Below are the primary teaching and supervision staff and their areas of expertise:
Primary supervisors in the Department
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
|
(Murray Edwards College) |
Language Typology and Cognition, Second Language Acquisition, Learner Corpora |
|
Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Language variation and change, Language attitudes |
|
| Professor Nigel Collier (Murray Edwards College) |
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics |
| Professor Henriette Hendriks (Lucy Cavendish College) |
Language and Cognition, Comparison of First and Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics |
| Professor Kasia Jaszczolt (Newnham College) |
Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language |
|
(Trinity College) |
Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Developmental Disorders |
|
Neurolinguistics, neuroscience of language, cognitive neuroscience, processing morphosyntactic and discourse structures, predictive processing |
|
| Professor Anna Korhonen | Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing |
|
(Selwyn College) |
Phonetics, speaker characteristics, forensic phonetics, phonetic variation |
|
(Trinity Hall) |
Historical linguistics, syntax and natural language processing |
| Professor Brechtje Post (Jesus College) |
Phonetics, phonology, neural and cognitive processing of speech, speech development and bilingualism |
| Professor Ian Roberts (Downing College) |
Comparative and Historical Syntax, Syntactic Theory, Linguistic Theory, Formal Typology, Parameters, Learnability, Morphosyntax |
|
(Churchill College) |
Syntax of Romance Languages, Language Contact |
| Professor Ianthi Tsimpli (Fitzwilliam College) |
Language Development in naturalistic and instructed contexts, Developmental Language and Communication Disorders, Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
| Professor Bert Vaux (King's College) |
Phonology, Morphology, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics |
| Professor John Williams | Psychology of Language Processing and Learning |
Others in the Faculty Related to Linguistics
Within the Faculty there are a number of people whose work and teaching are closely connected with linguistics.
| Name | Section | Subject area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Mari Jones | French | Language Death, Language Contact, Dialectology, Language Change ([Comparative] Romance and Other Languages) | |
| Dr Ksenia Zanon |
Slavonic Studies |
Syntax of Slavic Languages | |
| Prof Ioanna Sitaridou | Spanish and Portuguese | Syntax of Romance Language | |
| Dr Sheila Watts | German | Historical Linguistics of German, Older Germanic Languages, Tense and Aspect, Grammaticalisation | |
| Prof Christopher Young | German | Middle High German |
