People
Graduate Students
Courtney Katherine Andrew
MA, Linguistics
cka4@pitt.edu
Interests: Syntax-Semantics Interface of Relative Clause structure in
English, Hebrew, and Thai
Sally Andrews
MA, Sociolinguistics
sja13@pitt.edu
Interests: Sociolinguistics, language identity, laguage loyalty, bi- and
multilingualism in Bolivia, Spanish
Roberto
Aranovich
PhD, Linguistics
roa6@pitt.edu
Interests: Romance syntax, polysynthetic morphology, corpus linguistics,
Computational linguistics
Beth Baldys
MA, Linguistics
ejb44@pitt.edu
Interests: Sociolinguistics, medical discourse, language and gender
Marla Bomersbach
MA, Linguistics
Interests: Discourse analysis, Computer-mediated communication, Identity
Carrie Bonilla
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics
clw50+@pitt.edu
Interests: Second Language Acquisition
Brian
Brubaker
PhD, Sociolinguistics
brb1@pitt.edu
Interests: language
and identity, language attitudes, and language maintenance and shift
in relation to the status of
"mainlanders" in Taiwan
Derek Ho-Leung Chan
PhD, psycholinguistics
hoc13@pitt.edu
Interests: cognitive neuroscience of language, language acquisition and
processing models, lexical semantics, morphophonology, East Asian linguistics—Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean
MA, Applied Linguistics
Interests: English as a Second Language for Adults;
Technology
in the Classroom; Sociology of Second Language Acquisition;
Sociolinguistics; English Language Immersion Programs; Romance
Languages; Dialects of Italian; Study Abroad and Language Learning;
Private Tutoring in Language Teaching
Lauren B. Collister
MA, Sociolinguistics
lbc8@pitt.edu
Interests: Electronic discourse, language and identity online, language and gender and sexuality, discourse analysis, Ancient Greek linguistics
Zea Jie Cui
MA, Linguistics
Interests: Language Variation and Change (Dialectology), East Asian Languages & Linguistics;Cognitive Process in Chinese Character Formation and Acquisition
Lorraine Denman
MA, Applied Linguistics
denman@pitt.edu
Interests: SLA, second language pedagogy, technology in the classroom,
order of acquisition, motivation, L1 interference, Romance languages, Italian
L2 acquisition
Fawn T Draucker
MA, Linguistics
ftd1@pitt.edu
Interests: Phonetics and phonology, morphology, Maori, language and identity, Bulgarian and Macedonian
Ann Early
MA, linguistics
Interests:
Historical Linguistics (history of English, lexical and semantic change),
Spanish Linguistics (focus on Mexican Spanish), Semantics, Universals and
Typology, Language Variation, Language and Culture, Translation, Teaching
Spanish to adults
Maeve
Eberhardt
PhD, sociolinguistics
maest38@pitt.edu
Interests:
regional African American English, sociophonetic variation, intraspeaker variation/style-shifting, identities
Alaina Farabaugh
MA, Hispanic Linguistics
Interests: Hispanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy
Benjamin Friedline
MA, Applied Linguistics/ TESOL Certificate
bef25@pitt.edu
Interests:
Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Syntax,
Internet Language
Kristopher J. Geda
Ph.D., Sociolinguistics
kjg23@pitt.edu
Interests: gay-sounding
speech; acquisition of register, accent, and dialect; language and sexuality,
gender, and identity; sociophonetics, phonology; language policy and planning
Natalia Gómez Calvillo
MA, Linguistics
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Language and Gender, Critical Discourse
Analysis
Jessica Hogan
MA, Sociolinguistics
Interests: Language and identity, discourse analysis, identity as expressed in narrative storytelling, expressions of identity in second language learning
Dan
Hufnagle
PhD, psycholinguistics
dah12@pitt.edu
Interests: how second language phonology
fits within formal theoretical models for both non-natives as speakers
and natives as listeners
J. David Jelliffe
PhD, applied linguistics
jdj2@pitt.edu
Interests: dynamics of classroom second/foreign
language acquisition, with an aim toward incorporating the views of
Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky regarding the sociocultural nature
of human development
Maria Laura Lenardon
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics
Interests: Second language acquisition, bilingualism, use of technology in the
foreign language classroom
Verónica Lifrieri
PhD, Hispanic linguistics/Sociolinguistics
vel1@pitt.edu
Interests:
the construction and transformation of language ideologies
related to national identity; dialect contact among Spanish speakers of
different regional varieties (especially in situations of transnational
migration); Spanish phonologies; autochthonous and diasporic linguistic
minorities; language policy for education; discourse analysis
Zoe Pei-sui Luk
MA, PhD in Applied Linguistics
pel22@pitt.edu
Interests: Second language acquisition, linguistic relativity, psycholinguistics
Wendy Martelle
MA, PhD
wem4@pitt.edu
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Tense-Aspect Morphology, Russian
Linguistics, Evolution of Language
Nausica Marcos Miguel
MA, Hispanic Linguistics
nam56@pitt.edu
Interests: SLA, Bilingualism, Language Contact, and Syntax
Natalie McCarthy
MA, linguistics
njm23@pitt.edu
Interests: sociolinguistics, language contact, pidgins and creoles,
language and identity
Tyler McCloskey
MA, Hispanic Linguistics
trm5@pitt.edu
Interests: Hispanic linguistics, sociolinguistics, SLA, ESL, TESOL
Katie Newcomb
MA, sociolinguistics
kmn31@pitt.edu
Interests: language and gender, language and identity, discourse
analysis, linguistic study of narratives
Mike Olsen
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics
mko4@pitt.edu
Interests: SLA, Psycholinguistics
Patricia Pharmakis
PhD, applied linguistics
pmichal@pitt.edu
Interests: the bilingual lexicon; second
language acquisition; English as a second language; acquisition of lexical
gender in a second language (French, Modern Greek);
internal and external causation as a determiner of
auxiliary selection in unaccusative French verbs
MA, Applied Linguistics
Interests: Library sciences, second language learning
Kimberly M. Rehak
MA, Applied Linguistics
kmr62@pitt.edu
Interests:Second Language Acquisition, TESOL, ESL pedagogy, German, Swedish
Guillermo
Rodríguez
PhD, second language acquisition
gar12@pitt.edu
Interests: Sentence processing in second language learners and bilinguals,
how stereotypically
gender-marked nouns (secretary, nurse, carpenter, etc.) are
processed in a second language
Wallace Salkauski
MA/PhD, Hispanic Linguistics
wjs16@pitt.edu
Interests: Caribbean Spanish, Language and Identity
Christina Schoux
PhD, Sociolinguistics
ces41@pitt.edu
Interests: New Orleans English, the Morphology/Syntax Interface, Philology
Megan Stehle
MA, Applied Linguistics
Interests:
Second Language Acquisition and TESOL
certificate
Mary L. Vercellotti
MA, linguistics
mlv9@pitt.edu
Interests: cognitive psychology as it relates to linguistics;
first language acquisition; a dialect's influence in classrooms, on
academic performance, and on IQ test scores; word formation; American sign language;
teaching
Jing Wang
PhD
Interests: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition
Ping Wang
PhD
Interests: Phonology,Tonology,Phonetics,Chinese Linguistics
Adrienne R. Washington
MA, Sociolinguistics
Interests: Contact and Historical Linguistics: Afro-American varieties, Atlantic
plantation Creoles, Variation of Creole continua, decreolization, contact-induced
language changes, language and the ascription/(de)construction of (ethnic)
identities