Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars
Susanne Gahl
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Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Email: gahl@berkeley.edu Office: 1220 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Psycholinguistics; language production and comprehension; aphasia Spring 2021: Linguistics 47, 290M |
Keith Johnson
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Professor of Linguistics; Director, PhonLab; Chair, Department of Linguistics Email: keithjohnson@berkeley.edu Office: 1222 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Linguistic phonetics, phonetic neuroscience, psycholinguistics Spring 2021: Linguistics C160 |
George Lakoff
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics 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 Email: firstname dot lastname at berkeley dot edu Office: 1221 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Language and cognition; semantic variation and universals; computational linguistics Spring 2021: Linguistics C142, 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 2021: Linguistics 40, C105 |
Graduate students
Maksymilian Dabkowski
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Email: dabkowski@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonology and its interfaces, semantics, language documentation, language revitalization, logic, psycholinguistics |
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 |
Dmetri Hayes
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Email: dmetri@berkeley.edu Pronouns: he, him, his Research interests: Adult second language learning, language revitalization, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics |
Noah Hermalin
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Email: nmhermalin@berkeley.edu Research interests: Language and cognition; writing systems and written language |
Schuyler Laparle
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Email: schuyler_laparle@berkeley.edu Research interests: Syntax and its interfaces, lexical semantics, pragmatics, information structure, metaphor, cognitive linguistics |
Samuel Liff
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Email: liff@berkeley.edu Research interests: Computational linguistics, experimental methods, syntax, language attitudes, language varieties of the Jewish diaspora (especially Yiddish) |
Emily Remirez
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Email: eremirez@berkeley.edu Research interests: Sociocultural and interactional linguistics, lab phonetics and phonology (especially speech perception), identity construction |
Lupita Vasquez
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Email: nvasquez@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, speech perception and speech production |