Department · vaiu-hum-ling-*
The scientific study of human language — its structure, meaning, acquisition, variation, and computation — bridging theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches.
Research areas
Faculty directory
Department chair · Syntax
Prof. Anika Solen
Syntactic theory, comparative & generative grammar, and morphosyntax.
Professor · Phonetics & Phonology
Prof. Noor Fenn
Phonological theory, experimental phonetics, and prosody & speech production.
Professor · Semantics & Pragmatics
Prof. Niko Cassian
Formal semantics, pragmatics & discourse, and philosophy of meaning.
Professor · Psycholinguistics & Acquisition
Prof. Yuki Ember
Language processing, first & second language acquisition, and neurolinguistics.
Professor · Computational Linguistics
Prof. Ada Rhodes
Natural language processing, corpus methods, and computational models of grammar.
Professor · Sociolinguistics & Historical Linguistics
Prof. Zara Ember
Language variation & change, historical-comparative linguistics, and language documentation & typology.
