Language
The University of Arizona is home to one of the largest groups of researchers on human language in the world. Faculty are spread across several colleges and departments, and have interests spanning linguistic analysis, language behavior, and the cognitive and neurological substrates for normal and impaired language. There is excellent cooperation among research labs, and graduate students typically engage in language related projects with several faculty members. Cognitive Science faculty with interests in language include:
- Archangeli, Diana (PhD MIT), Professor, Linguistics, phonology
- Badecker, William J. (PhD Indiana University), Research Professor, Cognitive Science, psycholinguistics, syntactic and morphological processing, cognitive neuropsychology of language/neurolinguistics
- Barss, Andrew (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, syntax, semantics, language processing and acquisition
- Beeson, Pelagie M. (PhD University of Arizona), Associate Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, communication disorders in adults
- Bever, Thomas G. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor, Linguistics, language processing, behavioral neuroscience
- Carnie, Andrew (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, syntactic theory
- Cohen, Paul R. (PhD Stanford University), Professor, Computer Science, chunking, developmental robotics, language learning
- DeDe, Gayle (PhD Boston University), Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, sentence comprehension in aging and aphasia
- Demers, Richard (PhD University of Washington), Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, phonetics/phonology, Native American languages, historical linguistics, animal communication
- Dooley, Sheila (PhD Lund), Lecturer, Linguistics, syntax, typology, computational linguistics
- Fasel, Ian (PhD UCSD), Lecturer, Computer Science, machine learning, modeling human development, robotics
- Fong, Sandiway (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, computational linguistics
- Forster, Kenneth I. (PhD Univeristy of Illinois), Professor, Psychology, language comprehension, word recognition
- Gerken, LouAnn (PhD Columbia University), Professor, Psychology, infant language learning, language production
- Gómez, Rebecca (PhD New Mexico State University), Associate Professor, Psychology, statistical learning, infant language learning, cognitive development
- Hammond, Michael (PhD University of California Los Angeles), Professor, Linguistics, morphology, phonology; experimental phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics
- Harley, Heidi (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, syntax, morphology, lexical semantics
- Harnish, Robert M. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, pragmatics, philosophy of language
- Holland, Audrey L. (PhD University of Pittsburg), Professor Emerita, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, aphasia
- Karimi, Simin (PhD University of Washington), Associate Professor, Linguistics, theoretical syntax
- Langendoen, D. Terence (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, syntax, computational linguistics
- Lin, Ying (PhD University of California Los Angeles), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, learning, computation, phonetics and phonology
- Lotto, Andrew (PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison), Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, auditory perception as it relates to speech perception
- McKee, Cecile (PhD University of Connecticut), Professor, Linguistics, syntactic development; child language
- Mendoza-Denton, Norma (PhD Stanford University), Associate Professor, Anthropology, sociolinguistics
- Nicol, Janet L. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Psychology, language processing, aphasia
- Ohala, Diane (PhD University of Arizona), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, child language acquisition, phonological perception and production; adult phonological processing
- Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo (PhD University of Rome), Professor, Cognitive Science, language and mind, judgment and decision making
- Plante, Elena (PhD University of Arizona), Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, developmental language disorders, neuroimaging
- Story, Brad (PhD University of Iowa), Associate Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, speech perception
- Supalla, Samuel J. (PhD University of Illinois), Associate Professor, Special Ed and Rehab,, sign language, syntactic and lexical development
- Ussishkin, Adam (PhD University of California Santa Cruz), Associate Professor, Linguistics, phonology, morphology
- Warner, Natasha (PhD University of California Berkeley), Associate Professor, Linguistics, phonetics, experimental phonology
- Waugh, Linda (PhD University of Indiana), Professor, French and Italian, bilingualism, language acquisition
- Wedel, Andrew (PhD University of California Santa Cruz), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, phonology, computational linguistics
- Yaeger-Dror, Malcah (PhD University of Pennsylvania), Adjunct Lecturer, Cognitive Science, cognitive aspects of phonological change, sociolinguistics
- Zhang, Zhu (PhD University of Michigan), Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, computational linguistics, machine learning