Graduate Students
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M.A. Students
BERBUSSE, Laura [berbusse at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Austronesian Languages, Language Documentation & Conservation, Language Policy
Languages spoken: English, some Russian, French and Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: Marshallese, Russian, French, Spanish and Japanese
BLOYD, Tobias
Areas of interest: Language Documentation & Conservation
Languages spoken: English (a bit), German & Japanese (even less), and the absolute basics of a few others
Languages studied or interested in: German, Japanese, Austronesian Languages, Obscure Language Isolates
BUNGARD, Ryan [rbungard at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing), Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition
Languages spoken: English, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, German
CLAUSS, Michael [mclauss at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Phonetics, Phonology, Language Preservation/Planning
Languages spoken: English, Welsh, French
Languages studied or interested in: Celtic Languages, Finnic Languages, Esperanto
CRIPPEN, James [jcrippen at gmail dot com]
Areas of interest: Tlingit, Morphology, Phonetics, Semantics, Na-Dene Languages
Languages spoken: English, Tlingit
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Hawaiian, Tsimshianic Languages, Salishan Languages, Wakashan Languages, Haida
FENG, Hanbing [hfeng2 at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: General Theoretical Linguistics
Languages spoken: Mandarin, German
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish, German, Mandarin
HAMILTON, Amanda [amandarh at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Endangered Language Revitalization and Conservation
Languages spoken: English, some French, few words of Swahili, tiny bit of Polish
HENDERSON, Courtney [chenderat hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation & Conservation
Languages spoken: English, French
Languages studied or interested in: Indonesian, Japanese, Hawaiian
HUL, Nielson [hul at hawaii dot edu]
KIRTLEY, Joelle (Megan) [meggiejok at yahoo dot com]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Languages spoken: some Japanese, Polish
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish, Hindi
LOOBY, Kathleen [klooby at hawaii dot edu]
MONTGOMERY, Ian [ism at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Phonetics, Morphology
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Languages studied or interested in: Arabic, Hindi, Latin, Sanskrit, Hawai'ian
OIWA, Mayumi [moiwa at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation and Conservation, Language Revitalization
Languages spoken: Japanese (native), English, and some Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: Hawai‘ian, Japanese Sign Language
OLSEN, Lisa Lynai [lynai at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Cognitive linguistics, Simultaneous Interpretation & Translation
Languages spoken: English (native), Spanish, Japanese, French, a little German
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Hawai‘ian
RASBAND, Daniel [danrasband at gmail dot com]
Areas of interest: Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology
Languages spoken: English, Korean, Italian, Chinese
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, Spanish, and many more
ROBBINS, Cody H. [codyr at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Computational Linguistics (Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing), Cognitive Linguistics, Morphology
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Japanese, German
Languages studied or interested in: Arabic, Russian
ROBINSON, Suann [suann at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, Morphology & Processing, Language Learning & Acquisition
Languages spoken: English (native), Japanese, Korean (heritage)
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish, Chinese, Esperanto, JSL & ASL
SALTER, Caroline
SHIM, Cheong Eun [ceshim at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Comparative Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Computational Linguistics & Corpus
Languages spoken: Korean (native), English, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Chinese, some Spanish, German
SONG, Yoonsang [ysong at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Psycholinguistics, and Language Acquisition
Languages spoken: English, Korean
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, French
WALWORTH, Mary [maryewal at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment, French Polynesian Languages, Historical & Comparative Linguistics, Data & Archiving
Languages spoken: English (native), French (fluent), Hawaii Pidgin (beginning), Hawaiian (beginning)
