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

Alison Biggs

Lecturer

Syntax, language variation and change, Sino-Tibetan linguistics (Ph.D; King's College, University of Cambridge, 2014)

biggsa@ling.upenn.edu
Eugene Buckley

Associate Professor; Graduate Chair

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

gene@ling.upenn.edu
Robin Clark

Professor

Applications of Game Theory to natural language; Evolution and Dynamics; General Stuff, (Ph.D., UCLA, 1985)

rclark@ling.upenn.edu
David Embick

Professor; Department Chair

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

embick@ling.upenn.edu
Jami Fisher

Lecturer

American Sign Language Coordinator (Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014)

jami@sas.upenn.edu
Aravind Joshi

Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science

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

joshi@seas.upenn.edu
Anthony Kroch

Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences

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

kroch@ling.upenn.edu
Jianjing Kuang

Assistant Professor

Phonetics, Laboratory phonology, Speech production and perception. (Ph.D. UCLA, 2013)

kuangj@sas.upenn.edu
Julie Anne Legate

Professor

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

jlegate@ling.upenn.edu
Mark Liberman

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics

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

myl@cis.upenn.edu
Mitch Marcus

RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence

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

mitch@cis.upenn.edu
Audrey Mbeje

Lecturer

African Languages Coordinator (Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Ball State University)

mbeje@sas.upenn.edu
Rolf Noyer

Associate Professor

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

rnoyer@ling.upenn.edu
Don Ringe

Professor

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

dringe@ling.upenn.edu
Gareth Roberts

Assistant Professor

Language evolution, language change, language variation, cultural evolution, experimental semiotics, social interaction. (Ph.D., Univ. of Edinburgh, 2010)

gareth.roberts@ling.upenn.edu
Timothy Roberts

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

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

robertstim@email.chop.edu
Beatrice Santorini

Senior Fellow

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

beatrice@ling.upenn.edu
Florian Schwarz

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Chair

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

florians@ling.upenn.edu
Meredith Tamminga

Assistant Professor

Language variation and change. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014)

tamminga@ling.upenn.edu
Charles Yang

Professor

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

ycharles@ling.upenn.edu

Other Faculty in the Linguistics Graduate Group

Asif Agha

Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology

Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics; semiotics; discourse analysis; social theory (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990)

asifagha@sas.upenn.edu
Delphine Dahan

Associate Professor, Psychology

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

dahan@psych.upenn.edu
Gerald Prince

Professor, Romance Languages

Narratology (Ph.D. Brown, 1968)

gprince@ling.upenn.edu
Daniel Swingley

Professor, Psychology

Psycholinguistics, word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children (Ph.D., Stanford, 1997)

swingley@psych.upenn.edu
Stephen J. Tinney

Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

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

stinney@sas.upenn.edu
John Trueswell

Professor of Psychology

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

trueswel@psych.upenn.edu
Greg Urban

Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of 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)

gurban@sas.upenn.edu
Scott Weinstein

Professor, Department of Philosophy

Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Cognitive Science (Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1975)

weinstein@cis.upenn.edu

Retired Faculty

George Cardona

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and South Asia Studies

Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indian grammatical theory

cardona@sas.upenn.edu
Lila R. Gleitman

Professor of Psychology, Emerita

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

gleitman@psych.upenn.edu
William Labov

John H. & Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Linguistics (Retired)

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

labov@ling.upenn.edu
Gillian E. Sankoff

Professor of Linguistics (retired)

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

gillian@ling.upenn.edu
Harold Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of Dravidian Linguistics and Culture, South Asia Studies

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

haroldfs@gmail.com