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Starting Fall 2013: Darren Tanner

Regular Faculty, Lecturers and Instructors

Name Title Research Keywords
Ahmed, Susan Lecturer Teaching English as a Second Language
Arrigo, Jeffrey Visiting Lecturer
Balcı, Ercan Lecturer Turkish, phonology, Heritage Learners
Benmamoun, Abbas Professor Syntax, morphology, Arabic
Bhatt, Rakesh Professor Sociolinguistics, language contact, World Englishes
Bishop, Hugh Visiting Lecturer Teaching English as a Second Language
Bokamba, Eyamba Professor Sub-Saharan African languages, sociolinguistics, language policy
Cole, Jennifer Professor Phonology, phonetics, speech technologies
Davidson, Fred Professor Language testing
Dickerson, Wayne Professor Teaching English as a Second Language, pedagogical phonology, second language acquisition
Divine, Betsy Visiting Lecturer
Girju, Corina Associate Professor Semantics, computational linguistics
Hualde, José Professor Spanish synchronic and diachronic phonology, Basque
Ingels, Sue Visiting Lecturer
Ionin, Tania Associate Professor second language acquisition
experimental semantics
syntax/semantics interface
Katsikas, Stefanos Lecturer Modern History of Greece and Southeastern Europe
Kim, Jin Visiting Lecturer
Koshik, Irene Associate Professor Conversation analysis, language and social interaction, second language interaction, computer-mediated communication
Lasersohn, Peter Professor Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language
MacDonald, Jonathan Assistant Professor Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, inner aspect/telicity, language variation
Markee, Numa Associate Professor Conversation analysis, second language acquisition
Mishra, Mithilesh Lecturer Hindi
Maithili Phonology, Language Movements in India, Globalization and Language and Culture of India
Montrul, Silvina Professor Second language acquisition, bilingualism, heritage language acquisition, psycholinguistics
Riedel, Kristina Lecturer Swahili, syntax, Bantu languages
Rosado, Cassandra Lecturer
Saadah, Eman Lecturer Arabic
Sadler, Randall Associate Professor Language pedagogy, computer-mediated instruction, virtual worlds
Shih, Chilin Associate Professor Phonetics, phonology, language pedagogy
Shosted, Ryan Assistant Professor Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Language Documentation
Terkourafi, Marina Associate Professor Pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics
Watts, Patricia Lecturer Teaching English as a Second Language
Yaseen, Nabeel Visiting Lecturer
Yoon, James Hye Suk Professor Syntax, morphology, morphosyntax, Korean, Japanese, second language/heritage language acquisition

Affiliated Faculty

Name Title Home Department Research Keywords
Baron, Dennis Professor English
English, language policy, literacy
Bock, J Professor Psychology
Language production
Bowles, Melissa Associate Professor Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Second language acquisition, computer-assisted language learning, language testing
Christianson, Kiel Associate Professor Educational Psychology
Sentence comprehension & production, word recognition, reading, second language aquisition
Dell, Gary Professor Psychology
Language production & comprehension, neural networks
Dhillon , Pradeep Associate Professor Educational Policy Studies
World Englishes
Escobar, Anna María Associate Professor Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Language variation & change, bilingualism & language contact, Andean linguistics
Fagyal, Zsuzsanna Associate Professor French
phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistics of French, social networks, language and minorities in Europe
Fisher, Cynthia Professor Psychology
Language acquisition
Foote, Rebecca Assistant Professor Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

Garnsey, Susan Associate Professor Psychology
Language comprehension
Golato, Andrea Associate Professor Germanic Languages and Literatures
Conversation analysis, German
Grindrod, Christopher Assistant Professor Speech and Hearing Science
neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics
Hahn, Laura Adjunct Assistant Professor Intensive English Institute
Teaching English as a Second Language
Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara Adjunct Assistant Professor College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Second language acquisition
Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark Electrical and Computer Engineering
Speech recognition, mathematical linguistics
Hayashi, Makoto Associate Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures
Conversation analysis, Japanese
Loucks, Torrey Assistant Professor Speech and Hearing Science
Stuttering, neural control of speech & voice production, speech motor learning
McCarthy, Timothy Professor Philosophy
Logic, philosophy of language
Musumeci, Diane Associate Professor Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Italian, Second Language Acquisition
Packard, Jerome Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chinese linguistics, word structure, acquisition & pedagogy
Pitard , Wayne Professor Religion
Ugaritic
Roth, Dan Professor Computer Science
Natural language processing
Seitz, Steven Adjunct Assistant Professor Political Science
Computational linguistics
Sproat, Richard Adjunct Professor Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health and Science University
Computational Linguistics, writing systems
Tremblay, Annie Assistant Professor French
Second language speech and sentence processing, psycholinguistics
Watkins, Ruth Professor College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Language acquisition, language disorders
Watson, Duane Associate Professor Psychology
Language production & comprehension
Witte, James Adjunct Assistant Professor and Visiting Lecturer Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts and Sciences
German

Emeritus Faculty

Name Title Research Keywords
Kim, Chin-Woo Professor Emeritus Korean, phonetics, phonology, morphology
Green, Georgia Professor Emeritus Pragmatics, syntax
Pandharipande, Rajeshwari Professor Emeritus Language of religion, sociolinguistics, Sanskrit, Hindi
Hock, Hans Henrich Professor Emeritus Historical linguistics, Indo-European, South Asian linguistics
Kachru, Yamuna Professor Emeritus Hindi, syntax
Kachru, Braj Professor Emeritus World Englishes, Kashmiri, sociolinguistics
Cheng, Chin-Chuan Professor Emeritus Chinese, phonetics, dialectology
Morgan, Jerry Professor Emeritus Pragmatics, computational linguistics, Albanian
Kisseberth, Charles Professor Emeritus Phonology
Bouton, Lawrence Professor Emeritus Pragmatics, second language acquisition
Cowan, J. Professor Emeritus Teaching English as a Second Language, Second Language Acquisition, Computer Assisted Language Learning