Languages studied or interested in: Tahitian, Rapan, Spanish, Japanese
WANG, Li [wangli at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax
Languages spoken: Mandarin Chinese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Mandarin Chinese
WIETING, Julia [wieting at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Pidgins & Creoles, Language in Diaspora, The Interaction Between Cognitive Processing in Dialogue and Social Accommodation, Language & Evolution
Languages spoken: French, Italian, Maori
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish, Hawaiian, Tokelauan, Hmong, Semitic Languages
WINTER, Bodo [winterbo at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Mental Simulation, Animal Communication, Evolutionary Biology
Languages spoken: German, English, Korean
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, French, Austronesian languages, Hawaiian, Japanese, German Sign Language
Ph.D. Students
BAKER, Christopher M. [cbaker at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Ergativity, Identity, Anthropological Linguistics
Languages spoken: English, Pidgin, Hawaiian
Languages studied or interested in: Hawaiian
CHEUNG, Antonio [antonio1 at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Psycholinguistics, Typology, Syntax, Cognitive Linguistics
Languages spoken: Cantonese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, French, German, Spanish
CHOE, Jin Sun [jschoe at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Semantics
Languages spoken: Korean, English, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English, Japanese
DENNISON, Hee Yeoun Yoon [yoon at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest:Prosody, Sentence Comprehension & Production, Pragmatics, Simulation Semantics
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French
ELLIS, S. James [jellis at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Carolinian Language Continuum (Chuukic Continuum), AN Syntax, Morphophonemics
Languages spoken: Swedish, PNG Tok Pisin
Languages studied or interested in: Sonsorolese, Tobian, Ulithian, Woleaian, Satawalese, Polowatese, NamwonWeite and Mortlockese (and historical Germanic)
ENYO, Yumiko [enyo at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics
Languages spoken: Japanese, Hawaiian (very novice)
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Hawaiian
FURUKAWA, Toshiaki [toshiaki at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology
Languages spoken: Japanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Hawai‘i Creole English, Hawaiian, Okinawan
GLENN, Akiemi S. [akiemi at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Polynesian Languages, Languages of North America
Languages spoken: English, French
Languages studied or interested in: French, Japanese (studied), NZ Maori, Hawaiian, Tokelauan
GRAMA, James [jgrama at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology
Languages spoken: English, German, Spanish (decent comprehension), Japanese (not great), Dutch (not great)
Languages studied or interested in: English dialects, Germanic languages, German dialects, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Russian and a whole lot more
HAFFORD, James A. [hafford at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Grammar & Syntax, Austronesian languages, Lexicography
Languages spoken: English, Wuvulu-Aua, Melanesian Pidgin
Languages studied or interested in: Koine Greek, Hebrew, German
HAN, Wen-wei [wenwei at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Conceptual Metaphors for Time, Simulation Semantics, Linguistic Relativity
Languages spoken: Chinese, Taiwanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, French
HARA, Yukie [haray at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Generative Linguistics, Aspectual Theories, Conceptual Semantics, Sentence & Discourse, Lexical Semantics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Innate Aspects of Language, First & Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, some French
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Hawaiian, Hawai'i Pidgin & Creole English
HARDEMAN, Katherine [kate_hardeman at yahoo dot com]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, East Asian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Languages spoken: English (native), French, Mandarine, Chinese
Languages studied or interested in: Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean in the future..German, Arabic
HATFIELD, Hunter [hunterh at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Prosody, Language & Music Cognition, Modeling, Tonal Languages
Languages spoken: English
Languages studied or interested in: Chinese, French; wouldn't mind knowing Mongolian, Manchu, Korean, Thai, Japanese, Tahitian, and a lot more
