Faculty

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• Linguistics Faculty

ANDERSON, Victoria (UCLA) vanderso-- phonetics-phonology interface; phonetic and phonological universals; prosody; endangered and underdocumented languages of Australia and Austronesia; speech technology

BEREZ, Andrea (UCSB) aberez-- language documentation; language technology; Athabascan languages; geography and language; discourse; intonation; language change; functional approaches to grammar

BLEY-VROMAN, Robert [SLS] (Washington) vroman-- applied linguistics; syntax; second language acquisition theory; computational linguistics; natural language processing; corpus linguistics; and machine translation.

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily on second language acquisition with Professor Bley-Vroman should direct their applications to the Department of Second Language Studies, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

BLUST, Robert A. (U Hawai‘i) blust-- historical linguistics; Austronesian linguistics and cultural history; field methods; lexicography; endangered and underdocumented languages

CAMPBELL, Lyle (UCLA) lylecamp-- language documentation, historical linguistics, endangered languages and language revitalization, typology, field methods, American Indian languages

COOK, Haruko M. [EALL] (USC) hkcook-- Japanese linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily with Professor Cook should direct their applications to the Department of East-Asian Languages & Literatures, where she is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

DEEN, Kamil Ud (UCLA) kamil-- language acquisition, morphosyntax, Bantu languages; second language acquisition

DONEGAN, Patricia J. (Ohio State) donegan-- phonology and phonetics; vowel systems; acquisition; variation and change; typology; Austroasiatic languages, language documentation

DRAGER, Katie K. (Canterbury) kdrager-- language variation and change; sociophonetics; language and identity; languages in contact; laboratory phonetics

O'GRADY, William (Chicago) ogrady-- syntactic theory and description; language acquisition; Korean; assessment of language strength

ONNIS, Luca [SLS] (Warwick) lucao-- cognitive science of learning; computational models of language acquisition; statistical learning; brain correlates of language processing; monolingual and bilingual sentence processing; corpus linguistics and corpus-based analyses; language evolution; revival of endangered languages.

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily with Professor Onnis should direct their applications to the Department of Second Language Studies, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

OTSUKA, Yuko (Oxford) yotsuka-- syntax, Minimalist Program; Tongan and Polynesian languages; endangered and underdocumented languages and language planning in Polynesia

PETERS, Ann M. (Wisconsin) ann-- language acquisition: prosody, emergence of grammatical morphemes, crosslinguistic issues

REHG, Kenneth L. (U Hawai‘i) rehg-- phonology; Micronesian linguistics; lexicography; endangered and underdocumented languages; language contact; language planning; vernacular language education

SCHAFER, Amy J. (U Mass.) aschafer-- sentence comprehension and production across languages (including Korean, Japanese, and Austronesian languages), sentence prosody, information structure, psycholinguistic approaches to language documentation and conservation

SCHWARTZ, Bonnie D. [SLS] (USC)-- Linguistic theory and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar, Child SLA

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily on second language acquisition with Professor Schwartz should direct their applications to the Department of Second Language Studies, where she is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

SOHN, Ho-Min [EALL] (U Hawai‘i) homin-- Korean linguistics; grammaticalization

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily with Professor Sohn should direct their applications to the Department of East-Asian Languages & Literatures, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

VOVIN, Alexander [EALL] (St. Petersburg) vovin-- East Asian and Central Asian historical-comparative and descriptive linguistics; Japanese, Korean, Ainu, and Manchu-Tungusic

NOTE: Those interested in working primarily with Professor Vovin should direct their applications to the Department of East-Asian Languages & Literatures, where he is also a member of the Graduate Faculty.

• Cooperating Faculty

BROWN, J. D. (SLS)-- language learning and teaching, language testing

DRECHSEL, Emanuel J. (Interdisciplinary Studies)-- ethnolinguistics; American Indian languages

HIGGINS, Christina M. (SLS)-- marcro- and micro- sociolinguistics, qualitative research methods, conversational analysis, code-switching

HOONCHAMLONG, Yuphaphann (IPLL)-- Thai linguistics (syntax, discourse, semantics), Tai/Thai dialectology, language learning and teaching, internet technology in language research and language instruction, translation

KASPER, Gabriele (SLS)-- language and social interaction, socially grounded approaches to second language acquisition, qualitative research methodology

SAK-HUMPHRY, Chhany (IPLL)-- Khmer language, linguistics and literature

SCHMIDT, Richard W. (SLS)-- psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language learning and teaching

SILVA, Noenoe K. (POLS)-- Hawaiian politics, indigenous politics

WARNER, Sam L. (IPLL)-- Hawaiian language, Hawaiian language immersion education, curriculum development and second-language acquisition, educational psychology

• Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

BIRD, Steven (Affiliate)-- computational analysis of written and spoken languages; tone languages; endangered language preseration; linguistic annotation and query

CHOE, Jin Sun -- first/second language acquisition, syntax

CHOO, Miho (Adjunct) -- Korean

EARTH, Barbara (Adjunct) -- sign languages, history of Hawai'i Sign Language (HSL)

FURUKAWA, Toshiaki (Adjunct) (Osaka University)-- sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology

GRIMES, Joseph (Adjunct) -- theory of the lexicon, discourse, language divergence

HATTORI, Ryoko (Adjunct) --language documentation, Oceanic language, language survival, typology, syntax, first language acquisition

MIYAGI, Kimi (Adjunct) -- syntactic theory, language documentation, Micronesian linguistics

SIEGEL, Jeff (Adjunct) -- language contact and contact-induced language change (pidgin, creole, new dialects); language and education; descriptive or sociolinguistic studies of particular languages in Oceania or South Asia

THIEBERGER, Nick (Adjunct) -- Vanuatu languages, Australian languages, linguistic fieldwork thechnologies, lanuage archiving

WOODWARD, James (Adjunct) --

Visting Colleagues

LINCOLN, Peter C-- Melanesian linguistics

• Emeriti and Retired Faculty

BENDER, Byron W.-- general linguistics; morphology; Micronesian linguistics

BICKERTON, Derek-- language variation; pidgins and creoles; language and literature

FORMAN, Michael L. (Cornell) -- general linguistics; ethnographic linguistics; Philippine studies, language documentation

GRACE, George W.-- historical linguistics; Austronesian, especially Melanesian linguistics; ethnolinguisitcs

JACOBS, Roderick A.-- syntax and syntactic change; English, Oceanic, and American Indian linguistics; discourse grammar and applied linguistics

LYOVIN, Anatole -- historical linguistics, language typology and Sino-Tibetan

REID, Lawrence A. -- Austronesian, especially Philippine and Formosan languages; lexicography, morphosyntactic reconstruction

SCHUTZ, Albert J.-- descriptive linguistics, field methods, lexicography; Fijian and other Melanesian languages; Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages; history of linguistics in the Pacific

STAMPE, David -- computational linguistics, phonology and prosody, holistic typology and drift, Munda languages

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