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Emily M. Bender

Professor
see-my@webpage.edu
GUG 414C
Computational Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Grammar Engineering, Head Phrase Structure Grammar, Low-density Languages, Semantics, Societal impacts of language technology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Typology

Yuan Chai

Teaching Associate
yuanchai@uw.edu
GUG 407A
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Qi Cheng

Assistant Professor
qicheng2@uw.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
GUG 415H
American Sign Language, Language Development, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Processing

Barbara Citko

Professor and Associate Chair of Linguistics
bcitko@uw.edu
Office Hours: Friday 9:30-10:30am and by appointment
GUG 415C
Minimalism, Minimalist Theory, Slavic Linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Polish, Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Betsy Evans

Associate Professor
evansbe@uw.edu
GUG 415D
Dialectology, Field Research Methods, Ideology, Linguistic Geography, Perceptual Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Variationist Theory
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Naja Ferjan Ramírez

Assistant Professor
naja@uw.edu / (206) 543-4503
Office Hours: By appointment.
GUG 415B
American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Brain and language, First Language Acquisition, Perception and Cognition, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Perception, Speech Processing

Lance Forshay

Associate Teaching Professor and ASL Language Director
lforshay@uw.edu / (206) 452-0085
Office Hours: 12:00-2:00 p.m. M-F
GUG 406
American Sign Language, Cultural Competency, Deaf Studies, Deafhood, Language Attitudes, Privileges and Oppressions in Deaf Community (Audsim).
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Sharon Hargus

Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
sharon@uw.edu / (206) 685-4263
Office Hours: by appointment
GUG 415J
American Indian/Native American, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Grammar, Historical Linguistics, Language Development, lexicography, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, texts
Andrew Hedding

Andrew Hedding

Assistant Professor
ahedding@uw.edu
Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Language Documentation, Syntax
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Myriam Lapierre

Assistant Professor
mylapier@uw.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
GUG 415F
Amazonian languages, Historical phonology, Language documentation, Linguistic Fieldwork, Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

Gina-Anne Levow

Associate Professor
levow@uw.edu / (206) 616-5728
Office Hours: Fridays 2:30-3:20, please email for Zoom access
GUG 418B
Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Low-density Languages, Natural Language Processing, Pragmatics, Prosody, Speech Processing
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Dan Mathis

ASL Assistant Teaching Professor
dvmasl@uw.edu
Office Hours: (*please email to make an online chat appointment)
American Sign Language, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Culture, Deaf Communities, Deaf Culture, First Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Second Language Acquisition
Laura McGarrity

Laura McGarrity

Associate Teaching Professor
lauramcg@uw.edu / (206) 685-3549
Office Hours: Spring 2024: MW 10:00-11:00a (and by appointment)
GUG 418C
First Language Acquisition, Optimality Theory, Phonology, Prosody, Taboo Language

Toshiyuki Ogihara

Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
ogihara@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
GUG 415G
Formal Semantics, Japanese, Japanese Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax

Lorna Rozelle

Lecturer
rozelle@uw.edu
American Sign Language, Morphology, Phonology, Typology
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Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Assistant Professor
shanest@uw.edu / (206) 616-0997
Office Hours: MW, 2:30-3:30PM
GUG 415K
Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Professor
wassink@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
GUG 415
Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition, Dialect Contact, Field Research Methods, Jamaican Creole, Phonetics, Pidgins and Creoles, Social Networks, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Variationist Theory

Kristi Winter

Associate Teaching Professor
kwinter2@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
GUG 406
American Sign Language, First Language Acquisition, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics
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Richard Wright

Professor and Department Chair
Adjunct Professor Speech and Hearing Sciences
rawright@uw.edu / (206) 616-2426
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Th 1:30-3:00
GUG 414B
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Austronesian, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Neurolinguistics, Perception and Cognition, Phonetics, Prosody, Speech, Speech Perception

Fei Xia

Professor
fxia@uw.edu / (206) 543-9764
Office Hours: 2:15-3:15pm on Thurs (in-person), 10-11am on Friday (remote via Canvas Conferences, only for ling570 students)
GUG 418A
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Emeriti Faculty

Heles Contreras

Professor Emeritus
helesc@uw.edu
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Julia Herschensohn

