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The Linguistics Program adheres to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language. Its faculty represent a range of departments and schools across the university.

Core Faculty

	Amit Almor Associate Professor Psycholinguistics, Neuroimaging of Language, Language Impairments
	Anne Bezuidenhout Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Semantics, Pragmatics
	Elaine Chun Associate Professor Sociolinguistics, Language and Race
	Stanley Dubinsky Professor Descriptive and Formal Linguistics, Language Conflict and Rights
	Lewis Esposito Assistant Professor Sociolinguistics, Language variation & change, Sociophonetics, Style, Language, gender, and sexuality
	Kurt Goblirsch Professor Historical Linguistics, Phonology, Dialectology, Germanic Linguistics
	D. Eric Holt Associate Professor Hispanic Linguistics, History and Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese, Second Language Spanish Pronunciation, Phonology, Optimality Theory
	Jiang Liu Associate Professor Language acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Chinese linguistics (Chinese tones, Chinese character recognition)
	Qiandi Liu Assistant Professor Second Language Acquisition, ESL Writing, Grammar Pedagogy
	Paul Malovrh Professor Second Language Acquisition, Hispanic Applied Linguistics, Learner Development of Form-Function Mapping, Psycholinguistic Processing Strategies
	Emily Manetta Professor and Director of Linguistics Program Theoretical syntax, Indic languages (Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, and Romani), Wh-questions and displacement to the clausal peripheries, ellipsis phenomena, and verb-second word orders
	Nina Moreno Professor Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning
	Jennifer F. Reynolds Professor Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatics, Language Ideology, Language Socialization,Narrative and Performance,Language Discourse and Migration
	Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva Research Associate Professor Second Language Acquisition, Morpho-syntax
	Brandon Waldon Assistant Professor My research examines how context, linguistic structure, and social cognition jointly enable linguistic communication. I’m currently wrapping up the final year of my PhD in linguistics at Stanford, where I wrote a dissertation on the interpretation of epistemic modals (e.g., It’s probably raining outside; It might be raining outside). Beyond modals, I’ve worked on a variety of topics in semantics and pragmatics, including linguistic vagueness/imprecision, referring expression production, and conversational implicature.
	Dr. Tracey Weldon Professor of Linguistics and English

Affiliated Faculty

	Junko Baba Associate Professor Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/Japanese
	Lara Ducate Professor Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/German
	Lisa Fitton Associate Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
	Daniel Fogerty Associate Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
	Julius Fridriksson Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
	Scott Gwara Professor Department of English Language and Literature
	Lara Lomicka-Anderson Professor Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/French
	William Matchin Assistant Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
	Brett Sherman Associate Professor Department of Philosophy
	Sherry Warren Academic Director of the International Accelerator Progam

Emeriti

Name	Department
Annie Dumenil	Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures/French
Robin Morris	Department of Psychology
Dorothy Disterheft	Department of English Language and Literature
Alexandra Rowe	English Programs for Internationals

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