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The Program in Linguistics has 14 core faculty and 14 affiliated faculty. Periodically we also
have visiting faculty. Our faculty represent over seventeen different academic departments and
programs on campus and encompass virtually every subfield of linguistics, including cognitive
linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, second language acquisition, linguistic
anthropology, semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and phonology.
Core Faculty
Roberto Franzosi, Professor, Sociology
Textual Analysis, Narrative, and Language and Mass Media
Benjamin Hary, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Semitic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Rina Kreitman, Lecturer/Hebrew Language Coordinator, MESAS
Phonology, Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics, Morphology, Language Acquisition
Hiram Maxim, Associate Professor, German Studies
Educational Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
James Morey, Professor, English
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Modern Icelandic
Laura Namy, Associate Professor, Psychology
Early Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development
Yumiko Nishi, Lecturer, REALC
Second Language Acquisition, Japanese Lingusitics, Tense and Aspect, Japanese Pedagogy, First Language Acquisition
Lynne Nygaard, Associate Professor, Psychology
Speech Perception and Spoken Language Processing
Marjorie Pak, Lecturer, Linguistics
Syntactic theory, Phonological theory, Syntax-phonology interface, and Word formation and word-level phonology
Bradd Shore, Professor, Anthropology
Symbolic and Psychological Anthropology and Linguistics
Debra Spitulnik, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Sociolinguistics, Media Studies, Discourse Analysis, African Languages
Susan Tamasi, Senior Lecturer, Linguistics
Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, American English, Health Communication
Donald Tuten, Director, Program in Linguistics
Associate Professor, Spanish
Historical Sociolinguistics, Romance Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Phillip Wolff, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Cognitive Science, Lexical Semantics, Metaphor, Acquisition of Meaning
Affiliated Faculty
Eugene Agichtein, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
Information Retrieval, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
Lawrence Barsalou, Professor, Psychology
Cognitive Psychology, Semantics
Grace Canseco, ESL Program Director, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Applied Linguistics, English as a Second Language
Maisha Fisher, Assistant Professor, Educational Studies
Language, Literacy and Culture
Carol Herron, Professor, French and Italian
Second Language Acquisition, French
Cathryn Johnson, Associate Professor, Sociology
Conversation Patterns in Groups
Hong Li, Senior Lecturer, REALC
Chinese Language and Culture
Yu Li, Lecturer, REALC
Cognitive Linguistics, Chinese Linguistics
Robert McCauley, Professor, Philosophy
Theoretical Strategies in Linguistics, Competence Modeling
James Rilling, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Evolution of human brain, Cognition, Social Behavior and Language
Mark Risjord, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Semantics, Logic, Philosophy of Language
Hossein Samei, Lecturer in Persian, MESAS
Pedagogy, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics
Grace Song, Instructor, ESL, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
English as a Second Language, Lexical Semantics
Devin Stewart, Professor, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Dialectology, Arabic Dialects
Visiting Faculty
Spring 2008.
Amy Cook,
Mellon Fellow, Theater Studies, Dramatic Literature.
Fall 2006.
Jonathan Evans, Associate Professor, Department of English, UGA.
Fall 2005 - Spring 2007.
Cynthia Gordon, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL).
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