Faculty
Meet the faculty in the Linguistics Department.
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Diti Bhadra
Pronunciation (Sanskrit): d̪ɪt̪ɪ bʰɑdɹɑ
Specialties
formal semantics, pragmatics, logic of natural language; fieldwork; modality, evidentiality, questions, discourse particles, embedding and complementation, disjunction, negative polarity items; South Asian languages
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Amanda Dalola
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Specialties
Sociophonetics; Sociolinguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Social Media in the L2 classroom; Tweetmining
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Claire Halpert
she/her
Associate Professor
Specialties
Syntax; Linguistic field methods; Case and agreement; Prosody-syntax interface; Bantu linguistics
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Anna Lubowicz
Specialties
Phonology, Phonology-Morphology Interface, The Study of Contrast, Slavic Languages
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Brian Reese
Specialties
Semantics and pragmatics; Computational linguistics
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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 |
Researchers
Name | Contact | Specialty | |
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Mai Al-Khatib | S321 Elliott Hall alkh0020@umn.edu |
Cognitive science of language, semantic language processing in bilinguals, computational linguistics |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |