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Research Interests: sociophonetics, the social meaning of linguistic variation, language and gender, sociopragmatics, endangered languages and language revitalization, linguistic anthropology, Chinese linguistics
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Uncovering and Inducing Interpretable Causal Structure in Deep Learning Models
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Research Interests: syntactic theory, experimental syntax, psycholinguistics, sentence processing, pragmatics
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Investigating Information Framing with Natural Language Processing
Zion Mengesha
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Research Interests: perception, language ideology, AAVE, racial identity
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Improving access to untranscribed speech corpora using AI
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Research Interests: corpus linguistics, philosophy of language
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Research Interests: social interaction, linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, prosody, discourse
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Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film, Queen Mary University of London
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Vowels and Feelings: Vowel Space Size As A Resource for Affect and Interpersonal Positioning
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The Pragmatics of Image Description Generation
Erika Petersen O Farrill
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On the Nature of Syntactic Movement: A Study of Clausal Opacity in Spanish
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Long-distance Compensatory Lengthening
Assistant Professor of Education Data Science at the Stanford Graduate School of Education
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Using Natural Language Processing to Support Student-Centered Education
Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University
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Computational and Communicative Efficiency in Language
Software Engineer, Google Assistant NLP
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Speaker and Group Specificity in Spoken Word Recognition
Omer Korat
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Selectional Preferences and Semantic Similarity in Adjectives
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Stylistic variation in a preschool classroom
Behavioural Scientist, Department of Work and Pensions, United Kingdom Civil Service
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Style in Time: Online perception of sociolinguistic cues
Postdoctoral fellow at the McGill University Department of Linguistics and Mila - Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute
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Neural network approaches to the study of word learning
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Juan Ignacio Cases Martin
Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Modular and Compositional Learning for Natural Language Understanding
Research Scientist, Analog Devices, Inc.
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Probabilistic Models of Pragmatics for Natural Language
Dean's Fellow, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
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Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives on First Conjunct Agreement in Russian
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
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Semantic Underspecification and Its Contextual Resolution in the Domain of Degrees
Postdoctoral Researcher, Departments of Linguistics and Data Science, New York University
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Semantic-Pragmatic Adaptation
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UX Writer, Wix.com
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World Knowledge, Context and Structure: The use and acquisition of dimensional adjectives
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Boston University
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Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
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Causality, Aspect, and Modality in Actuality Inferences
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
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The Listener in Language Change
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
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Computational Linguistic Models of Police-Community Interaction
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Software Engineer, Google
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Redundancy and Awareness in Discourse
Research Scientist, Amazon
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The Predictable Case of Faroese
Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Distributivity, Lexical Semantics, and World Knowledge
Lecturer
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What Does an Interruption Sound Like?
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis
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Learning Disjunction
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University
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Melodies in Context: The semantics and pragmatics of English rising declaratives
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
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Exploring Social and Linguistic Diversity Across African Americans from Rochester, New York
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, San Francisco State University
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Affective Sociolinguistic Style: An ethnography of embodied linguistic variation in an arts high school
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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder
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Handsome Women: A semiotics of non-normative gender in SoMa, San Francisco
Software Engineer, Skutopia & Casual Academic, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney
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Structure Sensitive Interpretation: A case study in Tagalog
Isla Flores-Bayer
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Sociolinguistic Variation in Practice: An ethnographic study of stylistic variation and social meaning in the Chicano English of 'El Barrio'
Freelance Writer
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The Role of Individual Persona in Sociolinguistic Variation: Constructing a preaching woman's voice of authority
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College
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Consistency in Variation: On the provenance of end-weight
Lecturer, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University
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Phrase Final Position as a Site of Social Meaning: Phonetic variation among young Seoul women
Senior UX Researcher, Google
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Everyday Styles: Investigating the full scope of variation in the life of an individual speaker
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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Center for Data Science, New York University
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Modeling Natural Language Semantics in Learned Representations
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
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Social Meaning in Linguistic Perception
Senior Researcher, Apple
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Designing Syntactic Representations for NLP: An empirical investigation
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Alex Djalali
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Tableau Software
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On Adjectival Comparatives
Associate Instructor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Utah
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Speech, Variation, and Meaning: The effects of emotional prosody on word recognition
Tania Rojas-Esponda
Google Research
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Patterns and Symmetries for Discourse Particles
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Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University
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Pragmatics and the Social Meaning of Determiners
Director, Writing Center, Waterford School
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The Comparative Grammaticality of the English Comparative
Senior Lecturer, Department of Hebrew Language, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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“The most beautiful and correct Hebrew”: Authenticity, ethnic identity and linguistic variation in the greater Tel Aviv area
Katherine Geenberg
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The Other California: Marginalization and variation in Trinity County
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
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Towards Optimal Rhythm
Senior Consultant, IQVIA
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Stochastic Effects in the Grammar: Toward a usage-based model of copula contraction
