Linguistics
Linguistics covers the core areas of phonetics, phonology, semantics, and syntax with the possibility of specializing in First Nations languages, African languages, first language acquisition, and experimental linguistics as well as specialized interaction with other disciplines such as art, computer science, music, philosophy, and psychology in the cognitive systems stream.
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Faculty Members in Linguistics
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad | Artificial intelligence (AI); Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics; Social Media Mining; Arabic |
| Babel, Molly | Linguistics; Phonetics; Recognition of Speech; Perception and Representation; Acoustics; Dialects; acoustics of speech production; phonetic variation; speech perception; spoken word recognition |
| Bochnak, Ryan | |
| Davis, Henry Thomas | First Nations languages |
| Dechaine, Rose-Marie | Native American languages; Algonquian language family, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe; French / English bilingualism policy; formal linguistics; generative grammar (Chomsky); West African languages (Niger-Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo); Nigerian languages; literacy vs. oralcy; language planning re: French, Indigenous languages, Speech/gesture coordination, syntactic interface relations |
| Gick, Bryan | phonetics, speech science, speech motor control, speech perception, multimodal perception, tactile perception, ultrasound imaging of speech, sounds of the world’s languages, Physical mechanisms of speech production, speech research |
| Hall, Kathleen | Linguistics; Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology |
| Hammerly, Christopher | Syntax & Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) |
| Hansson, Gunnar | Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Cognitive sciences; theoretical phonology; morphology-phonology interface; phonological typology; historical linguistics (language change); locality relations; Icelandic |
| Hudson Kam, Carla | Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, Psychology, First and second language acquisition, gesture and language learning, language contact and language change |
| Matthewson, Lisa | Linguistics; Semantics; Austronesian languages; Cross-linguistic variation and universals; Salish languages; Semantic fieldwork; Tsimshianic languages |
| Morzycki, Marcin | Linguistics; adverbial modification; degree modifiers; expressive meaning; grammar of modification; knowledge of meaning; measure phrases; modification of quantifiers; nonrestrictive modification; semantic restrictions on modifier order; Semantics, syntax, and their interface |
| Pulleyblank, Douglas | Linguistics; Phonology; Morphology; African languages; Yoruba |
| Rullmann, Hotze | Linguistics; Semantics |
| Silfverberg, Miikka Pietari | Natural Language Processing; NLP for morphologically complex languages; Morphological tagging; Parsing; Computational phonology and morphology; Deep Learning for NLP; Structured Prediction; Computational Semantics; Morphologically Complex Languages; Computational Linguistics |
| Soskuthy, Marton | language change; Computational modeling; Statistics; Phonetics; Cognitive systems |
| Tessier, Anne-Michelle | Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Constraint-based grammars; L2 production and perception in childhood; Language Acquisition; Lexical avoidance; Phonology; Prosodic processing with cochlear implants; Shitgibbons; U-shaped development |
| Zhu, Jian | Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Speech Sciences |
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