Regular Faculty
E-mail addresses (all but affiliated faculty): lastname@ling.ucsd.edu; e.g., ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu
Farrell Ackerman
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Morphological theory, syntactic theory, lexical semantics, fieldwork, Uralic languages, first language acquisition.
Eric Baković
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006
Research Interests: Phonological theory, Optimality Theory, Spanish.
David Barner
Associate Professor (Primary Appointment in Dept. of Psychology)
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: Language and conceptual development in children; interface between language structure and meaning
Gabriela Caballero
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, language documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, typology, Uto-Aztecan languages.
Ivano Caponigro
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Crosslinguistic semantics, pragmatics, syntax/semantics interface.
Grant Goodall
Professor and Director, Linguistics Language Program
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Syntactic theory, structure of Spanish, second language acquisition and methodology of language teaching.
Andrew Kehler
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse interpretation.
Robert Kluender
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Neural substrate of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, syntactic theory, Germanic linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, sentence processing.
Roger Levy
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, human sentence processing, syntax, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German.
Rachel Mayberry
Professor
Ph.D., McGill University
Research Interests: Language acquisition and processing, critical period for language, sign languages, reading development, and co-speech gesture.
John Moore
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Syntactic theory, lexical semantics, Spanish.
Sharon Rose
Professor
Ph.D., McGill University
Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, fieldwork, phonetics, psycholinguistics, African languages (Semitic, Kordofanian).
Adjunct Faculty
Amalia Arvaniti (Professor, English Language and Linguistics, University of Kent)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Research Interests: Phonetics and phonology (primarily of prosody), speech timing, sociolinguistics, Greek.