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Miguel Acosta
Email: mracosta@email.arizona.edu
First Year MA Student, Native American Languages and Linguistics
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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.
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Deema Albluwi
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Maria Alexeeva
Research Associate (Dept. of Computer Science)
Email: alexeeva@email.arizona.edu
PhD student (2019-...) with interest in NLP, mainly working on rule-based event extraction.
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Ahmed Alkuraydis
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Elham Almotairy
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Mohammed Alshakhori
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Othman Alshehri
I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of linguistics. My core research interests lie in syntax and its interfaces with other modules of grammar including morphology and semantics. 
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Diana Archangeli
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: dba@email.arizona.edu
TEL: (520) 621-2184
Office: Communication 114A
Archangeli’s research explores both the fundamental concepts of how phonological systems are organized and the concrete ways in which sounds are used and produced in language. Her conceptual research, Emergent Phonology (or Minimalist Phonology), asks the question of how much does phonological...
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Shashi Armstrong
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Ibrahim Ahmed Asiri
Email: ibrahimasiri@email.arizona.edu
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Amy Asma
PhD Student
Email: asma1@arizona.edu
I like syntax and psycholinguistics.
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Robert Autry
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Rosalia Badhorse
Email: rbadhorse@email.arizona.edu
Peveešeeva! Me’eoo’e naheševehe. Natsehestahe naa So’tao’o. Good day! My name is Rosalia Badhorse, and I am from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana. I am currently in the Master’s program for Native American Languages and Linguistics.
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Joey Balke
Email: joeybalke@arizona.edu
Hi!  My name is Joey and I am a PhD student from the north shore of Chicago.  After finishing my undergrad at University of Toronto in 2021, I began work at UofA in August of 2022.  I really look forward to being a good researcher, teacher, and member of the UofA linguistics community.  Don't be...
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Oliver Barraza
NAMA student and Research Assistant
Email: oliverbarraza@email.arizona.edu
I am a MA student with a focus on language documentation and revitalization, especially in the interests of decolonizing linguistics. My current focus includes evaluating the development of documentation technology as it applies in the field, while assisting as a lexicographer for native languages.
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Patrick Barrett
Master's student, Human Language Technology
Email: pbarrett520@arizona.edu
I am currently pursuing my MS in Human Language Technology. I am interested in how NLP can be applied to develop software tools for ESL teaching, especially for young learners. I am also interested in how corpus data from young learners can be ethically and reliably collected to develop corpora on...
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Gabriela Benavides
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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 “...
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Shawna Birnbaum
Master of Science, Human Language Technology. Technical writer by profession. Languages: English, Swedish
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Mosiah Bluecloud
Native American Languages Advocate
I eat sleep breath and pray in my native american languages. Revitalization and Reclamation are life.
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Nathan Brock
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Emily Bunce
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Josh Carlin
Graduate Program Coordinator
Email: Jcarlin117@arizona.edu
TEL: (520) 621-2113
Office: Communication 114E
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Andrew Carnie
Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Dean of the Graduate College and Professor in Linguistics
Email: carnie@email.arizona.edu
TEL: (520) 621-2802
Office: Communication 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...
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Lisa Casarez
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Andrew Charles
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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...
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Riah Coulter
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Andrea Cunningham
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