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Meet Our Graduate Students


We have more than 50 graduate students in linguistics. Here is a sample of the students and their main interests. For more detailed information on what some of our students are up to, click here.

Evan Ashworth Language revitalization, language ideologies, Native American languages, writing systems

Clay Beckner Usage-based theory, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, language change, exemplar models, complex systems

Keiko Beers Indigenous language description, documentation and revitalization, discourse analysis, morphosyntax, semantics

Susan Brumbaugh Sociophonetics, Chicano English, first and second language acquisition

Hugo Garcia Typology, pragmatics. (See Hugo's website here.)

Laura Hirrel Language revitalization, corpus linguistics, language change, and gesture

Motomi Kajitani Typology and universals, morphosyntax, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, social cognitive linguistics, Japanese linguistics

Iphigenia Kerfoot Language revitalization, psychology of multilingualism, usage-based approaches to linguistics

Amy Lindstrom English/Spanish convergence in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, second language acquisition

Andres Sabogal Language revitalization, phonetics & phonology, historical linguistics

Joe Zarnowski Critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics


PhD students in the Program in Educational Linguistics

Pei-ni Lin Causarano First and second language acquisition, language pedagogy and assessment, language development in students with special needs

Jannette Hermina English and Spanish as a second language, children's bilingualism, sociolinguistics, phonology, sociocultural issues, racial segregation in schools, and social class stratification in schools

Tae Kunisawa L1/L2 language development, sociocultural theory, linguistic relativity, gesture, language revitalization, language ideologies, Native American languages, writing systems