Areas of Study
Graduate Program
Psycholinguistics
Linguistics Faculty
Mary Beckman, Professor of Linguistics
History: (Appointed 1985) A.B., (Oriental Langs. & Comparative Literature), University of California, Berkeley, 1976 M.A., (Oriental Languages), University of California, Berkeley, 1979 M.A., (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1982 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1984
Language Specialization: Japanese
Areas of Specialization: Experimental Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, East Asian Languages.
Language Specialization: Japanese
Areas of Specialization: Experimental Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, East Asian Languages.
Peter Culicover, Professor and Chair, Linguistics; Director, Center for Cognitive Science
History: (Appointed 1987) Chair of Department 1998-Present, B.A., (Mathematics), City College of New York, 1966 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1971
Areas of Specialization: Syntactic theory, English grammar, language learnability.
Areas of Specialization: Syntactic theory, English grammar, language learnability.
Neil Johnson, Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
History: B.A. Minnesota, 1956; Ph.D. Minnesota, 1961. Linguistically oriented courses taught: Psychology 602, The Psychology of Listening and Reading; Psychology 604, The Psychology of Language.
Areas of Specialization: Psychologuistics, memory
Areas of Specialization: Psychologuistics, memory
Mineharn Nakayama, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Syntax, Psycholinguistics), and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics
History: B.A.Waseda University, 1983; M.A. University of Connecticut, 1986 (Linguistics); Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1988.
Language Specialization: Japanese
Language Specialization: Japanese
Mark Pitt, Associate Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics
History: B.A. UCLA, 1984, M.S. Yale University, 1988, Ph.D. Yale University. Linguistically oriented couses taught: Psychology 602, Psychology of listening and reading; Psychology 302, Introduction to listening and reading. It is a broader introductory version of 602, to be taught for the first time (WI 1997). Gradute seminars on speech perception/auditory word recognition.
Areas of Specialization: Phonological and lexical influences in speech perception/word recognition
Areas of Specialization: Phonological and lexical influences in speech perception/word recognition
Shari Speer, Associate Professor of Linguistics
History: B.A. Avila College, 1978, M.A. Claremont Graduate School, 1981, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1988 (Human Experimental Psychology). Linguistically oriented couses taught: Linguistics/Psychology 615, Psycholinguistics; Linguistics/Psychology 371, Language and Mind. Gradute seminars on sentence and discourse level language processing.
Areas of Specialization: Psycholinguistics, Prosodic structure and syntactic structure in language comprehension and production.
Areas of Specialization: Psycholinguistics, Prosodic structure and syntactic structure in language comprehension and production.
Graduate Courses in Psycholinguistics
- 615 Psycholinguistics
- 680 Formal Foundations of Linguistics
- 694 Group Studies
- 795.71 Psycholinguistics Lab Group
- 871 Seminar in Psycholinguistics
See also courses in Computer Science and Psychology.
