Affiliated faculty
| Rosa Vallejos Department of Linguistics |
Rosa's research
focuses on Amazonia. She has conducted several interconnected projects to study and document three typologically distinct languages: Amazonian Spanish, Kokama (Tupían) and Secoya (Tukanoan). She records and analyzes natural language use and extracts linguistic patterns in order to explain these patterns in cross-linguistic terms. Rosa pursues research in three areas: morphosyntax, language contact, and documentary fieldwork. More information can be found here. |
| Melissa Axelrod Department of Linguistics |
Her work has
focused on language revitalization and documentation of indigenous
languages in the Americas. She is currently working on projects to
produce grammars, dictionaries, and pedagogical materials with the
Ixhil Maya of highland Guatemala, the O’odham of southern Arizona, and
Nambe Pueblo of New Mexico. More information can be found here. |
| William Croft Department of Linguistics |
His central
interests are in how meaning and function are encoded in grammatical
form, and in the variation, diversity and evolution of languages. He
takes a functional-typological approach to the analysis of grammar,
drawing on the insights of construction grammar and cognitive
linguistics. Visit William Croft's webpage. |
| Holly E. Jacobson Department of Linguistics |
Her
cross-disciplinary research focuses foremost on language and health,
with language minorities and communities impacted by health disparities
constituting the driving force of her work. Her primary areas of
research and teaching include health discourse; intercultural
communication in healthcare settings; and health literacy. More information can be found here. |
| Christian Koops Department of Linguistics |
His primary
research interest is sociophonetics, especially the question of how
social variation in speech production is mentally represented, and how
our mental representations of different speaker groups are used during
speech perception. More information can be found here. |
| Jill P. Morford Department of Linguistics |
Her research
investigates language acquisition and processing in the visual
modality. In particular, she is interested in (1) the effects of
language input on the development of language processing skills, and
(2) the effects of the visual modality on the structure and processing
of language, and (3) bilingual lexical access. More information can be found here. |
| Barbara Shaffer Department of Linguistics |
She is primarily
interested in discourse pragmatics in American Sign Language. She has
been focusing on intersubjectivity in discourse and interpreted
discourse. She has also been collecting data on the expression of
speaker subjectivity, specifically the use of modals and evidentials. Visit Barbara Shaffer's webpage. |
| Caroline L. Smith Department of Linguistics |
Her research uses
a laboratory phonology approach, and in recent years has been largely
concerned with prosody, especially in French. She teaches courses on phonetics and phonology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Visit Caroline Smith's webpage. |
| Sherman Wilcox Department of Linguistics |
His research
focuses on signed language linguistics and typology, the relation of
gesture and language, language evolution, Deaf culture, and cognitive
theories of interpreting. He teaches undergraduate courses in the B.S. Degree in Signed Language Interpreting and graduate courses in Linguistics. Visit Sherman Wilcox's webpage. |
| Barbara Rodriguez Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Her research and teaching interests are in bilingual language acquisition. Her recent research has focused on language and literacy development in bilingual
(English/Spanish), cultural and environmental influences on the
language development of children from diverse backgrounds, and
speech/language assessment and screening of bilingual children.Visit Barbara Rodriguez's webpage. |
| David Dinwoodie Dept. of Anthropology (Ethnology) |
Areas of Research: Sociocultural anthropology; Linguistic anthropology; theory and history, ethnonationalism, neoliberalism, and historical consciousness; 19th century British colonialism; Pacific Northwest, Native North America, Canada. Visit David Dinwoodie's webpage. |
| Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures |
Areas of Research: Bilingualism, heritage speakers, SLA, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Slavic languages. Visit Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan's webpage. |
| Emma Trentman Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures |
Interests are language and intercultural learning during study abroad, research-based interventions in study abroad, critical analysis of study abroad discourse, Arabic dialectology and L2 dialect acquisition, and developing a genre-based curriculum for Arabic. Visit Emma Trentman's webpage. |