Faculty

Dr. Ray Elliott, PhD, Indiana University

Department of Linguistics

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 and 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 and 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.

Adjunct Faculty

Ms. Dema Smadi

Department of Linguistics and TESOL

EGTA Instructor

Ms. Emily Grahaam

Department of Linguistics and TESOL

EGTA Instructor

Ms. Gabriela Sanchez

Department of Linguistics and TESOL

EGTA Instructor

Dr. Meng Yang

Department of Linguistics and TESOL

Adjunct Instructor

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.