Faculty, Staff, and Postdoctoral Scholars
Christine Beier
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Assistant Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Email: beiercm@berkeley.edu Office: 1224 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Language endangerment, vitality, and revitalization; language documentation and description; Amazonian languages 2020-21: On research leave |
Amy Rose Deal
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: ardeal@berkeley.edu Office: 1223 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, fieldwork, Nez Perce Spring 2021: Linguistics 5, 221 |
Andrew Garrett
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Professor of Linguistics, Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences |
Larry M. Hyman
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Professor of Linguistics; Executive Director, France-Berkeley Fund Email: hyman@berkeley.edu Office: 1225 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Phonological theory, language typology, African languages, especially Bantu and other Niger-Congo Spring 2021: Linguistics 24, 115, 140 |
Peter Jenks
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: jenks@berkeley.edu Office: 1217 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, phonology, fieldwork; Moro and other Niger-Congo languages; Thai, Mandarin, and other East and Southeast Asian languages Spring 2021: Sabbatical leave |
Darya (Даша) Kavitskaya
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Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Linguistics Email: dkavitskaya@berkeley.edu Office: 6219 Dwinelle Research and teaching: Slavic, Turkic, Uralic; phonology and phonetics, historical phonology Spring 2021: Linguistics C137 |
Lev Michael
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Professor of Linguistics; Head Graduate Adviser, Department of Linguistics Email: levmichael@berkeley.edu Office: 1212 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Anthropological linguistics, language typology, Amazonian documentary, descriptive, and comparative linguistics, language contact, grammar and interaction, prosodic systems and verbal art, language endangerment and revitalization Spring 2021: Linguistics 222, 240B |
Line Mikkelsen
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Email: mikkelsen@berkeley.edu Office: 1210 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Syntax, semantics, morphology, Danish and other Germanic languages, Karuk and other languages of California, philosophy of language Spring 2021: Linguistics 120, 220B |
Zachary O'Hagan
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics |
Richard A. Rhodes
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Associate Professor of Linguistics; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies; Co-Director, Canadian Studies Program Email: rrhodes@berkeley.edu Office: 1214 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology and lexicology Spring 2021: Linguistics 290B |
Ronald Sprouse
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Information Systems Analyst Email: ronald@berkeley.edu Office: 49 Dwinelle Hall Portfolio: Programming related to speech production and perception research, including digital signal processing. Linux system administration and web application development for digital language archives and language documentation. |
Hannah Sande
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics Email: hsande@berkeley.edu Office: TBA Research and teaching: Phonology, morphology, and their interface; prosody; language documentation and description; African languages, especially languages of Côte d'Ivoire Spring 2021: Not teaching |
Graduate students
Madeline Bossi
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Email: madeline_bossi@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation and revitalization |
Maksymilian Dabkowski
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Email: dabkowski@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonology and its interfaces, semantics, language documentation, language revitalization, logic, psycholinguistics |
Wesley dos Santos
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Email: wesleynascimento@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Amazonian languages (especially Kawahiva, a Tupí-Guaraní language) |
Emily Drummond
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Email: emily_drummond@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, language variation and change, language documentation, Polynesian languages, Nukuoro |
Karee Garvin
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Email: karee_garvin@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, rhythm, prosody, phonetics-syntax interface, language documentation, African languages, Senufo languages |
Emily Grabowski
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Email: emily_grabowski@berkeley.edu Research interests: phonetics, phonology, tone, quantitative methods, language documentation |
Edwin Ko
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Email: eddersko@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphosyntax, language variation and change, historical and comparative linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Alaska Native and Native American languages (especially Aleut, Crow, Hidatsa, and Northern Pomo) |
Myriam Lapierre
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Email: myriam.lapierre@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, nasality, language documentation and revitalization, Amazonian languages (especially Jê languages) |
Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach
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Email: raksit@berkeley.edu Research interests: Sound change, experimental phonetics, tonogenesis, perception-production link, documentation & revitalization, Austroasiatic languages, Ryukyuan languages |
Tyler Lemon
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Email: tylerlemon@berkeley.edu Research interests: Morphology, syntax, phonology, typology, language variation, fieldwork |
Erik Hans Maier
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Email: erikhmaier@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, fieldwork, language documentation and revitalization, verbal art, Karuk, Germanic languages |
Tzintia Montano Ramirez
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Pronouns: she, her, hers Email: cynthia.montano@berkeley.edu Research interests: Otomanguean languages, especially Mixtec of Puebla |
Julia Eileen Nee
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Email: jnee@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language documentation and revitalization, syntax, semantics, Mesoamerican linguistics, language contact, Zapotec (Teotitlán del Valle) |
Ruth Rouvier
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Email: rrouvier@berkeley.edu Research interests: Historical linguistics, typology, morphology, language contact, areal linguistics |
Katherine Russell
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Email: katherine.russell@berkeley.edu |
Martha Schwarz
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Email: martha_schwarz@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, fieldwork, Nepali |
Tessa Scott
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Email: tessa_scott@berkeley.edu Research interests: syntax; semantics; morphosyntax; typology; fieldwork; East Africa; Bantu languages |