Tufts University - psycholinguistics, cognitive psychophysiology

Shapiro, Michael C.	PhD. 1973, University of Chicago - Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics

Silberstein, Sandra V.	PhD. 1982, University of Michigan - TESL, critical theory, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language and culture

Stygall, Gail	PhD. 1989, Indiana University, Bloomington - forensic linguistics, law and language, discourse

Yue-Hashimoto, Anne O.	PhD. 1966, Ohio State University - Chinese linguistics, grammar, dialectology, historical reconstruction

Associate Professors

Bilaniuk, Laada M.	PhD. 1998, University of Michigan - Language politics & ideology, ethnicity, nationalism, gender, Ukraine, former USSR

Bilmes, Jeffrey A.	PhD. 1999, University of California (Berkeley) - speech & pattern recognition, learning, audio processing

Elkhafaifi, Hussein	PhD. 1985, University of Utah - applied linguistics, second language acquisition, Arabic linguistics

Handel, Zev	PhD. 1998, University of California (Berkeley) - Chinese historical phonology, Sino-Tibetan linguistics

Kirchhoff, Katrin	PhD. 1999, University of Bielefeld - natural language proc., machine translation & learning, human-computer interfaces

Ohta, Amy	PhD. 1993, University of California (Los Angeles) - applied linguistics, 2LA, discourse analysis, Japanese

Thurlow, Crispin	PhD. 2001, Cardiff University - critical discourse studies, social semiotics, new media language

Assistant Professors

Fernandez-Dobao, Ana	PhD. 2005, University of Santiago de Compostela - applied linguistics, second language acquisition, Spanish

Moore, Collette	PhD. 2004, University of Michigan - diachronic English linguistics, sociolinguistics

Assistant Professors

Aoki, Paul	PhD. 1967, University of Washington - Technology & Media with Language Learning & Pedagogy, Compu. Ling.

Hoard, Jim	PhD. 1967, University of Washington - compu. linguistics, semantics, phonology, and Northwest Amerindian languages.

Lewis, William	PhD. 2002, University of Arizona - computational linguistics, computer-assisted linguistics

Tjalve, Michael	PhD. 2007, University College London - Speech Technology, Accent variation

Toutanova, Kristina	Phd. 2005, Stanford University - machine translation, morphological analysis, and part-of-speech tagging

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