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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
	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 Assistant 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 Associate Professor Second Language Acquisition, Hispanic Applied Linguistics, Learner Development of Form-Function Mapping, Psycholinguistic Processing Strategies
	Nina Moreno Associate Professor Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning
	Joy Peltier Assistant Professor Language Contact, Creole Languages, Pragmatics
	Jennifer F. Reynolds Professor Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatics, Language Ideology, Language Socialization,Narrative and Performance,Language Discourse and Migration
	Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva Research Associate Professor, Program Director Second Language Acquisition, Morpho-syntax

Affiliated Faculty

	Junko Baba Associate Professor Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/Japanese
	Dirk den Ouden Associate Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
	Lara Ducate Professor Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures/German
	Lisa Fitton Assistant 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
	Susi Long Professor Department of Instruction and Teacher Education
	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
	Krystal L. Werfel Associate Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

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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