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 |
Isaac L. Bleaman
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics Email: bleaman@berkeley.edu Office: 1216 Dwinelle Hall Research and teaching: Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, sociosyntax, corpus methods, language contact, multilingualism, language planning, language and ethnicity, Yiddish, Jewish language varieties Spring 2021: Linguistics 255 |
William F. Hanks
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Berkeley Distinguished Professor in Linguistic Anthropology Email: wfhanks@berkeley.edu Office: 315 Kroeber Research and teaching: The organization and dynamics of routine language use, Shamanism, and colonial history of Yucatan; Mayan languages; semantics and pragmatics, especially deictic systems |
Leanne Hinton
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics Email: lhinton@berkeley.edu Research: American Indian languages, endangered languages, language revitalization |
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 |
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 |
Graduate students
Erin Donnelly
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Email: edonnelly@berkeley.edu Research interests: Sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, descriptive linguistics, 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) |
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) |
Tzintia Montano Ramirez
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Pronouns: she, her, hers Email: cynthia.montano@berkeley.edu Research interests: Otomanguean languages, especially Mixtec of Puebla |
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 |
Eric Wilbanks
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Email: wilbanks_eric@berkeley.edu Research interests: Phonetics and phonology; sociophonetics; language variation and change; laboratory phonology; speech perception and production; Hispanic linguistics |