Faculty

This page contains the following lists of Penn faculty affiliated with our undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs:

You can find other faculty with linguistics-related interests through the Integrated Language Sciences and Technology (ILST) initiative.



Linguistics Core Faculty

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Marlyse Baptista

President's Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Language Contact and Cognition, Pidgins and Creoles, Theories of Language Emergence, Bilingualism, L2 and L3/Ln Acquisition, Syntactic Theory, Psycholinguistic Research on Processes of Language Contact (Ph.D., Harvard, 1997)

(215) 898-3212

Room 319-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Eugene Buckley

Associate Professor Formal phonology, phonology-morphology interaction, phonological explanation, Native American and Ethio-Semitic linguistics (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1992)

(215) 898-2834

Room 330-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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David Embick

Professor Syntax, morphology, syntax/morphology interface, neurolinguistics (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1997)

(215) 573-5965

Room 310-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Paloma Jeretic

Assistant Professor Semantics and Pragmatics and their interfaces with Syntax (Ph.D., New York University, 2021)

(215) 746-7397

Room 327-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Jianjing Kuang

Associate Professor Phonetics, Laboratory phonology, Speech production and perception. (Ph.D. UCLA, 2013)

215-746-3136

Room 318-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Julie Anne Legate

Professor; Department Chair Syntax, morphology, syntax-morphology interface, language acquisition (PhD, MIT, 2002)

215-573-5192

Room 331-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Mark Liberman

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Phonetics, prosody, natural language processing, speech communication (Ph.D., MIT, 1975) Director - Linguistic Data Consortium

215-573-5519

Room 312-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

Rolf Noyer

Rolf Noyer

Associate Professor Theoretical phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, generative metrics; Huave, Mansi. (Ph.D., MIT, 1992)

(215) 573-9232

Room 329-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Anna Papafragou

Professor Experimental semantics and pragmatics, language acquisition, language and cognition (Ph.D., University College London, 1998)

215-746-8384

Room 328-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Don Ringe

Professor Historical linguistics, Indo-European, morphology (Ph.D., Yale, 1984)

(215) 898-7472

Room 332-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts

Associate Professor Language evolution, language change, language variation, cultural evolution, experimental semiotics, social interaction. (Ph.D., Univ. of Edinburgh, 2010)

215-746-1942

Room 317-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Kathryn Schuler

Assistant Professor Language Acquisition (Ph.D; Georgetown University, 2017)

215-898-6909

Room 314C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Florian Schwarz

Professor; Undergraduate Chair Formal semantics and pragmatics, semantic and pragmatic processing (Ph.D., U Mass, 2009) Member of the Graduate Group in Psychology

215-898-8183

Room 311-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Meredith Tamminga

Associate Professor; Graduate Chair Language variation and change, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014)

215-898-7473

Room 316-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

Charles Yang

Professor Language acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics (Ph.D., MIT, 2000) Director of Undergraduate Studies in Cognitive Science

215-898-7849

Room 315-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio



Associated Faculty and Lecturers

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Asif Agha

Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics; semiotics; discourse analysis; social theory (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990)

(215) 898-4110

University Museum, Room 511Read Bio

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Sunghye Cho

Assistant Research Professor

Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810Read Bio

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Aletheia Cui

Lecturer (PhD in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2020)

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Delphine Dahan

Associate Professor, Psychology Psycholinguistics, spoken-language comprehension, lexical representation and processing (Ph.D., Paris La Sorbonne René Descartes, 1994)

215-898-0326

Room 253, Levin Building
425 S. University Ave.
Philadelphia,PA 19104Read Bio

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Jami Fisher

Senior Lecturer (Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014) American Sign Language Program Director

215-746-5612

Room 345-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio

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Audrey Mbeje

Lecturer in Foreign Languages Director of the African Language Program at Penn

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Gerald Prince

Professor, Romance Languages Narratology (Ph.D. Brown, 1968)

215-898-8458

531 Williams HallRead Bio

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Timothy Roberts

Adjunct Professor; primary appointment: Professor, Dept of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia neurolinguistics; neuroimaging; auditory processing of language; language and autism (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1991)

267-426-0384

Wood Building, Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaRead Bio

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Daniel Swingley

Professor, Psychology Psycholinguistics, word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children (Ph.D., Stanford, 1997)

215-898-0334

425 S. University Ave.Read Bio

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Stephen J. Tinney

Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Sumerian; Mesopotamian language and literature. (Ph.D., Michigan) Director, Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary ProjectAssociate Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

215 898-7467

Room 231, Babylonian Section, University MuseumRead Bio

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John Trueswell

Professor of Psychology Language processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception (Ph.D., Rochester, 1993) Director of Graduate Studies in PsychologyDirector of IGERT Language and Communication Program

Office: (215) 898-0911; Lab: (215) 898-0327

Room 254, Levin Building, 425 S. University Ave.Read Bio

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Greg Urban

Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; corporations and culture; business anthropology; Amerindian cultures; Brazil, U.S. (Ph.D. Chicago, 1978)

215 898-0895

University Museum, Room 518Read Bio

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Scott Weinstein

Professor, Department of Philosophy Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Cognitive Science (Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1975) Director, Logic, Information, and Computation Program, School of Arts and SciencesSecondary Appointments: Department of Mathematics, Department of Computer and Information Science

(215) 898-8563

Room 462, Logan HallRead Bio



Retired Faculty

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George Cardona

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and South Asia Studies Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indian grammatical theory

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Robin Clark

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Applications of Game Theory to natural language; Evolution and Dynamics; General Stuff, (Ph.D., UCLA, 1985)

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William Labov

John H. & Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Linguistics (Retired) Sociolinguistics, language change, speech perception and production, research on reading (Ph.D., Columbia, 1964)

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Mitch Marcus

Professor Emeritus, RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence Natural language processing, corpus-based and statistical models for NLP (Ph.D., MIT, 1976)

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Gillian E. Sankoff

Professor of Linguistics (retired) Sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, language change and development (Ph.D., McGill, 1968)

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Beatrice Santorini

Senior Fellow (Retired) Syntax, Germanic linguistics, language change (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989)

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