Students

	Miguel Acosta Email: mracosta@email.arizona.edu First Year MA Student, Native American Languages and Linguistics [more information]
	Ragheb Al-Ghezi Email: raghebalghezi@email.arizona.edu [more information]
	Mohammed Al-Sammak Email: sammak@email.arizona.edu 4th Year PhD Student. Arabic syntax. I work mostly on unaccusative and unergative verbs in Arabic and how cognate objects interact with them. For my minor in Language, Reading and Culture, I work on social justice in education. [more information]
	Maria Alexeeva Email: alexeeva@email.arizona.edu MS HLT student with interest in NLP and machine learning [more information]
	Mohammed Alshakhori [more information]
	Othman Alshehri [more information]
	Skye Anderson Research Assistant Email: skanderson@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 318B Skye Anderson is PhD student in Linguistics. She works on speech processing, focusing on the extent to which abstract representations like syllable structure interact with concrete acoustic representations during online speech segmentation and spoken word recognition. She also works on the... [more information]
	Robert Autry [more information]
	Dane Bell Graduate Associate Email: dane@email.arizona.edu Dissertator, Linguistics: My current research concerns extracting health-related information from documents. For example, I use machine learning techniques to detect obesity, a major predictor of diabetes risk, in Twitter accounts. Past research includes psycholinguistic studies of lexical access (... [more information]
	Brian Best [more information]
	Brian Best Email: brbest@email.arizona.edu First Year MA Student, Native American Languages and Linguistics: My interest in linguistics began in 2002 while working with refugees as an AmeriCorps volunteer. This experience exposed me to Farsi, Arabic and Latin American Spanish, and led me to South America. Building communicative bridges... [more information]
	Kaylene Bigknife [more information]
	Rachel Brown Graduate Assistant for Student Accountability and Assistance, Dean of Students Office Email: rachelbrown@email.arizona.edu Doctoral Student interested in psycholinguistics, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, language development, and native american linguistics [more information]
	Phil Cash Cash Email: cashcash@email.arizona.edu Dissertator, Joint Phd Program: Anthropology and Linguistics [more information]
	Andrew Charles [more information]
	Yuan-Lu Chen Email: cheny@email.arizona.edu 6th Year PhD Student; PhD Candidate; Major in computational linguistics; Minor in Syntax. I am currently working on using linguistic interlinear gloss data to improve the performance of machine translation systems (from Scottish Gaelic... [more information]
	Jeffrey Chiavetta [more information]
	Rebecca Cordes First Year HLT student [more information]
	Rolando Alberto Coto Solano Email: rcoto@email.arizona.edu Fourth year Phd Student, Linguistics [more information]
	William M. Cotter Email: williamcotter@email.arizona.edu I am a doctoral candidate in the joint PhD program in Anthropology & Linguistics. Prior to joining the Department of Linguistics and School of Anthropology, I completed a Master’s of Arts in Sociolinguistics of the Arab World at the University of Essex. My Master’s research examined Arabic... [more information]
	John Culnan Email: jmculnan@email.arizona.edu I started work on my PhD in 2016 after completing an MA in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. I am interested in phonetics and experimental phonology, as well as automatic speech recognition and computational linguistics. I am currently working on research involving the production and... [more information]
	stanley donahoo Email: stanleydonahoo@email.arizona.edu PhD Candidate--research interests in psycho- and neurolinguistics, as well as experimental pragmatics. [more information]
	Joseph Dupris Graduate Teaching Assistant Email: jdupris@email.arizona.edu waq lis ?aad! gew ?a seesas Joe Dupris. ni ?a mbosaksaawaskni gi. ewksiknii coy moatt'akkni coy Big Pine Paiute coy Mnicoujou Lakota ?an gi. pk'isap gew Kathy Hill. ptisap gew Joseph Dupris. pq'olip gew Margaret 'Janie' Haddock. pk'aasip gew Gerald 'Pat' Hill. pt'eewip gew Mona Gray, bloksip gew... [more information]
	Andrea Fulgham [more information]
	Jonathan Geary Graduate Teaching Associate Email: jonathangeary@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 305 Fourth-Year PhD Candidate. Interested in, among other things: Piipaash (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... [more information]
	Bryan James Gordon Email: linguist@email.arizona.edu Seventh year, Joint PhD Student: Anthropology and Linguistics [more information]
	Shannon Grippando Email: sgrippando@email.arizona.edu Fourth Year PhD Student Research Interests: Psycholinguistics Lexical access Orthography Japanese Computational linguistics Current Projects: Semantic priming effects Orthographic complexity in speech Questions? Wanna chat? Feel free to email me! [more information]
	Florian Hafner Globetrotter Email: florianhafner@email.arizona.edu Office: Tue 930-1030 & 1230-130 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 Cal State San... [more information]
	Gustave Hahn-Powell research associate in the CLU Lab (NLP) Email: hahnpowell@email.arizona.edu Office: Gould-Simpson 710 (CLU Lab) & Douglass 301 (Comp Ling Lab) I'm a PhD candidate focusing on computational linguistics. I work in the CLU Lab as a research associate funded under DARPA's Big Mechanism project and the Bill and Melinda Gates HBGDki Initiative. Previously I served... [more information]
	Lucy Hall Hartley Email: lucyhallhartley@email.arizona.edu Office: Douglass 110 Second-year PhD student in Linguistics [more information]