Dr. Ray Elliott (Professor) Interim Chair
PhD, Indiana University
Interests: Spanish Applied Linguistics; Dialectology; the Documentation and Analysis of triqui de Chicahuaxtla.
Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 132 | elliott@uta.edu
Dr. Ivy Hauser (Assistant Professor)
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Interests:phonetics, phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface, phonological contrast and phonetic variation.
Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 132-F | ivy.hauser@uta.edu
Dr. Cynthia D. Kilpatrick (Assistant Professor of Instruction) Interim Director of the English Language Institute
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 403 | cynkil@uta.edu
Dr. Joseph Sabbagh (Associate 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. Daniel Scarpace (Assistant Professor of Instruction)
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Interests: Phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition, Romance languages.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 125 | daniel.scarpace@uta.edu
Dr. Peggy Semingson (Associate Professor)
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Digital pedagogies, online learning, literacy teacher education, bilingualism, ESL.
Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: online | peggys@uta.edu
Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan (Associate Professor)
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 132-H | stvan@uta.edu
Dr. Jeffrey Witzel (Associate 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 (Associate 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
Dr. Suwon Yoon (Associate Professor)
PhD, Chicago
Interests: The interface of semantics, pragmatics, and theoretical syntax.
Professional home page and Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: Hammond 132E | suwon.yoon@uta.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Darcey Browning (Adjunct Instructor)
Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: online | darcey.browning@uta.edu
Dr. Samantha Cornelius (Adjunct Instructor)
Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: online | samantha.cornelius@uta.edu
Dr. Carly Sommerlot (Adjunct Instructor)
Research Profile (includes course syllabi)
Office: online | carly.sommerlot@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 | edmondson@uta.edu
Dr. Robert Longacre (In memoriam)
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: String constituent analysis, discourse analysis, semantics.
