Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts *, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of the Graduate Program: Professor Viviane Déprez, 18 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (732/932-7289)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Akinbiyi M. Akinlabi, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Ibadan
Phonology; tone; intonation in tone languages; Benue Congo phonology; Yoruba

Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative syntax; linguistic universals; semantic roles; Amerindian and African languages

Maria Bittner, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Crosslinguistic semantics; pragmatics; ergativity; Eskimo and other exotic languages

Jose Camacho, Associate Professor of Linguistics/Spanish and Portuguese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Southern California
Spanish syntax; second-language acquisition; language contact; Amazonian linguistics

Veneeta Dayal, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Syntax-semantics interface; semantics; South-Asian linguistics

Paul de Lacy, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Phonology; morphology; optimality theory

Viviane M. Déprez, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Syntactic theory; Romance linguistics; language acquisition; Creole syntax

Jane Grimshaw, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Syntactic theory; the lexicon; language acquisition; cognitive science

Alan S. Prince, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Phonology; prosody; prosodic morphology; optimality theory; cognitive science

Kenneth Safir, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Syntactic theory; Germanic linguistics; Romance linguistics; history of linguistics; learnability theory

Roger Schwarzschild, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Semantics; pragmatics; intonation

Bruce Tesar, Associate Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Colorado
Learnability and acquisition; computational linguistics; cognitive science; phonology

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Young-mee Yu Cho, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford Phonology; morphology; Korean linguistics; synchronic variation; diachrony

Matthew Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science, FAS-NB/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Natural-language generation; conversational dialogue agents; knowledge representation and logic programming

Karin Stromswold, Associate Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.D., Harvard Language acquisition; cognitive and neural bases of language; functional neuroimaging