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Charles Reissمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Phonology
• Cognitive Science
• Linguistics
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Charles Reiss is a Professor of Linguistics and Founding Member of the Concordia Centre for Cognitive Science at Concordia University. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Harvard University (1995), alongside an MA (1989) and BA in Mathematics from Swarthmore College (1985). His research focuses on theoretical phonology, cognitive science, and the philosophical implications of linguistic structures. Reiss is renowned for co-developing 'substance-free phonology' with Mark Hale, emphasizing formal approaches to phonological analysis. His textbooks, such as Phonology: A Formal Introduction (2018) and I-language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (2013), are widely used in academic settings. He teaches advanced courses like Language and Mind: The Chomskyan Program , integrating topics like universal grammar, phonology, and cognitive linguistics. His research spans phonological universals, feature geometry, and the interfaces between phonology and other linguistic modules. Recent work critiques large language models and defends Chomskyan generativism while exploring computational and cognitive aspects of phonological representation. Reiss has edited volumes such as Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale (2022) and contributed to foundational texts like The Phonological Enterprise (2008). His work bridges formal analysis and empirical research, prioritizing theoretical clarity and cross-disciplinary relevance in cognitive science.

Virgil Suarezمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• Poetry
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Virgil Suarez is a Professor of Creative Writing and Latino/a Literature at Florida State University's Department of English within the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds an MFA from Louisiana State University (1987). His work spans poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, focusing on Cuban-American experiences, diaspora narratives, and transnational identity. Key research interests include creative writing pedagogy, Latino/a literary traditions, and the intersection of poetry with political and cultural themes. His publications include over 15 books such as 90 Miles (2005), The Painted Bunting's Last Molt (2020), and The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana (2014). His work has been featured in prestigious journals like The Kenyon Review and anthologies like the Norton Anthology of Latino/a Literature (2010). Recipient of major awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2001) and the G. MacArthur Poetry Prize (2002). Noted for bridging Cuban and American literary traditions through innovative form and bilingual poetics. Active in community literary initiatives and mentorship programs for emerging writers. His grants include a Florida State Individual Artist Grant (1998) and a New York Public Library recognition (1993). Current work explores climate change narratives in diasporic contexts. He directs the FSU Creative Writing Collective and participates in the Cuban-American Writers Network.

Marta Ariasمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
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Marta Arias is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, and a member of the LARCA research group. She has held academic positions since 2007, including roles at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on Machine Learning, Data Mining, Algorithm Design, and Logic in Computer Science. She teaches advanced courses in Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Complex Networks at undergraduate and master's levels, including the Erasmus Mundus program in Data Mining and Knowledge Management. Educations: PhD in Computer Science from Tufts University (2000-2004), Postgraduate Studies at University of Edinburgh (1999-2000), B.Sc. in Computer Science from UPC (1992-1997). Professional experience includes software engineering and research roles in New York and Barcelona. Research highlights include developing algorithms for real-time ranking systems, Twitter-based financial forecasting, and causal network analysis. Notable contributions include the 'Best Paper Award' at AIPESW@ECAI 2020 and a 3rd place award in football performance research. Her work spans theoretical foundations (e.g., Horn clause learning) and applied domains like cybersecurity, healthcare analytics, and energy systems. Teaching responsibilities include labs and lectures on Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Programming, with active involvement in curriculum design and pedagogical innovation. Ongoing projects include enterprise risk analysis, synthetic data generation, and network modeling.

Meghann Peaceمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Heritage Language Learning
• Spanish Dialect Contact
• Spanglish
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Meghann Peace, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University. She specializes in heritage language acquisition, Spanish dialects, and Spanglish. Research examines identity negotiation among Mexican-American students, dialect contact in study abroad, and critical pedagogy. Articles focus on sociolinguistic justice and community-based language reclamation. She developed the innovative course 'Spanish for Immigration, Human Rights and Community Engagement' and is a frequent media commentator on Spanglish.

