Faculty
Shelome Gooden
PhD, The Ohio State University
Department chair of linguistics and associate professor of linguistics: Prosody and intonation, sociophonetics, language variation, language and dialect contact, pidgins and creoles sociolinguistics.
Na-Rae Han
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Henderson Language Media Center director and lecturer in linguistics: Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, NLP (natural language processing) methods for educational assessment and instruction
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
Scott F. Kiesling
PhD, Georgetown University
Associate professor of linguistics and graduate advisor; 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
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
PhD, 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, especially Hmong-Mien and Tibeto-Burman
Marta Ortega-Llebaria
PhD, Indiana University
Assistant professor of Hispanic linguistics: Intonation, acquisition of L2 prosody, laboratory approaches to the phonology of Catalan, Spanish and English, cross language speech perception and production.
Yasuhiro Shirai
PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Professor of linguistics: Second language acquisition, first language acquisition, tense and aspect, cognitive models of language acquisition
Helen Stickney
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Visiting assistant professor of linguistics and undergraduate advisor: First language acquisition, syntax, syntax-semantics interface, structure of DP, English, Spanish, Nicaraguan Sign Language
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Affiliated Faculty
Richard Donato
PhD, University of Delaware
Associate professor of foreign language education, linguistics, and French, University of Pittsburgh: Applied linguistics, second and foreign language acquisition, early language learning, classroom discourse analysis, sociocultural theory
Paul J. Hopper
PhD, University of Texas
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University: Discourse analysis, discourse and grammar, Germanic languages, Indo-European, Austronesian
Barbara Johnstone
PhD, University of Michigan
Professor of rhetoric and linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University: Discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, rhetoric
Lori Levin
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University: Lexical-functional grammar, lexical semantics, machine translation, intelligent language tutoring
Charles Perfetti
PhD, University of Michigan
Professor of psychology and linguistics, University of Pittsburgh: Psycholinguistics, reading, comprehension, language and writing system comparisons
Mandy Simons
PhD, Cornell University
Associate professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University: Formal semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, syntax/semantics interface
Natasha Tokowicz
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
Associate professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh: Adult second language learning, bilingualism, within and cross-language lexical ambiguity, semantic representation within and across languages
G. Richard Tucker
PhD, McGill University
Paul Mellon Distinguished 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
Associate 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
Terrence Kaufman
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Professor emeritus 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
Lionel 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