Professor Emerita
herschen@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, Minimalist Theory, Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing, Syntax

Ellen Kaisse

Professor Emerita
kaisse@uw.edu / no phone
Office Hours: Spring 2021 online by appointment
Guggenheim 415K
Dialectology, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Optimality Theory, Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody

Jurgen Klausenburger

Professor Emeritus
jklaus@uw.edu

Frederick Newmeyer

Professor Emeritus
fjn@uw.edu
History of Linguistics, Syntax, Typology

Marina Tarlinskaya

Research Professor Emerita
marinat@uw.edu
Karen Zagona

Karen Zagona

Professor Emerita
zagona@uw.edu / (206) 685-0979
Office Hours: WTR 2020: Tues 1-3pm and by appointment
GUG 415-K
functional categories and features, Grammar, Romance linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Spanish, syntax of tense

Adjunct Faculty

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Name Title Email/Phone Office Hours
Bilaniuk, Laada M. Adjunct Professor bilaniuk@uw.edu
Bilmes, Jeffrey A. Adjunct Professor bilmes@uw.edu
Chan, Lu Adjunct Associate Professor chanlu@uw.edu
Choi, Yejin Adjunct Professor yejin@cs.washington.edu
Dziwirek, Katarzyna A. Adjunct Professor dziwirek@uw.edu
Elkhafaifi, Hussein Adjunct Associate Professor hme3@uw.edu
Fernandez-Dobao, Ana Adjunct Associate Professor anadobao@uw.edu
Handel, Zev Adjunct Professor zhandel@uw.edu
Kuhl, Patricia K. Adjunct Professor pkkuhl@uw.edu
Mawkanuli, Talant Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor tmawkan@uw.edu
Max, Ludo Adjunct Professor ludomax@uw.edu
Moore, Colette Adjunct Associate Professor cvmoore@uw.edu
Ohta, Amy Adjunct Associate Professor aohta@uw.edu
Ostendorf, Mari Adjunct Professor mo@ee.washington.edu
Prat, Chantel Professor of Psychology csprat@uw.edu
Smith, Maya Adjunct Associate Professor mayaas@uw.edu
Smith, Noah A. Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering nasmith@cs.washington.edu
Stygall, Gail Adjunct Professor stygall@uw.edu
Tennis, Joseph Adjunct Professor jtennis@uw.edu
Yetisgen, Meliha Adjunct Professor melihay@uw.edu
Zettlemoyer, Luke Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering lsz@cs.washington.edu CSE 658
Zhao, Christina Adjunct Research Assistant Professor zhaotc@uw.edu

Affiliate Faculty

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Name Title Email/Phone Office Hours
Ammar, Bridger Affiliate Assistant Professor waleeda@uw.edu
Aoki, Paul Affiliate Assistant Professor i5no8@u.washington.edu
Bateh, Raymond Affiliate Assistant Professor rhzbateh@aol.com
Carlson, Greg Affiliate Professor Gc37@uw.edu
Culicover, Peter Affiliate Professor culicove@uw.edu
Dwyer, Arienne Affiliate Professor arienne@uw.edu
Hoard, James Affiliate Professor jeh20@uw.edu
Hugo, Russell Affiliate Assistant Professor rlhugo@uw.edu
Kahn, Jeremy Affiliate Assistant Professor jeremy@trochee.net
Lewis, William Affiliate Assistant Professor wlewis2@uw.edu
Marin, Alex Affiliate Professor amarin@uw.edu
Odden, David Affiliate Professor dodden@uw.edu
Park, Eun Hae Affiliate Assistant Professor ehpark@uw.edu
Sano, Kyoko Affiliate Assistant Professor sano@uw.edu
(425)785-5505 		Remote
By appointment
Song, Yan Affiliate Assistant Professor yansong@uw.edu
Stelzer, Maximilian Affiliate Instructor max8120@uw.edu
Tjalve, Michael Affiliate Assistant Professor mtjalve@u.washington.edu
Toutanova, Kristina Affiliate Assistant Professor kristout@google.com
Youngscholten, Martha Affiliate Professor uwmys@uw.edu

In Memoriam

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Name Title
Brame, Michael Professor
Omaki, Akira Assistant Professor
Saporta, Sol Professor