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Michael Colley Sociolinguistics, phonetics/phonology.
Sociolinguistics, phonetics, forensic linguistics.
Language universals and typology, cognitive linguistics, semitic languages (especially Hebrew), Romance languages (especially Romanian).
Endangered languages, language documentation, Cornish language revival.
Semantics, cognitive linguistics, language typology and first language acquisition
Psycholinguistics, discourse processing, entextualization, language policy, statistics.
Grammaticalization, construction grammar, cognitive semantics, language and space, acoustic phonetics, speech perception.
Phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, Japanese/Japonic linguistics, and endangered languages (the Alaskan languages in particular)
Cognitive and functional linguistics, sociolinguistics, Southeast Asian languages, esp. Hokkien, Malay, creoles and English varieties from this part of the world.
Formosan/Western Austronesian languages, argument structure, Cognitive Grammar, Mandarin Chinese.
Language documentation, fieldwork, endangered and minority languages, sociolinguistics, language contact and change, typology and universals.
Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, and Functional Syntax; definiteness, aspect; Quechua
Fieldwork/language documentation, African languages, syntax.
Philippine & Indonesian languages, discourse & grammar, grammatical relations, reference-tracking, information structure, voice, metonymy.
Language documentation, language revitalization, fieldwork.
Cognitive grammar, conceptual blending, lexical semantics.
Phonetics, acoustic phonetics, Spanish phonology.
Language documentation, language contact, semantics and semantic typology, endangered languages.
Sociolinguistics, discourse, forensic linguistics.
Forensic linguistics, forensic phonetics (speaker identification, voice line-ups), authorship attribution (questioned documents, suicide notes), sociophonetics, (Hungarian) sociolinguistics, speech perception.
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.
Typology, East Asian linguistics, Austronesian linguistics.
Language ideology, style, performance, ethnography, discourse, Houston Hip Hop, social-theoretic and anthropological perspectives on language variation.
Soyeon Yoon Cognitive semantics, metaphors, cognitive grammar, mental space theory, conceptual blending, Korean, Japanese.