Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington
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Faculty
Listed below are the Department of Linguistics & TESOL faculty, along with information about their educational background and research interests. For more details, go to their Professional home pages. Names are listed alphabetically in the following divisions: faculty, adjunct faculty, emeritus faculty.
Faculty
| Dr. Jerold Edmondson (Professor) | ||
| Habilitation, Technical University of Berlin; PhD, UCLA Interests: Field/experimental/computational phonetics, tone and vocal register, natural language processing, historical linguistics, languages of East and Southeast Asia, Tai, and Chinese. |
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| Professional home page | Office: HH 126 | j.edmondson@sbcglobal.net | ||
| Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald (Associate Professor) Chair & Undergraduate Advisor | ||
| PhD, Arizona Interests: Phonological theory, prosody, reduplication, Native American languages (especially Tohono O'odham), field linguistics, multiculturalism and dialects, and service-learning. |
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| Professional home page | Office: HH 403 | cmfitz@uta.edu | ||
| Dr. Cynthia D. Kilpatrick (Assistant Professor) | ||
| PhD, UC San Diego Interests: TESOL, second language acquisition, bilingualism, phonology, phonological acquisition, phonotactics, experimental phonology/phonetics, Romance languages (especially Spanish), dialects of the Southern U.S. |
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| Professional home page | Office: HH 405 | cynkil@uta.edu | Dr. Joseph Sabbagh (Assistant Professor) | |
| PhD, MIT Interests: Syntax, morphology, Austronesian languages (especially Tagalog), clause and argument structure, typology, coordination and constituent sharing (especially Right Node Raising). |
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| Professional home page | Office: HH 407 | sabbagh@uta.edu | ||
| Dr. David Silva (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & Professor) | ||
| PhD, Cornell Interests: Language variation, the phonology-phonetics interface, language attitudes, Korean, Romance languages (especially European Portuguese), teaching linguistics, post-secondary pedagogy and learning. |
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| Professional home page | Office: DH 300 | djsilva@uta.edu | ||
| Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan (Associate Professor) Associate Chair & Graduate Adviser | ||
| PhD, Northwestern Interests: Semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, lexical ambiguity, bare nominals, discourse markers, vocabulary acquisition, language use in new technologies, health discourse. |
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| Professional home page | Office: HH 410 | stvan@uta.edu |
Adjunct Faculty
| Dr. Keith Maurice (Director of English Language Institute & and Adjunct Professor) | ||
| PhD, Florida State University Interests: TESOL methodology, curriculum design, English for Specific Purposes, and intercultural communication. |
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| Professional home page | Office: HH 401 | kmaurice@eli.uta.edu | ||
| Dr. Eunjin Park (Lecturer) | ||
| PhD, New York University Interests: Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language socialization, language ideologies, language and ethnic identity, second language acquisition, heritage language development and maintenance, bilingualism, and Korean American community. |
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| Professional home page | Office: TH 217E | epark@exchange.uta.edu | ||
| Dr. Catharine Moore Welch (Instructor) | ||
| PhD, UT Arlington Interests: Pragmatics, second language acquisition, and Spanish. |
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| Professional home page | Office: TH 217E | |
Emeritus Faculty
| Dr. Donald Burquest (Emeritus) | ||
| PhD, UCLA Interests: Phonology, Syntax, Field Application of Principles & Parameters Theory, Discourse, Chadic Languages (Hausa, Ngas). |
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| Professional home page | don@ling.uta.edu | Dr. Robert Longacre (Emeritus) | |
| PhD, University of Pennsylvania Interests: String constituent analysis, discourse analysis, semantics. |