Faculty

Meet the faculty in the Linguistics Department.

Diti stands along the coast of Italy, where cliffs meet ocean

Diti Bhadra

Pronunciation (Sanskrit): d̪ɪt̪ɪ bʰɑdɹɑ
Assistant Professor

Specialties

formal semantics, pragmatics, logic of natural language; fieldwork; modality, evidentiality, questions, discourse particles, embedding and complementation, disjunction, negative polarity items; South Asian languages

Amanda Dalola standing on a bridge overlooking the Mississippi River.

Amanda Dalola

she/her
Associate Professor

Specialties

Sociophonetics; Sociolinguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Social Media in the L2 classroom; Tweetmining

woman with brown hair and a teal shirt in front of pink and red flowers.

Claire Halpert

she/her
Associate Professor

Specialties

Syntax; Linguistic field methods; Case and agreement; Prosody-syntax interface; Bantu linguistics

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
Brendan Kishketon
Director of Ojibwe Language Program;
Associate Professor
Department of American Indian Studies
13 Scott Hall
612-625-2973
[email protected]
Ojibwe language preservation, documentation and revitalization
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