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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

faculty

  • Dianne C. Bradley | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: Human sentence processing, phonology, bilingualism, L1 acquisition
     
  • Charles E. Cairns | email | webpage | webpage |
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Areas of interest: phonology and the phonology/phonetics and phonology/morphology interfaces. Emeritus Professor status.
     
  • Helen Smith Cairns | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., University of Texas
    Areas of interest: L1 acquisition, learnability, human sentence processing. Emeritus Professor status.
     
  • Cecelia Cutler | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., New York University
    Areas of interest: sociolinguistics, language and identity, youth language and hip hop culture, general linguistics
     
  • Martin Chodorow | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: computational linguistics (corpus-based statistical approaches), human sentence processing
     
  • José del Valle | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Georgetown University
    Areas of interest: Linguistics ideologies, language policy, Glottopolitical history of Spain and Latin America
     
  • Marcel den Dikken | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., University of Leiden
    Areas of interest: Syntax, and its interface with morphology
     
  • Eva Fernandez | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., The City University of New York
    Areas of interest: Human sentence processing, bilingualism, second language acquisition, instructional technology
     
  • Robert W. Fiengo | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax.
     
  • Janet Dean Fodor | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: Human sentence processing, learnability theory and L1 acquisition
     
  • Kathleen Currie Hall | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Areas of interest: phonology, phonetics
     
  • Alan Huffman | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Areas of interest: Semantics of morphemes and word order; grammar as theory; historical linguistics and dialectology; ESL
     
  • Elaine Klein | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., The City University of New York
    Areas of interest: Second language (L2) acquisition, bilingualism, learnability, sociolinguistics
     
  • Miki Makihara | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Areas of interest: Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics
     
  • Gita Martohardjono | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, bilingualism, syntax, L1 acquisition, learnability, sociolinguistics
     
  • William McClure | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    Areas of interest: Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, syntax
       
  • Richard Mendelsohn | email | webpage |
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: philosophy of language, semantics, logic
     
  • Stephen Neale email
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Areas of interest: semantics, logic, pragmatics, anaphora, linguistics and law

Michael Newman | email | webpage |
Ed. D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, variationist and language attitudes and applied linguistics, particularly literacy theory
 

Loraine Obler | email | webpage |
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Areas of interest: Neurolinguistics, bilingualism, language in aging and dementia dyslexia
 

Alexander Orenstein | email | webpage |
Ph.D., New York University
Areas of interest: Philosophy of language, semantics, logic
 

Ricardo Otheguy | email | webpage |
Ph.D., The City University of New York
Areas of interest: sociolinguistics, language contact, functional linguistics
 

Sandeep Prasada | email | webpage |
Ph.D., MIT
Areas of interest: Lexical  and Conceptual representation and development
 

David Rosenthal | email | webpage |
Ph.D., Princeton University
Areas of interest: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of psychology. Emeritus Professor status.
 

William Sakas | email | webpage |
Ph.D., The City University of New York
Areas of interest: psychocomputational models of first language acquisition
 

Irina Sekerina | email | webpage |
Ph.D., The City University of New York
Areas of interest: Sentence processing, eye-tracking, bilingualism, Slavic and Russian linguistics and psycholinguistics, language acquisition.
 

Arthur Spears | email | webpage |webpage |
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Areas of interest: Pidgin and creole languages, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, African American English, Haitian Creole
 

Winifred Strange | email | webpage |
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Areas of interest: speech science, acoustic phonetics, speech perception, development of speech perception
 

Virginia Teller | email | webpage |
Ph.D., New York University
Areas of interest: Cognitive and computational models of Clinical cognition and emotions; machine translation; computational linguistics; natural language processing; articial intelligence
 

Christina Tortora | email | webpage |
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Areas of interest: Syntax, Lexical Semantics-syntax interface, Italian dialects, Romance languages
 

Robert M. Vago | email | webpage |
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of interest: phonological theory, moraic structure and vowel harmony within the framework of optimality theory, first language attrition
 

Virginia Valian | email | webpage |
Ph.D., Northeastern University
Areas of interest: First language acquisition, learnability