Join a thriving graduate program where world-renowned faculty specialize in bilingualism, psycholinguistics, language variation, and interdisciplinary research across linguistics, education, psychology, and communication sciences!
Core Spanish Faculty
Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Focus
Phonetics, phonology, morphology, the mental lexicon, bilingualism, second language acquisition, speech perception, code switching
Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
Research Focus
Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition
Research Focus
First language acquisition, bilingualism, language variation
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Research Focus
Spanish linguistics, language acquisition
Department Head
Liberal Arts Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Interim Head
Research Focus
Language variation and change, corpus linguistics, bilingualism
Cooperating Faculty
Asian Studies
Research Focus
Discourse Analysis; Language and cognition; subconscious motivation and linguistic choice; demonstratives, tense, aspect; spoken and written discourse and culture; ESL writing pedagogy; developmental composition; school bullying
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Research Focus
Assessment and treatments for individuals with (sensor) motor speech disorders as a result of neurologic injury.
Research Focus
Typical and atypical language development; children with specific language impairment; cognitive processes in communication disorders, with emphasis on processing speed, memory, attention, and perceptual processing.
Research Focus
Communication Sciences and Disorders research and teaching.
Research Focus
Speech Production and Perception
Computer Science and Engineering
Research Focus
Natural language processing, with a focus on semantics and pragmatics
Education
Research Focus
Classroom-based interventions to support development of academic language, reading comprehension, argumentation skills of multilingual learners in public school settings, assessment of word knowledge, text comprehension, and classroom discourse.
French and Francophone Studies
Research Focus
Syntax; semantics; pragmatics; mathematical linguistics; philosophy or language.
Research Focus
Theoretical linguistics; syntax and semantics of French.
German and Slavic Languages
Research Focus
Second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sentence processing.
Research Focus
German linguistics; historical linguistics; phonology; language change.
Research Focus
Bilingualism, contact linguistics, linguistic formalisms (generative linguistics), syntax, morphology, semantics, heritage linguistics, global varieties of Germanic languages, philosophy of language.
Research Focus
Variationist sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, second language acquisition, Germanic languages, lexis, intensifiers.
Linguistics
Research Focus
Fieldwork-based language analysis of Anii; formal phonology and formal semantics.
Psychology
Research Focus
Our lab uses a combination of behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational approaches to investigate the mechanisms underlying human creativity. We create open-access tools for evaluating creative thinking and examine creativity across diverse domains, such as music, science, and education.
Research Focus
Core linguistics research applies theoretical and experimental methods to explore structure, meaning, and sound in natural language.
Research Focus
Research focuses on age-related differences in language, examining semantic and phonological aspects of language comprehension and production, and neural factors that contribute to age-related decline in language production.
Research Focus
Second language learning and bilingualism/multilingualism; language development in children with a typical or atypical language development (children who are deaf, children with dyslexia, with SLI, and bilingual children from an ethnic minority background).