Department Directory
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Roya Kabiri Graduate Teaching/Research Associate Email: royakabiri@email.arizona.edu Office: Communication 114D/ Syntax Lab I’m a PhD candidate in Linguistics. I have an MA in Linguistics from University of Tehran, and an MS in Human Language Technology from University of Arizona. I work primarily in syntax and computational linguistics and the interface between the two. As a theoretical syntactician, I have been... [more information] |
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Simin Karimi Professor Email: karimi@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-5399 Office: Communication 106 I am a Professor in the Department of Linguistics. I have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, The Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), the joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology, the School of Middle Eastern and North African... [more information] |
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Alison Kleczewski First-year graduate student in Human Language Technology [more information] |
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Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy Graduate Student, PhD Program Email: mkrishnaswamy@email.arizona.edu Hello! I'm Megh (she/her) a speech enthusiast, specializing in acoustic phonetics. I worked on speech entrainment and phonetic accommodation, L2 speech acquisition, pitch perception and its effects on phonemic identification, and the acoustics of complex tongue gestures. I have also worked on the... [more information] |
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Alice Kwak RA in the School of Information Email: alicekwak@email.arizona.edu I am a second year Ph.D. student who is interested in language revitalization, language documentation, language database creation, and pedagogical material development. I am currently involved in the COLRC (Coeur d'Alene Online Language Resource Center) project, and I am also working as a... [more information] |
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Sonja Lanehart Email: lanehart@email.arizona.edu Office: Communication 316B Sonja Lanehart is Professor of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education as well as a Faculty Fellow in the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. Her scholarship focuses on language and... [more information] |
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D. Terence Langendoen Retired Professor Emeritus Email: langendt@email.arizona.edu I retired in 2005 after 41 years in faculty positions in linguistics, the last 17 of which were at the University of Arizona. I started a new career in 2006 as Program Director in Linguistics at the National Science Foundation, and in 2008 took a renewable part-time position in the Robust... [more information] |
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Patricia Lee Email: pllee@email.arizona.edu PhD student in Linguistics. My interests are: computational linguistics, NLP, statistics. [more information] |
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Sumi Lee [more information] |
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Adrienne J. Lehrer Retired Professor Emerita Email: alehrer@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Amber Lubera Graduate Research & Teaching Associate Email: allubera@email.arizona.edu Office: Comm 114A I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics. I am originally from Las Vegas, Nevada. I received my BA in English (with a focus in linguistics) from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2016. I received my MA in Linguistics and a Graduate Certificiate in Computational Social... [more information] |
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Joseph Marks [more information] |
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T.J Martin TA Email: tjmartin93@email.arizona.edu I enjoy spending my weekends playing videos games mainly: The Sims 4, Apex, & Animal Crossing. I do love a good anime show or a good book. In my spare time, I am playing with my pets Pico and Rémy. I enjoy going to the movies or binging something on a streaming platform since I was a manager at... [more information] |
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Ben Martin Email: bamartin@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Cassidy Martin [more information] |
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Kerry McCullough Email: kmccullough@email.arizona.edu I am a PhD candidate originally from Auburn, California. I received my BA in linguistics and my BS in journalism from the University of Kansas in 2017. My research interests involve phonology and orthography, especially how they are used in Celtic languages. My dissertation focuses on Irish initial... [more information] |
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Isabel McKay Email: icm@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 222 I'm a fifth-year PhD student from Ann Arbor, MI. I do work on the argument structure in polysynthetic languages and on written online conversational pragmatics (specifically emoji and written laughter on Twitter). [more information] |
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Cecile McKee Professor Email: mckee@arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2188 Office: Communication 316, Zoom Professor, Linguistics Department Director, Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Linguistics Department I study language and literacy development, as well as informal science learning. My main collaborators are:... [more information] |
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Dave Medeiros Email: medeiros@email.arizona.edu I'm a first-year student in the Human Language & Technology Master's Program. [more information] |
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Jennifer Medina Graduate Student Email: jjmedina@email.arizona.edu Currently pursuing an MS in Human Language Technology [more information] |
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Saman Meihami [more information] |
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Kristina Mihajlovic Email: kmihajlovic@email.arizona.edu I am a 5th year PhD student primarily interested in phonology and phonetics, but also in language change and variation, especially as it relates to South Slavic languages and heritage speakers. I am also a public K-12 educator with 3.5 years of substitute teaching experience and 4 years of... [more information] |
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Jackson Mostoller Email: jmostoller@email.arizona.edu Graduate student in the online Human Language Technology program. [more information] |
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Max Mulé NSF Graduate Research Fellow Email: mule@email.arizona.edu PhD student interested in community based language revitalization, language documentation, linguistics education for language workers, the intersection of phonetics and language revitalization, and Arbëresh. [more information] |
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Jordan Myers [more information] |
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Santiago Nelson [more information] |
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Christina Laree Newhall NSF Graduate Research Fellow Email: newhallc@email.arizona.edu Linguistics Ph.D. student, Revitalization track I am a member of the Native Village of Unga, AK, a learner of my heritage language, Unangam Tunuu, and a linguistic anthropologist. [more information] |
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Jian Gang Ngui Email: jgngui@email.arizona.edu I am a fifth-year PhD candidate (A.B.D.) in the Linguistics department. My primary interests are in syntactic and semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface. Topics I've worked on include ellipsis in sluicing and fragments in Colloquial Singapore English, optional/partial WH-movement in... [more information] |
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Janet Nicol Professor, Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science Email: nicol@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8184 Office: Communication 314A My research is about language; specifically, how people learn it, produce it, and understand it. [more information] |
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Konrad Niethercutt [more information] |
