People
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Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4258
- 514 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift
Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
she/her/hers
- PhD student (Linguistics and Computer Science)
- cacevesr@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and description; Computational linguistics; Mesoamerican languages
An, Hannah
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
Asudeh, Ash
- Professor (On Sabbatical for 2021-22)
- Director, Center for Language Sciences
- ash.asudeh@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5907
- 506 Lattimore
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
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Becker, Sapphire
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2018
Bui, Beryl
she/her/hers
- MA student (Linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics and phonology; Syntax; Bilingualism; Early language development
Burrage, Veronica
she/her/hers
- PhD student (Linguistics)
- rburrage@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Morphosyntax (agglutination and polysynthesis); Syntax interfacing with semantics and pragmatics; Philosophy of language and linguistics; Cultural anthropology; Fieldwork
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Carlson, Greg
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
- gregory.carlson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5907
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Carney, Laurel H.
- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, AS&E
Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, UR Medical School - Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences
- laurel.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3948
Charest, Jessica
she/her/hers
- PhD student (Linguistics)
- jcharest@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and revitalization
Colby, Camille
she/her/hers
- MA student (Language Documentation and Description)
- ccolby2@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and description of endangered languages
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Davis, Jamie
they/them/theirs
- MA student (Linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Multilingualism; Historical linguistics; Language contact; Sociolinguistics
Dunlap, Alexandrine
- MA Language Documentation and Description, 2020
Interests: Morphology; Phonology; Bantu languages
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Eichas, Megan
- MA Language Documentation and Description, 2020
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Govindarajan, Venkata
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
Grimm, Nadine
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director, Language Documentation and Description Program
- nadine.grimm@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2366
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu
Grimm, Scott
- Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
- scott.grimm@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5136
- 512 Lattimore Hall
Guekguezian, Peter Ara
- Visitor
- peter.guekguezian@rochester.edu
- 507 Lattimore Hall
Interests: The correspondence between syntactic cyclicity and prosodic recursion in words
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Ibarra, Alyssa
- PhD BCS and Linguistics
Iglinski, Peter
- MA Linguistics, 2017. Senior Press Officer for Science and Public Media, University of Rochester
- peter.iglinski@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4811
- 515 Lattimore
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Kirshner, Scott
he/him/his
- MA student (Linguistics)
- skirshne@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics/pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; The intersection of linguistics and cognitive science
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Lee, Elizabeth
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
Liu, Zhendong
he/him/his
- MS student (Computational Linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational semantics; Lexical semantics; Syntax
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McDonough, Joyce
- Professor, Department of Linguistics (On Sabbatical for 2021-22)
- joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2895
- 505 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
Moon, Ellise
they/them/theirs
- PhD student (Linguistics and Philosophy)
- ellise.moon@rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability
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Okwaraji, Queenette
- MA Language Documentation and Description, 2019
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Pietraszko, Asia
- Assistant Professor
- asia.pietraszko@rochester.edu
- 510 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Syntax and morphology; Verbal morphosyntax in Bantu languages; Clausal architecture and phenomena underlying structure building
Preminger, Omer
- Visitor, 2020
Interests: Predicate-argument agreement; Nominal case; The Person Case Constraint (PCC); Clitic doubling; Head movement; Ergativity
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Qing, Hongbin
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2021
Interests: Computational semantics; cognitive neuroscience
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Richter, Stephanie
she/her/hers
- PhD student (Linguistics and Computer Science)
- srichte7@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational syntax and semantics; Syntax-semantics interface; Discourse and pragmatics
Runner, Jeffrey T.
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5000
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Sarvestani, Karl
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- ksarvest@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8053
- 507 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics; Experimental phonology; Southeast Asian languages; Language documentation
Sherry, Amanda
- Administrative Assistant, Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator
- amanda.sherry@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8053
- 503 Lattimore Hall
Stewart, LaChelle
- MA Linguistics, 2020
Interests: Computational Linguistics
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Valinsky, Jack
he/him/his
- MS student (Computational Linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational semantics; Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding; Event semantics; Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax
Vashishtha, Siddharth
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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Wang, Dan
he/him/his
- MS student (Computational Linguistics)
- zwang164@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Knowledge extraction based on computational semantics ; Sentiment analysis ; Machine translation ; Automatic speech recognition from a spontaneous speech
Wayne, Taylor
- MA Language Documentation and Description, 2021
White, Aaron
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- aaron.white@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8053
- 511A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational psycholinguistics; Syntactic and semantic theory; First language acquisition
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Xu, Yuhang
he/him/his
- PhD student (Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
- yuhang.xu@rochester.edu
- 4109 Wegmans Hall
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Yu, Jiaxing
- MA Linguistics, 2020
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Second language acquisition
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Zhou, Yuyi
- MA Linguistics, 2019