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Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
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Learning to Take Turns on Time: Perception and production processes involved in keeping inter-speaker gaps short
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
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What’s That Supposed to Mean? Modeling the pragmatic meaning of utterances
Lecturer, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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The Semantics of Syntactic Choice: An analysis of English emotion verbs
Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
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Navigating Variability in the Linguistic Signal: Learning to interpret contrastive prosody
Fellow and Director of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz
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Towards a Dynamic Pragmatics
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Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
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Sign and Signal: Deriving linguistic generalizations from information utility
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of German and Russian, Purdue University
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Geminate Typology and the Perception of Consonant Duration
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
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Number and Individuation
Machine Learning Executive, Apple
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Modeling Variation in Low Resource Languages
Melanie Owens
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Serial Verb Constructions: Argument structural uniformity and event structural diversity
Vice President, Special Projects, integrate.ai
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Emotions are Relational: Positioning and the use of affective linguistic resources
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
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Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Knowledge in a Modern-English Dual-Immersion Classroom
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Starting Big: The role of sequences in language learning and use
Research Development Analyst, California State University, Sacramento
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Language, Ideology and Identity in Rural Eastern Kentucky
Transformational Coach, Radiant Things
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Processing Constraints and Word Order Variation in Hindi Relative Clauses
Associate Professor, English Department, Covenant College
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Given-Before-New: The effects of discourse on argument structure in early child language
Head of Data Science, Oura
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The Role of Processing Complexity in Word Order Variation and Change
Founder, Learnology Lab and Principal, New Model Ventures
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Statistical Inference in the Learning of Novel Phonetic Categories
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Assistant Professor, Department of English and Linguistics, Truman State University
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Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Boston University
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The Logical and Empirical Foundations of Baker’s Paradox
Associate Dean Academic (Student Experience), School of Arts and Media, University of Salford
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Generality and Exception: A study in the semantics of exceptives
Reader, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
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Ethnicity and Phonetic Variation in a San Francisco Neighborhood
Member, World Languages Institute, SOAS University of London
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Head Marking in Usage and Grammar: A study of variation and change in Yucatec Maya
Visiting Scholar, Department of Human Development, Cornell University
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Experimental Investigations of Sociolinguistic Knowledge
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Senior Data Scientist, Grubhub
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Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension
Senior Software Engineer, Check Point Software Technologies
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Licensing of Negative Polarity Particles Yet, Anymore, Either, and Neither: Combining downward monotonicity and assertivity
Research Director, Department of Languages and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, The French National Center for Scientific Research
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The Mixing of Syntactic Properties and Language Change
Senior Research Manager, Healthcare, Nuance Communications
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An Exemplar Model of Syntactic Priming
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Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Asking Questions: Language variation and language acquisition
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
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Existential Propositions
Professor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
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States, Changes of State, and the Monotonicity Hypothesis
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Associate Professor, Département des arts et lettres, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
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North of Phonology
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
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Argument/Oblique Alternations and the Structure of Lexical Meaning
Associate Professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University
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Constraints on Phonological Interactions
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
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Listener Perceptions of Sociolinguistic Variables: The case of (ING)
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
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Tense and Aspect in Indo-Aryan: Variation and diachrony
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
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Redundancy and Syntactic Reduction in Spontaneous Speech
Arman Maghbouleh
Director, SP Software and Applications Group, Cisco Systems
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Intonation Recognition Models Based on Convex Optimizations
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Nagoya University
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Perspectives in Reported Discourse
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
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Phonetic Detail in Sociolinguistic Variation
Data Administration Manager, Center for Teaching, Leading, and Learning, Ohio Department of Education
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Language, Place and Identity in Later Life
Senior Advisor, FrameWorks Institute
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Teaching Writing in the African American Classroom: A sociolinguistic approach
Professor and Chair, Department of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart
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The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní
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Technical Program Manager, Crowdsourcing, LinkedIn
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Unbounded Dependency Constructions in Western Austronesian
Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity
Contract Assistant Professor, Institute of Linguistics, University of Minnesota
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Causative Alternation Errors in Child Language Acquisition
Sarah J. Roberts
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The Emergence of Hawai’i Creole English in the Early 20th Century: The sociohistorical context of creole genesis
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
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Representing Possessive Predication: Semantic dimensions and pragmatic bases
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Professor, Department of Linguistics and Director of the Center for the Language Sciences, University of Rochester
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Resumption as Resource Management
Professor, Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
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Second Style Acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews
Brady Clark
Associate Professor of Instruction and Weinberg College Advisor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
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A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to Syntactic Change
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Hong Kong University
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Morphology Matters: Case licensing in Basque
Coordinator and Lecturer, Korean Language Program, Stanford University.
