Faculty

Harald Baayen (PhD, Free University of Amsterdam) Professor (based in Tübingen, Sept 1, 2011)
Harald Quantitative linguistics, lexical statistics, exploratory data analysis, stylometry, mixed-effects modeling, morphology and morphological processing.
Office: AH 4-24, (780) 492-5697
E-mail: harald.baayen@gmail.com
David Beck (PhD, University of Toronto) Professor
David Field linguistics, morphosyntax, typology, cognitive linguistics, areal diffusion, Native American languages, particularly Salishan and Totonacan.
Office: AH 4-45, (780) 492-0807
E-mail: dbeck@ualberta.ca
Marina Blekher (PhD, University of Alberta) Faculty Lecturer
Marina Bilingualism, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics.
Office: AH 4-41, (780) 492-4970
E-mail: mblekher@ualberta.ca
Patrick Bolger (PhD, University of Arizona) Assistant Professor
Pat Psycholinguistics, written language perception, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language acquisition among the deaf, writing systems.
Office: AH 4-24, (780) 492-1935
E-mail: pbolger@ualberta.ca
Paula Chesley (PhD, University of Minnesota) Visiting Professor
Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, the lexicon, vocabulary acquisition, morphology.
Office: AH 4-55, (780) 492-9657
E-mail: pchesley@ualberta.ca
Robert Kirchner (PhD, UCLA) Associate Professor
Robert Phonology, phonetics, and morphology.
Office: AH 4-20, (780) 492-3480
E-mail: kirchner@ualberta.ca
Jordan Lachler (PhD, University of New Mexico)
Language documentation, language revitalization

Office: AH 3-02D, (780) 248-1179
Email: lachler@ualberta.ca

Gary Libben (PhD, McGill University) Adjunct Professor
Gary

Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, L2 acquisition, morphology
Brock University
E-mail: gary.libben@ualberta.ca

Terry Nadasdi (PhD, University of Toronto) Professor & Undergraduate Advisor
Terry Sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Canadian French.
Office: AH 4-10
E-mail: terry.nadasdi@ualberta.ca
Undergraduate Advising: lingundergrad@ualberta.ca
Terrance M. Nearey (PhD, University of Connecticut) Professor & Graduate Coordinator
Terry

Speech perception, phonetics, psycholinguistics.
Office: AH 4-13, (780) 492-5699
E-mail: t.nearey@ualberta.ca 
Graduate advising: LingGrad@ualberta.ca

John Newman (PhD, UC San Diego) Professor (on leave Fall 2011)
John

Cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, field linguistics, Chinese dialectology.
Office: AH 4-62, (780) 492-0804
E-mail: john.newman@ualberta.ca

Johanne Paradis (PhD, McGill University) Professor & Honours Advisor
Johanne First, second, and bilingual language acquisition; specific language impairment in children.
Office: AH 4-46, (780) 492-0805
E-mail: johanne.paradis@ualberta.ca
Sally A. Rice (PhD, UC San Diego) Professor & Interim Chair (2011-2012)
Sally Syntax/semantics, lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, field linguistics, Athapaskan languages.
Office: AH 4-60, (780) 492-0809
E-mail: sally.rice@ualberta.ca
Anne-Michelle Tessier (PhD, U of Massachusetts, Amherst) Assistant Professor (on leave 2011-2012)
Phonology, phonological acquisition, learnability theory, and morpho-phonology.
Office: AH 4-22, (780) 492-5698
E-mail: amtessier@ualberta.ca
Benjamin V. Tucker (PhD, University of Arizona) Assistant Professor
Benjamin V. Tucker
Phonetics, psycholinguistics, laboratory phonology, field linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, American indigenous languages (Uto-Aztecan and Yuman).
Office: AH 4-24, (780) 492-5952
E-mail: bvtucker@ualberta.ca