UCLA Linguistics Department Faculty

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Büring, Daniel	Associate Professor and Vice-Chair/Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. 1996, University of Tübingen). Semantics, pragmatics, focus and intonation, Germanic syntax.
Curtiss, Susan	Professor (Ph.D. 1976, UCLA). Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition.
Hallman, Peter	Assistant Professor in Residence (Ph.D. 2000, UCLA). Syntax.
Hayes, Bruce	Professor (Ph.D. 1980, MIT). Phonology, phonetics, metrics, learnability.
Hyams, Nina	Professor (Ph.D. 1983, CUNY) Child language acquisition, syntax.
Jun, Sun-Ah	Professor (Ph.D. 1993, Ohio State University). Phonetics, prosody, Laboratory Phonology, Korean.
Kaplan, Aaron	Lecturer (Ph.D. 2008, UC Santa Cruz). Phonology
Keating, Patricia	Professor (Ph.D. 1980, Brown Univ.). Phonetics, laboratory phonology
Keenan, Edward	Professor (Ph.D. 1969, Univ. of Pennsylvania). Semantics, syntax, linguistic universals, logic.
Koopman, Hilda	Professor (Ph.D. 1984, Univ. of Tilburg). Syntactic Theory, comparative syntax, morphosyntax, syntax phonology interface; Fieldwork: (most recent) African languages (Maasai, Wolof) , Austronesian (Malagasy, Javanese, Samoan).
Kracht, Marcus	Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1992, Freie Universität Berlin). Computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics.
Mahajan, Anoop	Professor and Chair (Ph.D. 1990, MIT). Formal syntax, comparative syntax of South Asian languages.
Melchert, Craig	A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies (Ph.D. 1977, Harvard). Historical linguistics, Indo-European, Anatolian languages.
Munro, Pamela	Professor (Ph.D. 1974, UC San Diego). American Indian languages and linguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, syntax.
Parsons, Terry	Professor (Ph.D. 1966, Stanford University) Semantics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and history of logic.
Rett, Jessica	Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2008, Rutgers) Semantics
Schuh, Russell	Professor and Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Studies (Ph.D. 1972, UCLA). African languages (Chadic), general linguistics.
Schütze, Carson	Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1997, MIT). Psycholinguistics, especially sentence processing, morphological processing, first language acquisition, Specific Language Impairment; morphology; syntax, especially case, agreement, Germanic.
Sportiche, Dominique	Professor (Ph.D. 1984, MIT). Formal syntax, French.
Stabler, Edward	Professor (Ph.D. 1981, MIT). Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of logic and language.
Stowell, Tim	Professor and Dean of Humanities (Ph.D. 1981, MIT). Formal syntax.
Sundara, Megha	Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2005, McGill). Phonetics, speech perception, infant speech perception
Zuraw, Kie	Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2000, UCLA). Phonology, computational linguistics, Tagalog.

Adjunct faculty

Dahlgren, Kathleen

Adjunct Professor (Ph.D. UCLA).  Computational Linguistics

Emeritus faculty

Anttila, Raimo	Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1966, Yale). Indo-European languages and linguistics, historical linguistics
Hinnebusch, Thomas	Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1973, UCLA). Swahili, African languages and Linguistics (Bantu), phonology, historical linguistics.
Schachter, Paul	Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1960, UCLA). African languages, Pacific languages.
Stockwell, Robert	Professor Emeritus. (Ph.D. 1952, Univ. of Virginia). Historical linguistics, English language in all aspects, including history, structure, dialect variation.

Web pages of faculty now deceased

Bright, William	(1928-2006) was a distinguished scholar in American Indian linguistics, Dravidian linguistics, and sociolinguistics. He edited the journal Language at UCLA over a period of 25 years.
Fromkin, Victoria	(1923-2000) was one of the department's own first Ph.D.'s, noted for her work in phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. She began teaching in the department in 1965, and served as Dean/Vice Chancellor of the UCLA Graduate Division from 1979 to 1989.
Ladefoged, Peter	(1925-2006), a preeminent scholar in phonetics, taught in the department from 1962 to 1991, and was thereafter a Research Linguist.

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Last updated:   January 20, 2009