Department Directory

	Jian Gang Ngui Email: jgngui@email.arizona.edu I am a fourth-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]
	Tianyi Ni [more information]
	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]
	Konrad Niethercutt [more information]
	Remo Nitschke RA Email: nitschke@email.arizona.edu Linguistics PhD student and Human Language Technology student. I am working on ways to make neural machine translation technologies accessible to low-resource language communities. On the theoretical side, I currently work on the Syntax of German adjectives and on topics pertaining the evolution of... [more information]
	Gabriela O'Connor [more information]
	Stacey Oberly Assistant Professor Email: soberly@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-6897 Office: Douglass 200 [more information]
	Diane Ohala Associate Professor of Practice, 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]
	Seongjin Park Graduate Research Assistant Email: seongjinpark@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 316 PhD in Linguistics Experimental phonetics. Automatic speech recognition. Automatic speech proficiency judgment. Computational linguistics. [more information]
	Ashley Parker Email: ashleyparker@email.arizona.edu First year MS in HLT student. [more information]
	Maya Lynn Patterson [more information]
	Su Peiwen [more information]
	George-Michael Pescaru Email: gmpescaru@email.arizona.edu 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 interested in formal models of... [more information]
	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]
	John Powell Graduate Associate, 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, morphology, historical linguistics, language documentation, revitalization, and maintenance of Indigenous languages, specifically historical Yuman morphosyntax. He collaborates with... [more information]
	Samantha Prins PhD Student, Graduate Research Assitant Email: samanthaprins@email.arizona.edu Office: Virtual My name is Samantha Prins—please feel welcome to call me Sam (she/her). I am a second-year PhD student focusing on language revitalization, morphology and syntax. In particular, my research interests include Indigenous languages of North America, issues in language documentation and vitality,... [more information]
	Andrew Quadro [more information]
	Andrea Ramon Lecturer Email: andrearamon@email.arizona.edu [more information]
	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]
	Corey Roberts [more information]
	Damian Romero Graduate Teaching Associate (COH) Email: damianiji@email.arizona.edu Damian Romero (pronouns: he, him, they). Graduate Assistant in DevOps, data curation, and outreach for the ReDATA team at the University of Arizona Libraries, Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship. If you would like to learn more about ReDATA and how to publish your alternative research... [more information]
	Burak Senel Email: senel@email.arizona.edu I am a Fulbright scholar from Turkey, doing my Master's in Human Language Technology. I strive to help bring NLP-enhanced language education technologies into life. My interests lie at the intersection of NLP and SLA particularly in ESL/EFL contexts. I am particularly interested in Intelligent... [more information]
	Rebecca Sharp Email: bsharp@email.arizona.edu [more information]
	Kevin Stillwell [more information]
	Arie Pratama Sutiono Msc student Human Language Technology Email: ariesutiono@email.arizona.edu [more information]
	Hiroaki Takeda IT engineer of a cloud service [more information]
	Wunetu Tarrant [more information]
	Aresta Tsosie-Paddock Assistant Professor Email: alarusso@email.arizona.edu Ya’at’eeh, shi ei Dr. Aresta Tsosie-Paddock yinishye. My Navajo clans are Naakai Dine'e/To’aheedliinii (Journeying People/Water Flows Together clan) born for Biih'bitoo’nii (Deer Springs clan), maternal grandfathers are Tl'izi lani (Many Goats clan) and paternal grandfathers are Kinyaa'aanii (... [more information]
	Adam Ussishkin Professor; TA Supervisor; University IRB Chair 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 a professor in the Department of Linguistics, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program, the Department of... [more information]
	Gaby Gabriela Vargas Melgarejo Email: gvargasmelgarejo@email.arizona.edu I am from Cochabamba-Bolivia. I am in NAMA program. I am passionate about my native language, Quechua. I would like to contribute to the Quechua population by participating in maintenance and revitalization projects of the Quechua language. Developing linguistic policies from below is a necessity.... [more information]