Faculty
Meet the faculty in the Linguistics Department.
Linguistics Faculty
Brian Reese
Associate Teaching Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Other Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Polly Szatrowski Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics |
319 Elliott Hall 612-624-1860 [email protected] |
Conversation/discourse analysis, Japanese linguistics, language and food, sociolinguistics, emergent grammar |
Affiliated Faculty in Other Departments
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Timothy Face Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
35 Folwell Hall 612-625-1328 [email protected] |
Intonation and prosody, laboratory phonology, phonetics, phonological theory, second language phonology |
| Charles R. (Randy) Fletcher Associate Professor Department of Psychology |
N218 Elliott Hall 612-625-6096 [email protected] |
Cognitive and biological, cognition, text comprehension |
| Michael Kac Professor Department of Philosophy |
812 Heller Hall 612-625-1865 [email protected] |
Linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of music |
| Carol Anne Klee Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
4E Folwell Hall 612-625-9521 [email protected] |
Spanish language contact, sociolinguistics, content-based language instruction |
| Benjamin Munson Professor Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences |
115 Shevlin Hall 612-624-3322 [email protected] |
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 |
| Irina Zaykovskaya Lecturer German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
2320C Folwell Hall [email protected] |
Russian language; second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; language ideologies and attitudes |
Emeritus Faculty
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Michael Maratsos Professor Emeritus Institute of Child Development |
Child development, language acquisition |
| John Nichols Professor Emeritus Department of American Indian Studies |
American Indian studies, Ojibwe language structure |
| Maria Sera Professor Emerita Institute of Child Development |
Child development, language learning, cognitive development |
| 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 |