Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Linguistics

Chair: Andrew Simpson, Ph.D.

Faculty

Andrew Viterbi Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology: Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)

Myron and Marian Casden Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and Professor of Religion and Linguistics: Bruce Zuckerman, Ph.D. (Religion)

Professors: Dani Byrd, Ph.D.; Louis Goldstein, Ph.D.; Audrey Li, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Andrew Simpson, Ph.D.; Rachel Walker, Ph.D.; Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: Elena Guerzoni, Ph.D.; Hajime Hoji, Ph.D.; Elsi Kaiser, Ph.D.; Toben Mintz, Ph.D. (Psychology); Roumyana Pancheva, Ph.D.; Barry Schein, Ph.D.; Jason Zevin, Ph.D (Psychology)

Assistant Professors: Khalil Isakrous, Ph.D.; Karen Jesney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (Teaching): Sandra Disner, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor: Edward Finegan, Ph.D.*

Degree Programs

The Linguistics Department offers undergraduate (B.A.) and graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) programs. A wide range of courses allows students to study formal grammar (syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics); phonetics; psycholinguistics (natural language processing, first and second language acquisition, language disorders); sociolinguistics (discourse, quantitative approaches to style, linguistics and law); universals and typology; historical linguistics and Indo-European; East Asian linguistics (Chinese, Japanese, Korean); Germanic linguistics; Hispanic linguistics; Romance linguistics; Semitic linguistics; and Slavic linguistics.

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