Adjunct and Allied Faculty : Department of Linguistics : UMass Amherst

Luiz Amaral

Professor (Adjunct Faculty Linguistics)
Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Second language acquisition, bilingualism and language instruction for minority languages.

Mary Andrianopoulos

Professor
School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Neurodevelopmental and acquired neurologic communication disorders.

Meghan Armstrong

Associate Professor (Adjunct Faculty Linguistics)
Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Intonational meaning in Spanish, English and Catalan.

Lynette Arnold

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

Linguistic anthropology; language, care and immigration with focus on the Americas.

Vladimir Borschev

Adjunct Professor

Formal semantics and mathematics for linguistics.

Guillermo Del Pinal

Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department

Interface between semantics, pragmatics and reasoning.

Edwin Everhart

Visiting Lecturer
Department of Anthropology

Linguistic anthropology, language variation, language standardization, accent discrimination, accessibility, intelligibility, life histories, northern Japan (Touhoku), Western Pennsylvania.

Megan Gross

Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Bilingual language development and neurodiversity (e.g., developmental language disorder, autism); code-switching; cognitive control; bilingual assessment and family-centered intervention

Patricia Gubitosi

Professor
Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Hispanic Linguistics, bilingualism, language contact, Hispanic dialectology and language identity.

Alexandra Jesse

Associate Professor (Adjunct Faculty Linguistics)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Psycholinguistics and speech perception, with a special emphasis on audiovisual speech perception.

Jennifer Mack

Associate Professor
School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Adult language disorders, neural basis of language, sentence comprehension and production, eye-tracking, MRI.

Andrew McCallum

Professor
Computer Science Department

Statistical machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and data mining.

Eleonore Neufeld

Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department

Philosophy of mind and cognitive science, philosophy of language, and social philosophy.

Brendan O'Connor

Associate Professor
College of Information and Computer Sciences

Statistical machine learning and natural language processing informed by or applied to areas like political science or sociolinguistics.

Joonkoo Park

Associate Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Cognitive, developmental, and neural underpinnings of uniquely human abilities such as reading and mathematics.

Alejandro Pérez Carballo

Associate Professor
Philosophy Department

Philosophy of mind & language, particularly at their intersection with metaethics and philosophy of mathematics; metaphysics and formal epistemology.

Lisa Sanders

Professor (Adjunct Faculty Linguistics)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Speech processing, neurocognition and perception.

Adrian Staub

Professor (Adjunct Faculty Linguistics)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Psycholinguistics, cognitive mechanisms underlying word recognition and syntactic parsing in fluent adult reading.

Jacqueline Urla

Professor
Department of Anthropology

L anguage activism, minority languages, linguistic anthropology.

Christopher White

Associate Professor
Department of Music and Dance

The use of big data techniques to study how we hear and write music.