Current Students
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This is the list of current graduate students, some personal information, and their major interests of study.
To add your name or to edit information, please fill out this form.
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Name |
Field(s) of Study |
Research Interests |
| Irina Agafonova | ||
| agafonov@msu.edu website |
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| Mahmoud S. Al-Mahmoud | ||
| almahmou@msu.edu website |
Phonology, SLA | |
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| Stephen Backman | ||
| backmans@msu.edu | Language policy in education, African linguistics, Second language acquisition | |
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| Kirsten Bakken | ||
| bakkenki@msu.edu | Sociolinguistics | |
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| Jon Bakos | ||
| bakosjon@msu.edu | ||
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| Marisa Ferrara Boston | ||
| mferrara@msu.edu website |
Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science | |
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| Hsiang-Hua Chang | ||
| Language Acquisition | ||
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| Zhong Chen | ||
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| Jonathan Choti | ||
| Syntax, Morphology | Bantu linguistics | |
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| Thomas Darnell | ||
| darnel14@msu.edu | Historical Linguistics | |
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| Olga Eremina | ||
| yeremin1@msu.edu | ||
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| Dan E. Flynn, Jr. | ||
| flynnda3@msu.edu | discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics |
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| Andrew Fraser | ||
| frasera2@msu.edu | ||
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| Thomas Gerrish | ||
| gerrisht@msu.edu |
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| Adam Gobeski | ||
| gobeski1@msu.edu | ||
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| Kyle Grove | ||
| Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science | Lexical Semantics of Verbs; Subcategorization | |
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| Daniel Hasty | ||
| Sociolinguistics | Southern United States English, Language Attitudes, Dialectology, Folk Linguistic | |
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| Yi-Jen Huang | ||
| huangyij@msu.edu | ||
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| husbande@msu.edu website |
Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics | Syntax-semantics interface, Language processing |
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| Ben Johnson | ||
| john2456@msu.edu | Semantics, Language acquisition | |
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| Greg Johnson | ||
| john2517@msu.edu | ||
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| Steve Johnson | ||
| john1362@msu.edu website |
sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language contact, language and identity, language and gender | |
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| Syntax, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science | Evolutionary Biology of Language | |
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| Ki-Yeol Kim | ||
| kimkiyeo@msu.edu | ||
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| Diane Lesley-Neuman | ||
| lesleyne@msu.edu | Phonology, Phonetics, Morphology | Phonological theory, including morphology-phonology interface, diachronic phonology; East African languages, laboratory phonology |
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| Kim Lewis | ||
| lewiski5@msu.edu | Second Language Acquisition | Second language learners: input, interaction, and vocabulary acquisition |
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| Misako Matsubara | ||
| matsubar@msu.edu |
Sociolinguistics | Japanese pedagogy |
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| Ai Matsui | ||
| matsuiai@msu.edu |
Semantics, Syntax | The form, meaning and implicatures of conditionals, discourse particles |
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| Yuanliang Meng | ||
| mengyua15@msu.edu | Phonology, Semantics, Computational Linguistics | Chinese linguistics |
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| Nao Nakano | ||
| nakanon2@msu.edu | acquisition of tense/aspect, Japanese sentence processing | |
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| Jaclyn Ocumpaugh | ||
| ocumpaug@msu.edu | ||
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| Junsuk Park | ||
| parkju21@msu.edu | ||
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| Kyeong Min Park | ||
| kmpark@msu.edu | ||
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| Philip Pellino | ||
| pellinop@msu.edu | ||
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| Mousa Qasem | ||
| qasemmou@msu.edu website |
Cognitive linguistics, Psycholinguistics | |
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| quarteym@msu.edu | Sociolinguistics | African American Language, the Ebonics debate, language barriers in the classroom and the academic achievement gap, slang and jargon, sex and language |
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| Dorothea K. Rohlfs | ||
| rohlfsdo@msu.edu | Phonology, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science | Language Disorders, Down's Syndrome |
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| Li-Jen Shih | ||
| shihlije@msu.edu | ||
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| Tai-Heng Shih | ||
| shihtaih@msu.edu | ||
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Vishwajeet K. Singh ![]() |
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| singhvis@msu.edu website |
Computational Linguistics | Linguistics in general, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and computational phonology leading to AI |
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| Walter L. Sistrunk, Jr. | ||
| sistrunk@msu.edu website |
African American studies | |
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| Angela Super | ||
| komsican@msu.edu | ||
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| Masaaki Takashima | ||
| takashi3@msu.edu | ||
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| Hiroaki Tanaka | ||
| tanakah1@msu.edu | ||
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| Chris Tremlett | ||
| tremlett@msu.edu website |
Syntax, Phonology, Sociolinguistics | |
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| Chiung-Yao Wang | ||
| wangch10@msu.edu | ||
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| Julie Wilson | ||
| wilso336@msu.edu |
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| Goro Yamamoto | ||
| yamamo16@msu.edu | ||
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| Chia-hsin Yeh | ||
| chianhsin@msu.edu website |
Phonetically-based phonology, Language acquisition | |
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| Xiaofei Zhang | ||
| zhangx20@msu.edu | ||
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