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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

faculty

  • Juliette Blevins email | webpage
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: Phonology, Phonetics, Historical linguistics and language change, documentation of endangered languages, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, Native American languages
  • Dianne C. Bradley | email
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Areas of interest: Human sentence processing, phonology, bilingualism, L1 acquisition
      
  • Cecelia Cutler | email
    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
     
  • Matt Huenerfauth email website lab
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
    Areas of interest: Computational linguistics, American Sign Language (ASL), assistive technologies for people with disabilities or literacy impairments

  • Alan Huffman | email
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Areas of interest: Semantics of morphemes and word order; grammar as theory; historical linguistics and dialectology; ESL
     
  • Heng Ji email webpage lab
    Ph.D., New York University
    Areas of interest: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

  • 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
    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
    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
     
  • 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
      
  • Andrew Rosenberg email webpage lab
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Areas of interest: Computational Linguistics, Prosody, Speech, Machine Learning

  • 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.
  • Valerie Shafer email webpage
    Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo
    Areas of interest: Speech perception in SLA, Morphosyntactic info. in acquiring language, Brain development and language acquisition, Auditory processing and language learning  

  • 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

  • Virginia Teller | email
    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

  • Douglas Whalen | email
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Areas of interest: Speech Perception and Production, endangered languages
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    Adjunct Faculty

    Mamori Hughes     email webpage
    Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
    (Spring 2012)
    Area of interest: Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, syntax

    Daniel Kaufman     email
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    (2009-2010)
    Area of interest: Endangered language documentation, Morphology

    Professor Emeriti
  • 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
    Ph.D., University of Texas
    Areas of interest: L1 acquisition, learnability, human sentence processing. Emeritus Professor status.
  • Alexander Orenstein | email
    Ph.D., New York University
    Areas of interest: Philosophy of language, semantics, logic
  • 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.