Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Certificate Program Offered: Language Learning and Teaching
Director of the Graduate Program: Professor Alan Prince, 18 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7289)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Akinbiyi M. Akinlabi, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Ibadan (Nigeria)
Phonology; tone; intonation in tone languages; Benue Congo phonology; Yoruba
Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative syntax; linguistic universals; semantic roles; Amerindian and African languages
Maria Bittner, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Crosslinguistic semantics; pragmatics; ergativity; Eskimo and other exotic languages
Jose Camacho, Associate Professor of Linguistics/Spanish and Portuguese, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
Spanish syntax; second-language acquisition; language contact; Amazonian linguistics
Veneeta Dayal, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Syntax-semantics interface; semantics; South Asian linguistics
Paul de Lacy, Associate Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Phonology; morphology; optimality theory
Viviane M. Déprez, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntactic theory; Romance linguistics; language acquisition; Creole syntax
Jane Grimshaw, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Syntactic theory; the lexicon; language acquisition; cognitive science
Shigeto Kawahara, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Perceptual factors and phonological patterns; intonation; verbal art; symbolism
Alan S. Prince, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phonology; prosody; prosodic morphology; optimality theory; cognitive science
Kenneth Safir, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntactic theory; Germanic linguistics; Romance linguistics; history of linguistics; learnability theory
Roger Schwarzschild, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Semantics; pragmatics; intonation
Bruce Tesar, Associate Professor of Linguistics, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Phonology; morphology; Korean linguistics; synchronic variation; diachrony
Julien Musolino, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D. Maryland
PsycholinguisticsLiliana Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, SAS; Ph.D, Southern California
Theories of bilingual/second language acquisition; syntactic theory (Spanish, Quechua)
Chung-chieh Shan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Harvard
Context, continuations, and dynamic semantics in natural and programming languages
Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philosophical logic; epistemology; early analytic philosophy
Matthew Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Natural-language generation; conversational dialogue agents; knowledge representation and logic programming
Karin Stromswold, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.D., Harvard
Language acquisition; cognitive and neural bases of language; functional neuroimaging