HATTORI, Ryoko [rhattori at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Oceanic Languages, Language Survival, Typology, Syntax, First Langauge Acquisition
Languages spoken: Japanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Pingilapese, Samoan, Tongan, Kemak, Hawaiian, Korean
HUANG, Karen [huangk at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Historical Linguistics, Language Contact, Chinese Dialects, Formosan Linguistics
Languages spoken: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Thai, Spanish, Finnish, Formosan languages
ILIC, Tatjana [tatjanailic at gmail dot com]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Syntax-Lexicon Interface, Event Structure, Modality, First Language Acquisition, Child Second Language Acquisition
Languages spoken: Serbian (native), English, Swedish, some Russian, Slovenian and German
Languages studied or interested in: Serbian (first language acquisition), Slavic Languages, Finnish, Japanese, Tagalog (non-acquisition related research)
JACKSON, Jason A. J. [jajjacks at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: The Human context of Language (in particular, Austronesian languages in the South Halmahera-West New Guinea area), Phonology, Syntax, Verbal Art
Languages spoken: English, Indonesian
Languages studied or interested in: Hawai‘i Creole English (a.k.a. Pidgin), Indonesian, Biak, Selayarese, Italian
JOO, Kum Jeong [ at hawaii dot edu]
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KANG, Sang-Gu [sanggu at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: various (First & Second Language Acquisition, Language Attrition, Syntax)
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English, Spanish
KIM, Chae Eun [chaeeun at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, L1 & L2 Acquisition
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, Chinese
KIM, Jin-Sook [js1208 at hotmail dot com]
Areas of interest: L1 & L2 Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Language Learning Process
Languages spoken: Korean, English, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English, Japanese, German
KIM, Jung Hee [jkim14 at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Interface between Syntax & Discourse (Parenthetical Construction, Quotative Construction), L1 Acquisition (Case, Quantifiers), L2 Acquisition, Processing of Negation
KIM, So Young [kims at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Sentence Processing, Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics
Languages spoken: English, Korean, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: German, Spanish
KO, Insung [inko at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: (L1, L2) Acquisition, Syntax, Phonetics, Processing
KUO, Cheng-Chuen [kuocc at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Grammar & Syntax, Cognitive Linguistics, Austronesian Languages, Typology
Languages spoken: English, Chinese (native), Taiwanese, some Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Formosan Languages (Amis, Kavalan, Saisiyat), Chinese, Polynesian Languages
KUPCHIK, John E. [kupchik at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Japonic Linguistics, Old & Middle Chinese, Uralic Linguistics, Typology, Comparative Music-Language Studies
Languages spoken: English (NS), Japanese, Mandarin Chinese (intermediate), Ainu (basic), and some Finnish and Tongan
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, Ainu, Okinawan (and other Ryukyuan languages), Western Old Japanese, Eastern Old Japanese, Classical Japanese, Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Old Korean, Middle Korean, Finnish, Mari, Komi, Nganasan, Saamic, Mandarin Chinese, Tongan (and some other Austronesian languages)
KWAK, Hye-Young [hyeyoung at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition, Syntax, Psycholinguistics
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, German
LASSETTRE, Paul [lassettr at hawaii dot edu]
LAU, Elaine [elau at hawaii dot edu]
LEE, On-Soon [onsoon at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: First & Second Language Acquisition, Syntax
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: English,Korean
LIU, Tsai-Hsiu 'Dorinda' [tsaihsiu at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Austronesian linguistics, Historical linguistics, Syntax
Languages spoken: Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese, English, some Amis
Languages studied or interested in: Formosan languages, Micronesian languages, Polynesian languages
LIU, Nian [nian at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Second language Acquisition & Historical Linguistics
Languages spoken: Mandarin, French
Languages studied or interested in: Cantonese, Japanese, Korean
