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Maya Abtahian

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath

she/her/hers

  • Associate Professor of Linguistics
  • Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

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

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

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Adeleke, Lateef

he/him/his

  • PhD student in Linguistics
  • 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

    Website

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

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    Basu, Sreyoshi

    she/her/hers

    • MA student in Linguistics

    Website

    Interests: Phonetics; Syntax; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics

    Becker, Sapphire

    • MS Computational Linguistics, 2018
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      Bray, Andrew R.

      he/him/his

      • Adjunct Professor

      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
        • 515 Lattimore Hall

        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

        Website

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        Charest, Jessica

        she/her/hers

        • PhD student in Linguistics

        Website

        Interests: Language documentation and revitalization

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        Chaudhari, Akash

        he/him/his

        • MS student in Computational Linguistics

        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

                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

                  Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu

                  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

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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

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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

                      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
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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

                            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

                            Website

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                            Moon, Ellise

                            they/them/theirs

                            • PhD student in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)

                            Website

                            Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability

                            Mary Moroney

                            Moroney, Mary

                            she/her/hers

                            • Adjunct Professor

                            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

                              Website

                              Interests: Vietnamese; Sociolinguistics

                              Asia Pietraszko

                              Pietraszko, Asia

                              she/her/hers

                              • Assistant Professor of Linguistics
                              • Director of Undergraduate Studies
                                Director of Field Syntax Lab

                              Website

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

                              Omer Preminger

                              Preminger, Omer

                              • Visitor, 2020

                              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

                                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

                                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

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

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                                Stewart, LaChelle

                                • MA Linguistics, 2020

                                  Interests: Computational Linguistics

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                                  Tang, Siwei

                                  she/her/hers

                                  • MS student in Computational Linguistics

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                                  Valinsky, Jack

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                                  • MS student in Computational Linguistics

                                  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.

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                                    • 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

                                        Website

                                        Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

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                                        Xu, Yuhang

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                                        • PhD student in Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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                                        Yang, Lois

                                        she/her/hers

                                        • MA student in Linguistics
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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

                                          Zhou, Yuyi

                                          • MA Linguistics, 2019