Faculty
Faculty in the Academic Program in Linguistics
| 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 |
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Interim Director fall 2020 |
S315 Elliott Hall 612-626-5400 halpert@umn.edu |
Syntax, field methods, African languages |
| John Harkness Adjunct Assistant Professsor (Spring semesters only) |
S316 Elliott Hall harkn007@umn.edu |
Historical linguistics |
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Caleb Hicks
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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caleb@umn.edu | |
| Anna Lubowicz Adjunct Assistant Professor |
S316 Elliott Hall lubow003@umn.edu |
Phonology, phonology-morphology interface, the study of contrast, Slavic languages
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| Ellen Lucast Adjunct Assistant Professor |
S222 Elliott Hall lucas034@umn.edu |
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| Jean-Philippe Marcotte Contract Assistant Professor |
S318 Elliott Hall 612-625-9349 marco043@umn.edu |
Syntax, semantics |
| Brian Reese Contract Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies |
S314 Elliott Hall 612-626-4507 breese@umn.edu |
Semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics |
| Hooi Ling Soh Professor Director (on leave fall 2020) |
120 Ford Hall 612-624-8092 sohxx001@umn.edu |
Syntax, semantics |
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Morgan Staley
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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mstaley@umn.edu |
Other Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Polly Szatrowski Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics |
319 Elliott Hall 612-624-1860 szatr001@umn.edu |
Conversation analysis, Japanese linguistics |
Affiliated Faculty in Other Departments
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Fairbanks Associate Professor, Director of Ojibwe Language Program Department of American Indian Studies |
13 Scott Hall 612-625-2973 fair0061@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 |
| Daniel Karvonen Senior Lecturer Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
154 Folwell Hall 612-626-1651 karvonen@umn.edu |
Finnish language and culture, general linguistics, phonology |
| Betsy Kerr Associate Professor Department of French & Italian |
260 Folwell Hall 612-624-6505 bjkerr@umn.edu |
French linguistics, second language acquisition |
| 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 |
| John Nichols Professor Emeritus Department of American Indian Studies |
19 Scott Hall 612-625-2065 jdn@umn.edu |
American Indian studies, Ojibwe language structure |
| Maria Sera Professor Institute of Child Development |
208C Child Dev 612-624-2856 sera@umn.edu |
Child development, language learning, cognitive development |
| Amy Sheldon Professor Emerita Department of Communication Studies |
228 Ford Hall 612-624-2504 asheldon@umn.edu |
Language and gender, language and social interaction, child and adult language acquisition, discourse analysis |
Emeritus Faculty
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Bruce Downing | Translation and interpreting, language policy and planning, English linguistics, forensic linguistics, bilingualism |
| Nancy Stenson | Irish and Celetic linguistics, language contact and change, Native American languages, syntax, and morphology |