Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars
Susanne Gahl
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Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Email: gahl@berkeley.edu Office: 1220 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Psycholinguistics; language production and comprehension; aphasia Spring 2018: Linguistics 109, 290M |
Keith Johnson
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Professor of Linguistics; Director, PhonLab Email: keithjohnson@berkeley.edu Office: 1222 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Linguistic phonetics, phonetic neuroscience, psycholinguistics 2017-18: On sabbatical leave |
George Lakoff
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Professor of the Graduate School Email: lakoff@berkeley.edu Research: Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of thought and language; conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, grammar and meaning; the application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, psychology, philosophy and mathematics |
Terry Regier
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Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science; Director, Program in Cognitive Science Email: firstname dot lastname at berkeley dot edu Office: 1221 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Language and thought; semantic variation and universals; computational methods Spring 2018: Linguistics 243 |
Eve Sweetser
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Professor of Linguistics; Director, Celtic Studies Program Email: sweetser@berkeley.edu Office: 1211 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gesture Spring 2018: Linguistics 106, 205 |
Elisabeth Wehling
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Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Linguistics Email: elisabethwehling@berkeley.edu Research interests: Embodied cognition, political morality and framing, gesture pragmatics |
Graduate students
Geoff Bacon
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Email: bacon@berkeley.edu Office: 1312 Dwinelle Research interests: Computational linguistics, learnability, language & cognition Fall 2017 teaching: Cognitive Science 1B |
Auburn Barron-Lutzross
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Email: alutzross@berkeley.edu Office: 50 Dwinelle Research interests: Experimental phonetics, sociophonetics, phonetics of gender and sexuality, psycholinguistics, accommodation and convergence, speech and aging, signed languages structure and prosody |
Meg Cychosz
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Email: mcychosz@berkeley.edu Office: 1307 Dwinelle Research interests: (Socio)phonetics, psycholinguistics: especially bilingual and L2 phonological acquisition Fall 2017 teaching: Linguistics 130 |
Karee Garvin
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Email: karee_garvin@berkeley.edu Office: 1309 Dwinelle Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, rhythm, prosody, phonetics-syntax interface, language documentation, African languages, Senufo languages Fall 2017 teaching: Linguistics 100 |
Dmetri Hayes
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Email: dmetri@berkeley.edu Office: 1312 Dwinelle Research interests: Psycholinguistics, employing and improving computational methods in linguistics, language revitalization Fall 2017 teaching: Linguistics 100 |
Noah Hermalin
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Email: nmhermalin@berkeley.edu Office: 1309 Dwinelle Research interests: Language and cognition; writing systems and written language Fall 2017 teaching: Linguistics 100 |
Emily Remirez
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Email: eremirez@berkeley.edu Office: 1305 Dwinelle Research interests: Sociocultural and interactional linguistics, lab phonetics and phonology (especially speech perception), identity construction Fall 2017 teaching: Linguistics 5 |
Katie Sardinha
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Email: katie.sardinha@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax-semantics interface; Language, cognition & culture; agentivity and causation; semantics of psych verbs and mental concepts; fieldwork methodology; Wakashan languages |
Alice Shen
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Email: azshen@berkeley.edu Office: 1307 Dwinelle Research interests: Phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech perception, bilingualism Fall 2017 teaching: Linguistics 110 |