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Faculty/Staff Listings
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J. Andrew Cowell
James.Cowell 
Ph.D., French, University of California, Berkeley,
1995. Associate Professor of French and Linguistics.
Specialization: Algonquian linguistics, Arapaho
verbal narrative, Medieval literature and performance
traditions, diachronic syntax, anthropological
linguistics, Romance linguistics. |
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Barbara Fox
Barbara.Fox
Ph.D., Linguistics, UCLA, 1984. Professor.
Specialization: Grammar and interaction, conversation
analysis, discourse analysis, situated/distributed
cognition. |
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Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Zygmunt.Frajzyngier Ph.D.,
University of Warsaw, 1968. Professor
and Chair.
Specialization: Foundations of syntax and semantics
in crosslinguistic perspective, typological
explanations in grammar, grammaticalization.
Chadic and Afroasiatic linguistics, descriptive
grammars of Chadic languages (including several
endangered languages). |
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Kira Hall
Kira.Hall Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley, 1995. Associate Professor.
Specialization: Sociolinguistics and linguistic
anthropology including language and gender,
language and ethnicity, bilingualism and code-switching,
the ethnography of speaking and performance,
computer-mediated communication, narrative
and identity, discourse analysis, language
and nationalism. |
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Laura Michaelis
Laura.Michaelis Ph.D.,
Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley, 1993. Associate Professor.
Specialization: Tense and aspect, lexical semantics,
corpus syntax, spoken-language syntax, discourse
pragmatics, prosody, Construction Grammar,
simulation semantics, Latin syntax and semantics. |
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Bhuvana Narasimhan
Bhuvana.Narasimhan
Ph.D., Linguistics, Boston University, 1998. Assistant
Professor.
Specialization: Crosslinguistic and developmental research
on information structure, lexical semantics and morphosyntax
(case marking and verb argument structure). |
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Martha Palmer
Martha.Palmer
Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh
University, 1985. Associate Professor.
Specialization: Computational linguistics,
natural language processing systems (information
extraction, machine translation, question answering),
corpus annotation (Treebanks, PropBanks), lexical
semantics (VerbNet), knowledge representation,
tree-adjoining grammars. |
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David
Rood
David.Rood
Ph.D., Linguistics, University
of California, Berkeley, 1969. Professor.
Specialization: Siouan and Caddoan
languages, morphology and syntax
of polysynthetic languages. |
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Rebecca Scarborough
Rebecca.Scarborough@colorado.edu
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. Assistant Professor.
Specialization: Effects of lexical factors on speech production and perception, listener-directed speech phenomena, intra- and cross-linguistic variability in coarticulation, intonational phonology (especially in English, French, Farsi and Pima). |
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Maria Thomas-Ruzic
Maria.Thomas-Ruzic Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Colorado
at Boulder, 1998. Senior Instructor, School
of Education & Human Development, University
of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Center;
Co-Director, CU Boulder Professional MA-TESOL
Diploma Program.
Specialization: grammar and interaction, discourse
analysis, TESOL, second language acquisition. |
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Nianwen Xue
Nianwen.Xue
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Delaware,
2001. Assistant Research Professor.
Specialization: Computational linguistics,
natural language processing (Chinese
word segmentation, parsing, semantic
role labeling, machine translation),
linguistic annotation (Chinese Treebank,
Chinese Propbank, Chinese Discourse
Treebank, annotation of biomedical
text). |
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Visiting
Instructors |
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Regina Pustet
pustetrm  Visiting Instructor.
Specialization: Functional typology, language
and cognition, documentation of endangered
languages (especially Native American languages). |
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Erin Shay
Erin.Shay Visiting Instructor.
Specialization: Grammaticalization, functional
syntax, Chadic syntax and morphology. |
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Adjunct and Emeritus
Faculty |
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Alan Bell
Alan.Bell Ph.D., Linguistics, Stanford University,
1971. Associate Professor Emeritus.
Specialization: Rhythmic structure of speech,
speech recognition, diachronic linguistics,
typology. |
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Dan Jurafsky
Jurafsky 
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California,
Berkeley, 1992.
Adjunct Associate Professor.
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics,
Stanford University.
Specialization: Computer speech recognition,
computational psycholinguistics, automatic
question-answering, natural language understanding,
computational and laboratory phonology. |
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Lise Menn
Lise.Menn
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 1976. Professor Adjunct.
Specialization: Child language acquisition
(emergence of phonology and morphology), neurolinguistics,
aphasia (especially cross-linguistic comparison
of aphasic language). |
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Allan Taylor
Allan.Taylor
Professor Emeritus.
Specialization: Algonquian and Siouan languages,
historical linguistics. |
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Laurel Watkins
LWatkins
Adjunct Associate Professor.
Specialization: Amerindian linguistics (especially
Kiowa and Jemez), synchronic and diachronic
morphology, discourse analysis. |
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Staff |
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Cynthia Clark
Cynthia.Clark@colorado.edu
Administrative Assistant |
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Joseph Navarro
Joseph.Navarro@colorado.edu
Program Assistant |
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