Simone De Ciaمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
• Information Structure
• Italian Dialects
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Dr. Simone De Cia is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at The University of Manchester. Her research specializes in the syntax-pragmatics interface, focusing on information structure and morpho-syntactic variation across North Eastern Italian Dialects (NEIDs). Her work examines linguistic phenomena including contrast realization, residual V2 word order, expletive subjects, wh-in-situ structures, and object-past participle agreement patterns. Current research investigates the influence of information structure on Romance agreement systems and the morpho-syntactic properties of auxiliaries across NEIDs. Dr. De Cia also conducts sociolinguistic research on language vitality and endangerment, particularly focusing on Friulian and Bergamasco dialects. Her work on COVID-19's impact on language endangerment provides important insights into pandemic-era sociolinguistic challenges. She employs diverse methodologies including formal syntactic analysis, dialect comparison, and sociolinguistic fieldwork. Recent publications demonstrate her expertise in microparametric variation within northern Italian dialects and theoretical approaches to information structure. She maintains active research collaborations and has presented her work at international linguistics conferences including the Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax and Morphology Meeting.

Caroline Palmerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Music Perception and Production
• Auditory-Motor Synchronization
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Caroline Palmer is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University and holds the Distinguished James McGill Professorship in Cognitive Neuroscience of Performance. She directs the NSERC-CREATE training grant in Complex Dynamics and is an Associate Member of the Schulich School of Music. Her research focuses on understanding how music influences human behavior, particularly through auditory-motor synchronization, nonlinear dynamics, and temporal coordination in ensemble performance. She explores how rhythmic patterns in music and speech engage attention, memory, and emotion, with applications to social interaction and health. Key research themes include the role of endogenous rhythms in interpersonal synchronization, the physiological effects of musical engagement, and the dynamics of human-machine collaboration. Awards include Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada. Her work integrates neuroscience, psychology, and computational modeling to explain how music shapes human movement and social connection. Grants and collaborations include leadership in interdisciplinary training programs and partnerships with the Schulich School of Music. She maintains the Sequence Production Lab, investigating neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying skilled performance. Recent studies highlight music's impact on cardiac dynamics, respiratory synchrony, and dyadic coordination in social contexts.

Jennifer Culbertsonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cognitive Linguistics
• Language Acquisition
• Typological Universals
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Professor Jennifer Culbertson is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Her research focuses on understanding how linguistic patterns emerge from cognitive biases and learning processes, particularly through experimental methods involving artificial language learning and computational modeling. She investigates typological universals, word order preferences, and morphological systems, emphasizing their cognitive and communicative foundations. Her current research explores how speakers' cognitive representations of gender and number morphology influence cross-linguistic tendencies in morpheme order, as well as the interplay between communicative efficiency and social biases in language learning. She supervises PhD students in areas including experimental syntax, language evolution, and cognitive linguistics. Culbertson has published extensively in top journals such as Cognition , Language , and Cognitive Science . Publications include studies on word order universals derived from silent gesture experiments, the role of simplicity in linguistic evolution, and experimental evidence for cognitive biases shaping morpheme order. Recent work (2024) highlights a universal bias in word order preferences even among speakers of non-harmonic languages.

Annie Holtzمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Language Evolution
• Phonology
• Cognitive Linguistics
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Annie Holtz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, within the Linguistics and English Language department. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the same institution, supervised by Professors Jennifer Culbertson and Simon Kirby. Her work focuses on understanding how cognitive pressures in language learning and communication shape typological patterns, particularly in phonotactics and noun phrase structures. She is currently involved in an ESRC-funded project investigating phonotactic constraints and communication dynamics. Her research employs experimental methods to explore adult and child language learning, emphasizing how pressures like ambiguity resolution and communicative efficiency influence linguistic systems. She has also contributed to methodological critiques in language acquisition studies, addressing biases such as the 'female-talker default' in experimental design. Holtz’s interdisciplinary approach spans syntax, phonology, and evolutionary linguistics, with a particular interest in the interplay between cognitive biases and linguistic universals. Her articles highlight trends in analyzing cross-linguistic variation through controlled experiments, with recent work focusing on word order preferences and the role of innovation in shaping language structure. She has presented globally at conferences like EvoLang and CogSci, and her scholarly contributions are published in journals like Glossa and conference proceedings such as ConSOLE . Holtz has collaborated with leading institutions and researchers, including the Centre for Language Evolution (CLE) at Edinburgh. Her academic journey includes undergraduate work at the University of Edinburgh and early investigations into phonological segmentation in infant-directed speech. Beyond academia, she is an avid hiker and advocate for outdoor education, reflecting her Swedish roots and appreciation for Scotland's natural landscapes.

