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Number of experts found: 17

Claudia M. Brugman

Assoc Res Sci

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
Lexical, grammatical, and compositional semantics, Language, culture, and cognition, pragmatics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 8878

cbrugman@umd.edu

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Charles B. Chang

Assistant Research Scientist

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
phonetics, speech production, speech perception, second language acquisition, bilingualism, heritage languages, Korean

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 9187

cbchang@umd.edu
cbchang@post.harvard.edu

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Naomi H. Feldman

Asst Prof

Linguistics

Expertise Key Words:
How people learn and represent the structure of their language; Computational psycholinguistics, Phonology, Language acquisition

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5800

nhf@umd.edu

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Amalia E. Gnanadesikan

Assoc Res Sci

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
Alphabets and other writing systems; South Asian languages

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 226 8926

gnana@umd.edu

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Brook E. Hefright

Assistant Research Scientist

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic anthropology
Sociology of language
Languages of China
Minorities of Southwest China

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 8900

hefright@umd.edu

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Yi Ting Huang

Asst Prof, Aff Asst Prof

Hearing & Speech Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
language acquisition; cognitive development; language processing; eye-tracking; school-aged children

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4227

ythuang1@umd.edu

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Judith L. Klavans

Research Professor

CLiMB

Expertise Key Words:
Comnputational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Language and Culture, Information Technology, Digital Libraries, Metadata Management, Metadata Schema, Digital Government, Speech and Language

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1139

jklavans@umd.edu

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Jeffrey Lidz

Assoc Prof

Linguistics

Expertise Key Words:
Language Acquisiton Childrren's Normal Language Development Children's Cognition

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 8220

jlidz@umd.edu

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Jimmy J. Lin

Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof

College of Information Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Computational linguistics, information retrieval, question answering, search interfaces, theoretical linguistics

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 6518

jimmylin@umd.edu

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Jeff MacSwan

Prof, Affiliate Prof

Teaching, Learning, Policy and Leadership

Expertise Key Words:
Linguistic study of bilingualism and codeswitching, on the role of language in theories of academic achievement differences among language minority students, and on education policy related to English Language Learners in U.S. schools

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3324

macswan@umd.edu

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Corey A. Miller

Assoc Res Sci

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Persian

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 8834

cmiller6@umd.edu

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Katharine B. Nielson

Res Grad Asst III

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
Computer-Assisted Language Learning; Task-Based Language Teaching; Online and Blended Instruction; Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 9171

kbnielson@gmail.com

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Jared M. Novick

Asst Res Sci

Center for Advanced Study of Language / Department of Psychology

Expertise Key Words:
cognitive control, language processing, ambiguity resolution, Broca's area, eye-tracking during reading and spoken language comprehension

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 8841

jnovick1@umd.edu

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Colin Phillips

Professor

Linguistics

Expertise Key Words:
combine theoretical linguistics with language processing,language acquisition and neurolinguistics,with the primary focus to understand the microstructure of linguistic computation.seamlessly integrate models of language,from high-level theoretical models all the way to the neurophysiological level.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 3082

colin@umd.edu

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Tristan M. Purvis

Asst Res Sci

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
* African languages and linguisitics
* Sociolinguistics
* Discourse analysis
* Corpus linguisitics
* Language documentation

Expertise Credentials:
I am a research scientist in the Less Commonly Taught Languages and Cultures area of the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), where I specialize in African languages. I received my Ph.D in Linguistics from Indiana Univeristy in April of 2008, concentrating in Sociolinguistics and African Languages & Linguistics. My doctoral dissertation was on register variation in Dagbani. I acquired my M.A. in Linguistics in 2002. Prior to coming to UMD, I was employed as a research assistant for Professor Samuel Obeng, including editorial management for the journals Issues in Political Discouse Analysis and Issues in Intercultural Communication, and I also served as a Research/Editorial Assistant for the Cajun Dictionary Project of the Creole Institute at Indiana University (led by Professor Albert Valdman). I have been an Assistant Instructor for topics courses in Language & Politics (Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2001, and Spring 2001) and for Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003) as well as grader for Animal Communication (Spring 2007) . For my dissertation research I was a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Program Fellow in Tamale, Northern Ghana affiliated with Tamale Polytechnic University. Prior to attending graduate school, I was a Crisis Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa (Feb.-Aug. 1998) and a Peace Corps volunteer and logistics coordinator in the Republic of Congo (1994-1997). I received a dual B.A. in French and Political Science at Boise State University.

Web Site(s):
CASL Faculty Website

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 8853

tpurvis@umd.edu

Address:
CASL, Box 25
College Park, MD  20742-5121


C. A. Rytting

Asst Res Sci

Center for Advanced Study of Language

Expertise Key Words:
* Computational modeling of language acquisition and processing
* Automatic speech recognition
* Speech segmentation in infants and adults
* Arabic second language learner listening errors
* Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 226 8800

crytting@umd.edu

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Ninaz Shadman

Research Scholar; Advisor

Office of International Programs

Expertise Key Words:
Languages and cultures, global issues and human development, International relations and educational exchange, philosophy and social sciences, practical implications of knowledge and policies in public education.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

202-651-0879
905-627-5032

301-405-7548

shadman9@umd.edu

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