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Faculty Specialties

Full-Time Linguistics Faculty
Affiliated Faculty

Holly Baker

  • Editing & Publishing
  • History of Style and Usage Guides
  • Editing Pedagogy
  • Language Prescription

    Matt Baker

    • Editing
    • Professional writing
    • Content analysis
    • Social media

    Earl Brown

    • Phonetics
    • Phonology
    • Language variation
    • Spanish

    Don Chapman

    • Old English language and literature
    • History of the English language
    • Research methods
    • Assessment
    • Japanese

    Troy Cox

    • Linguistics
    • TESOL
    • ESL
    • Center for Language Studies
    • Language assessment
    • Technology in teaching
    • Measurement

    Dan Dewey

    • Second language acquisition
    • Neurolinguistics
    • Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
    • Psycholinguistics

    Grant Eckstein

    • Second language writing
    • Writing program administration
    • Rhetoric and composition
    • Writing center research
    • Eye tracking

    Dirk Elzinga

    • Phonological theory and analysis
    • Uto-Aztecan langages

    Norman Evans

    • Writing in a second language
    • Curriculum development
    • Language program administration and development
    • TESOL

    Jeff Green

    • Neurolinguistics
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Sentence processing
    • Second language acquisition
    • Syntax

    James Hartshorn

    • Second language acquisition
    • TESOL
    • Second language writing
    • IEP program administration
    • Curriculum development
    • Research methods
    • Measuring language development

    Brett Hashimoto

    • Corpus linguistics
    • Forensic and legal linguistics
    • English grammar
    • Pragmatics
    • Second language studies
    • Vocabulary
    • Language assessment
    • Applied linguistics
    • TESOL

    Lisa Johnson

    • Sociolinguistics
    • Language and identity
    • Language in migration

    Janis Nuckolls

    • Kichwa language and grammar
    • Ideophony and sound symbolism
    • Cultural semantics
    • Anthropological linguistics
    • Evidentiality
    • Language and gestures

    Dallin D. Oaks

    • English linguistics
    • Structure of English
    • Ambiguity
    • Old English language
    • Prescriptivism

    Jeffrey Parker

    • Morphology
    • Slavic linguistics
    • Lexical processing

    Jacob Rawlins

    • Editing
    • Linguistic prescriptivism
    • History of publishing
    • Rhetoric
    • Professional and technical communication

    Chris Rogers

    • Language documentation
    • Typology
    • Historical linguistics

    Wendy Smemoe

    • Second language acquisition
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Phonetics
    • Speech perception and production
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Utah English

    Joey Stanley

    • Sociolinguistics
    • Dialectology
    • (Western) American Englishes
    • Phonetics
    • Quantitative methods

    Mark Tanner

    • Second language acquisition
    • TESOL
    • Teacher education
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Technology in language learning
    • Pronunciation pedagogy
    Miriam Whiting

    Miriam Whiting

    • Language and identity
    • Language planning
    • Editing and publishing
    • Discourse analysis
    • Russian

    Scott Alvord

    • Spanish and Hispanic linguistics
    • Spanish phonetics and phonology
    • Bilingualism
    • Spanish in the United States
    • Second language acquisition

    Juno Baik

    • Korean linguistics
    • Language acquisition
    • Cognitive linguistics
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Medieval Korean

    Kirk Belnap

    • Arabic linguistics
    • Arabic Flagship Center
    • Self-regulation

    Dana Bourgerie

    • Chinese linguistics
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Chinese dialects
    • Language acquisition

    Jennifer Bown

    • Russian linguistics
    • Study abroad and language learning
    • Immersion living

    Michael Child

    • Portuguese and Hispanic linguistics
    • Second and third language acquisition
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Sociolinguistic variation
    • Language contact
    • Portuguese for Spanish speakers
    • Dual language immersion

    Jim Law

    • French and Romance linguistics
    • Semantic and pragmatic change in Romance languages
    • Cognitive linguistics
    • Quantitative corpus methods
    • Language pedagogy

    Grant Lundberg

    • Slavic linguistics
    • History of Russian and Slavic
    • South Slavic dialects
    • Slovene

    Adam McBride

    • French linguistics
    • French phonetics and phonology
    • Historical linguistics
    • Second language acquisition

    Steve Moody

    • Japanese linguistics
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Intercultural communication
    • Qualitative and quantitative methods

    Rob Reynolds

    • Russian linguistics
    • Intelligent computer-assisted language learning
    • Automatic language assessment
    • Morphological theory
    • Natural language processing

    Laura C. Smith

    • Germanic linguistics
    • Theoretical phonology
    • Historical phonology
    • Prosodic templates
    • Impact of dialect on L2 perception and production
    • Interfaces between phonology and morphology, syntax and phonetics

    Jeff Turley

    • Spanish and Hispanic linguistics
    • Transcription and translation of Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese expansion documents
    • Spanish syntax and semantics
    • Spanish historical syntax
    • English lexical semantics

    Lynn Williams

    • Spanish linguistics
    • Language and nationality
    • Centers of linguistic prestige
    • Language policy and planning
    • Orthographic theory and practice
    • 17th-century diplomatic and political history