Linguistics at Rice University

Linguistics Faculty


	Michel Achard Associate Professor of Linguistics achard@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, San Diego. Cognitive linguistics, French syntax, second language acquisition. Web Site

	Claire Bowern Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics claire.bowern@yale.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University. Historical linguistics, Australian languages, syntax, language documentation (especially endangered languages), language contact, typology. Web Site

	Jim Copeland Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and German copeland@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, Cornell University. Functional linguistics, phonology, Germanic linguistics, Uto-Aztecan linguistics (Tarahumara).

	Katherine Crosswhite Assistant Professor of Linguistics crosswhi@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles. Functionally motivated phonology, Slavic Languages.

	Philip Davis Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics pwd@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, Cornell University. Semantics and syntax, language and intelligence, Amerindian (Bella Coola; Alabama), Austronesian (Atayal, Ilokano, Yogad). Web Site

	Suzanne Kemmer Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of Cognitive Sciences kemmer@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, Stanford University. Language universals and typology, semantics, syntactic and semantic change, cognitive linguistics, Austronesian and African languages. Web Site

	Sydney Lamb Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics lamb@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Cognitive linguistics, neural network modeling, Amerindian (Monachi). Web Site

	Nancy Niedzielski Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics niedz@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sociolinguistics, speech perception, dialectology, phonetics, speech technology, language and gender.

	Robert Englebretson Associate Professor of Linguistics reng@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Discourse and grammar, functional linguistics, sociolinguistics, Indonesian, conversational English. Web Site

	Masayoshi Shibatani Deedee McMurtry Professor of the Humanities in Linguistics matt@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Syntax, language typology, linguistic theory, Japanese linguistics and Austronesian linguistics.

	Stephen A. Tyler Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics styler@rice.edu Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford University. Cognitive studies, philosophy of language, anthropological linguistics, languages of India. Web Site

	Christina M. Willis Assistant Professor of Linguistics cmwillis@rice.edu Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. Language documentation and description, Tibeto-Burman languages, languages of India, syntax, language typology.

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