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Core Linguistics Faculty

Linguistics Research Faculty

Graduate faculty in the linguistics department whose main focus is research and who can advise a PhD thesis.

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Melinda Fricke
Associate Professor
Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Speech Production & Perception
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Shelome Gooden
Professor
Assistant Vice
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Amanda Huensch
Associate Professor
Director, Graduate
L2 acquisition, L2 pronunciation, speech perception and production,... (More)
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Matthew Kanwit
Professor
Chair, Department of
Hispanic Linguistics, L2 Acquisition, Sociolinguistic Variation,... (More)
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Scott F. Kiesling
Professor
Language & gender, stance, ethnicity, language change, Pittsburgh... (More)
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Janet Liu
Assistant Professor
Computational linguistics, NLP, corpus linguistics, discourse and... (More)
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Kevin McManus
Professor
Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, Research Methods,
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Marta Ortega-Llebaria
Associate Professor
Sound and Hispanic Linguistics. Intonation, rhythm and tone;... (More)
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Dan Villarreal
Assistant Professor
Sociolinguistics, Computational linguistics, Phonetics, Language... (More)

Linguistics Teaching Faculty

Faculty who teach in our linguistics programs and/or administer our certificate programs.

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Gretchen Aiyangar
Teaching Assistant Professor
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Amani Attia
Teaching Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Arabic major, Academic Advisor, Certified ILR OPI Tester (Egyptian Arabic)
Arabic Language and Culture Certificate
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Na-Rae Han
Teaching Professor
Director, RHLMC
Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, NLP
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Debra L. Hast
Senior Instructor, ASL Program Coordinator, ASL Certificate Advisor
American Sign Language Certificate Coordinator
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Jevon Heath
Teaching Associate Professor
Language change, linguistic typology, phonetic perception
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Filipo Lubua
Teaching Assistant Professor, Swahili Program Coordinator, Swahili Minor Advisor
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Claude E. Mauk
Teaching Professor, ASL
Phonetics, ASL, Structure and Sociolinguistics of ASL
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Dawn E. McCormick
Teaching Professor
Director, ELI
L2 Acquisition, TESOL, pedagogy, issue of representation in material... (More)
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Gregory Mizera
Teaching Associate Professor
ESL Coordinator
L2 Acquisition, Linguistic Structures
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Phillip Rogers
Teaching Assistant Professor
Linguistic typology, morphosyntax, corpus and computational... (More)
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Abdesalam Soudi
Teaching Associate Professor
Linguistic Internship; Cultural and Linguistic
Conversation analysis, Sociolinguistics, Arabic Linguistics

Affiliated Faculty

People housed in other departments at Pitt and at Carnegie Mellon University who contribute to graduate student research.

Richard Donato
Professor of foreign language education,
Applied linguistics, second and foreign language...
Amanda Godley
Associate Professor, English Education and
Critical Language Pedagogy, code-switching, code-meshing
Lori Levin
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon
Lexical-functional grammar, lexical semantics, machine...
Charles Perfetti
Professor of psychology and linguistics
Psycholinguistics, reading, comprehension, language and...
Mandy Simons
Professor of philosophy, Carnegie Mellon
Natural language semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of...
Kate Stanton
Assistant Professor, Philosophy &
Natasha Tokowicz
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Adult second language learning, bilingualism, within and...
Tessa Warren
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Adult sentence comprehension; syntactic, semantic and...