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Yulia Bosworth

Associate Professor of French Linguistics

Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics of North American French
  • Language attitudes and ideologies
  • Language and identity/belonging
  • Journalistic and political discourse in Quebec and Canada
  • Critical discourse analysis; corpus-assisted discourse studies
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Sungdai Cho

Director, Center for Korean Studies; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Graduate Director

Center for Korean Studies; Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Syntax and Morphology
  • Passive; Causative; Sluicing; Honorifics
  • Language Pedagogy
  • National Standards
  • Assessment
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Bryan Kirschen

Associate Professor

Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Contact Linguistics
  • Language Variation
  • Documentary Linguistics
  • Language Ideologies
  • Sephardic Studies
  • Aljamiado Texts
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Kristina Nielsen

Lecturer

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

Associate Professor/Director of Linguistics Program

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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Chenqing Song

Associate Professor

Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

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; 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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