Faculty

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.

Note: Professor Ackerman does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

Eric Baković

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

Research Interests: phonological theory and computational phonology

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

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

Research Interests: Phonology, morphology, language documentation, typology, Uto-Aztecan languages.

Ivano Caponigro

Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

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

Note: Professor Caponigro does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

Emily Clem

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

Research Interests: Syntactic theory and typology, semantics, morphology, fieldwork

Rachel Dudley

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Research Interests: Language acquisition, semantics, pragmatics

Note: Professor Dudley does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

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

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

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

Note: Professor Goodall does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

Andrew Kehler

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse interpretation.

Note: Professor Kehler does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

Rachel Mayberry

Professor
Ph.D., McGill University

Research Interests: Sign language structure and acquisition from linguistic, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives, and the nature of the critical period for language.

Note: Professor Mayberry does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

Sharon Rose

Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., McGill University

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

Will Styler

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

Research Interests: Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Technology, Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Computational Linguistics, Speech Perception

Note: Professor Styler does not plan to recruit new graduate students or accept new advisees for the 2026–27 admissions cycle.

Alex Warstadt

Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (joint appointment)
Ph.D., New York University

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