Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
People in the Department
- Lecturers
- Research Staff
- Support Staff
- PhD students
- Phonetics/The Phonetics Laboratory
- Linguistics beyond the Department
- Others in the Faculty whose work and teaching are closely connected with linguistics
Contact list
Head of Department: Dr Henriëtte Hendriks
For more detailed descriptions of staff research interests click on an individual's name.
Lecturers
| Name (and college) | Main area(s) | Contact details |
|
Professor Wendy Bennett (Murray Edwards) |
History of Linguistic Thought; Historical Linguistics; French Linguistics | wmb1001@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr James Blevins | Syntax; Morphology; Computational Linguistics; Pedagogical and Contrastive Linguistics | jpb39@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Paula Buttery (Gonville & Caius) | Computational Linguistics; Automated Corpus Analysis; Computational Models of Language Acquisition | pjb48@cam.ac.uk |
| Professor John Hawkins | English Grammar from a Psycholinguistic Perspective; Efficiency and Complexity in Language Use; Typology and Universals; Pragmatics | jah91@cam.ac.uk |
|
Dr Henriëtte Hendriks (Head of Department) (Lucy Cavendish) |
Language and Cognition; Comparison onf First and Second Language Acquisition; Discourse Analysis; Psycholinguistics | hpjmh2@cam.ac.uk |
|
Professor Kasia Jaszczolt (Newnham) |
Semantics; pragmatics | kmj21@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Napoleon Katsos | Theoretical and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Reasoning and Rhetoric | nk248@cam.ac.uk |
|
Professor Peter Matthews (Emeritus Professor) (St John's) |
Grammar; Linguistic Theory | |
| Professor Francis Nolan | Phonetics | fjn1@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Teresa Parodi | First and Second Language Acquisition, Syntax, Morphology | tp209@cam.ac.uk |
Dr Brechtje Post (Jesus) |
Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics | igr20@cam.ac.uk |
|
Professor Ian Roberts (Downing) |
Comparative and Historical syntax | igr20@cam.ac.uk |
|
Dr Bert Vaux
(King's) |
Phonology; Morphology; Language Variation | bv230@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr John Williams | Pyscholinguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Second Language Learning | jnw12@cam.ac.uk |
|
Dr David Willis (Selwyn) |
Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Celtic and Slavonic Languages | dwew2@cam.ac.uk |
Research Staff
| Name (and college) | Main area(s) | Contact details |
| Dr Dora Alexopoulou | Syntax; Information Structure; First and Second Language Acquisition | ta259@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Theresa Biberauer (Churchill) | Theoretical and Comparative Syntax | mtb23@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Jeroen Geertzen | Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Computational Dialogue Modelling; Grammatical Inference | jg532@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Anna Korhonen | Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Automatic Lexical Acquisition | alk23@cam.ac.uk |
|
Dr Stephen Pax Leonard (Trinity Hall) |
Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology | spl42@cam.ac.uk |
|
Dr Kirsty McDougall (Clare) |
Phonetics | kem37@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Laura Rimmell | Computational Linguistics; Computational Lexical Semantics; Automatic Lexical Acquisition; Natural Language Parsing; Argument Structure | lr346@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Michelle Sheehan | Comparative Syntax | mls54@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Jenneke van der Wal (Darwin) | Comparative Syntax; Bantu Languages; Discourse | gjv23@cam.ac.uk |
Support Staff
| Ms Madeleine Forbes | Senior Secretary |
+44 (0)1223 335010 mf476@cam.ac.uk |
| Mrs Louise Radok | Graduate Secretary |
+44 (0)1223 335050 ljr39@cam.ac.uk |
