Graduate students | Linguistics

Applied Linguistics MA

Peter Khoury

	BSc, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Research interests:	Language variation, evolution of language, comparative syntax,language and mind, L1 and L2 acquisition

Walter Lehner

Linguistics PhD

Andre Batchelder-Schwab

Teaching Fellow

	BA, MA, New York University
Research interests:	Fieldwork, Khoisan languages, sociolinguistics, phonetics, phonology, and American dialectology

Megan Brown

Teaching Fellow

	BS, University of Connecticut MA, Boston University
Research interests:	Multilingualism, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and morphosyntax, with an emphasis on L3 acquisition of DP-related syntactic features such as gender, number, and case
Web:	https://www.meganmbrown.com

Ousmane Cisse

	MA, University Gaston Berger, Senegal MA, Eastern Michigan University
Research interests:	Sociolinguistics, language variation, bilingualism, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morpho-syntax, morphology, Mandinka, Wolof

Danielle Dionne

	BA, MA, Florida Atlantic University
Research interests:	Phonetics, phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface, bilingualism, and sociolinguistics

Dehbia Gaoua (Dalila)

Ying Gong

Teaching Fellow

	BA, Tianjin University, China MA, Syracuse University, NY
Research interests:	Semantics, syntax, fieldwork, and computational linguistics

Ali Hussain

Jackson Kellogg

Alexandra Kohut

Teaching Fellow

	BA, Bryn Mawr College MA, Indiana University, Bloomington
Research interests:	Morphosyntax, bilingualism, and Slavic languages

Felix Kpogo

Teaching Fellow

	BA, University of Cape Coast, Ghana MA, Florida International University
Research interests:	First and second language acquisition, and bilingualism, with focus on African (i.e., Ghanaian) languages, such as Akan, Ga, and Ewe. Specific Interest: Phonological and lexical development in bilingual and multilingual children and adults learning a second language; Acquisition of variable input
Web:	https://www.felixkpogo.com

Ka Chun Lee

Teaching Fellow

	BA, Hong Kong Polytechnic University MA, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research interests:	Cross-linguistic interactions, contact-induced sound change, phonetics, phonology, speech processing, varieties of Chinese

Okrah Oppong

Jupitara Ray

Kevin Samejon

Teaching Fellow

	BA, Mindanao State University MA, Biola University
Research interests:	Phonetics, phonology, speech production and perception, semantics, Philippine languages
Web:	https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Samejon

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas

	BA, MA, Louisiana State University
Research interests:	Language contact and its effects on language change, language variation, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language acquisition

Nairan Wu

Teaching Fellow

	BA, New York University MA, University of Edinburgh
Research interests:	Comparative syntax, fieldwork, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and language evolution.

Linguistics MA

Michael Alexander-Yang

	BA, Boston College
Research interests:	Historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, Indo-European and Sinitic languages

Ashwaq Alqurashi

Jessie Calkins

	BA, Boston University
Research interests:	Language acquisition, pragmatics, historical linguistics and language change, phonology, Japanese linguistics

Giuliana Carder

	BA in progress, Boston University
Research interests:	Sociolinguistics, language change, bilingualism, dialectology, ASL

Mara Coolidge

	BA in progress, Boston University
Research interests:	Phonetics, phonology, prosody, sociolinguistics, ASL

Neshat Darvishi

Jiangnan Fang

Caroline Immroth

Christof Ketchmark

	BA in progress, Boston University
Research interests:	Bilingualism, Japanese linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, syntax, and translation

Kamillah Khalif

John Kinney (Jake)

Eugenia Lukin (Genia)