Faculty Research Projects
English Typology and History
Research by John A. Hawkins, a distinguished professor of linguistics, is lending new insights into the grammatical and lexical evolution of the English language since the Middle Ages.
Vaidehi Ramanathan: Literacy and Medical Communication
Professor Vaidehi Ramanathan is currently working on two research projects in complementary areas of linguistics.
Robert Bayley: Language variation in diverse communities
Robert Bayley, a sociolinguist that specializes in language variation and change, was among the first people to apply the methods of variationist research to second language acquisition.
Raul Aranovich and Kenji Sagae: Linguistics and cybersecurity
Raúl Aranovich and Kenji Sagae are developing an ontology for cybersecurity with NSF funding, using NLP methods.
Sounds, Statistics, and Software: Santiago Barreda
By Alan Wong – Phonologists, psycholinguists, syntacticians: there’s more than one type of linguist. Santiago Barreda is best categorized as a phonetician, but his broader contributions to computational and quantitative methodologies give his work an interdisciplinary dimension.
Processing Language: Kenji Sagae
By Alan Wong - For decades, linguists, philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists and more have explored how language "works". Today, computational linguists like Kenji Sagae are using cutting-edge techniques to ask fundamental questions about the nature of language.
