Faculty

Dr. Ray Elliott, PhD, Indiana University

Department of Linguistics

Interim Chair

Professor

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Email: elliott@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 132

Interests: Spanish Applied Linguistics; Dialectology; the Documentation and Analysis of triqui de Chicahuaxtla.

Dr. Ivy Hauser, PhD, U Mass - Amherst

Department of Linguistics

Assistant Professor

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Email: ivy.hauser@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 132-F

Interests: phonetics, phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface, phonological contrast and phonetic variation.

Dr. Cynthia Kilpatrick, PhD, UC San Diego

Department of Linguistics & TESOL

Interim Director of the English Language Institute

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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Email: cynkil@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 403

Interests: TESOL, second language acquisition, bilingualism, phonology, phonological acquisition, phonotactics, experimental phonology/phonetics, Romance languages (especially Spanish), dialects of the Southern U.S.

Dr. Joseph Sabbagh, PhD, MIT

Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor

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Email: sabbagh@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 126

Interests: Syntax, morphology, Austronesian languages (especially Tagalog), clause and argument structure, typology, coordination and constituent sharing (especially Right Node Raising).

Dr. Daniel Scarpace, PhD, UIUC

Department of Linguistics & TESOL

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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Email: daniel.scarpace@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 125

Interests: Phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition, Romance languages.

Dr. Peggy Semingson, PhD, UT Austin

Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor

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Email: peggys@uta.edu

Office: Online

Interests: Digital pedagogies, online learning, literacy teacher education, bilingualism, ESL.

Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan, PhD, Northwestern

Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor

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Email: stvan@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 132-H

Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, polysemy, bare nominals, discourse markers, vocabulary acquisition, language use in new technologies, health discourse.

Dr. Jeffrey Witzel, PhD, Arizona

Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor

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Email: jeffrey.witzel@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 129

Interests: Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, second language acquisition and teaching, research methods.

Dr. Naoko Ouchi Witzel, PhD, Arizona

Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor

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Email: naoko.witzel@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 127

Interests: Bilingualism, second language processing, psycholinguistics, language acquisition.

Dr. Suwon Yoon, PhD, Chicago

Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor

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Email: suwon.yoon@uta.edu

Office: Hammond 132E

Interests: The interface of semantics, pragmatics, and theoretical syntax.

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Samantha Cornelius

Department of Linguistics

Adjunct Instructor

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Email: samantha.cornelius@uta.edu

Office: Online

Dr. Carly Sommerlot

Department of Linguistics

Adjunct Instructor

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Email: carly.sommerlot@uta.edu

Office: Online

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Donald Burquest, PhD, UCLA

Department of Linguistics

Emeritus

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Interests: Phonology, Syntax, Field Application of Principles & Parameters Theory, Discourse, Chadic Languages (Hausa, Ngas).

Dr. Jerold Edmondson, Habilitation, Technical University of Berlin; PhD, UCLA

Department of Linguistics

Emeritus

Interests: Phonology, Syntax, Field Application of Principles & Parameters Theory, Discourse, Chadic Languages (Hausa, Ngas).

Dr. Robert Longacre, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Department of Linguistics

Emeritus

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Interests: String constituent analysis, discourse analysis, semantics.