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Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization

Isaac L. Bleaman

Isaac L. Bleaman

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Lev Michael

Dept of Linguistics

linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

Dept of Italian Studies

French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts

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Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian language and literature, intellectual history

literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education

Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López

School of Education

migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering

John MacFarlane

John MacFarlane

Dept of Philosophy

ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology

Isha Ray

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

water and development, sanitation and development, gender and technology and society

Anne E. Cunningham

Anne E. Cunningham

School of Education

education, literacy, reading development, children and technology, teacher professional development

Richard Harland

Richard Harland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular biology, early vertebrate development, Xenopus, embryo development

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

Joseph J. Campos

Dept of Psychology

social-emotional development in infancy, emotional communication, perception of emotion, relation of motor development to cognitive and social and emotional development

Dept of Linguistics

language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, eye development and diseases, lens development

Seth Yalcin

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic