Faculty
Jordan Boyd-Graber
Department: College of Information Studies
Interests: computational linguistics, statistical models of language learning
Allen Braun
Department: Chief, Language & Speech Unit, National Institute for Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD/NIH)
Interests: cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, language disorders
Hal Daume III
Department: Computer Science
Interests: computational linguistics, machine translation, machine learning
Robert DeKeyser
Department: Second Language Acquisition
Interests: interlanguage variability, individual differences in language learning, aptitude-treatment interaction, cognitive psychology of language acquisition, critical period phenomena, monitoring processes, effects of study abroad.
Bonnie Dorr
Department: Computer Science & UMIACS
Interests: broadscale multilingual processing, interlingual machine translation, summarization, linguistically-informed statistical models.
Michael Dougherty
Department: Psychology
Interests: cognitive psychology, memory, decision processes, executive control, language processing
Cathy Doughty
Department: CASL and Second Language Acquisition
Interests: aptitude for language learning, instructed second language acquisition, technology and language training
Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah
Department: Hearing and Speech Sciences
Interests: aphasia, cognitive neuroscience, billingualism and multilingualism
Naomi Feldman
Department: Linguistics
Interests: computational psycholinguistics, phonetics/phonology, language acquisition
Kira Gor
Department: Second Language Acquisition, and Associate Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
Interests: acquisition of second language phonology and morphology; cognitive aspects of phonological and morphological processing in Russian as a native or second language; foreign language pedagogy.
Matt Goupell
Department: Hearing and Speech Sciences
Interests:cochlear implants, binaural hearing, neural/computational models, speech understanding
Valentine Hacquard
Department: Linguistics
Interests: semantics (modality, tense, aspect, propositional attitudes, degree constructions), syntax/semantics and semantics/pragmatics interfaces, language acquisition, theory of mind, cognitive neuroscience
Yi Ting Huang
Department:Hearing and Speech Sciences
Interests:language acquisition, psycholinguistics, development of semantics-pragmatics interface
Bill Idsardi
Department: Linguistics
Interests: phonology, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience
Catherine Ingold
Department: National Foreign Language Center
Interests: romance linguistics, French, language acquisition
Scott Jackson
Department: CASL
Interests: prosodic structure, information structure, psycholinguistic processing, electroencephalography (EEG), the role of EEG in second language acquisition and evaluation
Nan Jiang
Department: Second Language Acquisition
Interests: psycholinguistic processes in second language acquisition: bilingual language processing, lexical representation and development, language transfer, the integration of linguistic knowledge in adult L2 learning; relationship between language and thought
Judith Klavans
Department: College of Information Studies & UMIACS
Interests: computational linguistics for metadata, text summarization
Ellen Lau
Department: Linguistics
Interests: cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, neurocognitive disorders
Jimmy Lin
Department: College of Information Studies & UMIACS
Interests: computational linguistics, information retrieval, cloud computing
Michael Long
Department: Second Language Acquisition
Interests: second language acquisition; maturational constraints on learning; fossilization, feedback, aptitude, research methods in SLA, task-based language teaching.
Jeff MacSwan
Department: TLPL, Education
Interests: bilingualism, grammatical theories of codeswitching, language minority education
Melinda Martin-Beltran
Department: TLPL, Education
Interests: sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition, peer interaction, multilingual/language minority education
Rochelle Newman
Department: Hearing and Speech Sciences
Interests: speech perception, language acquisition, word recognition, speech production, stream segregation
Jared Novick
Department: CASL
Interests: cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, cognitive control, real-time sentence processing in reading and spoken comprehension, ambiguity resolution and constraint satisfaction, individual differences, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology of language, eye-tracking during scene perception as it relates to spoken language comprehension
Doug Oard
Department: College of Information Studies & UMIACS
Interests: computational linguistics: cross-language information retrieval, speech retrieval, information filtering
Polly O'Rourke
Department: CASL
Interests: psycholinguistics, ERP and spectral EEG research in language processing, bilingualism, spanish linguistics
Colin Phillips
Department: Linguistics
Interests: psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition, syntax
Paul Pietroski
Department: Linguistics & Philosophy
Interests: semantics, philosophy of language, language acquisition
Nan Bernstein Ratner
Department: Hearing and Speech Sciences
Interests: language acquisition, role of input in language learning, stuttering, parent-child interaction
James Reggia
Department: Computer Science & UMIACS
Interests: neural computation, artificial life, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence
Philip Resnik
Department: Linguistics & UMIACS
Interests: computational linguistics: machine translation, sentiment analysis, computational psycholinguistics, crowdsourcing
Steven Ross
Department: CASL and Second Language Acquisition
Interests: discourse analyses of oral proficiency interviews, the influence of metalinguistic knowledge on proficiency growth, language attrition, and modeling proficiency growth over time
Shihab Shamma
Department: Electrical Engineering & ISR
Interests: auditory neuroscience, neurocomputational models of auditory and speech processes
Rebecca Silverman
Department: TLPL, Education
Interests: language, literacy and learning disabilities
Jonathan Simon
Department: Electrical Engineering & Biology
Interests: biological signal processing, auditory neuroscience
Juan Uriagereka
Department: Linguistics, and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Interests: syntax, semantics, evolution of language
Min Wang
Department: Human Development
Interests: language and reading acquisition; cross-language writing system comparisons; second language/bilingual literacy development
Amy Weinberg
Department: CASL, Linguistics & UMIACS
Interests: sentence processing from a psycholinguistic and computational perspective, syntax
Alexander Williams
Department: Linguistics & Philosophy
Interests: erb semantics; philosophy of language; languages of China; categorial and tree-adjoining grammars
