GRADUATE STUDENTS
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M.A. students
Ph.D.
students
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
BARTELSON, Emily E [emilyb at hawaii
dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language
Documentation & Conservation
Languages spoken: some Russian,
some Chinese
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)
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
LAWEN, Marie-Therese [mtl at aloha dot net]
LEFRANDT, Frank [flefrand at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Comparative/historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, endangered
languages, and language acquisition
Languages spoken: Spanish,
K'iche (Mayan)
Languages studied or interested in: Pacific languages, especially Chuukese
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
OLSEN, Lisa Lynai [lynai at hawaii dot
edu]
Areas of interest: Cognitive
linguistics, simultaneous interpretation and translation
Languages spoken: English
(native), Spanish, Japanese, French, a little German
Languages studied or interested in: Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Hawai‘ian
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
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 Neuroscience, Second
Language Acquisition
Languages spoken: English (native), Japanese (4th year)
Languages studied or interested in: Japanese,
Korean, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish
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
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
TERREL, Jacob A. [jake.terrell
at gmail dot com]
Areas of interest: Endangered
language documentation and conservation
Languages spoken: English
(native), Japanese, Korean
Languages studied or interested in: Thai, Vietnamese, Eastern Mon-Khmer languages
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
VIANA, Laura B [viana at hawaii dot edu]
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
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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
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
EBELING, Lisa A. [lebeling at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest:
Documentation
Languages spoken: German,
Spanish
Languages studied or interested in:
Spanish, French, Italian, German, Indonesian and Indonesian languages
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
FAEHNDRICH, Burgel Rosa Maria [faehndri
at hawaii dot edu]
(SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DISSERTATION FALL 2007)
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
FURUKAWA, Toshiaki
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
GUERIN,
Valerie
Areas
of interest: Syntax,
language documentation, morphology
Languages
spoken:
French, a little Italian
Languages
studied or interested in:
Languages of Vanuatu, Romance languages
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 and discourse, lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface, innate aspects of language,
first and second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, some French
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Hawaiian,
Hawai'i Pidgin & Creole English
HATFIELD,
Hunter [hunterh
at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Prosody,
language and 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
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
ILIC, Tatjana [tatjanailic
at hotmail dot com]
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]
(SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DISSERATION SPRING 2008)
Areas
of interest:
Pidgins and creole linguistics (Hawai‘i Creole, Tok Pisin, Yokohama
Pidgin Japanese), sociolinguistics (language variation and 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
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
KANG, Sang-Gu
Areas of interest: various (first & second language acquisition, language attrition, syntax)
Languages spoken: Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, English, Spanish
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 and 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
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
LEE, On-Soon [onsoon at hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Languages spoken: Korean
Languages studied or interested in: French, English
LEE, Sunyoung [sunyoung
at hawaii dot edu]
Areas
of interest:
First and second language acquisition, sentence processing, syntax and
semantics
Languages spoken: Korean,
English, French
Languages studied or interested in:
Korean, Japanese, English, French
LIU, Tsai-Hsiu 'Dorinda'
LIU, Nian [nian at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: cognitive linguistics,
Second language acquisition and 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
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
PERLA, Jawee [Mastertaui
at yahoo dot com]
Areas of interest: Language cognition and embodied semantics
Languages spoken: Japanese,
Samoan
Languages studied or interested in: Korean, Hawaiian, Mandarin
PICCOLO,
Fabiana [fabiana
at hawaii dot edu]
(SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DISSERTATION FALL 2007)
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
POLLEY, Carl A [polleyc at gmx dot net]
Areas of interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Simulation Semantics, Theta Theory, Serial Verb Constructions, Syntax, Translation and Interpretation
Languages spoken: English, Mandarin
Languages studied or interested in: German, Japanese, Tongan, Tibetan
ROBINSON, Laura C. [laura dot
robinson at hawaii dot edu]
(SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DISSERTATION SPRING 2008)
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)
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, Ai-Yu (Apay)
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
THEPBORIRUK, Kanjana [kanjana at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas of interest: Thai Historical Comparative
Languages spoken: Thai,
English, Spanish
Languages studied or interested in: German,
Hindi (and hopefully Khmer soon!)
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:
Khmer, Indonesian, Spanish, German
WHEELER, Kathryn
Areas
of interest: Cognitive linguistics, simulation semantics,
L2 acquisition, neurolinguistics, memory and processing
Languages
spoken: English, some Japanese
Languages
studied or interested in:
Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Egyptian Arabic
YAMADA, Fumiko
Areas
of interest:
Syntax,
Polynesian languages
Languages
spoken: Japanese, English
Languages
studied or interested in: Maori,
French, Russian
YOON, Hee Yeoun [yoon at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas
of interest:
Prosody, speech production, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,
crosslinguistic issues
Languages
spoken:
Korean,
English
Languages
studied or interested in:
Korean, English, Chinese
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JENSON, Katya [kjenson at hawaii
dot edu]
Areas of interest: Language documentation
and 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
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
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
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
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
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HAHN, Jeewon
HIRAMOTO, Mie [mies at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas
of interest: Language contact and change (second dialect
acquisition, koineization, pidgins and creoles, and mixed languages),
language, gender, and sexuality (ideology and stereotypes,
sociophonetics), phonetics and phonology (loanword phonology, prosody,
and lexical phonology), Historical linguistics (Austronesian languages,
especially Indonesian, Filipino and Polynesian languages), and 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 and production,
first and second language acquisition
Languages spoken:
Korean, English
Languages studied or interested in:
Korean, English, French
KANGKUN, Preena [preena at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas
of interest:
Lexicography, linguistic anthropology, language
learning and teaching
Languages
spoken: English,
Thai
Languages
studied or interested in:
English, Thai, Khmer
SACIA, Laura [sacia at
hawaii dot edu]
Areas
of interest:
Language
and 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
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