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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Maria Alexeeva Email: alexeeva@email.arizona.edu MS HLT student with interest in NLP and machine learning [more information] |
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Mohammed Alshakhori [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: Communication 104 [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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Brian Best [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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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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Kaylene Bigknife [more information] |
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Rachel Brown Graduate Assistant for Student Accountability and Assistance, Dean of Students Office Email: rachelbrown@email.arizona.edu Doctoral 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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Andrew Charles [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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Jeffrey Chiavetta [more information] |
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Noam Chomsky Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair Email: noamchomsky@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] |
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Wilson de Lima Silva Assistant Professor Email: wdelimasilva@email.arizona.edu I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics. I co-coordinate (with Dr. Ofelia Zepeda) the M.A. Program in Native American Languages & Linguistics (also known as NAMA). I'm a field linguist with formal training in theoretical linguistics and language documentation &... [more information] |
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Richard A. Demers Retired Professor Emeritus Email: demers@email.arizona.edu Dr. Demers has always had a special interest in natural science, and his interest in linguistics is a special case of this interest. His undergraduate degree is in physics and he has continued to follow developments in all of the sciences by undertaking broad readings. Within the field of... [more information] |
