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Department Chair

Patrick Farrell, PhD, Professor, Linguistics

tel: 530-752-4543 office: 206 Sproul Hall keywords: Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics

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Department Faculty

Raúl Aranovich, PhD, Associate Professor, Linguistics; Undergraduate Advisor

tel: 530-752-2291 office: 205 Sproul Hall

Robert Bayley, PhD, Professor, Linguistics; Graduate Advisor

tel: 530-752-3209 office: 204 Sproul Hall keywords: Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics

David Corina, PhD, Professor, Linguistics, Center for Mind and Brain

tel: 530-297-4421 office: 207 Sproul Hall; Ctr for Mind & Brain Room 152

Stephanie Cross, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL

tel: 530-752-7555 office: 224 Sproul Hall

Jim Davis, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL

Angela Foin, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL

tel: 530-754-6358 office: 215 Sproul Hall

John A. Hawkins, PhD, Professor, Linguistics, Center for Mind and Brain

tel: 530-752-0715 office: 208 Sproul Hall

Janet Lane, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL; Coordinator, ESL Grauate Program

tel: 530-754-6357 office: 211 Sproul Hall

Ellen Lange, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL

tel: 530-754-6358 office: 215 Sproul Hall

Stacia Levy, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL

tel: 530-752-9933 office: 200 B Street

Julia Menard-Warwick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Linguistics

tel: 530-757-5738 office: 200 B Street, Suite A. Office hours, spring 2008: Monday 9:30-10:30; Wednesday 3:30-4:30, or by appointment. keywords: second language learning & teaching, linguistic & cultural identities, narrative analysis

Almerindo Ojeda, PhD, Professor, Linguistics, Center for Mind and Brain; Director, Ctr for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas

office: 210 Sproul Hall keywords: Formal Linguistics, Human Rights, Art History

Orhan Orgun, PhD, Associate Professor, Linguistics

tel: 530-757-5739 office: 200 B St, Ste A

Vaidehi Ramanathan, PhD, Professor, Linguistics; Director, ESL Program

tel: 530-752-0191 office: 209 Sproul Hall

Alison Rukeyser, PhD, Lecturer, Linguistics

John Samsel, MA, Lecturer, Linguistics/ESL; Coordinator, ESL Undergraduate Program

tel: 530-752-4017 office: Sproul Hall 213

Lenora A. Timm, PhD, Professor, Linguistics; Associate Dean, Graduate Studies

tel: 530-752-4540 office: 203 Sproul Hall

Kathleen Ward, PhD, Lecturer, Linguistics

tel: 530-757-5737 office: 200 B St, Ste A

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Affiliated Faculty

Nina Dronkers, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Neurology, Linguistics, Center for Mind and Brain

keywords: Aphasia, Cerebral localization of language, Language of dementia, Other cognitive deficits resulting from brain injury

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Emeriti Faculty

Wilbur A. Benware, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Linguistics

Maria Manoliu, PhD, Professor Emerita, French, Linguistics

keywords: Romance linguistics: Morphosyntax, Semantics (prototypical semantics); the relations between syntax and discourse; pragmatics, cognition and cultural patterns.

Mary Schleppegrell, PhD, Professor Emerita, Linguistics

Maximo Torreblanca, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Linguistics

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Graduate Group Chair

María Cecilia Colombi, PhD, Professor, Spanish

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Graduate Group Faculty

Moradewun A. Adejunmobi, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, Program in African American and African Studies

Bruce Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor, French; Director, Second Language Acquisition Institute

Carlee Arnett, PhD, Associate Professor, German; Director, German Basic Language Program

Robert Blake, PhD, Professor, Spanish; Director, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching

Travis G. Bradley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Spanish

tel: 530-752-2454 office: Sproul, 705 keywords: Phonology, Phonetics, Historical Romance Phonology; Second Language Acquisition, Technology-enhanced Language Learning

Chengzhi Chu, PhD, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Coordinator, Chinese Language Program

Michael Glanzberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Philosophy

tel: 530-752-2254 office: 2283 Social Science and Humanities Building

Noriko Iwasaki, PhD, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Brendan Jackson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Debra Long, PhD, Professor, Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain

Martha J. Macri, PhD, Professor, Native American Studies; Director, Native American Language Center

Robert May, PhD, Professor, Philosophy

Barbara Merino, PhD, Professor, Education; Director, Teacher Education

tel: 530-752-3353 keywords: Assessment, Bilingual Education, Classroom Discourse, Elementary Education, English Learners

Flagg Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

tel: 530.754.8571 office: 916 Sproul Hall

Eric Russell Webb, PhD, Assistant Professor, French & Italian

keywords: Phonology, Phonetics, Phonology-phonetics interface, grammar theory and architecture; grammar evolution

Winfried Schleiner, PhD, Professor, English

Adam Sennet, PhD, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith, PhD, Professor, Anthropology

tel: 530-752-7388 office: 325 Young Hall keywords: Japanese language, gender, and ideology; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics

Tamara Swaab, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain

Yuuko Uchikoshi, EdD, Assistant Professor, Education

Kerry Villalva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Education

Karen Watson-Gegeo, PhD, Professor, Education

Aram Yengoyan, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Anthropology

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Graduate Students

Christy Boardman, PhD Student, Linguistics

office: Sproul 216

Lisa Bonnici, BA; MA, PhD Candidate, Linguistics

keywords: Maltese; language variation and change; language ideologies and attitudes; discourse analysis; ethnographic research methods

Yuriko Miyamoto Caltabiano, PhD Student, Linguistics

Vineeta Chand, BA, MA, PhD Candidate, Linguistics

office: Sproul 216 keywords: Sociocultural linguistics (e.g. linguistic anthropology, sociophonetics, gender studies, cross-dialect intelligibility, post-colonial World Englishes), linguistic steganography, language disorders, metaphor theory

Kristina de Korsak, PhD Student, Linguistics; GSR, Education

Iris Flannery, MA Student, Linguistics

Tammy Gales, PhD Student, Linguistics

office: Sproul 216 keywords: Language and the Law, Forensic Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, SFL, Sociolinguistics

Michael Grosvald, PhD Student, Linguistics, Center for Mind and Brain

tel: 530-297-4427 office: Corina Lab, Center for Mind and Brain keywords: Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, ASL, Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation, ERP, ESL, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Development (SLAD)

Sophia Jin, MA Student, Linguistics

Ann Kelleher, PhD Student, Linguistics

Linda Ko, MA Student, Linguistics

Duane Leonard, PhD Student, Linguistics; LIN 22 Instructor (Section 6)

office: Sproul 222 M/T 2-3 p.m.

Emily Levison, MA Student, Linguistics

Silvie (Sze-wei) Liao, PhD Student, Linguistics

office: Sproul 113 keywords: sociolinguistics, language variation, L2 pragmatics, discourse analysis

Li-fen Lin, PhD Student, Linguistics

Brandon Loudermilk, PhD Student, Linguistics, Center for Mind and Brain, Corina Lab

keywords: neurolinguistics, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics

Paul McPherron, PhD Student, Linguistics

Cory Messing, MA Student, Linguistics

Mary Power, MA Student, Linguistics

Dionne Soares, PhD Student, Linguistics

office: Sproul 113

Heather Sturman, B.S., PhD Student, Linguistics

office: Sproul 216

Colin Vandergraaf, MA Student, Linguistics

Beatriz Willgohs, PhD Student, Linguistics

office: Sproul, 115

Xiaoni Zhang, MA Student, Linguistics

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