Full Directory
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Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
she/her/hers
- Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu
- 514 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift
Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
she/her/hers
- PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
- cacevesr@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and description; Computational linguistics; Mesoamerican languages
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
Asudeh, Ash
he/him/his
- Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Center for Language Sciences
- ash.asudeh@rochester.edu
- 506 Lattimore
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
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Basu, Sreyoshi
she/her/hers
- MA student in Linguistics
- sbasu8@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics; Syntax; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics
Becker, Sapphire
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2018
Bray, Andrew R.
he/him/his
- Adjunct Professor
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation & Change; Linguistics Identities & Personas; Sociophonetics
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
Interests: Semantics; Causality; Conceptual Reasoning
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
- laurel.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3948
Charest, Jessica
she/her/hers
- PhD student in Linguistics
- jcharest@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and revitalization
Chaudhari, Akash
he/him/his
- MS student in Computational Linguistics
- achaud19@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Natural Language Processing; Information Extraction
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
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
Everson, Becky
she/her/hers
- MA student in Language Description and Documentation
- reverson@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language Documentation; Archiving; Tone; Syntax
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Govindarajan, Venkata
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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
- nadine.grimm@rochester.edu
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Grammatical tone; Language documentation and description; Typology; African languages, particularly Bantu
Grimm, Scott
he/him/his
- Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
- Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
On leave for the 23-24 academic year
- scott.grimm@rochester.edu
- 512 Lattimore Hall
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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 Linguistics, 2023
Interests: Semantics/pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; The intersection of linguistics and cognitive science
Kuchmiichuk, Pavlo
he/him/his
- MS student in Computational Linguistics
- pkuchmii@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Low-resource NLP; Grammatical Error Correction; Computational Semantics
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Lee, Elizabeth
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
Liu, Zhendong
he/him/his
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2022
Interests: Computational semantics; Lexical semantics; Syntax
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Maxwell, Alexa
- MA Linguistics, 2023
McDonough, Joyce M.
she/her/hers
- Richard L. Turner Professor
Professor of Linguistics - Acting Department Chair, AY23-24
- joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu
- 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 in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)
- ellise.moon@rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability
Moroney, Mary
she/her/hers
- Adjunct Professor
- mary.moroney@rochester.edu
- 511 Lattimore Hall
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
- spatni@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Vietnamese; Sociolinguistics
Pietraszko, Asia
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Field Syntax Lab
- j.a.pietraszko@rochester.edu
- 510 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality
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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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya
she/her/hers
- PhD student in Linguistics
- suganyars@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Tamil heritage language maintenance; Language and identity; Code-mixing and translanguaging; Linguistic variation in Dravidian speech communities; Decolonial anthropological linguistics
Richter, Stephanie
she/her/hers
- PhD student in 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.
he/him/his
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
- 317L Lattimore Hall
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
- stang26@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Valinsky, Jack
he/him/his
- MS student in Computational Linguistics
- jack.valinsky@rochester.edu
- 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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Wamsley, James C.
he/him/his
- Adjunct Professor
Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Definiteness; Nominal Morphology; Tibeto-Burman languages; Fieldwork
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
Wayne, Taylor
- MA Language Documentation and Description, 2021
White, Aaron
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- aaron.white@rochester.edu
- 511A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
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Xu, Yuhang
he/him/his
- PhD student in 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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Zhang, Congwen
she/her/hers
- MS student in Computational Linguistics
- czhang95@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Zhou, Yuyi
- MA Linguistics, 2019