Faculty

Julie Auger

 jauger@indiana.edu

Associate Professor of Linguistics and French. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1994. Sociolinguistics, French linguistics, variation theory, morphosyntax.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009. Phonology, the lexicon, and the connections between them; Modeling variable and categorical effects in the lexicon; acquisition of grammatical trends by humans and machines.

Michael Becker

 mxbecker@indiana.edu

Robert Botne

botner@indiana.edu 		Chair and Professor of Linguistics. Member of African Studies Program faculty. Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1981. African languages, Bantu, tense/aspect/modality systems, morphology, comparative linguistics, lexical semantics of verbs.
Professor of Linguistics and of Spanish and Portuguese. Ph.D., University of Washington, 1985. Morphosyntax, Spanish linguistics, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles.

Joseph C. Clements

 clements@indiana.edu

Stuart Davis

 davis@indiana.edu 		Professor of Linguistics. Associate Member of Cognitive Science Program faculty. Ph.D., University of Arizona 1985. Phonology, Semitic linguistics, African-American English, general linguistics.
Professor of Linguistics. Member of Cognitive Science Program faculty. Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1991. Phonetics, phonology, experimental approaches to language description and language acquisition.

Kenneth de Jong

 kdejong@indiana.edu

Linguistic Speech Lab Project on Cross-language Perception and Syllabification

IU Phonetics Lab

Markus Dickinson

 md7@indiana.edu

Computational Linguistics Program 		Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2005. Computational linguistics, corpus annotation and linguistic knowledge, data-driven natural language processing, intelligent computer-aided language learning.
Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Adjunct Professor of Speech & Hearing Sciences. Member of Cognitive Science Program faculty and Member of the Russian and East European Institute. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985. Slavic linguistics, syntactic theory.

Steven Franks

 franks@indiana.edu

Richard Janda

rjanda@indiana.edu 		Lecturer in Linguistics. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. Historical linguistics (language change and variation), morphology and its neighbors (phonology and morphosyntax), history of linguistics, Germanic and Romance linguistics, language and music, linguistic pedagogy.
Associate Professor of Linguistics. Associate Member of Cognitive Science Program faculty. Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986. Syntactic theory, comparative syntax, syntax-semantics interface, morphology-syntax interaction, Japanese linguistics, linguistic theory and music theory.

Yoshihisa Kitagawa

 kitagawa@indiana.edu

Sandra Kübler

 skuebler@indiana.edu

Computational Linguistics Program 		Associate Professor of Linguistics. PhD., University of Tübingen, 2003. Computational Linguistics, computational corpus linguistics, machine learning techniques in computational linguistics, natural language processing.
Professor of Linguistics
Member of African Studies Program & International Studies Program Faculty
Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
Ph.D., University of York (UK), 1988. African Languages (especially endangered languages), Political Discourse Analysis, The Politics About Languages in Africa, Multilingualism and Language Contact, Pragmatics of Prosody, Ethnopragmatics.

Samuel Gyasi Obeng

 sobeng@indiana.edu

Alwiya S. Omar

 aomar@indiana.edu 		Clinical Professor, African Language Coordinator. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992. Second Language Acquisition, Kiswahili Pragmatics, Web based material development, African Language programming and development, Study Abroad.
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988. Anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis, socio-linguistics, history of linguistic anthropology.

Frances Trix

ftrix@indiana.edu

Barbara S. Vance

bvance@indiana.edu 		Associate Professor of Linguistics and French and Italian. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989. Diachronic and synchronic generative syntax, French linguistics, historical linguistics.






Emeriti Faculty

Daniel A. Dinnsen

 dinnsen@indiana.edu 		Chancellor's Professor of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor of Speech & Hearing Sciences. Associate Member of Cognitive Science Program faculty. Ph.D., University of Texas, 1972. Phonological theory, phonological acquisition, speech disorders, and language and law.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics. Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and of Law. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1967; J.D, Indiana University, 2003. Member of the Indiana Bar. African languages, Chadic, Hausa, historical linguistics, linguistic fieldwork, field methods, language and law, copyright, First Amendment law.

Paul Newman

pnxxpn@indiana.edu

Robert F. Port

 port@indiana.edu

IU Phonetics Lab 		Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science. Member of African Studies Program faculty. Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1976. Phonetics, speech production and perception, Swahili, dynamical models of cognition.
Rudy Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and French and Italian. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1960. French linguistics, applied linguistics, pidgins and creoles, second language acquisition.

Albert Valdman

valdman@indiana.edu