Faculty

Marc Authier, Ph.D. (University of Southern California) Associate Professor of French and Linguistics. Research focuses on formal treatments of natural language with special reference to anaphora and quantification. Also has broader interests in mathematical linguistics and formal philosophy.

E-mail Address: jma11@psu.edu
Web Page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/m/jma11/

Philip Baldi, Ph.D. (Rochester) Professor of Linguistics and Classics, specializes in historical and Indo-European Linguistics.  His current project is concerned with the development of Latin syntax from Proto-Indo-European up to the beginnings of Romance.  The project is sponsored by the Diebold (Salus Mundi) Foundation, and has received support from the National Science Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

E-mail Address: phb@psu.edu

Barbara E. Bullock, Ph.D. (Delaware) Professor of French and Linguistics specializes in Romance linguistics, particularly in the areas of phonology and morphology. Her recent research appears in Probus, The Journal of French Language Studies, The Journal of French Cultural Studies, and The French Review. She is currently examining the issue of allomorphy and its implications for the organization of the lexicon.

E-mail Address: beb2@psu.edu
Web Page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/b/e/beb2/

Paola E. Dussias, Ph.D. (University of Arizona) Assistant Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics, has research interests in second language analysis and second language processing. Her area of specialization include bilingual language comprehension and language production, and Spanish-English code-switching

Henry Gerfen, Ph.D. (University of Arizona) Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, focuses on theoretical phonology and on the relationship between phonology and phonetics in natural language grammars. In Spanish, he is currently examining these issues via experimental production studies of Eastern Andalusian Spanish. Additionally, he is engaged in the project of carrying out descriptive fieldwork on under-described and endangered languages, having focused in particular on the description and analysis of the phonology of Coatzospan Mixtec, and indigenous American language spoken in Southern Mexico and belonging to the Otomanguean family.

Carrie Jackson, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics. Her research and teaching interests include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy. Over the years she has taught a wide range of German language courses, as well as Dutch and English as a second language courses, both at UW-Madison and at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her M.A.

E-mail Address: cnj1@psu.edu

Judith Kroll, Ph.D. (Brandeis University) is a cognitive psychologist interested in language and memory. Her research on the psycholinguistics of bilingualism examines early stages of second language acquisition and skilled bilingual performance. In the studies on acquisition, se and her students have been asking why it appears to be easier for some people to acquire a second language than others and what contexts of acquisition facilitate conceptual understanding of words in the second language. In the work on language processing in proficient bilinguals, they have been especially interested in how bilinguals juggle the mental competition between the words available in each of their two languages to produce words in the language in which they intend to speak. She and her students pursue this research in their laboratory at Penn State and also in collaboration with colleagues in The Netherlands.

E-mail Address: jfk7@psu.edu

John Lipski, Ph.D. (Alberta) Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

E-mail Address: jlipski@psu.edu
Web Page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/m/jml34/

Richard Page, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, Madison) Associate Professor of German and Linguistics, focuses on older Germanic dialects, Pennsylvania German, language change, and phonology. He has published numerous articles on sound change and prosodic change in various Germanic languages. His current research examines the role of bilingualism in the development of Pennsylvania German as well as the quantity shift of West Germanic.

E-mail Address: brp3@psu.edu
Web Page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/b/r/brp3/

Lisa A. Reed, Ph.D. (Univ. d'Ottawa) Associate Professor of French and Linguistics, focuses on two areas of theoretical linguistics: syntax and semantics with a particular interest in representations of the interface between these two modules in terms of the generative and model-theoretic frameworks. She has done extensive work on the syntax and semantics of modal verbs, causative constructions, affected datives, raising constructions, ergatives, and middles, among others. Publications include...

--'The Diverse Nature of Non-Interrogative wh,' Linguistic Inquiry 34.5, 2005.
--'Necessary versus Probable Cause,' Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28.3, 289-326, 1999.
--'On Some Split Binding Paradigms,' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 15.3, 429-463, 1997. 
--Structure and Interpretation in Natural Language, LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 14, LINCOM EUROPA, Munich: Germany, 1999.
--Toward Logical Form: An Exploration of the Role of Syntax in Semantics,Garland Publishing, New York, 1996.

E-mail Address: lar13@psu.edu
Web Page:  http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/l/a/lar13/

Nuria Sagarra, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) concentrates on the processing of morphosyntactic and lexical cues by second language (L2) learners and bilinguals from a psycholinguistic perspective, as well as on the longitudinal role that working memory plays on L2 comprehension and grammar/vocabulary development. She also examines the effect of computer-delivered feedback, input modification (simplification and enhancement), and instruction on L2 acquisition in adults. She investigates these topics by means of quantitative experiments, using techniques such as eye-movement and reaction times. In addition, she is the director of the Spanish Basic Language Program and the Spanish Technology Project at Penn State.

E-mail Address: nus3@psu.edu
Web Page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/u/nus3/

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Ph.D. (Cornell) Professor of Linguistics and Spanish Linguistics, focuses on cross-linguistic variation as functions of case and agreement systems, and micro-variation in Spanish, especially as relates to pro-drop and word order. Parallel interests are in grammatical aspects of phenomena attendant to language contact, among these, bilingual code-switching, language attrition, and contact-induced language change, and in issues surrounding language, race, and ethnicity.

E-mail Address: ajt5@psu.edu

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