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Linguistics

Nicholas Henriksen

My primary area of research examines how the interplay of factors affecting the physical (“phonetic”) aspects of speech can provide insights into speakers’ cognitive (“phonological”) representations of linguistic form. By elucidating the link between the phonetic and phonological dimensions of speech, my work enhances theories of linguistic knowledge by refining our understanding of how sound ...

Eric Swanson

Most of my current work is in social and political philosophy of language and metaethics. It pays special attention to relationships between language, context, and ideology, to the particularities of speech situations, and to the norms governing language use. I’m especially interested in how the force of language can go beyond the information that is ...

Lisa Levinson

My research interests are in natural language semantics and psycholinguistics, focusing on verbs. I conduct behavioral psycholinguistic experiments with methodologies such as self-paced reading and maze tasks, as well as surveys of linguistic and semantic judgments. I also study semantic variation using corpora and datasets such as the Twitter Decahose, to better understand how words ...

Steven Abney

Dr. Abney has pursued research in natural language understanding and natural language learning, including information extraction, biomedical text processing, integrating text analysis into web search, robust and rapid partial parsing, stochastic grammars, spoken-language information systems, extraction of linguistic information from scanned page images, dependency-grammar induction for low-resource languages, and semisupervised learning.

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Steven Abney

Professor of Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Nicholas Henriksen

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Professor of Spanish, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Lisa Levinson

Lecturer IV of Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Eric Swanson

Professor, Philosophy, College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Professor, Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts