Department Directory
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Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh Email: mahdavi@email.arizona.edu I'm a PhD candidate in linguistics. My main area of interest is quantitative poetic meters. Currently my focus is on Persian and Arabic, but the ambitious ultimate goal of the project is to provide a theory of quantitative meters that accounts for the meter inventories and poetic licenses of... [more information] |
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Joseph Marks [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 2nd year PhD student originally from Auburn, California. I received my BA in linguistics and my BS in journalism from the University of Kansas. My reserach interests involve phonology and Celtic languages. [more information] |
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Isabel McKay Email: icm@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 222 I'm a fourth-year PhD student from Ann Arbor, MI. I do work on the morphosyntax of object agreement 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@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2188 Office: Communication 316 Professor, Linguistics Department Director, Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Linguistics Department My research emphasizes language and literacy development, as well as children's informal science learning. My main collaborators:... [more information] |
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Dave Medeiros [more information] |
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Joshua Meyer Email: joshuameyer@email.arizona.edu I am a Second Year PhD Student in Theoretical Linguistics. My main interests are syntax and psycholinguistics with focus on bilingual first language acquisition. My research also relates to the structure of Slavic and Turkic languages. [more information] |
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Kristina Mihajlovic Email: kmihajlovic@email.arizona.edu Second-year PhD student primarily interested in phonology, but more specifically interested in language change and variation, especially as it relates to South Slavic languages. [more information] |
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Sarah Mountain [more information] |
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Rana Nabors Email: rnnabors@email.arizona.edu Fourth Year PhD Student Interests: Persian syntax and morphology & bilingualism 2013 Taleghani Fellowship Award Recipient [more information] |
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Noah Nelson Graduate Associate Email: noahnelson@email.arizona.edu I am a 5th year Ph.D. student of Linguistics, with a minor concentration in Cognitive Science. In addition to my linguistic pursuits, I love to cook, and occasionally brew my own beer and cider. [more information] |
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Christina Laree Newhall NSF Graduate Research Fellow Email: newhallc@email.arizona.edu Joint Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI) Ph.D Student Intrests include: identity, cultural and linguistic revitalization and maintenance, decolonization practices, and the effects of globalization on indigenous populations. [more information] |
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Jian Gang Ngui Email: jgngui@email.arizona.edu I am a second-year student in the Linguistics PhD programme. My primary interests are in syntactic 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 Colloquial Singapore... [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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Remo Nitschke GTA Email: nitschke@email.arizona.edu First year in the linguistics Phd. I currently work on the Syntax of German adjectives and on topics pertaining the evolution of language. [more information] |
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Diane Ohala Associate Professor, Career Track; Director of Undergraduate Studies Email: ohalad@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-5984 Office: Communication 301 Department of Linguistics Undergraduate Advisor and Honors Advisor [more information] |
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Jaime Parchment Email: jparch@email.arizona.edu Dissertator, Phd Program: Linguistics computational linguistics, phonetics, acquisition, speech synthesis, HMMs, optimality theory [more information] |
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Seongjin Park Graduate Research Assistant Email: seongjinpark@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 316 I'm third year PhD student in Linguistics. I received BA and MA in English Linguistics from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. I am interested in phonetics, speech processing, and computational linguistics. Now, I am working as a research assistant in Douglass Phonetics Lab. I... [more information] |
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Colleen Patton Email: cpatton@email.arizona.edu In Fall 2018, I'm a Visiting Postgrad Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, under sponsorship from Dr. Wilson McLeod, while I conduct fieldwork research regarding Scottish Gaelic language revitalization. You can check out the Department I'm affiliated with here : ... [more information] |
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George-Michael Pescaru Email: gmpescaru@email.arizona.edu First Year PhD Student About me: I was born in Bucharest, Romania, but I was raised in Boise, Idaho. I am the PAC-12's number one fan, with undergraduate degrees from Washington and an MA from Utah. Research interests: Currently, I am a phonologist. As far as that goes, I am especially... [more information] |
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Donovan Pete Email: dpete@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass, Room 232 Ya’at’eeh, Shidine'é, ShiKé'í, adóó Shikwaiisinii. ʼÁdóoneʼé nishłínígíí ʼéí Naakaii Diné nishli. Dziłtaah Diné'e Kinyaa'aanii bashichiin. Ma’ii Deeshgiizhnii dashicheii. Na'toh Diné Tachii’nii dashinali. ʼÁkótʼéego ʼéí haastiin nishłį́. Tsin Nasbąs Siʼąh dę́ę́ʼ nashá. Kʼaad, bá ʼóltaʼí nishłį́ʼ. I... [more information] |
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Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Professor Email: massimo@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-6913 Office: Communication 305 Piattelli-Palmarini and Medeiros on the Physics of Language Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and David Medeiros will be presenting papers at the First International Symposium on the Physics of... [more information] |
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John Powell University Fellow Email: jwpowell@email.arizona.edu John W. W. Powell is a PhD student of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His research interest are in syntax, historical linguistics, language documentation, revitalization, and maintenance of Indigenous languages. For his dissertation, he is researching comparative and historical Yuman... [more information] |
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Andrea Ramon Lecturer Email: andrearamon@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Jessica Ray Email: jessicaray@email.arizona.edu Fourth Year Joint PhD Student, Anthropology and Linguistics. I am interested particularly in phonetics, phonology, African American English, and Hip Hop linguistics. In regards to Anthropology, I am interested broadly in the intersections of race, gender, and language. I am interested in the... [more information] |
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Leah Rice Email: lcrice@email.arizona.edu Fourth Year PhD Student Major: Adult Psycholinguistics Minor: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences My interests include: sentence processing, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, lexical access, and aphasia research. Current projects include neuroimaging studies of morphological processing in... [more information] |
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Damian Yukio Romero Diaz Email: damianiji@email.arizona.edu MS Student, Human Language Technology. My main academical interests are in frequencies and usage-based models of language. As of Fall, 2015, I started undertaking both the PhD in Spanish and an the HLT MS in the Linguistics Department. Things I enjoy in my personal time are: dancing, reading,... [more information] |
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Jaycie Ryrholm Martin Email: jayciem@email.arizona.edu Third year PhD student. Psycholinguistics, multilingualism, acquisition. I am interested in crosslinguistic influence in multilingual language acquisition. [more information] |
