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Dylan Bumford
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2017, New York University
Email:
dbumford@ucla.edu
Office:
3103L Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
semantics, pragmatics, logic, programming language theory
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Jack Duff
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2023, UC Santa Cruz
Email:
duff@ucla.edu
Office:
2210B Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
Language processing, fieldwork, pragmatics, computational psycholinguistics
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Ben Eischens
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2022, UC Santa Cruz
Email:
beischens@ucla.edu
Office:
2126A Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
Phonology, phonetics, fieldwork
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David Goldstein
Professor
Ph.D. 2010, UC Berkeley
Email:
dgoldstein@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3122B Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Historical linguistics, syntax, Indo-European
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Jesse Harris
Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 2012, UMass., Amherst
Email:
jharris@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
2224C Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
Language processing, semantics, pragmatics
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Tim Hunter
Professor
Ph.D. 2010, Univ. of Maryland
Email:
timhunter@ucla.edu
Office:
3103K Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Computational linguistics, syntax
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Sun-Ah Jun
Professor
Ph.D. 1993, Ohio State Univ
Email:
jun@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
2101J Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Phonetics, Intonation, Prosodic Typology, laboratory phonology, Prosodic Interfaces, Language acquisition
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Jonah Katz
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2010, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email:
katzlinguist@gmail.com
Office:
2210E Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Phonology, phonetics, prosody, rhythm, musical structure and cognition
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Stefan Keine
Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 2016, UMass Amherst
Email:
keine@ucla.edu
Office:
3103H Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Syntax, Morphosyntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Anoop Mahajan
Professor
Ph.D. 1990, MIT
Email:
amahajan@ucla.edu
Office:
3103N Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Syntactic theory, typology, South Asian languages
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Claire Moore-Cantwell
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2016, UMass Amherst
Email:
moore.cantwell@ucla.edu
Office:
2126B Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Phonology, psycholinguistics, variation, phonological acquisition
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Laurel Perkins
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2019, University of Maryland
Email:
perkinsl@ucla.edu
Office:
2210C Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Computational linguistics, first language acquisition, psycholinguistics
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Ethan Poole
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2017, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email:
epoole@ucla.edu
Office:
3103J Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
Syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface
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Jessica Rett
Professor
Ph.D. 2008, Rutgers University
Email:
rett@ucla.edu
Phone:
310-825-8926
Office:
3103M Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language
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Yael Sharvit
Professor
Ph.D. 1997, Rutgers University
Email:
ysharvit@gmail.com
Office:
3103G Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface
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Megha Sundara
Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D. 2005, McGill University
Email:
megha.sundara@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone:
310-825-0041
Office:
2101S Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Phonetics, speech perception, infants
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Harold Torrence
Professor
Ph.D. 2005, UCLA
Email:
htorrence@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3103F Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Fieldwork, syntax and morphology of African and Native American languages
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Michelle Yuan
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2018, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email:
yuanm@ucla.edu
Office:
3126B Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Syntax, morphosyntax, fieldwork
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Kie Ross Zuraw
Professor
Ph.D. 2000, UCLA
Email:
kie@ucla.edu
Phone:
310-825-0634
Office:
3122A Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Phonology, Austronesian languages, variation and quantitative approaches
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Affiliated Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Joint Appointments in Linguistics
Idan Blank
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2016, MIT
Email:
iblank@psych.ucla.edu
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Ji Young Kim
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2016, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email:
jiyoungkim@ucla.edu
Phone:
310-206-5452
Office:
5332 Rolfe Hall
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Jody Kreiman
Professor
Ph.D. 1987, University of Chicago
Email:
jkreiman@ucla.edu
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
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Victoria Mateu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2016, University of California Los Angeles
Email:
vmateu@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
5330 Rolfe Hall
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Lecturers
Sephrine Achesah
Continuing Lecturer, Swahili
Email:
achesahs@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3312 Rolfe Hall
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Daria Bahtina
Continuing Lecturer
Ph.D. 2013, Utrecht University
Email:
bahtina@ucla.edu
Office:
3312 Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language and identity, experimental linguistics, social interaction, mixed methods.
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Elise Bell
Lecturer
Ph.D. 2018, University of Arizona
Email:
elisebell@ucla.edu
Office:
2209 Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Phonetics, phonology, bilingualism, Celtic languages
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Sylvia Cho
Lecturer
Ph.D. 2025, Simon Fraser University
Email:
sylvia.cho@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3300A Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Experimental phonetics, voice quality, speech and hearing disorders.
