People
- Professor
- Chair
Sociocultural linguistics; language and identity; language and youth; language and race; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; Chicano English and Spanish; language in California; discourse, cognition, and culture
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Undergraduate Advisor
Linguistic description and theory, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, language documentation, linguistic typology, lexical semantics, lexicography, language and culture, Mesoamerica, Otomanguean languages
- Research Professor Emeritus
Native American languages; discourse; prosody; language and thought; laughter
- Professor
- North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America
African-American English; Language, literacy, and culture; sociolinguistics; community based participatory research in linguistics; language attitudes; multicultural education; undergraduate research
- Associate Professor Emerita
Language acquisition; language socialization; Japanese/Korean linguistics; discourse and grammar
- Professor
Language universals and typology; historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; languages of New Guinea
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Intercultural communication; ethnography and communication; theories of cultural adjustment; social semiotic processes of identification; language ideologies and linguistic landscapes; language and globalization
- Professor
Discourse and grammar; sociocultural linguistics; referential pragmatics; grammaticization and emergence; complex adaptive linguistics; corpus linguistics; transcription; Mayan languages
- Senior Lecturer SOE
Second language writing, pedagogical grammar, applications of corpus linguistics to second language pedagogy, content-based instruction
- Professor
Language documentation and description, endangered languages, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, language change, Tibeto-Burman and Himalayan languages, Rhaeto-Romance
- Professor
Phonetics; phonology; prosody; typology
- Professor
Corpus linguistics; cognitive linguistics / construction grammar; statistical methods in linguistics
- Assistant Professor
Child language acquisition of signed languages, usage-based, ethnographic, and typological approaches to acquisition, language socialization and ideologies, documentation and description of emerging and established sign languages, cognitive-functional linguistics especially construction grammar
- Assistant Professor
Phonetics; speech production; laboratory phonology; articulatory phonology; prosodic structure, discourse structure and articulatory coordination; prosody-phonetics interface; articulatory settings; stuttering; coarticulation; speech errors; feedback in L2 learning
- Lecturer
Phonology; morphology; phonetics; reduplication; ultrasound; cross-sectional imaging; prosodic phonology; dialects of English; linguistics of sports
- Professor Emeritus
Evolutionary origin of language; animal communication; language and brain
- Professor
Morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; language documentation; American Indian linguistics; Austronesian linguistics
- Professor Emeritus
Syntax, language and gender, language acquisition
- Research Professor Emerita
Interactional linguistics, conversation and grammar, cross-linguistic studies of morphosyntactic patterns, languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hmong)
- Assistant Professor
Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology; sociophonetics; language, gender, and sexuality, especially within transgender and LGBQ communities; embodiment; language and identity; language socialization; ethnography; acoustic and perceptual phonetics; discourse analysis.