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The Use of Multiple Sources of Information in Korean Sentence Processing
Associate Professor, Department of English, Miami University
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It’s a Serious Business: The construction of middle-class white characters by African American narrative comedians
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Professor, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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Structural and Social Constraints on Non-Native Varieties of English
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, California State University, East Bay
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Tongzhi, Ideologies, and Semantic Change
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Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, Language and Cultures, The University of Manchester
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Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua
Japanese Translation and Localization Specialist, Localization Ninja
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Ellipsis and Wa-Marking in Japanese Conversation
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut
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Aspects of the Meaning and Use of Conditionals
Computer Systems Maintenance Technician, Cabrillo College
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On Lexical Sharing
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Makin McDaid Abdulkhaliq
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English Noun Classes and Generative Lexical Mechanisms
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
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Syntactic Variation and Linguistic Competence: The case of AAVE copula absence
Hanjung Lee
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University
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Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A unified approach
David Alexander McKercher
Continuing Sessional Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria
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The Polysemy of With in First Language Acquisition
Eunjin Oh
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University
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Non-Native Coarticulation: The case of consonant-vowel syllables
Analytical Linguist, Google
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A Constructional Approach to Idioms and Word Formation
Professor, Departments of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Carleton University
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The Phrase-Structure of Non-Projecting Words
Associate Professor, School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona
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Changing Economy, Changing Markets: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese yuppies
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Research Scientist and Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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Estimating the Probability of Historical Connections Between Languages
Principal and Member, J. Solomon Consulting, LLC, Mountain View, CA
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Phonological and Syntactic Variation in the Spanish of Valladolid, Yucatan
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Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
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Variation in Finnish Phonology and Morphology
Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Reference Form and Discourse Patterns
Senior Vice President and Director of Medical Anthropology, Havas Health and You
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Interpreting Medical Discourse: A study of cross-linguistic communication in the hospital clinic
Martha Swearingen Davis
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A Syntactic, Semantic and Diachronic Analysis of Palenquero BA
Director of Programs and Faculty Affairs, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
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The Order of Things: What directional locatives denote
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University
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Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon
Professor, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
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Constructive Case: Dependent-marking nonconfigurationality in Australia
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
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The Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, scalarity, and exclusivity
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University
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The Metrical Structure of Beowulf
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Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University
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All O’ We is One? Race, class, and language in a Barbados community
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University
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Optimizing Structure in Context: Scrambling and information structure
Anthony Ruiz Davis
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Lexical Semantics and Linking in the Hierarchical Lexicon
Principal NLP Scientist, Apple
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A Situation Semantic Account of Existential Sentences
Computational Linguist, Clear Bible
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The Human Sentence Processor: Memory structure and accessibility
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles
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Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An ethnographic and sociolinguistics study of gang affiliation in an urban high school
Member of Search Quality team, Google
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Ambiguity Management in Natural Language Generation
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Manager Computational Linguist, Roku
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Argument Composition and the Lexicon: Lexical and periphrastic causatives in Korean
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purchase College, State University of New York
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Men Who Talk Like Women: Language, gender, and sexuality in Hausa Muslim society
Chair of Computational Linguistics and Director, Center for Information and Language Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Ambiguity in Language Learning: Computational and cognitive models
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Data Analysis Consultant, Ghostweather R&D
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The Mud Register: Conversational modes of action in a text-based virtual reality
English Teacher, Lone Star High School
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The Prosodic Domain Hierarchy in Reduplication
Adjunct Professor and Director of US-Asia Technology Management Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
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Grammaticalization in the System of Japanese Predicate Honorifics
Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University
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An Epistemically-Based Analysis of Lexical Selection
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Kyung Hee University
