Faculty

This page contains the following lists of Penn faculty affiliated with our undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs:

Linguistics faculty and lecturers who are members of the Department of Linguistics
Other Graduate Group faculty whose departmental appointment is outside Linguistics but who are members of the Graduate Group
Retired faculty, former members of the department

For other faculty with interests in linguistics and related areas, please consult the list of faculty affiliated with the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

Linguistics Department Faculty

Eugene Buckley, Associate Professor; Graduate Chair

Formal phonology, phonology-morphology interaction, phonological explanation, Native American and Ethio-Semitic linguistics (Ph.D. Berkeley, 1992.)

Robin Clark, Professor; Department Chair

Mathematical linguistics and formal semantics, game theory, acquisition and learnability, formal syntax (Ph.D. UCLA, 1985.)

David Embick, Professor

Syntax, morphology, syntax/morphology interface, neurolinguistics (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1997.)

Jami Fisher, Lecturer

Patricia Irwin, ACLS New Faculty Fellow

Syntactic theory, argument structure, unaccusativity, information structure, prosody, discourse, corpus and experimental approaches in generative syntax, syntactic and semantic variation in English dialects (Ph.D. NYU, 2012)

Aravind Joshi, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Primary Appointment in Computer and Information Science

Mathematical and processing models of language (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1960)

Anthony Kroch, Kahn Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences

Formal syntax, modern and historical Germanic syntax, statistical patterning of syntactic usage (Ph.D. MIT, 1974)

Jianjing Kuang, Assistant Professor

Phonetics, laboratory phonology, speech production and perception, experimental fieldwork (Ph.D. UCLA, 2013)

William Labov, Fassit Professor

Sociolinguistics, language change, speech perception and production, research on reading (Ph.D. Columbia, 1964.)

Julie Anne Legate, Associate Professor; Undergraduate Chair

Syntax, morphology, syntax-morphology interface, language acquisition (PhD, MIT, 2002.)

Mark Liberman, Trustee Professor of Phonetics; Director of IRCS and LDC

Phonetics, prosody, natural language processing, speech communication (Ph.D. MIT, 1975.)

Mitch Marcus, RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Primary Appointment in Computer and Information Science

Natural language processing, corpus-based and statistical models for NLP (Ph.D. MIT, 1976.)

Rolf Noyer, Associate Professor

Theoretical phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, generative metrics; Huave, Mansi. (Ph.D. MIT, 1992.)

Donald Ringe, Kahn Term Professor in Linguistics

Historical linguistics, Indo-European, morphology (Ph.D. Yale, 1984)

Timothy Roberts, Adjunct Professor; primary appointment, Dept of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

neurolinguistics; neuroimaging; auditory processing of language; language and autism (Ph.D. Cambridge, 1991)

Beatrice Santorini, Senior Fellow

Syntax, Germanic linguistics, language change (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989.)

Florian Schwarz, Assistant Professor

Formal semantics and pragmatics, semantic and pragmatic processing (Ph.D. U Mass, 2009)

Charles Yang, Associate Professor

Language acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics (Ph.D. MIT, 2000.)

Other Linguistics Graduate Group Faculty

Asif Agha (Anthropology)

Linguistics, anthropology, semiotics; language structure and function, language typology and universals; social theory; language and social relations; discourse analysis; metaphor and tropes, register and style; communicative practices in the media; Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics. (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990.)

Delphine Dahan (Psychology)

Psycholinguistics, spoken-language comprehension, lexical representation and processing (Ph.D. Paris La Sorbonne René Descartes, 1994.)

Gerald Prince (Romance)

Narratology (Ph.D. Brown, 1968)

Dan Swingley (Psychology)

Psycholinguistics, word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children

Stephen Tinney (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Sumerian; Mesopotamian language and literature. (Ph.D. Michigan.)

John Trueswell (Psychology)

Language processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception. (Ph.D. Rochester, 1993.)

Greg Urban (Anthropology)

Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; corporations and culture; business anthropology; Amerindian cultures; Brazil, U.S. (Ph.D. Chicago, 1978.)

Scott Weinstein (Philosophy)

Logic, formal learning theory, machine learning, recursive function theory (Ph.D. Rockefeller U., 1975.)

Retired Faculty

George Cardona (Emeritus)

Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indian grammatical theory

Lila Gleitman (Emeritus) (Psychology)

Language and language acquisition (Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1967.)

Gillian Sankoff (Retired)

Sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, language change and development (Ph.D. McGill, 1968.)

Harold Schiffman (Emeritus) (South Asia Studies)

Sociolinguistics, language policy, grammaticalization, Dravidian Linguistics (Ph.D. Chicago, 1969.)