Jon Sterlingمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Programming Languages
• Semantics
• Type Theory
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Jon Sterling is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on foundational aspects of programming languages and semantics, employing advanced mathematical frameworks such as type theory, category theory, domain theory, and topos theory. He is particularly known for contributions to cubical type theory, synthetic computability, and denotational semantics. His teaching responsibilities include lecturing on Discrete Mathematics (Part IA). Sterling's work bridges theoretical computer science and mathematics, emphasizing formal systems that ensure program correctness and computational adequacy. He has contributed to proof assistants like RedPRL and developed novel approaches to reasoning about higher-order store and effectful computations. His recent research explores topics such as univalent reference types, guarded domain theory, and cost-aware logical frameworks. Notable collaborations include work with Carnegie Mellon University and Aarhus University on foundational type-theoretic systems.

Martin Corleyمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Speech Production
• Language Comprehension
• Psycholinguistics
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Martin Corley is a Professor of Speech, Language, and Cognition and Head of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. He holds a full-time academic position and has been affiliated with the University of Edinburgh since 1995, after completing his PhD at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on speech production and comprehension, particularly the role of disfluencies (e.g., 'um,' 'er,' silent pauses) in communication, employing methods like eye-tracking, EEG, and ultrasound imaging. Corley teaches courses such as the MSc in Univariate Statistics and Methodology using R. He currently supervises PhD students Wei Li (Lead), Esperanza Badaya (Lead), and Nora Wolf (Secondary). His work has led to over 50 publications, including studies on scalar quantifier interpretation, deception detection, and the cognitive processing of non-literal language. He is actively involved in academic recruitment, recently advertising a teaching-focused Lecturer position in Psychology. Corley’s research interests span psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and neurolinguistics, with a focus on real-time language processing and social reasoning. He collaborates internationally and maintains a Google Scholar profile and personal website (martincorley.org). His Erdős number is 4, indicating academic collaboration proximity to Paul Erdős.

Hannah Cornishمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Linguistics
• Cognitive Science
• Cultural Evolution
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Hannah Cornish is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Her research focuses on the cultural evolution of language and communication systems, particularly examining how structural complexity and adaptive design emerge through processes like iterated learning and social interaction. She employs experimental methods to study laboratory-based models of language evolution, exploring topics such as sequence memory constraints, metaphor-driven linguistic changes, and the dynamics of cumulative cultural transmission. Her work bridges linguistics, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology, with a focus on understanding how human communication systems develop without centralized design. Notable contributions include studies on the emergence of tense/aspect systems, the role of generation turnover in linguistic adaptation, and the interplay between compression and communication efficiency in evolving languages. Cornish’s articles consistently emphasize empirical approaches to uncovering the mechanisms behind language structure, often highlighting the importance of cognitive constraints and cultural dynamics. Her research has been published in venues like Evolution of Language and experimental linguistics journals, reflecting her interdisciplinary engagement with evolutionary linguistics and cognitive science.

Laurel Perkinsمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• First Language Acquisition
• Syntax and Semantics Acquisition
• Computational Cognitive Modeling
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Laurel Perkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. She investigates first language acquisition processes, focusing on infants' syntactic and semantic comprehension using computational and experimental methods. Her work emphasizes how children leverage prior linguistic knowledge to process noisy input during grammar development. Perkins holds a PhD from the University of Maryland (2019) and previously conducted postdoctoral research at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS Paris). She leads research in the UCLA Language Acquisition Lab. Education PhD in Linguistics, University of Maryland, 2019 (Advisor: Jeffrey Lidz) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, 2019–2022 Research Interests Noise-tolerant syntax learning mechanisms Non-local syntactic dependency acquisition in infancy Syntax-semantics bootstrapping in early verb learning Computational modeling of grammatical development Her research synthesizes behavioral experiments with formal computational models to explain how children construct grammars from imperfect input data. Recent work explores how infants represent syntactic structures like filler-gap dependencies and how visual perception interacts with linguistic learning. Awards & Grants None explicitly listed in provided texts. Lab Affiliations UCLA Language Acquisition Lab

