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Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4258
- 514 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Sociolinguistics and language variation

An, Hannah
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019

Asudeh, Ash
- Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics
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, Thuong
- MA student (linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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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

Colby, Camille
- MA student (language documentation and description)
- ccolby2@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language Development; Dialect Formation
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Davis, Jamie
- MA student (linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Multilingualism; Historical Linguistics; Language Contact

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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Lee, Elizabeth
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019

Liu, Zhendong
- MS student (computational linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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McDonough, Joyce
- Professor, Department of Linguistics
- 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
- 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 student (computational linguistics)
- hqing4@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational Semantics; Cognitive Neuroscience
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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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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
- MS student (computational linguistics)
- 515 Lattimore Hall

Vashishtha, Siddharth
- MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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Wayne, Taylor
- MA student( language documentation and description)
- twayne@ur.rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall

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
- 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