Faculty Specialties
Full-Time Linguistics Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Matt Baker
- Editing
- Professional writing
- Content analysis
- Social media
Suzy Bills
- Editing
- Professional communication
- Publishing
- Freelancing
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
Dave Eddington
- Experimental linguistics
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Spanish
- Utah English
- Sociophonetics
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
LaReina Hingson
- Discourse analysis
- Language and law
- Sign language linguistics
- Rhetoric of discourse
- Nonverbal communication
Lisa Johnson
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and identity
- Language in migration
Deryle Lonsdale
- Formal syntax and semantics
- Computational linguistics
- Salish languages
- Cognitive modeling
Janis Nuckolls
- Kichwa language and grammar
- Ideophony and sound symbolism
- Cultural semantics
- Anthropological linguistics
- Evidentiality
- Language and gestures
Dallin 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
- 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 Catharine 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