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Professor Beaver researches and teaches on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages, in particular on how information is organized at the sentence and discourse level. Within this, he has worked on…
My research interests are in formal syntax and semantics, that is, in precisely characterizing the knowledge speakers have about the grammars of the languages that they speak and how they interpret utterances in…
Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact and Variation, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages and Dialects, Foreign Language…
- Speech perception (stress, rhythm, metathesis, laryngeal phonation)
- Prosodic phonology (word stress, reduplication, syllable structure, acoustic features that signal higher-order phonological structure)…
Descriptive and documentary work on indigenous Amazonian languages, typology, language contact and language change, and the implications of the latter for studying Amazonian prehistory.
Professor Erk's main area is computational linguistics. Her core research interest is in computational methods in lexical semantics, in particular methods for learning word meaning from large amounts of text…
Dr. Griffin studies how people express thoughts or messages in spoken utterances. Work in the Cognition and Communication Lab is particularly concerned with how messages are mapped onto words and how speakers manage…
Historical Linguistics
Language Contact
Mayan Languages
Writing Systems
