Research Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Phonological theory, Chinese linguistics.
mychen@ling.ucsd.edu
Research Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Research Interests: Cognitive grammar, syntax and semantics, comparative Uto-Aztecan.
Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Interests: Foreign language acquisition, Albanian.
newmark@ling.ucsd.edu
Research Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Language universals and linguistic typology, syntactic, morphological and phonological theory. Current projects concern the syntax of Russian, the syntax-morphology interface (with particular reference to German), and the phonology and phonetics of American Sign Language.
Research Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Phonological theory, orthography, Romance linguistics, law and language.
The UCSD Department of Linguistics 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.