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The Department of Linguistics mourns the passing of Kathy Ross, our Graduate Coordinator for 18 years. Kathy died on January 3, 2009 after a two-year struggle with ovarian cancer. She will be missed by us all.
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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.






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Graduate Students

Douglas S. Bigham
Personal Webpage
Interests: Socio-historical linguistics; Construction Grammar; Memetics; Dialect phonology; HPSS; Constructed languages; Queer linguistics; Conversation analysis; Origins of language; Diffusion patterns of slang
Capn002@aol.com

Lynda de Jong Boudreault
Interests: Indigenous Languages of South America; Language Documentation; Language Maintenance and Revitalization; Language Identity; Nationalism; Historical Linguistics
ldejong@mail.utexas.edu

Eric Campbell
Interests: Descriptive and documentary linguistics, Mesoamerica, Historical linguistics, Epigraphy.
ecampbell@mail.utexas.edu

Cheng-Fu Chen
Personal Webpage
Interests: Syntax; Morphology; Morphosyntactic Interface; Rukai (one of the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, aka Formosan languages); Mandarin Chinese; Taiwanese (Southern Min)
cfchen@mail.utexas.edu

Youngok Cho
Interests: Language acquisition, syntax, and semantics.
youngok@mail.utexas.edu

Elaine Chun
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Style and Identity; Ideologies of Ethnicity and Gender; Asian American Sociolinguistics
echun@mail.utexas.edu

Pascal Denis
Personal Webpage
Interests: Constraint-based syntax; formal and lexical semantics; the semantics/pragmatics interface; computational linguistics
denis@mail.utexas.edu

Shannon Finch
Interests: Codeswitching and Multilingualism; Language and Globalization; Discourse Analysis; Repetition and Variation; Indo-Aryan Languages (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali); Germanic Languages (German); Language and Food
fringilla@mail.utexas.edu

Nicholas Gaylord
Interests: Word meaning, syntactic theory, morphosyntax, experimental semantics, computational linguistics, and cognitive science.
nlgaylord@mail.utexas.edu

Hyun-Jong Hahm
Interests: (Morpho-)Syntax; Syntax Semantics Interface; Typology; Signed languages.
hahm@mail.utexas.edu

Taryne Hallett
Interests:Sociolinguistics, language and ethnic identity, language policy & language rights; Linguistic andthropology; and Language documentation and description thallett@mail.utexas.edu

Adam Hammick
Interests: Indigenous language maintenance/revitalization, sociolinguistics, Japanese and Chatino
adam.hammick@gmail.com

Benjamin B. Hansen
Interests: Phonetics; Historical Linguistics; Iranian Languages
bbhansen@mail.utexas.edu

Cynthia I. Anderson Hansen
Interests: Descriptive/Documentary Linguistics; Iquito (Zaparoan language family, Peruvian Amazon); Language Endangerment; Tlamacazapan Nahuatl; Language Contact and Change; Spanglish
cianderson@mail.utexas.edu

Bernice Hecker
Interests: Ancient Semitic languages; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; The Emergentist Theory of Language
bernran@mail.utexas.edu

Stephen D. Hilderbrand
Personal Webpage
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Pragmatics; Discourse Analysis; Gonzo Linguistics
omeros@csr.utexas.edu

Yahui (Anita) Huang
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Philosophy of Language; Tense and Aspect in Taiwanese and Mandarin; Chinese Conditionals; Generic Sentences
anitahuang@mail.utexas.edu

Josh Iorio
Personal Webpage
Interests: sociolinguistics of online communities; online language ideology and variation; identity construction and perception in online spaces
joshiorio@mail.utexas.edu

Makiko Irie
Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Aspectual Theories; Syntax-Semantics Interface
mirie@mail.utexas.edu or makikoirie@hotmail.com

So-Hee Kim
Personal Webpage
Interests: Neurolinguistics, Language and Cognition
shkim32@gmail.com

Susan Smythe Kung
Personal Webpage
Interests: Huehuetla Tepehua (Totonacan language family, Mexico); Native American languages, especially ones spoken in Latin America; Language documentation; Language preservation and revitalization; Language loss and shift; Historical linguistics; Cherokee (North Carolina and Oklahoma)
ssmythe@mail.utexas.edu

Liberty Lidz
Interests: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Yongning Na (Mosuo) (TB language of southwestern China); language description and documentation; endangered languages and community-based language revitalization; technology for descriptive linguistics; tone, particularly tonogenesis; aspect; evidentiality and conjunct/disjunct; qualitative sociolinguistics, particularly language and style, identity, and gender; typology; writing systems
libertylidz@mail.utexas.edu

Laura J. Mahalingappa
Interests: Language Acquisition; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics (Identity, Ideology, Variation); Language Planning; Language Contact and Change; Turkish, Kurdish, and Languages of the Former Soviet Union
ljmaha@mail.utexas.edu

Justin McIntosh
Interests: Language documentation and description, endangered languages and language revitalization, language loss and shift. Chatino.
justinm@mail.utexas.edu

Nawal Nasser
Interests: Forensic Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Anthropology; Discourse Analysis
nnasser@mail.utexas.edu

Alexis M. Palmer
Personal Webpage
Interests: Computational linguistics; Semantics lexical and otherwise; Discourse structure; Languages of the Americas; Language and music
alexispalmer@mail.utexas.edu

Ginger Pizer
Interests: Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Signed Languages
gpizer@mail.utexas.edu

Elias Ponvert
Personal Webpage
Interests: Computational linguistics, categorial grammar, syntax, semantics, grammar acquisition, language engineering, tense and aspect, discourse semantics.
ponvert@mail.utexas.edu

Brianna G. Rauschuber
Interests: Documentary/Descriptive linguistics, Phonology
Personal Webpage
brauschuber@mail.utexas.edu

Tomoko Sakuma
Interests: Sociolinguistics (Ideologies of Language and Ethnicity), Language Contact (Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese)
sakumatomoko@mail.utexas.edu

Daisuke Sasaki
Assistant Professor, Hokusei Gakuen University (Sapporo, Japan)
Interests: Sign Linguistics; Phonology; Morphology; Conducting
daisuke@yahoo.com

Nikki Seifert
Interests: Sociolinguistics; linguistic innovation and variation; language and education; language and popular culture.
seifertn@mail.utexas.edu

Malavika Shetty
Interests: Linguistic Anthropology; Sociolinguistics; South Asian Languages; Tulu.
mlshetty@mail.utexas.edu

Aaron Shield
Interests: Sign Linguistics; Autistic Communication; Language Acquisition and Development; Deaf Community and Identity; Gesture; Cognitive Linguistics.
ashield@mail.utexas.edu

Alexandra Teodorescu
Personal Webpage
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Morphosyntax; Romanian
teodorescu@mail.utexas.edu

Sarah N. Wagner
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language, gender and sexuality; Language and power; Conversation Analysis
swagner@mail.utexas.edu

Willis Warren
Interests: Phonetics; Speech Production; Speech Perception; Neurolinguistics; Computational Linguistics; Automata Theory
warisill@mail.utexas.edu

Jess White
Interests: Syntactic variation, change, & acquisition; varieties of English (with focus on AAE & SWE); creoles; sociolinguistics (change, variation, and ideology); English historical linguistics.
jessicawhite@mail.utexas.edu

Christina Willis
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Endangered Languages; Languages of India (specifically Darma)
cmwillis@rediffmail.com

Wei-li Yang
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Tense and Aspect in Mandarin; First Language Acquisition in Mandarin
weili@mail.utexas.edu


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