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Maya Abtahian

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

Office Location
514 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Language Contact; Language Shift

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Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza

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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

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PhD student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall

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

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Asudeh, Ash

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Professor of Linguistics

Office Location
506 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science

Paul Audi

Audi, Paul

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Professor of Philosophy

Department Chair

Office Location
532B Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8112

Interests: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language

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Zhen Bai

Bai, Zhen

Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7758
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

Loisa Bennetto

Bennetto, Loisa

Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

Office Location
492 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8712
Web Address
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Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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Cao, Angela

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PhD student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Semantics; Causality; Conceptual Reasoning

Laurel H. Carney

Carney, Laurel H.

Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Neuroscience

Office Location
5-6438 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 276-3948
Web Address
Website

Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids

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Charest, Jessica

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MA Linguistics, 2025

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Interests: Language documentation and revitalization

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Choi, Woo Jin

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PhD student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Semantics; Natural Language Processing

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Ersöyleyen, Elif Ebru

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PhD student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Formal Semantics; Logic; Syntax; Natural Language Metaphysics

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Daniel Gildea

Gildea, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
Web Address
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

Nadine Grimm

Grimm, Nadine

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James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Language Documentation and Description Program

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

Office Location
509 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Language Documentation and Description; Typology; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Linguistics; Grammatical Tone; Grammar Writing; Language and Culture; Language and Cognition

Scott Grimm

Grimm, Scott

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Department Chair of Linguistics

Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab

Office Location
512 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Semantics; Corpus-Based Approaches to Meaning; Linguistic Fieldwork; African Languages (Specialization in Gur Languages); Lexicography; Experimental Semantics; Technology for Fieldwork

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Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Thomas M. Howard

Howard, Thomas M.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location
732 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-3755

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

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Isaac, Bryan

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PhD student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Syntactic Theory; Comparative Syntax; Case and Agreement; Language Documentation

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T. Florian Jaeger

Jaeger, T. Florian

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science

Office Location
320 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-3611
Web Address
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Interests: Models of human speech perception and production; Adaptive changes in language processing; Learning over non-stationary inputs; Theories of communication; Bayesian inference; Advanced multivariate and distributional data analysis (GLMMs, GAMMs, NLMMs, mixture models, etc.)

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Jin, Zhisheng

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MS student in Computational Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall

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Elizabeth Marvin West

Marvin, Elizabeth West

Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
26 Gibbs Street ESM
Telephone
(ESM) (585) 274-1076
Telephone
(Mel) (585) 275-1812
Web Address
Website

Interests: music cognition

Joyce McDonough

McDonough, Joyce M.

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Richard L. Turner Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics

Office Location
505 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology; Laboratory Phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) Linguistics; Neural Coding of Vowels (w Laurel Carney)

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Moon, Ellise

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

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall
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Website

Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability

Mary Moroney

Moroney, Mary

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Visiting Assistant Professor

Office Location
511 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork

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Owoyele, Oluwasegun Joseph

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PhD student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Phonology; Language Documentation and Description; Sociolinguistics

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Asia Pietraszko

Pietraszko, Asia

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director of 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

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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya

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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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Randula, K. K. Ganushka

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MA student in Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Phonology; Morphology; Lexicography

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Richter, Stephanie

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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.

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Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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

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Michael Tanenhaus

Tanenhaus, Michael K.

Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics

Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension

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Valinsky, Jack

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MS student in Computational Linguistics

Office Location
515 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational semantics; Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding; Event semantics; Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax

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White, Aaron

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Center for Language Sciences

Directors of the FACTS.lab

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

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Martin Yang

Yang, Chung-Lin Martin

Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track

Office Location
322 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1812

Interests: Psycho- and neurolinguistics; speech perception/production; word recognition (both visual and spoken); word learning; evolution of human cognition; second language acquisition