Faculty

This page contains the following lists of Penn faculty affiliated with our undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs:

Linguistics faculty and lecturers who are members of the Department of Linguistics
Other Graduate Group faculty whose departmental appointment is outside Linguistics but who are members of the Graduate Group
Emeritus faculty, former members of the department

For other faculty with interests in linguistics and related areas, please consult the list of faculty affiliated with the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

Linguistics Department Faculty

Eugene Buckley, Associate Professor; Graduate Chair

Formal phonology, phonology-morphology interaction, phonological explanation, Native American and Ethio-Semitic linguistics (Ph.D. Berkeley, 1992.)

Robin Clark, Associate Professor

Mathematical linguistics and formal semantics, game theory, acquisition and learnability, formal syntax (Ph.D. UCLA, 1985.)

David Embick, Associate Professor

Syntax, morphology, syntax/morphology interface, neurolinguistics (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1997.)

Lila Gleitman, Professor, Primary Appointment in Psychology

Language and language acquisition (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1967.)

Aravind Joshi, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Primary Appointment in Computer and Information Science

Mathematical and processing models of language (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1960)

Anthony Kroch, Kahn Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences

Formal syntax, modern and historical Germanic syntax, statistical patterning of syntactic usage (Ph.D. MIT, 1974)

William Labov, Fassit Professor

Sociolinguistics, language change, speech perception and production, research on reading (Ph.D. Columbia, 1964.)

Julie Anne Legate, Assistant Professor

Syntax, morphology, syntax-morphology interface, language acquisition (PhD, MIT, 2002.)

Mark Liberman, Trustee Professor of Phonetics; Director of IRCS and LDC

Phonetics, prosody, natural language processing, speech communication (Ph.D. MIT, 1975.)

Mitch Marcus, RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Primary Appointment in Computer and Information Science

Natural language processing, corpus-based and statistical models for NLP (Ph.D. MIT, 1976.)

Lance Nathan, Lecturer

Formal semantics, pragmatics, the semantics-pragmatics interface (Ph.D. MIT, 2005.)

Rolf Noyer, Associate Professor; Undergraduate Chair

Theoretical phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, generative metrics; Huave, Mansi. (Ph.D. MIT, 1992.)

Donald Ringe, Department Chair, Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics

Historical linguistics, Indo-European, morphology (Ph.D. Yale, 1984)

Gillian Sankoff, Professor

Sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, language change and development (Ph.D. McGill, 1968.)

Beatrice Santorini, Research Associate

Syntax, Germanic linguistics, language change (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989.)

Charles Yang, Associate Professor

Language acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics (Ph.D. MIT, 2000.)

Jiahong Yuan, Assistant Professor

Phonetics, speech prosody, speech perception, computational modeling, speech synthesis and recognition (Ph.D. Cornell, 2004.)

Other Linguistics Graduate Group Faculty

Asif Agha (Anthropology)

Linguistics, anthropology, semiotics; language structure and function, language typology and universals; social theory; language and social relations; discourse analysis; metaphor and tropes, register and style; communicative practices in the media; Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics. (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990.)

Delphine Dahan (Psychology)

Psycholinguistics, spoken-language comprehension, lexical representation and processing (Ph.D. Paris La Sorbonne René Descartes, 1994.)

Teresa Pica (Education)

Second language acquisition, TESOL methods, discourse analysis in structured contexts, sublanguages (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1982.)

Gerald Prince (Romance)

Narratology (Ph.D. Brown, 1968)

Harold Schiffman (South Asia Studies)

Sociolinguistics, language policy, grammaticalization, Dravidian Linguistics (Ph.D. Chicago, 1969.)

Dan Swingley (Psychology)

Psycholinguistics, word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children

Stephen Tinney (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Sumerian; Mesopotamian language and literature. (Ph.D. Michigan.)

John Trueswell (Psychology)

Language processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception. (Ph.D. Rochester, 1993.)

Greg Urban (Anthropology)

Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; corporations and culture; business anthropology; Amerindian cultures; Brazil, U.S. (Ph.D. Chicago, 1978.)

Scott Weinstein (Philosophy)

Logic, formal learning theory, machine learning, recursive function theory (Ph.D. Rockefeller U., 1975.)

Emeritus Faculty

George Cardona (Emeritus)

Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indian grammatical theory

Ellen Prince (Emerita)

Discourse functions of syntax, language contact phenomena, Yiddish