Linguistics
Mark Baker
Professor
Department of Linguistics
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Syntactic theory, morphology and its relationship to syntax and semantics, linguistics, the grammar of Amerindian languages and African languages, implications of linguistics for the study of the human mind
Professor Baker received his Ph.D. from MIT. His interests include comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic syntax and Amerindian and African languages. Recent books written include Lexical Categories, Cambridge University…
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Nydia Flores
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
Key topics: Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., bilingualism, Spanish pragmatics, teaching English language learners, second language acquisition, and changing perspectives in the teaching of Spanish in the U.S.
Nydia Flores' line of inquiry explores two interrelated avenues in the field of sociolinguistics: the use of Spanish in society and Spanish language education. She prepares pre- and in-service language teachers and future linguists to understand…
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Arnold Glass
Professor
Department of Psychology
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Learning, instruction, language
Arnold L. Glass, Ph.D., is the former vice chair of undergraduate studies for the Department of Psychology. His research investigates how well people remember what they have seen and heard.
His studies include recent work developing…
Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Translation, interpreting, translation technologies, machine translation, localization, translating and interpreting training, AI and translation.
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Lesley Morrow
Distinguished Professor and Director of The Center for Literacy Development
Center for Literacy Development
Graduate School of Education
Key topics: Early childhood literacy, literacy development, teaching language arts.
Lesley Morrow is a professor of literacy, and created and directs the Center for Literacy Development at the Graduate School of Education. Her area of research deals with early literacy development and the organization and management of language…
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