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Maya Abtahian
Associate Professor of Linguistics; Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
Office: 514 Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language variation and change
  • Language contact
  • Language shift
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Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
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Research Interests
  • Language documentation and description
  • Computational linguistics
  • Mesoamerican languages
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Adeleke, Lateef
PhD student in Linguistics
Research Interests
  • Language Documentation & Description
  • Natural Language Processing
  • African Languages
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Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Research Interests
  • Natural language understanding
  • Discourse
  • Knowledge representation
  • Common-sense reasoning
  • Planning
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Professor of Linguistics; Director of Center for Language Sciences
Office: 506 Lattimore
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Research Interests
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics
  • Logic, Language, and Computation
  • Cognitive Science
Paul Audi
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: 522 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
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Research Interests
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Language

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Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3007 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7758
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Research Interests
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Augmented Reality
  • Tangible User Interfaces
  • Embodied Conversational Agent
  • Technology-Enhanced Learning
  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
  • Assistive Technology
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Basu, Sreyoshi
MA student in Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Phonetics
  • Syntax
  • Multilingualism
  • Sociolinguistics
Loisa Bennetto
Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
Office: 492 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8712
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Research Interests
  • Neurocognitive bases of autism
  • The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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Cao, Angela
PhD student in Linguistics

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Research Interests
  • Semantics
  • Causality
  • Conceptual Reasoning
Greg Carlson
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Semantic Theory
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Discourse
Laurel Carney
Carney, Laurel
Professor Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Office: 5-8513 MC
Phone: (585) 276-3948
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Charest, Jessica
PhD student in Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Language documentation and revitalization
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Chaudhari, Akash
MS student in Computational Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Extraction

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Everson, Becky
MA student in Language Description and Documentation
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Research Interests
  • Language Documentation
  • Archiving
  • Tone
  • Syntax

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Gantt, William
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Associate Professor
Office: G121-H Rush Rhees Library
Phone: (585) 275-5363
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Daniel Gildea
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3019 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7852
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Research Interests
  • Machine translation
  • Semantic parsing
  • Algorithms for natural language processing
Nadine Grimm
Assistant Professor of Linguistics; Director of Language Documentation and Description Program; Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab; On leave for the 23-24 academic year
Office: 509 Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Grammatical tone
  • Language documentation and description
  • Typology
  • African languages, particularly Bantu
Scott Grimm
Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics; Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab; On leave for the 23-24 academic year
Office: 512 Lattimore Hall
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Office: 507  Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • The correspondence between syntactic cyclicity and prosodic recursion in words

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Ehsan Hoque
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3013 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1351
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Research Interests
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Interactive machine learning
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Future of skills
Thomas M. Howard
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: 732 Computer Studies Building
Phone: (585) 275-3755
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Research Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Motion Planning
  • Human-Robot Interaction

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T. Florian Jaeger
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
Office: 320 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3611
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Associate Professor, Philosophy
Office: 519 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
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Research Interests
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Language
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Kuchmiichuk, Pavlo
MS student in Computational Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Low-resource NLP
  • Grammatical Error Correction
  • Computational Semantics
Chigusa Kurumada
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Office: 304 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-0760
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Ma, Yizhen
PhD student in Linguistics
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Marvin, Elizabeth West
Professor Music Theory and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Office: 109 ESM
Phone: (585) 274-1076
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McDonald, Betsy
Research Scientist
Office: 422 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2505
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Joyce McDonough
Richard L. Turner Professor; Professor of Linguistics; Acting Department Chair, AY23-24
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces
  • Laboratory phonology
  • Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics
  • Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
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Michielsen, Bryan
Department Manager
Office: 503 Lattimore Hall
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Moon, Ellise
PhD student in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)
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Research Interests
  • Semantics
  • Philosophy of language
  • Abstraction
  • Countability
Mary Moroney
Adjunct Professor
Office: 511 Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Semantics
  • Syntax
  • Definiteness
  • Quantification
  • Comparatives
  • Southeast Asian Languages
  • Fieldwork

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Patni, Suhasini
MA student in Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Vietnamese
  • Sociolinguistics
Asia Pietraszko
Assistant Professor of Linguistics; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Director of Field Syntax Lab
Office: 510 Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Syntax and Morphology
  • Clausal Architecture
  • Bantu Morphosyntax
  • Selection and Complementation
  • Syntactic Movement and Locality

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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya
PhD student in Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Tamil heritage language maintenance
  • Language and identity
  • Code-mixing and translanguaging
  • Linguistic variation in Dravidian speech communities
  • Decolonial anthropological linguistics
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Richter, Stephanie
PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
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Research Interests
  • Computational syntax and semantics
  • Syntax-semantics interface
  • Discourse and pragmatics
Jeff Runner
Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering; Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Office: 317L Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Experimental Syntax
  • Syntactic/Linguistic Theory
  • Binding Theory
  • Syntax Processing
  • Phrase Structure
  • Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Lenhart K. Schubert
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3003 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8845
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Research Interests
  • Language and dialogue
  • Knowledge representation and inference
  • Schema learning and schema-based behavior
  • Self-motivated agents
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Associate Professor in Philosophy
Office: 521 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
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Research Interests
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mathematics
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Spann, James
Srivastava, Shikhar

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Michael Tanenhaus
Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • psycholinguistics
  • language and reading comprehension
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Tang, Siwei
MS student in Computational Linguistics
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David Temperley
Temperley, David
Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
Office: ET 203 Eastman
Phone: (585) 274-1557
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Research Interests
  • Music cognition
  • Music-language connections
  • Corpus linguistics

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Valinsky, Jack
MS student in Computational Linguistics
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Research Interests
  • Computational semantics
  • Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding
  • Event semantics
  • Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax

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Associate Professor of Linguistics; Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics; Director of FACTS.lab
Office: 511A Lattimore Hall
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Research Interests
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Natural Language Semantics

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Yuhang Xu
Xu, Yuhang
PhD student, Linguistics and Brain and Cognitives Sciences
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Research Interests
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Sciences

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Martin Yang
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Office: 322 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1812
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Research Interests
  • Psycho- and neurolinguistics
  • speech perception/production
  • word recognition (both visual and spoken)
  • word learning
  • evolution of human cognition
  • second language acquisition
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Yang, Lois
MA student in Linguistics
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Zhang, Congwen
MS student in Computational Linguistics
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