Department Directory
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Sandiway Fong Associate Professor Email: sandiway@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0549 Office: Douglass 311 Human Language Technology MA Program Coordinator: I am a computational linguist. I am interested in all aspects of language and computation. I direct the Human Language Technology (HLT) Master's program. I am an associate professor both in the department of linguistics and also computer science. ... [more information] |
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Clarissa Forbes Postdoc Email: forbesc@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Amy Fountain Associate Professor, Career Track Email: avf@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-1498 Office: Douglass 224 My training is in Anthropology and Linguistics (Ph.D. UA, Anthropology and Linguistics Joint Program 1998). I have been at the University of Arizona in one capacity or other - most involving undergraduate teaching - since 1986, and have also taught at Pima Community College. In addition to my... [more information] |
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Andrea Fulgham [more information] |
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Jonathan Geary Graduate Teaching Associate Email: jonathangeary@email.arizona.edu Sixth-Year PhD Candidate. Interested in: Piipaash (Pee-Posh, Maricopa), psycholinguistics (e.g. morphological processing, word recognition), historical linguistics (e.g. contact-induced change, morphological change, reanalysis), working with under-studied/under-documented languages (i.e. on their... [more information] |
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LouAnn Gerken Affiliate Faculty Email: gerken@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-4327 Office: Psychology 330 I am interested in how infants and young children learn and how general learning mechanisms, such as hypothesis generation and selection, can be used in service of learning language. [more information] |
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Phil Goddard Email: philgoddard@email.arizona.edu TEL: 9512967410 My professional background is in customer experience research and interface design. This fall I enrolled in the HLT masters online to deepen my skills in analyzing qualitative research since qual often contains the key to understanding customer decision making and emotions. I hope to learn and... [more information] |
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Jesus Gonzalez Franco Graduate Teaching Assistant — Second-Year Doctoral Student Email: jeg7@email.arizona.edu Office: Online My name is Jesús E. González Franco. Feel welcomed to call me by my first name 'Jesús' [xe'sus]. I am currently a second-year doctoral student and graduate teaching assistant (GTA) at the University of Arizona. My primary research interests center on endangered language documentation and... [more information] |
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Melanie Gounas [more information] |
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Florian Hafner Globetrotter Email: florianhafner@email.arizona.edu Office: Virtual I started out young an innocent studying to become an English teacher. Teaching is my innate passion and there's nothing more fun to teach young people on their way to future success. I then majored in English and decided to do my MA with a minor in TEFL. I also spent some time at the California... [more information] |
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Gus Hahn-Powell Assistant Professor Email: hahnpowell@arizona.edu Office: Douglass 228 I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics. I also hold appointments in the Cognitive Science GIDP and the Computational Social Science Graduate Certificate Program. My research centers around machine reading for scientific discovery. In other words, I build and design... [more information] |
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Lucy Hall Hartley Email: lucyhallhartley@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 110 PhD Candidate in Linguistics [more information] |
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Mike Hammond Professor Email: hammond@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-5759 Office: Douglass 308 I am a professor in the Department of Linguistics. I also have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program. My research is in the areas of phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and poetic meter. I... [more information] |
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Heidi Harley Professor Email: hharley@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-3554 Office: Communications 114B In the fall of 1999, I began working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Linguistics, and I've been here ever since. Besides the Linguistics Department, I'm also part of the Cognitive Science program and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program.I... [more information] |
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Meg Harvey PhD Candidate Email: mharvey3@email.arizona.edu I'm a fourth year PhD student focusing on language revitalization and morphology. Currently I work on the Hiaki Language Research and Documentation Project (http://arizonahiaki.org/about/), the Tunica Language Project (... [more information] |
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Robert Henderson Associate Professor Email: rhenderson@email.arizona.edu Office: Communication 306 The semantics of human languages involves complex representations and operations over those representations. The goal of my research is to design logics in which one can define representations and operations over those representations that closely mimic what is observed in human languages. This... [more information] |
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Angela Hughes Graduate student in Human Language Technology Email: angelahughes@email.arizona.edu As I pursue a Master's Degree in Human Language Technology, I hope to apply my years of experience with Accessibility toward the development of improved computerized speech and language systems, which many users with disabilities depend upon. [more information] |
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Luis Irizarry-Figueroa Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant Email: irizarry1@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 114D (Syntax Lab) First year Ph.D.\HLT student in the Linguistics Department I was born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico and I completed my B.A in Philosophy in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez with a minor in linguistics. My Philosophy Undergraduate Thesis explored Pico Della Mirándola's Oration on... [more information] |
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Elsayed Issa HLT Student Email: elsayedissa@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Cheonkam Jeong Graduate Teaching/Research Associate Email: cheonkamjeong@email.arizona.edu PhD student interested in phonology, phonetics, and computational linguistics [more information] |
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Kevan Joe Graduate Teaching Assistant Email: kevanjoe@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Roya Kabiri Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant Email: royakabiri@email.arizona.edu Office: Communication 114D/ Syntax Lab I’m a second year student in the Linguistics PhD program. I have a Master’s degree in Linguistics from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. My main area of interest is syntax (verbal constructions as well as conditional structures). Starting my PhD program here at U of A, I have also been fascinated... [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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Adam King Email: adamking@email.arizona.edu Prolog's pretty cool. [more information] |
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Maya Klein Email: mayaklein@email.arizona.edu I'm a second year student in the joint anthropology and linguistics (ANLI) PhD program. I have a B.A in linguistics from Tel-Aviv University. My research interests are contact induced change and minoritized language standardization. Specifically, I'm interested in the role of the media in Scottish... [more information] |
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Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy Graduate Student, PhD Program Email: mkrishnaswamy@email.arizona.edu I am a second-year PhD student, interested in articulatory and acoustic phonetics, bilingualism, lexical access, automatic speech recognition and Indic languages. [more information] |
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Alice Kwak [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 from my position as Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona in July 2005. From May 2006 to August 2008, I worked as a Linguistics Program Officer in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation in Arlington VA, and... [more information] |
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Patricia Lee Email: pllee@email.arizona.edu Second-year PhD student in Linguistics, originally from Singapore. My interests are: computational and mathematical linguistics, NLP, information retrieval, statistics. [more information] |
