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, Uralic languages, first language acquisition.
	Amalia Arvaniti Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor Ph.D., University of Cambridge Research Interests: Phonetics and phonology (primarily of prosody), speech timing, sociolinguistics, Greek.
	Eric Baković Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies Ph.D., Rutgers University Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006 Research Interests: Phonological theory, Optimality Theory, Spanish.
	Ivano Caponigro Assistant Professor 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, discourse interpretation.
	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.
	Roger Levy Assistant 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 Associate Professor Ph.D., McGill University Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, 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.