People
Graduate Students
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Graduate students group photo (April 2011). Click here for a larger image. |
| Student | Interest |
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Roberto Aranovich E-mail: roa6@pitt.edu |
Spanish and Romance syntax, Amerindian morphology, syntactic variation, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics
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Elizabeth Adler MA, Second Language Acquisition (2nd year) Email: era25@pitt.edu |
SLA |
| Beth Baldys MA, Linguistics E-mail: ejb44@pitt.edu |
Sociolinguistics, medical discourse, language and gender |
| Carrie Bonilla PhD, Hispanic Linguistics E-Mail: clw50+@pitt.edu |
Classroom acquisition of Spanish, study abroad and language acquisition, advanced L2 speakers, childhood bilingualism, technology in the language classroom, acquisition of grammar |
| Brian Brubaker PhD, Sociolinguistics E-Mail: brb1@pitt.edu |
Language and identity, language attitudes, and language maintenance and shift in relation to the status of "mainlanders" in Taiwan |
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PhD in Descriptive Linguistics 1st year Email: jlg147@pitt.edu |
Phonetics/Phonology, language death |
| Christina Schoux Casey PhD, Sociolinguistics E-Mail: ces41@pitt.edu |
New Orleans English, indexical reference, morphosyntax, and philology |
| Derek Ho-Leung Chan PhD, Psycholinguistics E-mail: hoc13@pitt.edu |
Cognitive neuroscience of language, language acquisition and processing models, lexical semantics, morphophonology, East Asian linguistics—Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean |
| Lauren B. Collister PhD, Sociolinguistics E-mail: lbc8@pitt.edu |
eLinguistics, multimodality, electronic discourse, language and gender, discourse analysis, Ancient Greek |
Jie Cui (comprehensive papers & proposal) E-mail: jic34@pitt.edu |
Chinese sociophonetics; diasporic linguistic minorities in China; CDA (power, gender, stance); Chinese pedagogy and acquisition of Chinese morphology and phonology; primarily interested in Hakka-Gan, Cantonese, Hokkien, Wu, Huo Nte; also Korean, Hungarian-German |
Meghan Dabkowski MA, Hispanic Linguistics Email: mfd20@pitt.edu 2nd year |
Intonational Phonology; Sociophonetics; Language Contact; Language Attitudes |
Lorraine Denman (currently working her comprehensive paper I) |
SLA, second language pedagogy, technology in the classroom, order of acquisition, motivation, L1 interference, Romance languages, Italian L2 acquisition |
Fawn T Draucker (currently working on Dissertation proposal) |
Media discourse analysis, participation frameworks in social media, sports media, sociophonetics |
| Ann Early MA, Linguistics E-mail: aee11@pitt.edu |
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 |
Jim Fitzpatrick MA-PhD, Hispanic Linguistics & Sociolinguistics Email:jbf24@pitt.edu
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language and identity, bilingualism, and language and gender |
Kristopher J. Geda (currently working on his Dissertation Proposal) |
Gay-sounding speech; acquisition of register, accent, and dialect; language and sexuality, gender, and identity; sociophonetics, phonology; language policy and planning |
Daniel Hatfield MA, Linguistics 2nd year Email: dah96@pitt.edu |
Applied Linguistics, TESOL |
Jamie Hudzik PhD, Sociolinguistics 2nd year Email: jbh49@pitt.edu |
Discourse Analysis, Organizational Narratives, Branding & Identity, American Dialects (Pittsburghese), Language Variation, Forensic Linguistics, Polish |
Andy Jeske MA-PhD, SLA 2nd year Email: arj36@pitt.edu |
SLA, Phonetics and Phonology |
Sally Kim MA-PhD, Second Language Acquisition 2nd year Email: sjk70@pitt.edu |
SLA |
Maria Laura Lenardon (SLA & Sociolinguistics) (currently working on her comprehensive papers) |
Second language acquisition, bilingualism, use of technology in the foreign language classroom |
Verónica Lifrieri ABD |
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 E-mail: pel22@pitt.edu |
Second language acquisition, linguistic relativity, psycholinguistics |
| Nausica Marcos Miguel PhD, Hispanic Linguistics E-mail: nam56@pitt.edu |
SLA, morphology, literacy, and foreign language instruction |
Katherine I. Martin MA-PhD, Applied Linguistics with TESOL Certificate (3rd year; currently working on her comprehensive paper I & II) |
Second language acquisition, L2 reading, word recognition, phonological processing, working memory, cognitive individual differences, vocabulary learning, L2 morphosyntax, bilingualism, language processing, implicit knowledge, ESL, Arabic as a foreign language |
| Mike Olsen PhD, Hispanic Linguistics E-mail: mko4@pitt.edu |
Psycholinguistics; SLA; Second language acquisition of Spanish phonology and morphology; Second language acquisition of Spanish pronominal object clitics |
Sarah Pearman 1st year Email: skp27@pitt.edu or sarah.k.pearman@gmail.com (preferred) |
Interests: SLA; third language acquisition; bilingual cognition; language policy (particularly as it relates to education and minoritylanguages); language contact (particularly between Spanish and minority languages in Spain and in Guatemala); Catalan; K'iche' Maya |
| Patricia Pharmakis PhD, Applied Linguistics E-mail: pmichal@pitt.edu |
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 |
Gina Peirce MA, Applied Linguistics E-mail: gbpeirce@pitt.edu |
Second language acquisitions, psycholinguistics, attainment of advanced Russian L2 proficiency by US learners |
William C. Price (currently working on his MA thesis) |
Second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, memory and cognition, computer-aided learning and rehearsal |
Sarah, Ramsey (licensed speech pathologist) 1st year Email: ser46@pitt.edu |
TESOL, SLA, Spanish dialectology and speech and language disorders in multilingual speakers |
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PhD, Sociolinguistics (1st year) Email: hbt3@pitt.edu |
Sociolinguistics, variation, dialectology, contact, language & race/ethnicity, language ideology, sociophonetics, L2 phonology, Cantonese linguistics, US dialects |
Mary Lou Vercellotti E-mail: mlv9@pitt.edu |
Second language development as measured by language performance; The development of the subsystems of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexis in the complexity of language performance, language development, and language teaching; Pedagogy and linguistics; American sign language |
| Jing Wang PhD E-mail: jiw45@pitt.edu |
Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition
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| Ping Wang PhD, general and descriptive lingistics E-mail: piw6@pitt.edu |
Phonology, Tonology, Phonetics, Chinese Linguistics
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Adrienne R. Washington PhD, Sociolinguistics (Currently working on comprehensive papers) |
Sociocultural aspects of language use in Afro-American communities; Socio-semantic variation and change in racial slurs |
