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Caroline L. Smith
MSC03 2130, Department of Linguistics
Humanities 526
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

505-277-6353 (voice/TTY)
505-277-6355 (fax)

Staff

Yvonne Martinez-Ingram, Linguistics Department Administrator
Jessica Slocum, Administrative Assistant
Signed Language Interpreting Program
Navajo Program


For information please contact linguist@unm.edu

Department Faculty

Melissa Axelrod, Ph.D., University of Colorado (Boulder)
Native American languages, morphosyntax, semantics, morphology, sociolinguistics

William Croft, Ph.D., Stanford University
Typology and universals, construction grammar, semantics, cognitive linguistics, language change

Holly Jacobson, Ph.D., University of Arizona (Tucson)
intercultural communication, interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition, applied linguistics in healthcare, health disparities

Christian Koops, Ph.D., Rice University
Sociophonetics, speech perception, language revitalization, Western Cherokee

Erin Mares, B.S., University of New Mexico
American Sign Language, signed language interpreting

Jill P. Morford, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, homesign systems and signed languages

Dawn Myers, M.A., University of New Mexico
American Sign Language, signed language interpreting

Paul R. Platero, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Navajo linguistics

Bonnie J. Rudy, M.A., California State University Northridge
Signed languages, deaf culture and history, ASL literature

Barbara Shaffer, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Signed language linguistics, modality, language acquisition and interpreting theory

Naomi Lapidus Shin, Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Hispanic Linguistics, bilingualism, child language development, sociolinguistics, language contact

Catherine Travis is now at the Australian National University

Carole Gomez Uentillie, M.Ed., Northern Arizona University
Navajo language

Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Functional syntax, documentary fieldwork, indigenous Amazonian languages, Amazonian Spanish

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
American Sign Language (ASL), metaphor, interpreting theory and practice

Sherman Wilcox, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Signed language linguistics, language and gesture, language evolution, cognitive iconicity, interpreting theory,

Professors Emeriti

Garland D. Bills, Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Sociolinguistics, Southwest Spanish-English bilingualism, Spanish linguistics, Quechua

Joan L. Bybee, Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Phonology, morphology, typology and universals, language change, grammaticization

Larry P. Gorbet, Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Cognitive linguistics, syntax and semantics, Native American languages of the Southwest

Eduardo Hernández Chávez, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Bilingualism and language maintenance, Chicano Spanish, phonology

Alan J. Hudson, Ph.D., Yeshiva University
Societal multilingualism, variation theory, Irish and Welsh

Vera P. John-Steiner, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, bilingualism, productive and creative thinking, cross-cultural education, women's issues

Adjunct Faculty

Paul Edmunds, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Phonetics, English as a second language

Ian Maddieson, Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Phonetic and phonological universals, articulatory and acoustic phonetics

David Margolin, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Sociolinguistics, field linguistics

Daniel R. Sanford, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, metaphor, formulaic language

Associated Faculty in Other Departments

Lynn Beene, Ph.D., University of Kansas (English)
Language theory, professional writing, contemporary fiction

Philip Dale, Ph.D., University of Michigan (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Child language development and disorders

Richard File-Muriel, Ph.D., Indiana University (Spanish and Portuguese)
Phonetic and phonological variation and change, Colombian Spanish

Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, Ph.D., Ohio State University (Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Semantics, pragmatics, Russian, Bulgarian

George Luger, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Computer Science)
Computational linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence

Janet Patterson, Ph.D., University of Michigan (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Child language development and disorders

Julie Sykes, Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Spanish and Portuguese)
Second language acquisition, emerging digital media and computer-assisted language learning, interlanguage pragmatic development

Damián Vergara Wilson, Ph.D., University of New Mexico (Spanish and Portuguese)
Sociolinguistics and sociology of language, teaching Spanish as a heritage language, bilingualism, cognitive linguistics