LOBEL, Jason [lobel at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Philippine and Philippine-type Languages, especially Black Filipino (a.k.a. "Negrito") Languages; Historical/Comparative and Descriptive Linguistics; Southern Italian (Calabrese) Dialects
Languages spoken: English (native speaker); Fluent: Tagalog; Semi-fluent: Italian, Bikol, Cebuano, Ilonggo & a little Indonesian and Mongondow
Languages studied: Italian (3rd year level), French (3rd year level), Khmer (a.k.a. Cambodian) (1st year level), & Bahasa Indonesia (2nd year level)
Languages interested in: Philippine languages (especially Greater Central Philippine Languages, including Mongondow-Gorontalo and other Languages of Sulawesi), Austronesian in general, and Calabrese (Southern Italian) dialectology
ODANGO, Emerson [eodango at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Documentation & Conservation, Context-Dependency, Phonetics & Phonology, Philippine Languages, Micronesian Languages, Chuukic Language Continuum
Languages spoken: English, Tagalog, Mortlockese (Lukunosh)
Languages studied or interested in: Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Mortlockese, Pohnpeian, Woleaian, Chuukese, Nómwonweité, Polowat, Pááfeng, French (high school and undergraduate)
PERLA, Jawee [Mastertaui at yahoo dot com]
Areas of interest: Simulation, Embodiment, Metaphor, Ergativity, Cognitive grammar, Metonymy, Sentence Processing
Languages spoken: Samoan, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Hawaiian, Mandarin
POLLEY, Carl A [polleyc at gmx dot net]
Areas of interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Serial Verb Constructions, Translation and Interpreting
Languages spoken: English, Mandarin
Languages studied or interested in: German, Dzongkha (Bhutan), Tshangla (aka Sharchopkh, Bhutan)
SATO, Hiroko [hirokosa at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Oceanic Languages, especially languages of Papua New Guinea
Languages spoken: Japanese, Tok Pisin, English
Languages studied or interested in: Kove language, Tok Pisin, Italian, German
SATO, Manami [manami_graduate at hotmail dot com]
Areas of interest: Sentence Production, Sentence Processing, Simulation Semantics, Metaphor, Cognitive Linguistics, Semantics
Languages spoken: Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: English, German, Spanish, Esperanto, American Sign Language
STOJANOVIC, Diana [stojanov at hawaii dot edu]
TANG, Apay [aiyu98 at yahoo dot com]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Formosan/Truku languages, Language Policy
Languages spoken: Mandarin Chinese, Truku, English
Languages studied or interested in: English, Japanese, Formosan languages, Korean
TERRELL, Jake [jterrell at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Case & Voice Systems, Tones, Typology, Sociolinguistics, Language Planning & Policy, Economics, North Korea, Southeast Asia
Languages spoken: English (NS), Japanese (fluent), working on Thai and Akha, Korean (forgot most), Vietnamese (lost this one too...), and some
Languages studied or interested in: Akha, Hani and other Lolo/Yi languages, Hmong-Mien, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, Mon-Khmer and any other language spoken in mainland Southeast Asia
THEPBORIRUK, Kanjana [kanjana at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Thai Phonetics, Thai Phonology, Tones, Sociolinguistics, Diasporic Language
Languages spoken: Thai, English, Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: German (1 year), Hindi (1 year)
TRAN, Jennie T. [jennietr at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition, Language Teaching, Mon-Khmer and Chamic languages
Languages spoken: Vietnamese, German, French, English, Persian, a little Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Vietnamese, Chamic, Mon-Khmer, Persian, German, Latin
UEKI, Kaori [kueki at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Phonetics/Phonology, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Mon-Khmer and Austronesian (especially Chamic) Languages
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Spanish (mostly reading), Khmer
Languages studied or interested in: phonetics/phonology, language documentation, intonational typology, Chamic and other mainland Southeast Asian languages
VIANA, Laura B [viana at hawaii dot edu]
WALDRIP, Aaron M [waldrip at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Oral History Documentation, Language Documentation & Conservation, Endangered Languages, Anthropological Linguistics
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: Aymara, Quechua, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Portuguese, French, German
YAMADA, Fumiko [fumiko at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Polynesian Languages
Languages spoken: Japanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Maori, French, Russian
Recent Alumni: M.A.
