Department Directory
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Miguel Acosta Email: mracosta@email.arizona.edu First Year MA Student, Native American Languages and Linguistics [more information] |
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Ragheb Al-Ghezi Email: raghebalghezi@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Mohammed Al-Sammak Email: sammak@email.arizona.edu 4th Year PhD Student. Arabic syntax. I work mostly on unaccusative and unergative verbs in Arabic and how cognate objects interact with them. For my minor in Language, Reading and Culture, I work on social justice in education. [more information] |
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Bri Alexander Graduate Teaching Assistant Email: brialexander@email.arizona.edu TEL: (707) 337-7820 Office: COMM108 ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏓ! ᏦᏁᎾ. ᎮᏍᏗ ᏱᏣᏖᎸᎲᏍᎨᏍᏗ. ᏣᏓᎨᏳᏎᏍᏗ. MA student in Native American Languages & Linguistics. I am an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and I work on my own heritage language, Cherokee, in the hopes that I will one day create language resources for beginning Cherokee learners.... [more information] |
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Maria Alexeeva Email: alexeeva@email.arizona.edu MS HLT student with interest in NLP and machine learning [more information] |
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Othman Alshehri [more information] |
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Stephanie Amado Program Coordinator Email: samado@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2113 Office: Communication104 [more information] |
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Gregory Anderson Multimedia Technical Specialist, Office of Student Computing Resources Email: gka@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520 626-7295 Office: Music 135 Third year graduate student, M.S. Human Language Technology Full-time staffperson in the University Information Technology Services (UITS) Office of Student Computing Resources (OSCR). Supervises the Multimedia... [more information] |
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Skye Anderson Research Assistant Email: skanderson@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 318B Skye Anderson is PhD student in Linguistics. She works on speech processing, focusing on the extent to which abstract representations like syllable structure interact with concrete acoustic representations during online speech segmentation and spoken word recognition. She also works on the... [more information] |
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Diana Archangeli Professor Email: dba@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2184 Office: Douglass 228 [more information] |
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Robert Autry [more information] |
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Kathryn Banks Email: kvbanks@email.arizona.edu 2nd year graduate student, M.S. Human Language Technology [more information] |
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Andy Barss Associate Professor Email: barss@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-3284 Office: Communications 114A [more information] |
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Dane Bell Graduate Associate Email: dane@email.arizona.edu Dissertator, Linguistics: My current research concerns extracting health-related information from documents. For example, I use machine learning techniques to detect obesity, a major predictor of diabetes risk, in Twitter accounts. Past research includes psycholinguistic studies of lexical access (... [more information] |
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Elise Bell Email: elisebell@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 322 Third Year PhD Student, Linguistics Recipient of a 2015 NSF East Asian and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) fellowship Email: elisebell@email.arizona.edu Website: http://elisebell.github.io/ [more information] |
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Brian Best Email: brbest@email.arizona.edu First Year MA Student, Native American Languages and Linguistics: My interest in linguistics began in 2002 while working with refugees as an AmeriCorps volunteer. This experience exposed me to Farsi, Arabic and Latin American Spanish, and led me to South America. Building communicative bridges... [more information] |
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Brian Best [more information] |
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Thomas G. Bever Regents' Professor Email: tgb@email.arizona.edu I regularly work with undergraduates and graduate students in Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Psychology, Neuroscience and Education, always on topics of interest to them, eventually of interest to me. My own research and teaching is inclues the current revival of “... [more information] |
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John Blazic [more information] |
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Rachel Brown Graduate Teaching Assistant Email: rachelbrown@email.arizona.edu Dissertating PhD Student interested in psycholinguistics, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, language development, and native american linguistics [more information] |
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Andrew Carnie Professor and Dean of the Graduate College Email: carnie@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2802 Office: Comm 302 I am a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and the Joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology. My research revolves around various... [more information] |
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Phil Cash Cash Email: cashcash@email.arizona.edu Dissertator, Joint Phd Program: Anthropology and Linguistics [more information] |
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Yuan-Lu Chen Email: cheny@email.arizona.edu 6th Year PhD Student; PhD Candidate; Major in computational linguistics; Minor in Syntax. I am currently working on using linguistic interlinear gloss data to improve the performance of machine translation systems (from Scottish Gaelic... [more information] |
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Yan Chen Email: yanchen@email.arizona.edu PhD candidate Major in phonetics and phonology and minor in second language acquisition and teaching (SLAT). I'm interested in L1-L2 phonetics, second language acquisition and teaching, and tone languages. [more information] |
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Jeffrey Chiavetta [more information] |
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Noam Chomsky Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair Email: chomsky@email.arizona.edu Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. Among his groundbreaking books are “Syntactic Structures”, “Language and Mind,” “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax,” and “The Minimalist Program,” each of which has made distinct... [more information] |
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Rebecca Cordes First Year HLT student [more information] |
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Rolando Alberto Coto Solano Email: rcoto@email.arizona.edu Fourth year Phd Student, Linguistics [more information] |
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William M. Cotter Email: williamcotter@email.arizona.edu I am a doctoral candidate in the joint PhD program in Anthropology & Linguistics. Prior to joining the Department of Linguistics and School of Anthropology, I completed a Master’s of Arts in Sociolinguistics of the Arab World at the University of Essex. My Master’s research examined Arabic... [more information] |
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John Culnan Email: jmculnan@email.arizona.edu I started work on my PhD in 2016 after completing an MA in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. I am interested in phonetics and experimental phonology, as well as automatic speech recognition and computational linguistics. I am currently working on research involving the production and... [more information] |