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The Grammar of Negation: A lexicalist, constraint-based perspective
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science, Stanford University
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Ergativity: Argument structure and grammatical relations
Researcher and Instructor, UFR Angellier, Université de Lille
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An Ontology for Event Semantics
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Syntactic Innovation: A connectionist model
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Eunjoo Han
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul Women's University
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Prosodic Structure in Compounds
Professor, Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University
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Learnable Classes of Categorial Grammars
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
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We All Wear the Blue: Language, gender and police work
Senior Instructor Emeritus, Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Idaho
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Scheming and Manipulating: How phonological structure emerges out of the child’s manipulation of output lexical form
Professor, Department of Language and Culture, University of Tromsø
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Aspect and Argument Structure in Modern Scottish Gaelic
Trisha Ann Svaib
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“Twice Upon a Time”: A deaf child’s development of narrative structure
Lecturer, Department of Music, Stanford University
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The Geometry of Visual Phonology
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Professor, Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Predicate Composition: A theory of syntactic function alternations
Computational Linguist, Astound.ai
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Context and Binding in Japanese
Computational Linguist, Advantis Global
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Semantics and Pragmatics of Colloquial Sinhala Involitive Verbs
Smita Joshi
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Selection of Grammatical and Logical Functions in Marathi
Principal Scientist, Adobe Sensei and Search
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Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian
Professor, Theory and Typology Division, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
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On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
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Toward a New Model of Genesis: Competing processes in the birth of Saramaccan Creole
Professor, Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo
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Scrambling in Japanese Phrase Structure
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Lubna Alsagoff
Director of Curriculum, The Learning Lab, Singapore
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Topic in Malay: The other subject
Professor, UFR de Linguistique, Université Paris–Diderot
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Questions, Queries and Facts: A semantics and pragmatics for interrogatives
Aaron Halpern
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Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Budapest Institute of Technology
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Formal Phonology
Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, Dallas International University and Senior Linguistics Consultant, SIL International
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Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog
Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington
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Functional Articulation in Diglossia: A case study of grammatical and social correspondences in Sinhala
Fessenden Professor, Harvard Law School
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Restrictiveness in Case Theory
Fu Tan
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Notion of Subject in Chinese
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin
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Argument Structure and Linking
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Abdullahi Bature
Professor, Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero State University
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Thematic Arguments and Semantic Roles in Hausa
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University
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Parameters of Consonantal Assimilation
Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
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Resolution in Modern Meters
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University
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Argument Selection and Case Marking in Korean
Professor, Division of English Language and Literature, Pukyong National University
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Current Issues in Morphological Theory
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Independent Consultant
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The Syntax and Semantics of Internally Headed Relative Clauses
Professor, Centre for Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford
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Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding
† Keith Denning
Deceased November 16, 1998; formerly Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University
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The Diachronic Development of Phonological Voice Quality, With Special Reference to Dinka and Other Nilotic Languages
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Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty, University of California, Berkeley
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Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon
Jonni Miikka Kanerva
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Focus and Phrasing in Chichewa Phonology
Professor Emeritus, School of Education, University of Birmingham
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Models and Methods in the Study of Bilingualism among Linguistic Minorities (Vol. I, Vol. II)
Deborah Salgo
ESL Tutoring
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Cohesion in Children's Fictional Stories: Transitivity and a goal-directed causal analysis
Dovie Ruth Wylie
Formerly led a training and consulting firm, still active as a consultant
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The Structure of Monologue Discourse in English
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Mohamad Z. Abd-Rabbo
Professor, English Department, Bir-Zeit University
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Some Morphological Constraints in Classical Arabic
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland
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A Situated Theory of Agreement
Daniel Paul Flickinger
Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, LinGO Laboratory, Stanford University
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Lexical Rules in the Hierarchical Lexicon
Professor, Department of Computing, Macquarie University and Chief AI Scientist, Oracle Digital Assistant
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Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rice University and Founder and CEO, Lexical Consulting