ALBARILLO, Emily E [emilyb at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation & Conservation, Disital Archiving, Ethnobotany
Languages spoken: some Russian, some Chinese
Languages studied or interested in: language of Micronesia, Vanuatu & the Philippines
ALBARILLO, Frans Jozef V. [frans at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Philippines, New Caledonia, Language Documentation and Conservation, Documentary Linguistics
Languages spoken: French (Advanced), Tagalog (Heritage)
Languages studied or interested in: New Caledonian Languages, Philippines
BLOCH, Vaiana [vaiana at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Variation, Phonetics, Phonology
Languages spoken: French, some Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: Studied -- French, Spanish; interested in -- many, but not sure what want to study yet
COOLEY, Kelly C [kcooley at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Documentation, Language Variation, Pidgins and Creoles
Languages spoken: English, French, some Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Studied -- Spanish, American Sign Language; interested in -- you name it!
CORREA, Gabriel P. [gcorrea at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition
Languages spoken: English, Spanish (heritage), some Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Studied -- Spanish, Japanese; interested in -- Japanese, Korean, Spanish
DEDA, Andreas J [deda at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation
Languages spoken: Bahasa Indonesia, English, Sentani
Languages studied or interested in: Sentani language (Eastern Dialect)
DURAND, Laurie [durandl at hawaii dot edu]
JENSON, Katya [kjenson at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation & Conservation
Languages spoken: Portuguese, Spanish, Kiswahili
Languages studied or interested in: All of them
JEONG, Jae Hoon
Areas of interest: Psycholinguistics, Speech Production & Perception, Speech Grammar, Language Acquisition, English Linguistics
Languages spoken: Korean
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English
KAKADELIS, Stephanie M. [kakadeli at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics
Languages spoken: English, Japanese, Greek (modern)
Languages studied or interested in: Greek, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, many others
KIMURA, Satoko [kimuras at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition, Syntax, Japanese Linguistics
Languages spoken: Japanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: French, Thai, Chinese Mandarine, Korean
LAWEN, Marie-Therese [mtl at aloha dot net]
LOPEZ, Robyn L. [lopezrl at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Native American Language Revitalization Efforts
Languages studied or interested in: French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Northern Arapaho
MADDEN-WOOD, Zoe [zoewood at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Documentation, Syntax, Semantics, Mandarin Chinese, Chinese languages, Teaching Methods
Languages spoken: Mandarin, French
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, Korean, Chinese languages, and everything in East Asia
OLSON, Sara [solson at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation/Conservation; Socio-Linguistics
Languages studied or interested in: Studied: Spanish, Italian, French, Maori. Interested in: Polynesian/Austronesian Languages
PERDUE, Katherine R. [perdue at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Languages of Southwest China, Sociolinguistics, Language Documentation
Languages spoken: French, Mandarin Chinese
Languages studied or interested in: Thai, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit
RODDY, Kevin M. [kroddy at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: General Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Descriptive Work, Fieldwork
Languages spoken: Hawaiian, Hebrew, English
Languages studied or interested in: Iroquoian languages, Farsi, Arabic, Satawalese, Chuukese, Carolinian
SELIG, Kazuko Yamashita [kazukoya at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Polynesian Languages
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Hawaiian
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish
TAKEMOTO, Mai [maitakem at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Bilingualism and Code-Switching in Japanese/English
Languages spoken: Japanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Mandarin, Korean, French
THOMASSON, Elise [eliset at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Cognition, Sociolinguistics, Second langauge Acquisition
Languages spoken: English
Languages studied or interested in: French, Spanish
TSUI, Tsz-Him
Areas of interest: Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, Chinese Languages, Tones
Languages spoken: Cantonese, Mandarin, some German
Languages studied or interested in: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese languages
YANASAKA, Atsushi [yanasaka at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Morphology
Languages spoken: Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: English, Mandarin Chinese, Sanskrit, Classical Tibetan, Ainu
YOURUPI, Paulina A. [yourupi at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation and Conservation, specifically Pollapese
Languages spoken: Chuukese (Pollapese dialect), and English
Languages studied or interested in: Hawaiian
ZHAO, Qinglian [qinglian at hawaii dot edu]
Languages spoken: Naxi, Chinese (Yunnan dialect, Mandarin)
Languages studied or interested in: Naxi
Recent Alumni: Ph.D.
