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Yulia Bosworth

Associate Professor of Linguistics

The Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Quebec French
  • Quebec identity and culture
  • Language ideologies and linguistic insecurity 
  • Public discourse in Quebec and Canada 
  • Critical sociolinguistics
  • Critical discourse analysis
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Research Interests

  • Syntax and Morphology
  • Passive; Causative; Sluicing; Honorifics
  • Language Pedagogy
  • National Standards
  • Assessment
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Aimee Dixon

Lecturer

The Linguistics Program
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Rikker Dockum

Assistant Professor

The Linguistics Program

Assistant Professor

Anthropology
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Gregory A Key

Turkish Lecturer

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Turkish Lecturer

The Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Turkish Linguistics
  • Theoretical Linguistics (morphosyntax)
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Bryan Kirschen

Associate Professor

The Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Contact Linguistics
  • Language Variation
  • Documentary Linguistics
  • Language Ideologies
  • Sephardic Studies
  • Aljamiado Texts
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Celia M Klin

Dean of Harpur College

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Dean of Harpur College

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Reading
  • Comprehension and memory for text
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Kristina Nielsen

Lecturer

The Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Linguistic anthropology
  • India
  • Business Anthropology
  • Accent
  • Business Process Outsourcing/Call Centers
  • Enregisterment
  • Neutrality
  • Globalism
  • Semiotics
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Sabina Perrino

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Intimacy in Interaction
  • Language use in Ethnomedical Encounters & Political Speeches
  • Oral Narratives as Discursive Practices
  • Racialized Language in Everyday Conversation
  • Spatiotemporal Relations (Chronotope)
  • Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
  • Fitness Culture and Practices
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Lieselotte Sippel

Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics

The Linguistics Program

Director of Undergraduate Studies for German; Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics; Head of German Language Instruction

German and Russian Studies

Research Interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Corrective feedback
  • Peer interaction
  • Pronunciation instruction
  • Telecollaboration
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Chenqing Song

Associate Professor

The Linguistics Program

Associate Professor, Interim Graduate Director

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

TRIP Courtesy Title

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

Chinese phonology,Historical linguistics,Tones in poetic prosody,Chinese as a foreign language teaching
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Cyma K Van Petten

Professor

Psychology

Professor

The Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
  • Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex
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