Ph.D. Students
computational semantics, distributed representations, natural language processing
Jeremy Calder
queer linguistics, drag, performativity, gender, style, rhythm, prosody, suprasegmentals, metrics
Juan Ignacio Cases Martin
computational linguistics, natural language processing, natural language understanding, semantics, pragmatics, fieldwork, Mesoamerican languages and writing systems
Branden Chan
historical linguistics, proto Indo-European, Greek verbal morphology, computational linguistics, machine learning
Reuben Cohn-Gordon
Latin, semantics, secondary predication, meter, language change, natural language processing
syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, typology, Polynesian languages, Philippine languages
semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, syntax, Arabic
sociolinguistics, stylistic practice, speech perception, psycholinguistics, phonetics, language variation and change, sound symbolism, race ethnicity & language
Tim Dozat
lexicalist syntax, phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics
Isla Flores-Bayer
sociolinguistics, style shifting, code switching, Chicano English, Spanish in the US
syntax, theories of case, morphology, metrics, sociolinguistics, Faroese and Lithuanian
semantics, adjective meaning, pragmatics, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics
acoustic phonetics, metrical & prosodic phonology, prosodic & morphosyntactic variation, speech planning, sentence processing, cognitive neuroscience of language, cognitive modeling
Sabrina Grimberg
syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, morphology, language variation and change, Romance languages
sociolinguistics, discourse structure, discourse phonetics, stylistic variation, suprasegmental variation
language acquisition, formal semantics and pragmatics, acquisition of meaning, Persian semantics, (in)definiteness, specificity
Sunwoo Jeong
prosody, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, speech perception, metrics, language typology
Sara Kessler
syntax, semantics, morphosyntax, experimental methods, language acquisition, Hebrew
phonetics, psycholinguistics, spoken word recognition
Sharese King
perception, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, AAVE syntax
Andrea Kortenhoven
sociolinguistics, African American English, language and construction of race, gender, community identities, stylistic variation, prosody
morphosyntax, lexical semantics, syntactic variation, typology
Matt Lamm
natural language processing, natural language understanding, probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, social networks
Daisy Leigh
lexical semantics, discourse structure, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, language evolution
fieldwork, kinship, language description/documentation, language evolution, Papuan languages, phonology, sociolinguistics, statistical modeling, Turkic languages
syntactic variation, psycholinguistics, processing, corpus and experimental research, NLP
sociolinguistics, prosodic variation, speech perception, gender and language
semantics, pragmatics, reasoning, information structure, syntactic processing
Dasha Popova
semantics, pragmatics, prosody, style, Finno-Ugric languages
Teresa Pratt
sociophonetics, stylistic variation, fieldwork, language acquisition, speech perception
semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, corpus studies, Chinese
computational linguistics, formal semantics and pragmatics, scope
natural language processing, Brazilian Portuguese, syntactic dependencies, Universal Dependencies, annotation
language variation, change and evolution, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, speech perception, phonology, ambiguity
sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, stylistic variation, phonetics, ethnic and regional variation
computational linguistics, social meaning, gesture and movement, sociophonetics, pragmatics, Chinese and Japanese
Zachary Wilkins
semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, computational linguistics, Spanish, Guarani
Robert Xu
sociophonetics, speech perception, speech prosody, psycholinguistics, bilingualism
Visiting Student Researcher