Graduate Students
Xiaobei Chen
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She/Her/Hers
Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Language contact and change, Morphology
Cohort Year:
2022
Taela Dudley
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she/her/hers
Research Interests:
sociolinguistics, pragmatics, syntax, psycholinguistics, language ideologies
Cohort Year:
2023
Lucas Fagen
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He/Him/His
Research Interests:
Semantics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics
Cohort Year:
2020
Lemin Gao
Research Interests:
formal semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language; East and South Asian languages; computational and neurolinguistics methods
Cohort Year:
2025
Gabriel Gilbert
Research Interests:
Hawaiian, Polynesian languages, Language Contact and Shift, Language Revitalization, Grammaticalization, Corpus/Computational Methods
Cohort Year:
2023
Marcia Gonzales
Research Interests:
Semantics, Pragmatics, Information Structure, Philosophy of Language, Spanish
Cohort Year:
2024
Jessie He
Research Interests:
psycholinguistics, experimental semantics, language and music
Cohort Year:
2024
Kate Henninger
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She/Her/Hers
Research Interests:
Sign Languages, Semantics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics
Cohort Year:
2020
Marta Díaz Herrera
Research Interests:
Multilingualism, Language Contact, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Sumerian and Akkadian, Mesopotamian Archaeology
Emmett Jessee
Research Interests:
sociophonetics, linguistic anthropology, speech perception, semiotics, trans linguistics
Cohort Year:
2025
Sercan Karakas
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He/Him/His
Research Interests:
Semantics, Syntax, Natural Language Processing, Reasoning in Large Language Models
Cohort Year:
2022
Joohee Ko
Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
Cohort Year:
2024
Sadira Lewis
Research Interests:
Syntax, Field Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax-Semantics, Kaqchikel (Mayan), Turkish
Cohort Year:
2025
Jordyn Martin
Research Interests:
Racialized Language Use, Child Language Production and Acquisition, Identity Formation and Social Belonging
Cohort Year:
2024
Parker Robbins
Research Interests:
Morphosyntax, Psycholinguistics, Computational Methods, and Yiddish
Cohort Year:
2022
Kutay Serova
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He/Him/His
Research Interests:
Syntax, Morphology, Interfaces, Turkic Languages
Cohort Year:
2020
Jaehong Shim
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He/Him/His
Research Interests:
Morphosyntax, Historical Linguistics, Korean, Altaic languages, Field methods
Cohort Year:
2022
Venus Shirazy
Research Interests:
Lexical semantics, syntax/semantics interface, morphosyntax, theoretical and experimental (neurolinguistic) approaches, Farsi (Persian)
Cohort Year:
2025
Madeline Snigaroff
Research Interests:
Language revitalization and documentation, Field work, Arctic languages, Syntax, Semantics
Cohort Year:
2020
Saulé Tuganbaeva
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She/Her/Hers
Research Interests:
Phonology, Sign Language Linguistics
Cohort Year:
2019
Uduma Umeh
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He/him/his
Research Interests:
Syntax/semantics interface; contact linguistics; Igbo; Availability of different kinds of ellipsis across some selected Niger-Congo languages
Cohort Year:
2024
Yin Wang (Yiin)
Research Interests:
Language contact, Sound change, Fieldwork, and Bilingualism.
Cohort Year:
2023
Brianna Wilson
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She/Her/Hers
Research Interests:
sociolinguistics, sociosyntax
Cohort Year:
2019
Darragh Winkelman
Research Interests:
(Ottoman) Turkish, Language Contact, Poetics, Phonology, Morphology, Islamicate Literatures, Persian, Arabic
Cohort Year:
2020
