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Associate Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
language processing, second language acquisition, emotional aspects of language, word recognition, cross-cultural research
Assistant Professor, Deaf Studies Program (WED)
early language experience, language deprivation, language development in deaf children, American Sign Language (ASL) lexicon
Professor, Department of Philosophy
philosophy of language, history and philosophy of logic and mathematics, epistemology, history of early analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein, Kant, aesthetics
Lecturer, Language Education Program (WED)
first and second language acquisition, language education, minority language revitalization, integration of competence-based and usage-based linguistic approaches
Assistant Professor and Program Co-Director, Deaf Studies Program (WED)
acquisition and processing of American Sign Language (ASL) in deaf individuals, development of visual attention in deaf children
Lecturer, Department of Romance Studies
phonetics and phonology (with a focus on the orthography interface), second language acquisition and teaching, psycholinguistics, contact linguistics, French linguistics
Clinical Professor and Chair, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (SAR)
pediatric language disorders with special interests in language analysis and preschool language intervention
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Director, African Studies Center
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, African sources of knowledge in non-Roman scripts, Ajami sources in Africa and the diaspora, Islam and grassroots literacies in Africa
Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (SAR)
developmental disorders of language and reading, human voice recognition and social auditory perception, mechanisms of plasticity in human auditory cortex, brain bases of complex auditory processing
Clinical Professor, Language Education Program (WED)
second language acquisition, applied phonology, auditory feedback, metalinguistic feedback, metacognition
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
linguistic anthropology, gender and sexuality, courtship and marriage, anthropology of youth, anthropology of education, Islam, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia)
Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
language, communication, and associated social-cognitive deficits in autism (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
natural language processing and knowledge bases, information extraction, machine learning, deep learning, machine translation
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
early speech, language, and reading acquisition, developmental cognitive neuroscience, music cognition, education