Giuseppina Silvestriمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Comparative Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Romance Linguistics
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Giuseppina Silvestri is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her academic affiliation is within the College of Letters and Science. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pisa (2013). Her primary research focuses on comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics, particularly in the domains of Italo-Romance and Greek varieties in southern Italy. Key areas include morphosyntactic variation, theoretical syntax (parametric approach), glotto-genetics, and interfaces between phonology-syntax and syntax-semantics. Her work explores language contact phenomena, such as the structural convergence between Greek and Romance dialects in regions like Calabria and Salento. She investigates topics like complementizer systems, aspectual morphology, infinitival vs. finite constructions, and grammaticalization processes. Notable studies address the role of contact in shaping morphosyntactic features such as perfective aspect, negative imperatives, and possessive constructions in endangered Italo-Greek varieties. Silvestri’s research also delves into phonology-syntax interactions, such as propagation phenomena and word-final schwa licensing in southern Italian dialects. Her contributions highlight syntactic microvariation and parameter hierarchies in Italo-Romance, with a focus on features like differential object marking, participle agreement, and adverb agreement. Her work bridges empirical dialectology with formal syntactic theory, offering insights into syntactic phylogeny and the historical reality of biolinguistic diversity.

Sophie Marnetteمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Medieval French Literature
• Linguistics
• Narratology
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Professor Sophie Marnette is a Professor of Medieval French Studies and Fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford. She holds roles such as Chair of the Sub-Faculty of French (2016–18) and Junior Proctor (2019–20). Her research integrates linguistic and philological approaches to medieval literature, focusing on narrative voice, gender discourse strategies, and intertextuality. She leads major projects on texts like La Chastelaine de Vergy and collaborates internationally on Medieval Metalepses, supported by an £800K grant. Teaching spans undergraduate tutorials in Medieval French literature and graduate seminars on topics like 'Writing Women in the Middle Ages'. She supervises D.Phil. students in 12–13th-century French/Occitan studies and related fields. Publications include foundational works like Speech and Thought in French (2005) and contributions to interdisciplinary journals. Awards include the 2001 PALA Prize. Her work bridges medieval literary analysis with modern linguistic theory, emphasizing discourse reporting and gendered expression across genres. Research highlights include examining female character discourse in lais and fabliaux , and material/textual analysis of medieval manuscripts. Grants and collaborative projects underscore her role in advancing medieval studies through innovative methodologies.

Gede Primahadi W. Rajegمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Cognitive Linguistics
• Construction Grammar
• Quantitative Corpus Linguistics
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Gede Primahadi W. Rajeg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (2023–2025), concurrently serving as an Assistant Professor (asisten ahli) at Udayana University's Faculty of Humanities in Bali, Indonesia. His primary research focuses on Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and Quantitative Corpus Linguistics, with recent emphasis on Austronesian linguistics, language documentation, and computational methods. He leads the CompLexico research group at Udayana University, specializing in computer-assisted lexicology and lexicography. Rajeg is a member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI) since 2023 and has contributed to international projects like the Enggano language documentation initiative, funded by the AHRC. His work integrates corpus linguistics, experimental methods, and open science practices, often using R for data analysis. He teaches Corpus Linguistics and Research Methods courses at Udayana University and has organized workshops on digital humanities and corpus-based research. Education: PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Monash University, 2019), supported by Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Monash Graduate Scholarship. His thesis explored metaphors of happiness in Indonesian, supervised by Professors Alice Gaby and Simon Musgrave. Research Interests: Lexical semantics, grammatical constructions, cognitive semantics, Austronesian historical linguistics, computational lexicography, and open science infrastructure. He actively contributes to language preservation projects, such as creating Enggano dictionaries and digital resources. Grants & Projects: Enggano lexical resources project (AHRC AH/W007290/1), leading to community-oriented dictionaries and databases. Collaborates with institutions like Oxford's Sustainable Digital Scholarship initiative and the Indonesian Language Agency. Labs/Teams: CompLexico (Udayana University), Enggano Documentation Team (Oxford), and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHSS).