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Faculty
Ladder Faculty
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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 Visit Website
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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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 Read More
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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 Read More Download CV
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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 Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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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 Read More Download CV
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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 Visit Website
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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 Read More Download CV
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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 Read More
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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 Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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Affiliated Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Joint Appointments in Linguistics
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Idan Blank
- Assistant Professor
- Ph.D. 2016, MIT
- Email: iblank@psych.ucla.edu Read More
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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 Read More
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Jody Kreiman
- Professor
- Ph.D. 1987, University of Chicago
- Email: jkreiman@ucla.edu
- Pronouns: She, her, hers Visit Website
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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 Visit Website
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Lecturers
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Sephrine Achesah
- Continuing Lecturer, Swahili
- Email: achesahs@humnet.ucla.edu
- Office: 3312 Rolfe Hall Read More
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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. Read More
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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 Visit Website
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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. Read More
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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 Read More
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Jennifer Marfino
- Lecturer, American Sign Language
- M.A. Gallaudet University
- Email: jennifermarfino@g.ucla.edu
- Office: 3318 Rolfe Hall Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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Postdoctoral Scholars
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Jason Smith
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Ph.D. 2024, Michigan State University
- Email: jasondsmith@g.ucla.edu
- Research Interests: Fieldwork, syntax, morpho-syntax of African languages Read More
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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 Read More
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Emeritus Faculty
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Susan Curtiss
- Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D. 1976, UCLA
- Email: scurtiss@ucla.edu
- Office: 3300D Rolfe Hall
- Research Interests: Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition Read More
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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 Visit Website
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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. Read More
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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 Read More Download CV
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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 Visit Website
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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. Read More Download CV
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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. Read More
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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 Read More
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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. Read More
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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 Read More Download CV
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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Emeritus Affiliated Faculty
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Olga Yokoyama
- Distinguished Research Professor
- Email: olga@humnet.ucla.edu
- Phone: 310-825-7694 Read More
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Visiting Scholars and Researchers
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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) Read More
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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 Visit Website
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