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Graduate Students


Michael ColleyMichael Colley
mc4906@rice.edu

Michael Colley Sociolinguistics, phonetics/phonology.


Elizabeth GentryElizabeth Gentry
eagentry@rice.edu

Sociolinguistics, phonetics, forensic linguistics.


Anne-Marie HartensteinAnne-Marie Hartenstein
anneh@rice.edu

Language universals and typology, cognitive linguistics, semitic languages (especially Hebrew), Romance languages (especially Romanian).


Jennifer HoeckerJennifer Hoecker
jlh2@rice.edu

Endangered languages, language documentation, Cornish language revival.


Jayeon JeongJayeon Jeong
nature@rice.edu

Semantics, cognitive linguistics, language typology and first language acquisition


Haowen (Howard) Jiang
hj3@rice.edu

Cognitive/functional linguistics, anthropological linguistics, syntactic and semantic typology, Austronesian languages (especially Formosan), language documentation.

Dave KattenDave Katten
katten@rice.edu

Psycholinguistics, discourse processing, entextualization, language policy, statistics.


Christian KoopsChristian Koops
ckoops@rice.edu

Grammaticalization, construction grammar, cognitive semantics, language and space, acoustic phonetics, speech perception. 


Linda LanzLinda Lanz
lanz@rice.edu

Phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, Japanese/Japonic linguistics, and endangered languages (the Alaskan languages in particular)


Sarah LeeSarah Lee
sarah.lee@rice.edu

Cognitive and functional linguistics, sociolinguistics, Southeast Asian languages, esp. Hokkien, Malay, creoles and English varieties from this part of the world.


Gu-jing LinGu-jing Lin
serene@rice.edu

Formosan/Western Austronesian languages, argument structure, Cognitive Grammar, Mandarin Chinese.


Chelsea McCrackenChelsea McCracken
clm3@rice.edu

Language documentation, fieldwork, endangered and minority languages, sociolinguistics, language contact and change, typology and universals. 


Carlos Molina-VitalCarlos Molina-Vital
crm5@rice.edu

Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, and Functional Syntax; definiteness, aspect; Quechua 


Michelle MorrisonMichelle Morrison
mmorrison@rice.edu

Fieldwork/language documentation, African languages, syntax. 


Naonori NagayaNaonori Nagaya
nagaya@rice.edu

Philippine & Indonesian languages, discourse & grammar, grammatical relations, reference-tracking, information structure, voice, metonymy. 


Katie NelsonKatie Nelson
katienelson@rice.edu

Language documentation, language revitalization, fieldwork.


Piotr Nowak
pn3@rice.edu

Cognitive grammar, conceptual blending, lexical semantics. 


Ann OlivoAnn Olivo
amo1@rice.edu

Phonetics, acoustic phonetics, Spanish phonology.


Cassandra PaceCassandra Pace
cjp2@rice.edu

Language documentation, language contact, semantics and semantic typology, endangered languages.


Andrew PantosAndrew Pantos
ajpantos@rice.edu

Sociolinguistics, discourse, forensic linguistics.


Viktoria PappViktoria Papp
vica@rice.edu

Forensic linguistics, forensic phonetics (speaker identification, voice line-ups), authorship attribution (questioned documents, suicide notes), sociophonetics, (Hungarian) sociolinguistics, speech perception.


Monica SanaphreMonica Sanaphre
sanaphre@rice.edu

Cognitive Grammar, the historical development of language, corpus and functional-typological analyses, verbal constructions of Spanish (the copulas "ser" and "estar" and the system of causative verbs), psycholinguistics, the acquisition of Spanish as a second language.


Christopher Schmidt
cks@rice.edu

Typology, East Asian linguistics, Austronesian linguistics.


Chris TaylorChris Taylor
sastre@rice.edu

Language ideology, style, performance, ethnography, discourse, Houston Hip Hop, social-theoretic and anthropological perspectives on language variation.


Soyeon YoonSoyeon Yoon
soyeon.yoon@rice.edu

Soyeon Yoon Cognitive semantics, metaphors, cognitive grammar, mental space theory, conceptual blending, Korean, Japanese.