FAEHNDRICH, Burgel Rosa Maria [faehndri at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Mongolic and Turkic Languages, Historical Linguistics, Phonology, Typology, Computer Applications
Languages spoken: German (NS), English, Russian
Languages studied or interested in: Mandarin, Japanese, Mongolic languages
GUERIN, Valerie [vguerin at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Language Documentation, Morphology Languages spoken: French, a little Italian
Languages studied or interested in: Languages of Vanuatu, Romance languages
HAHN, Jeewon
HIRAMOTO, Mie [mies at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Contact & Change (Second Dialect Acquisition, Koineization, Pidgins & Creoles, Mixed Languages), Language, Gender & Sexuality (Ideology & Stereotypes, Sociophonetics), Phonetics & Phonology (Loanword Phonology, Prosody, Lexical Phonology), Historical Linguistics (Austronesian Languages, especially Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian Languages), General Linguistics
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Indonesian
Languages studied or interested in: Filipino, Bahasa Melayu Manado, Hawai‘i Creole
HWANG, Hui-hua
HWANG, Hyekyung [jeanniena at yahoo dot com]
Areas of interest: Sentence Prosody, Sentence Processing, Sentence Comprehension & Production, First & Second Language Acquisition
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English, French
HWANG, Kyuseek [kyuseek at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Universal Grammar, Typology, Grammaticalization, Historical Linguistics
Languages spoken: Korean, English, Japanese
Languages studied or interested in: Latin, Samoan, French, Japanese, Old and Middle Korean, Modern Korean
INDJIEVA, Elena [elena at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Phonology/Intonation, Mongolian languages, Documentation of Endangered Languages (field work)
Languages spoken: Fluent: Russian, English; OK: Japanese, Kalmyk/Oirat (native); Poor: German
Languages studied or interested in: Mongolian, Chinese, French, German
INOUE, Aya [ainoue at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Pidgins & Creole Linguistics (Hawai‘i Creole, Tok Pisin, Yokohama Pidgin Japanese), Sociolinguistics (Language Variation & Change, Language Contact), Psycholinguistics (Visual Word Recognition in Bilinguial/Bidialectal Situations)
Languages spoken: Japanese (NS), English, French (reading knowledge)
Languages studied or interested in: Hawai‘i Creole English, Tok Pisin, Yokohama Pidgin Japanese
KANGKUN, Preena [preena at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Lexicography, Linguistic Anthropology, Language Learning & Teaching
Languages spoken: English, Thai
Languages studied or interested in: English, Thai, Khmer
LEE, Sunyoung [sunyoung at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: First & Second Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing, Syntax & Semantics
Languages spoken: Korean, English, French
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Japanese, English, French
MIYAKOSHI, Tomoko [miyakosh at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition, Collocation, Idiomaticity
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: French, Portuguese, Latin, Russian
NOMURA, Jun [nomuraj at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: First Language Acquisition, Phonetics
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Spanish (basic reading ability)
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese, English, Korean
PICCOLO, Fabiana [fabiana at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
Languages spoken: Italian (NS), English, Spanish, Hawaiian
Languages studied or interested in: Latin, Ancient Greek, Old English, Hawaiian, Pingilapese
ROBINSON, Laura C. [laura dot robinson at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Documentation, Philippine Langauges
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Ilokano, Dupaningan Agta
Languages studied or interested in: Dupaningan Agta (Philippines), Tindal Dusun (Borneo), Kemak (East Timor)
SACIA, Laura [sacia at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language & Gender, Multilingualism, Lexicography
Languages spoken: German, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Languages studied or interested in: Vietnamese, Palauan, Sheng
SHIN, Kyung Sook [kyungs at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition
TAKAHASHI, Naoko [naokot at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Syntax, Semantics (Lexical Semantics)
Languages spoken: Japanese, English
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Mandarin, French
WONG, Kerry Laiana