Faculty
Faculty that are interested in language science at Maryland are drawn from 10 different graduate departments and programs. Many work in richly collaborative environments, facing challenging interdisciplinary questions every day. Below is a list of the faculty currently involved in the community.
| Name | Department | Interests |
| DJ Bolger | Human Development | reading and literacy, developmental cognitive neuroscience |
| Allen Braun | Chief, Lang & Speech Unit, NIDCD | cogn neurosci, aphasia, ASL |
| Robert de Keyser | Second Lang Acq | second language acquisition |
| Bonnie Dorr | CompSci & UMIACS | multilingual NLP, machine translation |
| Michael Dougherty | Psychology | attention, memory, decision theory |
| Erin Eaker | Philosophy | philosophy of language and mind |
| Carol Espy-Wilson | Elec Eng & ISR | digital speech processing |
| Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah | Hearing & Speech Sci | aphasia, cognitive neuroscience |
| Kira Gor | Second Lang Acq | second language acquisition, morphology, speech |
| Valentine Hacquard | Linguistics | semantics, psycholinguistics |
| Mary Harper | Elec Eng & CASL | digital speech processing, NLP |
| Norbert Hornstein | Linguistics | syntax, semantics, philos of lang |
| Bill Idsardi | Linguistics | phonology, phonetics, comp models |
| Greg Iverson | CASL | speech perception, SLA |
| Michael Israel | English | semantics, cognitive linguistics, rhetoric |
| Nan Jiang | Second Lang Acq | second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, lexical processing |
| Judith Klavans | CompSci & UMIACS | computational linguistics |
| Howard Lasnik | Linguistics | syntax |
| Jeffrey Lidz | Linguistics | lang acq, psycholing, lang diversity |
| Jimmy Lin | iSchool | computational linguistics |
| Michael Long | Second Lang Acq | cognitive development |
| Rochelle Newman | Hearing & Speech | infant and adult psycholinguistics |
| Doug Oard | iSchool | computational linguistics |
| Colin Phillips | Linguistics | psycho/neuroling, lang acquisition |
| Paul Pietroski | Linguistics & Philosophy | semantics, logic, lang acquisition |
| David Poeppel | Linguistics & Biology | cogn neurosci, speech & hearing |
| Nan Bernstein Ratner | Hearing/Speech | lang. disorders, stuttering, infancy |
| James Reggia, MD | CompSci & UMIACS | comp modeling, neurology |
| Philip Resnik | Linguistics & UMIACS | comp ling, machine translation |
| Shihab Shamma | Elec Eng & ISR | auditory neurosci, neuromorphic eng. |
| Jonathan Simon | Elec Eng & Biology | biological signal processing |
| Juan Uriagereka | Linguistics | syntax, lang diversity, evol of lang |
| Min Wang | Human Development | reading and literacy |
| Amy Weinberg | Linguistics & UMIACS | comp linguistics, psycholinguistics |
| Amanda Woodward | Psychology | cognitive development, infant lang |
| Andrea Zukowski | Linguistics | atypical language development |