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Benjamin Lewis
Continuing Lecturer, American Sign Language
M.A. Gallaudet University
Email:
benjaminlewis@ucla.edu
Office:
3320 Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
ASL language teaching, Deaf history and culture
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Jennifer Marfino
Lecturer, American Sign Language
M.A. Gallaudet University
Email:
jennifermarfino@g.ucla.edu
Office:
3318 Rolfe Hall
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Thomas C. Motter
Lecturer
Degree: Ph.D. 2023, University of California Los Angeles
Email:
tcmotter@gmail.com
Office:
3300A Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
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Giuseppina Silvestri
Continuing Lecturer
Ph.D. 2013, University of Pisa
Email:
g.silvestri@ucla.edu
Office:
2126C Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
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Postdoctoral Scholars
Jason Smith
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. 2024, Michigan State University
Email:
jasondsmith@g.ucla.edu
Research Interests:
Fieldwork, syntax, morpho-syntax of African languages
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Sahar Taghipour
Postdoctoral Scholar (Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship in Iranian Linguistics)
Ph.D. 2024, University of Toronto
Email:
sahar.taghipour@ucla.edu
Office:
3300E Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Syntax, morphology, fieldwork, Iranian Linguistics
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Emeritus Faculty
Susan Curtiss
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1976, UCLA
Email:
scurtiss@ucla.edu
Office:
3300D Rolfe Hall
Research Interests:
Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition
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Bruce Hayes
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1980, MIT
Email:
bhayes@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
2101G Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Phonology, phonetics, metrics, learnability
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Thomas Hinnebusch
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and African Languages
Ph.D. 1973 UCLA
Email:
hinnebus@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests:
Swahili language, literature, and poetry; African languages and linguistics (Bantu), phonology, historical linguistics.
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Nina Hyams
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1983, CUNY
Email:
hyams@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3300B Rolfe Hall
Research Interests:
Child language acquisition, syntax
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Patricia Keating
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D 1980, Brown University
Email:
keating@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3300 Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Research Interests:
Phonetics, laboratory phonology
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Edward Keenan
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1969, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Email:
keenan@humnet.ucla.edu
Office:
3300D Rolfe Hall
Research Interests:
Mathematical linguistics, linguistic universals, Malagasy.
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Hilda Koopman
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1984, Univ. of Tilburg
Email:
koopman@ucla.edu
Office:
3300D Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
She, her, hers
Research Interests:
Syntactic theory, comparative syntax, morphology-as-syntax; syntax-phonology interface, syntax-semantics interface, interface mismatches.
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Craig Melchert
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1977, Harvard University
Email:
melchert@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests:
Historical linguistics, Indo-European, Anatolian languages
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Pamela Munro
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1974, UC San Diego
Email:
munro@ucla.edu
Office:
3300D Rolfe Hall
Research Interests:
American Indian languages and linguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, syntax.
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Carson Schütze
Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email:
cschutze@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone:
310-825-0634
Office:
3300C Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
Language processing, first language acquisition, syntax, morphology, linguistic methodology
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Dominique Sportiche
Professor Emeritus, Research Professor
Ph.D. 1984, MIT
Email:
dominique.sportiche@ucla.edu
Office:
Campbell Hall
Research Interests:
Cognitive Science, Linguistic Invariants, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, French syntax, Romance syntax
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Edward Stabler
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1981, MIT
Email:
stabler@ucla.edu
Research Interests:
Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of logic and language
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Tim Stowell
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1981, MIT
Email:
stowell@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone:
310-825-6453
Office:
3300B Rolfe Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
syntax, syntax-semantics interface
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Emeritus Affiliated Faculty
Olga Yokoyama
Distinguished Research Professor
Email:
olga@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone:
310-825-7694
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Visiting Scholars and Researchers
Travis Major
Visiting Researcher
Ph.D. 2021, UCLA
Email:
tmajor@usc.edu
Office:
3126A Campbell Hall
Pronouns:
He, him, his
Research Interests:
Syntax and the interfaces, Fieldwork, Turkic Languages (Uyghur, Tatar, Turkish) and Niger-Congo Languages (Avatime, Ibibio)
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Deniz Rudin
Visiting Researcher
Ph.D. 2018, UC Santa Cruz
Email:
drudin@usc.edu
Office:
3300E Rolfe Hall
Research Interests:
Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language
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