Ph.D., Linguistics, UCLA, 1984. Professor.
Specialization: Grammar and interaction, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, situated/distributed cognition.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1969. Professor.
Specialization: Siouan and Caddoan languages, morphology and syntax of polysynthetic languages.

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).

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.

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).

Visiting Instructor.
Specialization: Functional typology, language and cognition, documentation of endangered languages (especially Native American languages).

Visiting Instructor.
Specialization: Grammaticalization, functional syntax, Chadic syntax and morphology.

Ph.D., Linguistics, Stanford University, 1971. Associate Professor Emeritus.
Specialization: Rhythmic structure of speech, speech recognition, diachronic linguistics, typology.

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.

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).

Professor Emeritus.
Specialization: Algonquian and Siouan languages, historical linguistics.

Adjunct Associate Professor.
Specialization: Amerindian linguistics (especially Kiowa and Jemez), synchronic and diachronic morphology, discourse analysis.

Cynthia Clark
Cynthia.Clark@colorado.edu

Administrative Assistant

Paula Dufour

Paula.Dufour@colorado.edu

Program Assistant