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  • Maya Abtahian

    Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath

    she/her/hers
    • Associate Professor of Linguistics
    • Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
    Office Location
    514 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift

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    Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza

    she/her/hers
    • PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall

    Interests: Language documentation and description; Computational linguistics; Mesoamerican languages

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    Adeleke, Lateef

    he/him/his
    • PhD student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall

    Interests: Language Documentation & Description; Natural Language Processing; African Languages

  • An, Hannah

    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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    Asudeh, Ash

    he/him/his
    • Professor of Linguistics
    • Director of Center for Language Sciences
    Office Location
    506 Lattimore
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science

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    Basu, Sreyoshi

    she/her/hers
    • MA student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Phonetics; Syntax; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics

  • Becker, Sapphire

    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2018
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    Bray, Andrew R.

    he/him/his
    • Adjunct Professor
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation & Change; Linguistics Identities & Personas; Sociophonetics

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    Bui, Beryl

    she/her/hers
    • MA Linguistics, 2022

    Interests: Phonetics and phonology; Syntax; Bilingualism; Early language development

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    Cao, Angela

    she/her/hers
    • PhD student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Semantics; Causality; Conceptual Reasoning

  • Greg Carlson

    Carlson, Greg

    he/him/his
    • Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

    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
    Telephone
    (585) 276-3948
    Web Address
    Website
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    Charest, Jessica

    she/her/hers
    • PhD student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Language documentation and revitalization

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    Chaudhari, Akash

    he/him/his
    • MS student in Computational Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall

    Interests: Natural Language Processing; Information Extraction

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    Colby, Camille

    she/her/hers
    • MA Language Documentation and Description, 2022

    Interests: Language documentation and description of endangered languages

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    Davis, Jamie

    they/them/theirs
    • MA Linguistics, 2022

    Interests: Multilingualism; Historical linguistics; Language contact; Sociolinguistics

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    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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    Everson, Becky

    she/her/hers
    • MA student in Language Description and Documentation
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Language Documentation; Archiving; Tone; Syntax

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  • Govindarajan, Venkata

    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
  • Nadine Grimm

    Grimm, Nadine

    she/her/hers
    • 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 Location
    509 Lattimore Hall
  • Scott Grimm

    Grimm, Scott

    he/him/his
    • Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
    • Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
      On leave for the 23-24 academic year
    Office Location
    512 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

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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
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore
    Telephone
    (585) 276-4811
    Web Address
    Website

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    Kirshner, Scott

    he/him/his
    • MA Linguistics, 2023

    Interests: Semantics/pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; The intersection of linguistics and cognitive science

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    Kuchmiichuk, Pavlo

    he/him/his
    • MS student in Computational Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Low-resource NLP; Grammatical Error Correction; Computational Semantics

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  • Lee, Elizabeth

    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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    Liu, Zhendong

    he/him/his
    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2022

    Interests: Computational semantics; Lexical semantics; Syntax

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    Ma, Yizhen

    she/her/hers
    • PhD student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
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    Maxwell, Alexa

    • MA Linguistics, 2023
  • Joyce McDonough

    McDonough, Joyce M.

    she/her/hers
    • Richard L. Turner Professor
      Professor of Linguistics
    • Acting Department Chair, AY23-24
    Office Location
    505 Lattimore Hall

    Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)

  • Bryan Michielsen

    Michielsen, Bryan

    he/him/his
    • Department Manager
    Office Location
    503 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website
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    Moon, Ellise

    they/them/theirs
    • PhD student in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability

  • Mary Moroney

    Moroney, Mary

    she/her/hers
    • Adjunct Professor
    Office Location
    511 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork

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  • Okwaraji, Queenette

    • MA Language Documentation and Description, 2019

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    Patni, Suhasini

    she/her/hers
    • MA student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Vietnamese; Sociolinguistics

  • Asia Pietraszko

    Pietraszko, Asia

    she/her/hers
    • Assistant Professor of Linguistics
    • Director of Undergraduate Studies
      Director of Field Syntax Lab
    Office Location
    510 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality

  • Omer Preminger

    Preminger, Omer

    • Visitor, 2020
    Web Address
    Website

    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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    Rajendran Schmura, Suganya

    she/her/hers
    • PhD student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall

    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

    she/her/hers
    • PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Computational syntax and semantics; Syntax-semantics interface; Discourse and pragmatics

  • Jeff Runner

    Runner, Jeffrey T.

    he/him/his
    • Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
    • Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
    Office Location
    317L Lattimore Hall

    Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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    Tang, Siwei

    she/her/hers
    • MS student in Computational Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall

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    Valinsky, Jack

    he/him/his
    • MS student in Computational Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    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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    Wamsley, James C.

    he/him/his
    • Adjunct Professor

    Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Definiteness; Nominal Morphology; Tibeto-Burman languages; Fieldwork

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    Wang, Dan

    he/him/his
    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2023

    Interests: Knowledge extraction based on computational semantics ; Sentiment analysis ; Machine translation ; Automatic speech recognition from a spontaneous speech

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    Wayne, Taylor

    • MA Language Documentation and Description, 2021
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    White, Aaron

    he/him/his
    • Associate Professor of Linguistics
    • Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
      Director of FACTS.lab
    Office Location
    511A Lattimore Hall
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

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  • Xu, Yuhang

    he/him/his
    • PhD student in Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
    Office Location
    4109 Wegmans Hall
    Web Address
    Website

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    Yang, Lois

    she/her/hers
    • MA student in Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
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    Yu, Jiaxing

    • MA Linguistics, 2020

    Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Second language acquisition

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    Zhang, Congwen

    she/her/hers
    • MS student in Computational Linguistics
    Office Location
    515 Lattimore Hall
  • Zhou, Yuyi

    • MA Linguistics, 2019