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Core Linguistics Faculty

Linguistics Research Faculty

Graduate faculty in the linguistics department whose main focus is research and who can advise a PhD thesis.

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Melinda Fricke
Assistant Professor
Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Speech Production & Perception
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Shelome Gooden
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of
Pidgins & Creoles, Language variation & change
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Alan Juffs
Professor
Director of English; Center Associate,
L2 Acquisition, TESOL, Syntax & Semantics
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Matthew Kanwit
Assistant Professor
Hispanic Linguistics, L2 Acquisition, Sociolinguistic Variation
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Scott F. Kiesling
Professor
Language & gender, stance, ethnicity, language change, Pittsburgh... (More)
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Marta Ortega-Llebaria
Assistant Professor
Sound and Hispanic Linguistics. Intonation, rhythm and tone;... (More)
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Karen E. Park
Assistant Professor
Syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, Austronesian languages,... (More)

Linguistics Teaching Faculty

Faculty who teach in our linguistics programs and/or administer our certificate programs.

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Gretchen Aiyangar
Instructor, LCTL Program Coordinator, LCTL Minors Advisor
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Amani Attia
Lecturer, Arabic Instructor (Egyptian/Levantine), Arabic Language Program Coordinator, Arabic Certificate Advisor, Certified ILR OPI Tester (Egyptian Arabic)
Arabic Language and Culture Certificate
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Na-Rae Han
Lecturer
Director, Robert
Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, NLP
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Debra L. Hast
ASL Instructor, ASL Program Coordinator, ASL Certificate Advisor
American Sign Language Certificate Coordinator
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Jevon Heath
Visiting Lecturer
Language change, linguistic typology, phonetic perception
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Claude E. Mauk
Senior Lecturer
Director, Undergraduate; Director, Less-Commonly-
Phonetics, ASL, Structure and Sociolinguistics of ASL
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Dawn E. McCormick
Senior Lecturer
Associate Director, ELI
L2 Acquisition, TESOL, pedagogy
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Gregory Mizera
Lecturer
ESL Coordinator
L2 Acquisition, Linguistic Structures
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Dorolyn Smith
Lecturer
Associate Director, ELI
Linguistic Structures, ESL
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Abdesalam Soudi
Lecturer
Linguistic Internship; Cultural and Linguistic
Conversation analysis, Sociolinguistics, Arabic Linguistics

Affiliated Faculty

People housed in other departments at Pitt and at Carnegie Mellon University who contribute to graduate student research.

Laura C. Brown
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State, South Asia, Language...
Richard Donato
Professor of foreign language education,
Applied linguistics, second and foreign language...
Amanda Godley
Associate Professor, English Education and
Critical Language Pedagogy, code-switching, code-meshing
Paul J. Hopper
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of
Discourse analysis, discourse and grammar, Germanic...
Barbara Johnstone
Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics,
Discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic...
Lori Levin
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon
Lexical-functional grammar, lexical semantics, machine...
Charles Perfetti
Professor of psychology and linguistics
Psycholinguistics, reading, comprehension, language and...
Mandy Simons
Professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon
Natural language semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of...
Natasha Tokowicz
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Adult second language learning, bilingualism, within and...
G. Richard Tucker
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of
Applied linguistics, individual differences in second...
Tessa Warren
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Adult sentence comprehension; syntactic, semantic and...