People

Faculty

Shelome Gooden

PhD, The Ohio State University
Assistant professor of linguistics and graduate advisor:
Sociolinguistics, language variation and language contact, pidgin and creole linguistics, phonology, phonology/phonetics interface

Alan Juffs

PhD, McGill University
Associate professor of linguistics:
Linguistic theory and second language acquisition, semantics-syntax correspondences, lexical semantics, second language sentence processing, Chinese linguistics, TEFL/TESOL

Terrence Kaufman

PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Professor of linguistics and anthropology:
Mesoamerican languages descriptive and historical, especially Mayan, Mixe-Zoquean, Zapotecan, and Nahua; language contact, dialectology, archaeological decipherment, lexicography, and cognitive anthropology; Indo-European, Germanic, history of English, and Romani

Scott F. Kiesling

PhD, Georgetown University
Department chair and associate professor of linguistics;
Sociolinguistics, language and gender/ethnicity, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociophonetics, Australian English, Western Pennsylvania dialect, acquisition of dialect

Dawn E. McCormick

PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Lecturer in linguistics and English Language Institute faculty:
Classroom discourse, developmental teaching portfolios, student self-correction, computer-assisted language learning

Pascual JosÉ Masullo

PhD, University of Washington
Associate professor of linguistics:
Syntactic theory comparative, syntax-lexicon interface, acquisition, Spanish linguistics, morphology, lexical semantics, language and cognition

Claude E. Mauk

PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center director and lecturer in linguistics:
Phonetics, linguistics of signed languages, first language acquisition

Gregory MIzera

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Lecturer & ELI Supervisor
Second language acquisition, L2 oral production and fluency.

DAVID MORTENSEN

PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Assistant professor of linguistics:
Phonological and morphological theory, historical-comparative and descriptive linguistics, tone and other laryngeal features, compounding, non-concatenative morphology, languages of Southeast Asia, especiallyHmong-Mien and Tibeto-Burman.

NATALIE OPERSTEIN

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting assistant professor of linguistics and undergraduate advisor
Historical linguistics, phonology, descriptive linguistics, language contact, Romance, Indo-European, and Mesoamerican (especially Zapotecan) linguistics, pidgin and creole linguistics.

Erin O'Rourke

PhD, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Assistant professor of linguistics: undergraduate advisor:
Hispanic linguistics, phonetics, phonology, language contact, Quechua

YASUHIRO SHIRAI arrow

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Professor of linguistics:
Second language acquisition, first language acquisition, tense and aspect, cognitive models of language acquisition

Claire Bradin Siskin

MA, University of Florida
Lecturer in linguistics and director of the Robert Henderson Language Media Center:
Computer-assisted language learning, TESOL

Affiliated Faculty

Richard Donato

PhD, University of Delaware
Associate professor of foreign language education, linguistics, and French:
Applied linguistics, second and foreign language acquisition, early language learning, classroom discourse analysis, sociocultural theory

PAUL J. HOPPERarrow
Ph.D., University of Texas
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University
Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
Discourse analysis, discourse and grammar, Germanic languages, Indo-European, Austronesian

Barbara Johnstone

PhD, University of Michigan
Adjunct professor of linguistics; professor of rhetoric and linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University:
Discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, rhetoric

Lori Levin

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adjunct associate professor:
Lexical-functional grammar, lexical semantics, machine translation, intelligent language tutoring

Charles Perfetti

PhD, University of Michigan
Professor of psychology and linguistics:
Psycholinguistics, reading, comprehension, language and writing system comparisons

Mandy Simons

PhD, Cornell University
Assistant professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University:
Formal semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, syntax/semantics interface

Natasha Tokowicz

PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
Assistant professor, Department of Psychology:
Adult second language learning, bilingualism, within and cross-language lexical ambiguity, semantic representation within and across languages

G. Richard Tucker

PhD, McGill University
Professor of applied linguistics and head, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University:
Applied linguistics, individual differences in second language acquisition, bilingual education, language policy and planning

Tessa Warren

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant professor, Department of Psychology:
Adult sentence comprehension; syntactic, semantic and referential
processing; the relation of higher-level language processing to
eye-movements during reading

Emeriti Faculty

Edward M. Anthony

PhD, University of Michigan
Professor emeritus of linguistics:
English structure and lexicon, applied linguistics, Thai language and linguistics, Asian studies

Lionel MenascheLionel Menasche

PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Lecturer in linguistics and associate director of the English Language Institute:
TESOL, materials development

Christina Bratt Paulston

EdD, Columbia University
Professor emerita of linguistics:
Sociolinguistics, sociology of language, education of linguistic minorities, language maintenance and shift