Regular Faculty

E-mail addresses (all but affiliated faculty): lastname@ling.ucsd.edu; e.g., ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu

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Farrell Ackerman
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: Morphological theory, syntactic theory, lexical semantics, fieldwork, Uralic languages, first language acquisition.


Arvaniti

Amalia Arvaniti
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor and Director of the Speech Lab
Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Research Interests: Phonetics and phonology (primarily of prosody), speech timing, sociolinguistics, Greek.

 

bakovic

Eric Baković
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006

Research Interests: Phonological theory, Optimality Theory, Spanish.

 

cabellero

Gabriela Caballero
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, language documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, typology, Uto-Aztecan languages.

 

caponigro

Ivano Caponigro
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Crosslinguistic semantics, pragmatics, syntax/semantics interface.

   

goodall

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.

 

kehler

Andrew Kehler
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse interpretation.

 

kluender

Robert Kluender
Associate 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.

 

levy

Roger Levy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests: Computational linguistics, human sentence processing, syntax, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German.

 

mayberry

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.

 

moore

John Moore
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests: Syntactic theory, lexical semantics, Spanish.


rose

Sharon Rose
Associate Professor 
Ph.D., McGill University

Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, fieldwork, phonetics, psycholinguistics, African languages (Semitic, Kordofanian).

  

The UCSD Linguistics department combines a focus on the convergence of theoretical and experimental linguistics with strong interdisciplinary collaboration.

Since its founding in the 1960's, UCSD has become one of the foremost educational and research institutions in the nation. The campus and surrounding region boast an extraordinary array of well-known scholars and offer broad opportunities for study and research of the highest quality. These opportunities are especially strong and diversified in language-related areas.