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The Middle Voice: A typological and diachronic study
Elizabeth Anne Krainer
Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice
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Challenges in a Psychotherapy Group: Reflections of direct and indirect discourse strategies
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Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of Oregon
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How Children Learn to Classify Nouns in Thai
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, The University of New Mexico
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Categories and Relations in Syntax: The clause-level organization of information (Vols. I and II)
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University
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The Acquisition of Word Stress Rules in Spanish
Professor, Organization of Global Affairs, Kanazawa University
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Grammatical Functions in the Syntax of Japanese Nominals
Retired; formerly Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
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Causal Connectives in the Early History of English: A study of diachronic syntax
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Deceased January 23, 1999; formerly Senior Research Scientist, SRI International
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Zero Anaphora: The case of Japanese
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Deceased January 28, 2013; formerly at the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service
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Structure in Language and Music: A linguistic approach
Akira Ishikawa
Professor, Department of English Studies, Sophia University
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Complex Predicates and Lexical Operations in Japanese
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
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Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars, Head Grammars, and Natural Language
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Freelance Translator, NoNonsense Translations
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The Development of National Languages: A case study of language planning in Togo
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Phonological Universals and Variation: On pattern and diversity in acquisition
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Director, Boston Area Campus, Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech
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Situations and Language: Children's use of plural allomorphs in familiar and unfamiliar settings
Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno
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Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar
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Annette Herskovits
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Space and the Prepositions in English: Regularities and irregularities in a complex domain
Rebecca W. Labrum
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Conditions of Double Negation in the History of English With Comparison to Similar Developments in German
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Indiana University–Purdue University
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Modals in Antiguan Creole, Child Language Acquisition, and History
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David Dowell Cusic
Partner, Real Estate Training, Performance Programs Company
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Verbal Plurality and Aspect
President and Chief Scientist, MetaMoJi Global Research
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Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a formal semantics of discourse
Carolyn Echols Johnson
Assistant Professor Emerita, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, The University of British Columbia
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Children's Questions and the Discovery of Interrogative Syntax
Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University
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Acceptability in a Planned Standard: The case of Swahili in Kenya
Retired; formerly at Yahoo
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Talking Without Seeing: Some problems of semantic development in blind children
Claude Manley Reichard
Retired; formerly Instructor, Technical Writing Program, Stanford University School of Engineering
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Meter and Rhythm in English Verse: Towards a musical synthesis
Retired; formerly President, Santa Monica College
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A Semantic Study of Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Chinese
Retired; formerly Principal Technical Writer, Oracle
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Children's Telephone Conversations
Chief Data Officer and Senior Advisor to the Provost, University of California, Davis
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Relativization and Existence
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Deceased May 22, 1994; formerly Dean of General Studies, Simón Bolívar University
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The Use of 'Tu' and 'Usted': Patterns of address in the middle class of Caracas
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, Bangor University
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Diglossia in British Sign Language
† Delia Farach Hufton
Deceased October 21, 2019; formerly Professor, Department of World Languages and Literature, San Jose State University
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Parametros Del Lunfardo
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Professor Emerita, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse University
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Patterns and Processes in Fricative Acquisition: Longitudinal evidence from six English-learning children
Non-Profit Fund Advisor and Community Volunteer
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Verbal Deference in Catalan: A sociolinguistic investigation of the pronouns of address
Kenneth Lyell Stallcup
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A Comparative Perspective on the Phonology and Noun Classification of Three Cameroon Grassfields Bantu Languages: Moghamo, Ngie, and Oshie
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Washington
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Diglossia and Language Policy, with Special Reference to Slovenia
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Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
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Learning to Speak with Style: A study of the sociolinguistic skills of children
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware
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The Syllable in Phonological Theory: With special reference to Italian
Ann Charlotte Woodard
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Relationship of Language Dominance, Lexical Meaning and Grammatical Structure in the Reading and Aural Comprehension of Bidialectals
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James Joseph Duran
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The Role of Swahili in a Multilingual Rural Community in Kenya
Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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The Second Time Around: Cognitive and social strategies in second language acquisition
Professor Emeritus, Department of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University
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Perception, Intentionality, and Naked Infinitives: A study in linguistics and philosophy
Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University
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Linguistic Change in Gullah: Sex, age, and mobility
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Professor Emeritus, Department of English, California State University, East Bay
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Papiamentu: A Spanish-based creole
Linda Gail Hemphill
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A Conceptual Approach to Automated Language Understanding and Belief Structures: With a complete disambiguation of the word 'for'
Vera Milada Henzl
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Cultivation and Maintenance of Literary Czech by American Speakers
Stephen Rudy Luckau
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A Tonal Analysis of Grebo and Jabo
Professor Emerita, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University
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Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse
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Formerly Director, Office of Communications, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
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Deaf English: An Investigation of the written English competence of deaf adolescents
Teresa Ching-Sha Chen
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A Statistical Study of Mandarin Phonology
Olga Kaunoff Garnica
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Some Prosodic Characteristics of Speech to Young Children
Self-employed Change Communicator
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Sociocultural Determinants of Language Maintenance and Language Shift in a Rural Coastal Kenyan Community
Professor Emerita, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington
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The Acquisition of Liquids in Spanish
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Professor Emerita, Department of World Languages and Cultures, American University
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The Evolution of English Periphrastic Causatives: Contributions to a general theory of linguistic variation and change
Professor Emeritus, Department of World Languages and Literatures, University of Montana
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Lexical and Morphological Aspects of Linguistics Acculturation by Mexican Americans in San Jose, California
† Afia Dil
Deceased April 19, 2016; formerly Professor, Alliant International University
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The Hindu and Muslim Dialects of Bengali
Lilith Margaret Haynes
Retired; formerly Assistant Dean of Continuing Education, Harvard University
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Language in Barbados and Guyana: Attitudes, behaviours and comparisons
Gayle Holley Partmann
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Le Dioula Vehiculaire en Cote d'Ivoire: Etude comparative des jeunes locuteurs primaire et secondaires du dioula
Merritt Ruhlen
Deceased January 29, 2021; formerly Co-Director, Evolution of Human Languages Project, Santa Fe Institute
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Rumanian Phonology
Professor Emerita, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington
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A Study of Literary and Colloquial Amoy Chinese
† Thelma Evans Weeks
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The Slow Speech Development of a Bright Child
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Rebecca Nogieru Agheyisi
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West African Pidgin English: Simplification & simplicity
Janine Konauka Reklaitis
Retired; formerly Associate Director, Women in Engineering Program, Purdue University
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Theory of Analogical Change: Application to Lithuanian
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Alan Edward Bell
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A State-Process Approach to Syllabicity and Syllable Structure
† Yole Correa-Zoli
Deceased September 11, 2012; formerly Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, East Bay
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Lexical and Morphological Aspects of American Italian in San Francisco
David Dixon Gardner
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A Frequency Dictionary of Classical Latin Words, Volumes I, II
Professor Emeritus, College of Health Solutions, and Director of the Child Language Research Laboratory, Arizona State University
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The Role of Person Deixis in Underlying Semantics
Olasope Oyediji Oyelaran
Retired; formerly Visiting Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University
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Yoruba Phonology
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Michael Wilmont Grady
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Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase
Karen Louise Halladay Kavavik
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Noun Suffixes in Modern Spanish: A synchronic study of formal and statistical properties
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Hector Norberto Urrutibeheity
Professor Emeritus, Rice University
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The Lexical Structure of Spanish, with Special Consideration for the Functional, Physical and Statistical Properties
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† Edward Roy Gammon
Deceased 2019; formerly at California State University, Fresno
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The Statistical Determination of Linguistic Units
† William Taylor Patterson
Deceased September 11, 2008; formerly Professor, Texas Tech University
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The Lexical Structure of Spanish, With Special Consideration for the Genealogical and Chronological Properties
Elisabeth Angela Popov
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The Semantic Structure of the Russian Diminutives
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Measuring Vocabulary Difficulty: An analysis of item variables in learning Russian-English and Japanese-English vocabulary pairs
Kimie Mushiaki Swindell
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A Dictionary of Japanese Syllables
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Lars Holm Gantzel
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The Meaning of Terminal Pitch Pattern
† Hiroshi Miyaji
Deceased May 24, 2007; formerly Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College
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A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese Words, Volume I, Volume II
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† Richard Lawrence Venezky
Deceased June 11, 2004; formerly Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of Delaware
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A Study of English Spelling-to-Sound Correspondences on Historical Principles
† Irene Wakeham
Deceased December 26, 2019; formerly a missionary in the Philippines
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Deviations from Standard English in the Writing of Filipino College Freshmen