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
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Eugene Buckley
Associate Professor; Graduate ChairFormal phonology, phonology-morphology interaction, phonological explanation, Native American and Ethio-Semitic linguistics (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1992) -
Christopher Mark Cieri
Adjunct Associate Professor -
Robin Clark
ProfessorApplications of Game Theory to natural language; Evolution and Dynamics; General Stuff, (Ph.D., UCLA, 1985) -
David Embick
Professor; Department ChairSyntax, morphology, syntax/morphology interface, neurolinguistics (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1997) -
Jami Fisher
LecturerAmerican Sign Language Coordinator (Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014) -
Anthony Kroch
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Cognitive SciencesFormal syntax, modern and historical Germanic syntax, statistical patterning of syntactic usage (Ph.D. MIT, 1974) -
Jianjing Kuang
Assistant ProfessorPhonetics, Laboratory phonology, Speech production and perception. (Ph.D. UCLA, 2013) -
Julie Anne Legate
ProfessorSyntax, morphology, syntax-morphology interface, language acquisition (PhD, MIT, 2002) -
Mark Liberman
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of LinguisticsPhonetics, prosody, natural language processing, speech communication (Ph.D., MIT, 1975) -
Mitch Marcus
RCA Professor of Artificial IntelligenceNatural language processing, corpus-based and statistical models for NLP (Ph.D., MIT, 1976) -
Audrey Mbeje
LecturerAfrican Languages Coordinator (Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Ball State University) -
Rolf Noyer
Associate ProfessorTheoretical phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, generative metrics; Huave, Mansi. (Ph.D., MIT, 1992) -
Don Ringe
ProfessorHistorical linguistics, Indo-European, morphology (Ph.D., Yale, 1984) -
Gareth Roberts
Assistant ProfessorLanguage evolution, language change, language variation, cultural evolution, experimental semiotics, social interaction. (Ph.D., Univ. of Edinburgh, 2010) -
Timothy Roberts
Adjunct Professor; primary appointment: Professor, Dept of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphianeurolinguistics; neuroimaging; auditory processing of language; language and autism (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1991) -
Beatrice Santorini
Senior FellowSyntax, Germanic linguistics, language change (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989) -
Kathryn Schuler
Assistant ProfessorLanguage Acquisition (Ph.D; Georgetown University, 2017) -
Florian Schwarz
Associate Professor; Undergraduate ChairFormal semantics and pragmatics, semantic and pragmatic processing (Ph.D., U Mass, 2009) -
Meredith Tamminga
Assistant ProfessorLanguage variation and change. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014) -
Charles Yang
ProfessorLanguage acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics (Ph.D., MIT, 2000)
Other Faculty in the Linguistics Graduate Group
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Asif Agha
Professor and Department Chair of AnthropologySino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics; semiotics; discourse analysis; social theory (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990) -
Delphine Dahan
Associate Professor, PsychologyPsycholinguistics, spoken-language comprehension, lexical representation and processing (Ph.D., Paris La Sorbonne René Descartes, 1994) -
Gerald Prince
Professor, Romance LanguagesNarratology (Ph.D. Brown, 1968) -
Daniel Swingley
Professor, PsychologyPsycholinguistics, word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children (Ph.D., Stanford, 1997) -
Stephen J. Tinney
Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages & CivilizationsSumerian; Mesopotamian language and literature. (Ph.D., Michigan) -
John Trueswell
Professor of PsychologyLanguage processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception (Ph.D., Rochester, 1993) -
Greg Urban
Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of AnthropologyLinguistic 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
Professor, Department of PhilosophyLogic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Cognitive Science (Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1975)
Retired Faculty
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George Cardona
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and South Asia StudiesIndo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indian grammatical theory -
Lila R. Gleitman
Professor of Psychology, EmeritaLanguage and language acquisition (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1967) -
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) -
Gillian E. Sankoff
Professor of Linguistics (retired)Sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, language change and development (Ph.D., McGill, 1968) -
Harold Schiffman
Professor Emeritus of Dravidian Linguistics and Culture, South Asia StudiesSociolinguistics, language policy, grammaticalization, Dravidian Linguistics (Ph.D., Chicago)