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Graduate Students

This page lists current graduate students in the linguistics program at Penn, with their areas of interest and email addresses.

SinceNameInterestsEmail
2008-Dimka AtanassovComputational, Mathematical
2008-Jana BeckSyntax, Historical, Greek & Balkan Linguistics
2008-Julia C. BookoutSociolinguistics, Historical
2006-Stefanie BrodySociolinguistics
2005-Lucas ChampollionComputational, Semantics, Computer Science
2006-Toni CookSociolinguistics, Morphology
2009-Claire CrawfordComputational, Corpus Linguistics
2005-Ariel DiertaniHistorical, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax
2003-Aaron DinkinSociolinguistics, Historical, Phonology
2005-Aviad EilamSyntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics
2008-Lauren FriedmanHistorical, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, French Linguistics
2008-Josef FruehwaldSociolinguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
2006-Kyle GormanPhonetics, Computational
2004-Jonathan Gress-WrightHistorical
2005-Catherine LaiPhonetics, Semantics, Pragmatics
2009-Yong-cheol LeePhonetics
2008-Marielle LernerSociolinguistics, Language Contact, Spanish Linguistics
2007-Caitlin LightHistorical, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics
2006-Laurel MacKenzieSociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
2008-Rebecca MarshSociolinguistics, Phonetics
2004-Laia MayolPragmatics, Semantics, Computational
2007-Brittany McLaughlinSociolinguistics
2002-James MesburPhonetics, Phonology
2007-Satoshi NambuSyntax, Historical, Sociolinguistics, Acquisition
2005-Giang NguyenPhonetics, Sociolinguistics, Vietnamese Linguistics
2009-Hilary PrichardSociolinguistics, Historical, Phonetics
2003-Maya RavindranathSociolinguistics
2008-Lydia RieckLanguage acquisition
2005-Neville RyantSemantics, Syntax, Neuro, Mathematical
2009-Kobey ShwayderPhonology, Morphology, Computational
2008-GaYeon SonPhonology, Phonetics, Semantics
2008-Jon StevensSemantics, Historical
2007-Yanyan SuiPhonology, Syntax
2009-Meredith TammingaSociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
2004-Joshua TaubererPhonetics, Syntax, Semantics
2003-Joel WallenbergHistorical, Syntax
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall (campus map)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Telephone: (215) 898-6046
Fax: (215) 573-2091
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