Faculty Members
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Diana Archangeli Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Email: dba@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2184 Office: Communication 114A Archangeli’s research explores both the fundamental concepts of how phonological systems are organized and the concrete ways in which sounds are used and produced in language. Her conceptual research, Emergent Phonology (or Minimalist Phonology), asks the question of how much does phonological... [more information] |
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Thomas G. Bever Regents' Professor Email: tgb@email.arizona.edu I regularly work with undergraduates and graduate students in Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Psychology, Neuroscience and Education, always on topics of interest to them, eventually of interest to me. My own research and teaching is inclues the current revival of “... [more information] |
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Andrew Carnie Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Dean of the Graduate College and Professor in Linguistics Email: carnie@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2802 Office: Communication 302 I am a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and the Joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology. My research revolves around various... [more information] |
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Noam Chomsky Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair Email: noamchomsky@email.arizona.edu Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. Among his groundbreaking books are “Syntactic Structures”, “Language and Mind,” “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax,” and “The Minimalist Program,” each of which has made distinct... [more information] |
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Wilson de Lima Silva Assistant Professor Email: wdelimasilva@email.arizona.edu I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics. I direct the M.A. Program in Native American Languages & Linguistics (also known as NAMA). I'm a field linguist with formal training in theoretical linguistics and language documentation & revitalization. I conduct research in the... [more information] |
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Richard A. Demers Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Email: demers@email.arizona.edu Dr. Demers has always had a special interest in natural science, and his interest in linguistics is a special case of this interest. His undergraduate degree is in physics and he has continued to follow developments in all of the sciences by undertaking broad readings. Within the field of... [more information] |
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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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Amy Fountain Associate Professor of Practice Email: avf@arizona.edu 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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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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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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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, Acting Head 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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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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Eric Jackson Assistant Professor of Practice Email: ejackson1@arizona.edu Eric is a "full stack" linguist with experience in fieldwork, language documentation, and language technology. In this context, "full stack" means that he's comfortable working in any domain from phonetics to semantics—a situation often beneficial when working with communities who speak under-... [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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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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Adrienne J. Lehrer Retired Professor Emerita Email: alehrer@email.arizona.edu [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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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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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] |
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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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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] |
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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] |
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Natasha Warner Professor 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] |
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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] |
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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] |
