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Regular Faculty

  • Farrell Ackerman

    Farrell Ackerman

    Professor and Director of the Human Developmental Sciences Program
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

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

    Eric Baković

    Professor and Department Chair
    Ph.D., Rutgers University
    Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006

    Research Interests: phonological theory and computational phonology
  • Leon Bergen

    Leon Bergen

    Associate Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science (by courtesy)
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: Computational linguistics, natural language processing.

  • Gabriela Caballero

    Gabriela Caballero

    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

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

    Ivano Caponigro

    Professor and Faculty Director of UC Education Abroad Programs in Italy
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Research Interests: Crosslinguistic semantics, pragmatics, syntax/semantics interface.
  • Emily Clem

    Emily Clem

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

    Research Interests: Syntactic theory and typology, semantics, morphology, fieldwork
  • Rachel Dudley

    Rachel Dudley

    Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Maryland

    Research Interests: Language acquisition, semantics, pragmatics
  • Marc Garellek

    Marc Garellek

    Professor and Faculty Undergraduate Advisor (General and Speech Language Pathology)
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Research Interests: Phonetics, laboratory phonology, voice quality, Hmong.
  • Grant Goodall

    Grant Goodall

    Professor and Director, Linguistics Language Program
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

    Research Interests: Syntactic theory, experimental syntax, acquisition, Spanish linguistics, educational linguistics.
  • Andrew Kehler

    Andrew Kehler

    Professor 
    Ph.D., Harvard University

    Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse interpretation.
  • Robert Kluender

    Robert Kluender

    Professor, Director, Heritage Language Program
    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.
  • Rachel Mayberry

    Rachel Mayberry

    Professor
    Ph.D., McGill University

    Research Interests: Sign language acquisition and neuroprocessing across the lifespan, relation of gesture to language, reading development.
  • John Moore

    John Moore

    Professor and Dean of Undergraduate Education
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

    Research Interests: Syntactic theory, lexical semantics, Spanish.
  • Sharon Rose

    Sharon Rose

    Professor
    Ph.D., McGill University

    Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, fieldwork, phonetics, African languages (Semitic, Kordofanian).
  • Will Styler

    Will Styler

    Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Computational Social Sciences Program
    Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder

    Research Interests: Computational linguistics, acoustic phonetics, speech perception
  • Alex Warstadt

    Alex Warstadt

    Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., New York University
    (starting Winter 2025)

    Research Interests: Computational linguistics, language acquisition, pragmatics, natural language processing, language models interpretability