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Ercan Balci
  • Ercan Balci:
      Lecturer of Turkish (Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, Phonology with special interest in Turkish consonants, Morphology, Second Language Acquisition)
  • Eyamba G. Bokamba:
      Professor of Linguistics and coordinator of non-western languages (African linguistics, Bantu syntax, sociolinguistics: multilingualism, language variation, code switching, language planning and policy).
  • Jennifer Cole:
      Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics. Associate Professor of Linguistics and Beckman Institute (phonology and computational linguistics, including phonology and speech processing, cognitive science, and mathematical linguistics).
  • Roxana Girju:
      Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Beckman Institute (natural language processing, computational semantics, syntax, pragmatics).
  • Peter Lasersohn:
      Associate Professor of Linguistics (semantics, pragmatics, mathematical linguistics). Undergraduate advisor. (Note: On Leave for Spring 2008)
  • Molly Mack:
      Associate Professor of Linguistics (psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and the organization of language in "the bilingual brain," articulatory and acoustic phonetics with an emphasis on dual-language systems, quantitative research methods, and language-research theory). On leave.
  • Mithilesh Mishra:
      Lecturer of Linguistics, (Hindi as a Foreign language, special interest in language pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, Maithili and Hindi Phonology, Dialects and Varieties of Hindi, Business and Technical Hindi).
  • Silvina Montrul:
      Associate Professor, Linguistic theory and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism and language loss, syntax, morphology, lexical-semantics.
  • Rajeshwari Pandharipande:
      Department of Religious Studies. Professor, Linguistics, Sanskrit, and Comparative literature (sociolinguistics, Language of Religion, Syntax, Semantics, Literature of Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit, Sanskrit literary criticism, Asian mythology, History and theology of Hinduism, and Hinduism in diaspora).
  • Chilin Shih:
      Associate Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures. (Phonetics, phonology, prosody modeling, tone and intonation, speech technologies, second language fluency).
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  • Richard Sproat:
      Professor of Linguistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering (computational linguistics, speech technology, writing systems, Chinese linguistics). (Note: On leave for Fall 2007)
Marina Terkourafi
  • Marina Terkourafi:
      Assistant Professor of Linguistics (sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, computational pragmatics, Greek linguistics, history and use of the Cypriot dialect).
  • James Yoon:
      Associate Head, Department of Linguistics. Undergraduate Advisor for Spring 2008. Associate Professor of Linguistics and Korean (syntax, morphology, morphosyntactic interaction, Korean, Japanese and Chinese linguistics).
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