Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Assistant Professor
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S313 Elliott Hall
612-626-9687
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Semantics, pragmatics, syntax, fieldwork, South Asian languages |
Amanda Dalola
Associate Professor |
110B Jones Hall 612-625-3865 adalola@umn.edu |
Sociolinguistics, phonetics, lab phonology, applied linguistics |
S315 Elliott Hall 612-626-5400 halpert@umn.edu |
Syntax, field methods, African languages | |
John Harkness Adjunct Assistant Professsor (Spring semesters only) |
harkn007@umn.edu | Historical linguistics |
Caleb Hicks Adjunct Assistant Professsor |
caleb@umn.edu | |
Anna Lubowicz Adjunct Assistant Professor |
S309 Elliott Hall lubow003@umn.edu |
Phonology, phonology-morphology interface, the study of contrast, Slavic languages
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Ellen Lucast Adjunct Assistant Professor |
lucas034@umn.edu | |
Jean-Philippe Marcotte Contract Assistant Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
S318 Elliott Hall 612-625-9349 marco043@umn.edu |
Lexical semantics, Lexical-Functional Grammar, morphosyntax, invented languages |
Brian Reese Contract Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies |
S314 Elliott Hall 612-626-4507 breese@umn.edu |
Semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics |
Morgan Staley Adjunct Assistant Professor |
mstaley@umn.edu | |
Hooi Ling Soh Professor |
120 Ford Hall 612-624-8092 sohxx001@umn.edu |
Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, semantics, East Asian and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Hmong |
Other Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Polly Szatrowski Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics |
319 Elliott Hall 612-624-1860 szatr001@umn.edu |
Conversation/ discourse analysis, Japanese linguistics, Language and food, Sociolinguistics, Emergent grammar |
Affiliated Faculty in Other Departments
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Timothy Face Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
35 Folwell Hall 612-625-1328 facex002@umn.edu |
Intonation and prosody, laboratory phonology, phonetics, phonological theory, second language phonology |
Brendan Kishketon Director of Ojibwe Language Program Associate Professor Department of American Indian Studies |
13 Scott Hall 612-625-2973 bkishk@umn.edu |
Ojibwe language preservation, documentation and revitalization |
Charles R. (Randy) Fletcher Associate Professor Department of Psychology |
N218 Elliott Hall 612-625-6096 fletc002@umn.edu |
Cognitive and biological, cognition, text comprehension |
Michael Kac Professor Department of Philosophy |
812 Heller Hall 612-625-1865 kacxx001@umn.edu |
Linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of music |
Carol Anne Klee Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
4E Folwell Hall 612-625-9521 klee@umn.edu |
Spanish language contact, sociolinguistics, content-based language instruction |
Michael Maratsos Professor Institute of Child Development |
208B Child Dev 612-624-1027 marat001@umn.edu |
Child development, language acquisition |
Benjamin Munson Professor Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences |
115 Shevlin Hall 612-624-3322 munso005@umn.edu |
Speech-sound development in children, childhood speech-sound disorders, the influence of social stereotypes on speech perception, speech production, speech perception, experimental methods in speech and language research, children's word learning |
Maria Sera Professor Institute of Child Development |
208C Child Dev 612-624-2856 sera@umn.edu |
Child development, language learning, cognitive development |
Irina Zaykovskaya Lecturer German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
2320C Folwell Hall irzaykov@umn.edu |
Russian language; second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; language ideologies and attitudes |
Emeritus Faculty
Name | Interests |
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Bruce Downing | Translation and interpreting, language policy and planning, English linguistics, forensic linguistics, bilingualism |
Betsy Kerr Associate Professor Department of French & Italian |
French linguistics, second language acquisition |
John Nichols Professor Emeritus Department of American Indian Studies |
American Indian studies, Ojibwe language structure |
Amy Sheldon Professor Emerita Department of Communication Studies |
Language and gender, language and social interaction, child and adult language acquisition, discourse analysis |
Nancy Stenson | Irish and Celtic linguistics, language contact and change, Native American languages, syntax, and morphology |