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Graduate Students

This page lists current graduate students in the linguistics program at Penn, with their areas of interest and email addresses.

SinceNameInterestsEmail
2008-Dimka AtanassovComputational, Mathematical
2008-Jana BeckSyntax, Historical, Greek & Balkan Linguistics
2008-Julia C. BookoutSociolinguistics, Historical
2006-Stefanie BrodySocio
2005-Lucas ChampollionComputational, Semantics, Computer Science
2006-Toni CookSocio, Morphology
2005-Ariel DiertaniHistorical, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax
2003-Aaron DinkinSocio, Historical, Phonology
2005-Aviad EilamSyntax, Semantics, Psycholing
2004-Keelan EvaniniSocio, Computational, Phonetics
2008-Lauren FriedmanHistorical, Syntax, Socio, French Linguistics
2003-Michael FriesnerSocio, Phonology
2008-Josef FruehwaldSociolinguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
2006-Kyle GormanPhonetics, Computational
2004-Jonathan Gress-WrightHistorical
2003-Damien HallSocio, Phonetics, Phonology
2008-Shane JobberPhonology, Historical, Psycholing
2005-Catherine LaiPhonetics, Semantics, Pragmatics
2007-Robert LannonSyntax, Semantics, Computational, Cognitive
2007-Caitlin LightHistorical, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics
2006-Laurel MacKenzieSocio
2008-Rebecca MarshSociolinguistics, Phonetics
2004-Laia MayolPragmatics, Semantics, Computational
2007-Brittany McLaughlin
2002-James MesburPhonetics, Phonology
2004-Jean-Francois MondonHistorical, Morphology
2007-Satoshi NambuSyntax, Historical, Socio, Acquisition
2005-Giang NguyenPhonetics, Sociolinguistics, Vietnamese Linguistics
2003-Maya RavindranathSocio
2005-Neville RyantSemantics, Syntax, Neuro, Mathematical
2003-Tatjana SchefflerSemantics, Computational, Syntax
2008-Christina SkeltonHistorical, Indo-European, writing systems, phylogenetic systematics
2008-GaYeon SonPhonology, Phonetics, Semantics
2008-Jon StevensSemantics, Historical
2007-Yanyan SuiPhonology, Syntax
2004-Joshua TaubererPhonetics, Syntax, Semantics
2003-Joel WallenbergHistorical, Syntax
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall (campus map)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Telephone: (215) 898-6046
Fax: (215) 573-2091
For more information, contact Amy Forsyth at