Faculty Research Projects

Department of Linguistics faculty members are engaged in a wide variety of fascinating research projects that are yielding important new insights about human interactions.

Georgia Zellou: The seeds and spread of sound change.

Dr. Georgia Zellou has been awarded a research grant from the National Science foundation to investigate individual differences in coarticulatory patterns.

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English Typology and History

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.

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Vaidehi Ramanathan: Literacy and Medical Communication

Vaidehi Ramanathan: Literacy and Medical Communication

Professor Vaidehi Ramanathan is currently working on two research projects in complementary areas of linguistics.

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Robert Bayley: Language variation in diverse communities

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.

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Sounds, Statistics, and Software: Santiago Barreda

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.

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Processing Language: Kenji Sagae

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.

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