Department Directory

	Priscilla Shin Email: pzl2@email.arizona.edu Priscilla Shin is a graduate student in the joint Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI) PhD program. Her current interests are in examining variation in Singapore English and how language variation and other semiotic practices (i.e., social practices, education, peer groups, etc.) are used to... [more information]
	Ryan Walter Smith Graduate Teaching/Research Associate Email: ryanwaltersmith@email.arizona.edu TEL: 214-709-4390 Office: Communication 114D (Syntax Lab) Fifth Year PhD Student My primary interests are in formal semantics, pragmatics, and syntactic theory. Within this area, topics I've worked on include: the semantics of associative and similative plurals and non-exhaustive expressions, concentrating in particular on their manifestations in Japanese... [more information]
	Luke Smith Email: luke@lukesmith.xyz [more information]
	Winetu Tarrant [more information]
	Serene Tseng Email: stseng@email.arizona.edu [more information]
	Aresta Tsosie-Paddock Assistant Professor, Career Track Email: alarusso@email.arizona.edu Dr. Aresta La Russo is a citizen of the Navajo Nation from San Springs, Arizona, an area in western Navajo Nation. She is affiliated with the Leupp Chapter located in Leupp, Arizona.Her Navajo clans are Naakai Dine'e (Mexican People clan) born for Biih'nii (Deer Springs clan), maternal... [more information]
	Adam Ussishkin Associate Professor and TA Supervisor Email: adam.ussishkin@gmail.com TEL: (520) 626-7121 Office: Douglass 312 Visit my website at ussishkin.org for up to date information and my current CV. I'm an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program, the... [more information]
	Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson Graduate Teaching Associate Email: mvalentinsson@email.arizona.edu I'm a sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist who studies how media and pop culture shape the way people use language. Generally speaking, I'm interested in how consumers and producers of pop culture and mass media use language as a semiotic resource for accomplishing different kinds of... [more information]
	Natasha Warner Professor & Head Email: nwarner@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-5591 Office: Douglass 320 ANLI Program Coordinator, Linguistics I am a professor in the Department of Linguistics, and also have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of East Asian Studies. My research is in the areas of phonetics, experimental phonology, and psycholinguistics, focusing on speech... [more information]
	Andrew Wedel Professor Email: wedel@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 303 Please visit http://www.andywedel.com/ for more about my work. The bulk of my research explores sources and ramifications for two opposing tendencies evident in language change: a tendency toward pattern-coherence, and a tendency to preserve semantically... [more information]
	Marian Wiseley Administrative Associate Email: mwiseley@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-6897 Office: Communication 109 [more information]
	Zechy Wong Email: zechy@email.arizona.edu Third Year PhD Student in Linguistics My background and previous research has been in Syntax and contact linguistics, but I am also extremely keen on exploring computational approaches and applications. [more information]
	Zhengnan Xie [more information]
	Kimberley Young Business Manager, Senior Email: kky@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-9274 Office: Communication 109A [more information]
	Jianrong Yu Email: jianrongyu@email.arizona.edu Second Year PhD Student: I hail from the sunny South-east Asian island state of Singapore, and previously obtained my BA and MA in English Language and Linguistics from the National University of Singapore. My research interests lie in the syntax and semantics of natural language, specifically... [more information]
	Ofelia Zepeda Regents' Professor and Professor in Linguistics Email: ofelia@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-8294 Office: Communication 108B Regents' Professor: Tohono O'odham language and linguistics Ofelia Zepeda is the author of the only pedagogical textbook on the Tohono O'odham language, A PAPAGO GRAMMAR, a book she wrote as part of the language course she developed some years ago. She is also co-author of the article, "Derived... [more information]
	Yiyun Zhao Email: yiyunzhao@email.arizona.edu Ph.D. Student in Linguistics. I am interested in computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, evolution of language and cognition. [more information]
	Andrew Zupon Email: zupon@email.arizona.edu PhD student. My two main areas of research are syntax and computational linguistics. In the area of syntax, I am interested in the interactions between case and agreement crosslinguistically, as well as how these interact with word order. In the area of computational linguistics, I am interested in... [more information]