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Department of Linguistics.
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Upcoming Events

UT Department of Linguistics Colloquia

Gert Webelhuth, University of Göttingen
"Motivating the Properties of Locative Inversion"
Monday, Sept 29
3PM, UTC 3.112

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Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5)
September 26-28, 2008


Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology (LASP) 4
September 26-28, 2008


CHRONOS 8: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality
October 2-5, 2008
Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Carlota S. Smith (1934-2007)


The Department of Linguistics announces the establishment of the Carlota S. Smith Memorial Fellowship that will be awarded annually to a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics. To donate to this endowment, click here.






People

 

American Sign Language Faculty Members

Perry Connolly
Shirley Gerhardt
Franky Ramont

Carol Seeger
Carolyn Stem
Debbie White

Linguistics Faculty Members

Jason Baldridge
David I. Beaver
John Beavers
Megan Crowhurst
Nora England
Patience L. Epps
Katrin Erk
Ian F. Hancock
Robert D. King

Richard P. Meier
Scott Myers
Rajka Smiljanic
Harvey M. Sussman
Stephen Wechsler
Anthony C. Woodbury
Qing Zhang

Emeritus Faculty

John Bordie
Björn Lindblom

Robert T. Harms
Robert E. Wall

Faculty In Memoriam

Winfred P. Lehman

Carlota S. Smith


ASL Faculty


Perry Connolly
Senior Lecturer, M. Admin Cal State Northridge
pare@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

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Shirley Gerhardt
Lecturer, B.S.W. University of Texas at Austin
sgerhardt@mail.utexas.edu

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Franky Ramont
Lecturer, M.S. Nebraska
franky-ramont@mail.utexas.edu

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Carol Seeger
Senior Lecturer, M.S. Western Maryland
cseeger@mail.utexas.edu

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Carolyn Stem
Lecturer, M.A. California State University, Northridge
carolynstem@mail.utexas.edu

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Debbie White
Lecturer, M.Ed. Gallaudet University
debbiewhite@tmo.blackberry.net

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Linguistics Faculty


Jason Baldridge
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
jbaldrid@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning of Natural Language, Parsing, Syntactic Theory, Discourse Structure.

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David I. Beaver
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
dib@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Intonational Phonology; Computational Semantics; Philosophy of Language; Logic; Cognitive Science

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John Beavers
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Stanford
jbeavers@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Morphosyntax, and Computational Linguistics

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Megan Crowhurst
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Arizona
mcrowhurst@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Phonological Theory and Prosodic Morphology; Native American Languages; Speech Perception.

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Nora England
Professor, Ph.D. Florida
nengland@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Linguistic description; language politics; language ideologies; Mayan descriptive and comparative linguistics; American languages.

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Patience L. Epps
Assistant professor, Ph.D. University of Virginia.
pepps@mail.utexas.edu

Interests: Documentary and descriptive linguistics, Indigenous languages of Brazil, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics.

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Katrin Erk
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Saarland
katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Computational linguistics, lexical semantics, machine learning for semantic analysis, corpus linguistics

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Ian F. Hancock
Professor, Ph.D. University of London
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu

Romani Archives

Interests: Pidginization and Creolization of Language; Romani Language; Regional and Non-standard Varieties of English; African Linguistics.

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Robert D. King
Professor, Ph.D. Wisconsin
rking@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Historical Linguistics; Yiddish; Languages of India.

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Richard P. Meier
Professor, Ph.D. UCSD
rmeier@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Psycholinguistics; Language Acquisition; Sign Language.

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Scott Myers
Professor, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
s.myers@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Phonological Theory; African Languages.

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Rajka Smiljanic
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Illinois
rajka@austin.utexas.edu

Interests: Cross-language and second language phonetics, variation, clear speech, intelligibility, prosody.

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Harvey M. Sussman
Professor, Ph.D. Wisconsin
sussman@mail.utexas.edu

Interests: Neurolinguistics; Experimental Phonetics.

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Stephen Wechsler
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Stanford
wechsler@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Syntax; HPSG; Argument Structure; Morphosyntax.

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Anthony C. Woodbury
Professor, Ph.D. Berkeley
acw@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics; Language Endangerment; Grammatical Analysis and Theory; Natural Discourse and Oral Literature; Yupik-Inuit-Aleut Languages and Speech Communities; Chatino Linguistics and Language Preservation.

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Qing Zhang
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Stanford
qzhang@mail.utexas.edu

Interests: Sociolinguistics: language and social identity; language and gender; linguistic variation and change in the context of globalization; Chinese sociolinguistics.

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Professors Emeriti


John Bordie
Professor Emeritus

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Björn Lindblom
Professor Emeritus

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Robert T. Harms
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Chicago
harms@mail.utexas.edu

Personal Webpage

Interests: Phonology; Historical Linguistics; Uralic; Computational Linguistics.

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Robert E. Wall
Professor Emeritus

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Faculty In Memoriam


Winfred P. Lehman
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Wisconsin, In Memoriam
Memorial Page

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Carlota S. Smith
Professor, Ph.D. Pennsylvania, In Memoriam
Memorial Page

Personal Webpage

Interests: Syntactic Theory; Semantics; Text & Discourse Structure; Language Acquisition; Mandarin Chinese.

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