Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald (Professor)
PhD, Arizona
Interests: Phonological theory, Native American languages (especially Tohono O'odham and Oklahoma languages), field linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Oklahoma Breath of Life, and service-learning.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 132H | cmfitz@uta.edu
Dr. Cynthia D. Kilpatrick (Assistant Professor)
PhD, UC San Diego
Interests: TESOL, second language acquisition, bilingualism, phonology, phonological acquisition, phonotactics, experimental phonology/phonetics, Romance languages (especially Spanish), dialects of the Southern U.S.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 128 | cynkil@uta.edu
Dr. Joseph Sabbagh (Assistant Professor)
PhD, MIT
Interests: Syntax, morphology, Austronesian languages (especially Tagalog), clause and argument structure, typology, coordination and constituent sharing (especially Right Node Raising).
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 126 | sabbagh@uta.edu
Dr. David Silva (Professor) Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
PhD, Cornell
Interests: Language variation, the phonology-phonetics interface, language attitudes, Korean, Romance languages (especially European Portuguese), teaching linguistics, post-secondary pedagogy and learning.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Davis 300 | djsilva@uta.edu
Dr. Benjamin Slade (Senior Lecturer)
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Interests: historical linguistics, formal semantics, syntax, and structure of Indo-Aryan languages
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 132E | benslade@uta.edu
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan (Associate Professor) Chair
PhD, Northwestern
Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, polysemy, bare nominals, discourse markers, vocabulary acquisition, language use in new technologies, health discourse.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 125 | stvan@uta.edu
Dr. Jeffrey Witzel (Assistant Professor)
PhD, Arizona
Interests: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Research Methods.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 129 | jeffrey.witzel@uta.edu
Dr. Naoko Ouchi Witzel (Visiting Asst. Professor)
PhD, Arizona
Interests: bilingualism, second language processing, psycholinguistics, language acquisition.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 127 | naoko.witzel@uta.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Keith Maurice (Director of English Language Institute & Adjunct Professor)
PhD, Florida State University
Interests: TESOL methodology, curriculum design, English for Specific Purposes, and intercultural communication.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 401 | kmaurice@eli.uta.edu
Dr. Traci Weast (Lecturer)
PhD, UT Arlington
Interests: ASL, Phonology.
Office: Hammond 132E
Dr. Catharine Welch (Lecturer)
PhD, UT Arlington
Interests: Pragmatics, second language acquisition, and Spanish.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Trimble 217C | catharine.welch@mavs.uta.edu
Graduate Teaching Associates & Assistants
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Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Donald Burquest (Emeritus)
PhD, UCLA
Interests: Phonology, Syntax, Field Application of Principles & Parameters Theory, Discourse, Chadic Languages (Hausa, Ngas).
Professional home page | dburquest@uta.edu
Dr. Jerold Edmondson (Emeritus)
Habilitation, Technical University of Berlin; PhD, UCLA
Interests: Field/experimental/computational phonetics, tone and vocal register, natural language processing, historical linguistics, languages of East and Southeast Asia, Tai, and Chinese.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 132D | edmondson@uta.edu
Dr. Robert Longacre (Emeritus)
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: String constituent analysis, discourse analysis, semantics.
