Faculty Members

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Edith Aldridge, Assistant Professor - eca1
PhD. 2004, Cornell University
Syntactic theory, historical syntax, Austronesian and East Asian languages

Emily M. Bender, Assistant Professor - ebender
PhD. 2001, Stanford University
Computational linguistics, syntax, sociolinguistics

Michael Brame, Professor Emeritus - brame
PhD. 1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recursive categorial grammars, mathematical linguistics, structure of English and Arabic

Barbara Citko, Assistant 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 Professor - farrar
PhD. 2003, University of Arizona
Computational linguistics, language documentation, semantics ontology

Lance Forshay, ASL Lecturer and Program Coordinator - 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, Professor - Department 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

William Lewis, Affiliate Assistant Professor - wlewis2
PhD. 2002, University of Arizona
Computational linguistics, computer-assisted linguistics, linguistics data encoding, corpus linguistics

Laura McGarrity, Lecturer - lauramcg
PhD. 1999, 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

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

Alicia Beckford Wassink, Associate Professor - wassink
Howard and Frances Nostrand Professor of Linguistics
PhD. 1999, University of Michigan
Sociolinguistics, phonetics, creole languages

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

Fei Xia, Assistant 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

Adjunct Faculty Members

Professors

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

Barrack, Charles M.
PhD. 1969, University of Washington
Germanic Linguistics

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

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 and understanding, spoken document retrieval, statistical 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

Stoel-Gammon, Carol
PhD. 1974, Stanford University
Develomental phonology and phonetics

Voyles, Joseph B.
PhD. 1965, Indiana University
Germanics and linguistics

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

Associate Professors

Bilmes, Jeffrey A.
PhD. 1999, University of California (Berkeley)
Speech and pattern recognition, learning, audio processing, high-performance computing

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

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

Ohta, Amy
PhD. 1993, University of California (Los Angeles)
Applied linguistics, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, Japanese

Assistant Professors

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

Kanno, Yasuko
PhD. 1996, University of Toronto
Language acquisition and cultural identity

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

Thurlow, Crispin
PhD. 2001, University of Wales
Discourse analysis, cultural/media studies

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