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![Maya Abtahian](faculty/abtahian_maya/assets/images/maya_abtahian.jpg)
Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 514 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift
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Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and description; Computational linguistics; Mesoamerican languages
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Adeleke, Lateef
he/him/his
PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language Documentation & Description; Natural Language Processing; African Languages
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An, Hannah
MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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Asudeh, Ash
he/him/his
Professor of Linguistics
Director of Center for Language Sciences
- Office Location
- 506 Lattimore
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
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Basu, Sreyoshi
she/her/hers
MA student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Phonetics; Syntax; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics
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Becker, Sapphire
MS Computational Linguistics, 2018
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Bray, Andrew R.
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation & Change; Linguistics Identities & Personas; Sociophonetics
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Bui, Beryl
she/her/hers
MA Linguistics, 2022
Interests: Phonetics and phonology; Syntax; Bilingualism; Early language development
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Cao, Angela
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Causality; Conceptual Reasoning
![Greg Carlson](faculty/carlson_greg/assets/images/greg_carlson.jpg)
Carlson, Greg
he/him/his
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
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Carney, Laurel H.
Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, AS&E
Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, UR Medical School
Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3948
- Web Address
- Website
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Charest, Jessica
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Language documentation and revitalization
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Chaudhari, Akash
he/him/his
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Natural Language Processing; Information Extraction
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Colby, Camille
she/her/hers
MA Language Documentation and Description, 2022
Interests: Language documentation and description of endangered languages
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Davis, Jamie
they/them/theirs
MA Linguistics, 2022
Interests: Multilingualism; Historical linguistics; Language contact; Sociolinguistics
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Dunlap, Alexandrine
MA Language Documentation and Description, 2020
Interests: Morphology; Phonology; Bantu languages
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Eichas, Megan
MA Language Documentation and Description, 2020
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Everson, Becky
she/her/hers
MA student in Language Description and Documentation
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Language Documentation; Archiving; Tone; Syntax
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Govindarajan, Venkata
MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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Grimm, Nadine
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
On leave for the 23-24 academic year
- Office Location
- 509 Lattimore Hall
Grimm, Scott
he/him/his
Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
On leave for the 23-24 academic year
- Office Location
- 512 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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Ibarra, Alyssa
PhD BCS and Linguistics
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Iglinski, Peter
MA Linguistics, 2017. Senior Press Officer for Science and Public Media, University of Rochester
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4811
- Web Address
- Website
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Kirshner, Scott
he/him/his
MA Linguistics, 2023
Interests: Semantics/pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; The intersection of linguistics and cognitive science
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Kuchmiichuk, Pavlo
he/him/his
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Low-resource NLP; Grammatical Error Correction; Computational Semantics
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Lee, Elizabeth
MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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Liu, Zhendong
he/him/his
MS Computational Linguistics, 2022
Interests: Computational semantics; Lexical semantics; Syntax
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Ma, Yizhen
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Maxwell, Alexa
MA Linguistics, 2023
![Joyce McDonough](faculty/mcdonough_joyce/assets/images/joyce4.jpg)
McDonough, Joyce M.
she/her/hers
Richard L. Turner Professor
Professor of Linguistics
- Office Location
- 505 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces; Laboratory phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics; Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)
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Michielsen, Bryan
he/him/his
Department Manager
- Office Location
- 503 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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Moon, Ellise
they/them/theirs
PhD student in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability
![Mary Moroney](faculty/moroney-mary/assets/images/moroney.jpg)
Moroney, Mary
she/her/hers
Adjunct Professor
- Office Location
- 511 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork
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Okwaraji, Queenette
MA Language Documentation and Description, 2019
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Patni, Suhasini
she/her/hers
MA student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Vietnamese; Sociolinguistics
![Asia Pietraszko](faculty/pietraszko-asia/assets/images/asia-pietraszko.jpg)
Pietraszko, Asia
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Field Syntax Lab
- Office Location
- 510 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality
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Preminger, Omer
Visitor, 2020
- omerp@umd.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Predicate-argument agreement; Nominal case; The Person Case Constraint (PCC); Clitic doubling; Head movement; Ergativity
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Qing, Hongbin
MS Computational Linguistics, 2021
Interests: Computational semantics; cognitive neuroscience
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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Tamil heritage language maintenance; Language and identity; Code-mixing and translanguaging; Linguistic variation in Dravidian speech communities; Decolonial anthropological linguistics
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Richter, Stephanie
she/her/hers
PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational syntax and semantics; Syntax-semantics interface; Discourse and pragmatics
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Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Schubert, Lenhart
Professor
Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
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Stewart, LaChelle
MA Linguistics, 2020
Interests: Computational Linguistics
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Tang, Siwei
she/her/hers
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Valinsky, Jack
he/him/his
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational semantics; Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding; Event semantics; Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax
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Vashishtha, Siddharth
MS Computational Linguistics, 2019
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Wamsley, James C.
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor
Interests: Semantics; Pragmatics; Definiteness; Nominal Morphology; Tibeto-Burman languages; Fieldwork
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Wang, Dan
he/him/his
MS Computational Linguistics, 2023
Interests: Knowledge extraction based on computational semantics ; Sentiment analysis ; Machine translation ; Automatic speech recognition from a spontaneous speech
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Wayne, Taylor
MA Language Documentation and Description, 2021
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White, Aaron
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
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Xu, Yuhang
he/him/his
PhD student in Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 4109 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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Yang, Lois
she/her/hers
MA student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Yu, Jiaxing
MA Linguistics, 2020
Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Second language acquisition
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Zhang, Congwen
she/her/hers
MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Zhou, Yuyi
MA Linguistics, 2019