Faculty

Kelly Berkson

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

kberkson@indiana.edu

Research Interests
acoustic phonetics; phonology; phonetics-phonology interface; language endangerment and revitalization; indigenous languages of North America; Indic languages

Robert Botne

Professor, Linguistics

Affiliate, African Studies Program

botner@indiana.edu

Research Interests
African languages; Bantu; tense/aspect/modality systems; morphology; comparative linguistics; lexical semantics of verbs

Ann Bunger

Senior Lecturer, Linguistics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

acbunger@indiana.edu

Research Interests
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; psycholinguistics; language and cognition, syntax-semantics interface

Damir Cavar

Associate Professor, Linguistics

dcavar@indiana.edu

Research Interests
computational linguistics; speech and language technologies; natural language processing (NLP); natural language resources

Malgorzata Cavar

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

mcavar@indiana.edu

Research Interests
phonetics and laboratory phonology; L2 acquisition; computational and corpus linguistics; theoretical phonology

Stuart Davis

Professor, Linguistics

Affiliate, Cognitive Science Program

Director of Graduate Studies

davis@indiana.edu
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Research Interests
phonology; Semitic linguistics; African-American English; general linguistics

Kenneth de Jong

Professor, Linguistics

Affiliate, Cognitive Science Program

Adjunct Professor, Second Language Studies

Chair, Linguistics

kdejong@indiana.edu

Research Interests
phonetics; phonology; experimental approaches to language description and language acquisition

Steven Franks

Professor, Linguistics

Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Adjunct Professor, Speech, Hearing, and Language Sciences

Affiliate, Cognitive Science Program

Affiliate, Russian and East European Institute

franks@indiana.edu

Research Interests
Slavic linguistics; syntactic theory

Thomas Grano

Associate Professor, Linguistics

tgrano@indiana.edu

Research Interests
semantics; syntax-semantics interface; cross-linguistic variation; tense/aspect/modality; complement clauses; gradability and comparison; Chinese linguistics

Sandra Kübler

Professor, Linguistics

Departmental Liaison to Cognitive Science

skuebler@indiana.edu

Research Interests
computational linguistics; computational corpus linguistics; machine learning techniques in computational linguistics; natural language processing

Samuel Gyasi Obeng

Professor, Linguistics

Affiliate, African Studies Program

Affiliate, International Studies Program

Adjunct Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies

sobeng@indiana.edu

Research Interests
African languages (especially endangered languages); political discourse analysis; politics about languages in Africa; multilingualism and language contact; pragmatics of prosody; ethnopragmatics