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Prof. Dr. Jason Kandybowicz
Prof. Dr. Jason Kandybowicz
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Linguistics Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7407, New York, NY 10016, USA
Interests: syntactic theory; syntax-phonology interface; West African languages; fieldwork
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Department of English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Interests: second language (L2) speech perception and production; world Englishes; oral assessment and testing; language attitudes; speech technology
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Prof. Dr. Jaklin Kornfilt
Prof. Dr. Jaklin Kornfilt
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Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, New York, NY, USA
Interests: syntactic theory; typology; Turkish and the Turkic languages
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Prof. Dr. Antony Kunnan
Prof. Dr. Antony Kunnan
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Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Interests: language assessment; assessment philosophy, ethics, and policy; statistics; second language acquisition
Dr. Nayoung Kwon
Dr. Nayoung Kwon
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Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1245, USA
Interests: sentence processing; experimental syntax; psycho/neurolinguistics
Prof. Dr. Batia Laufer
Prof. Dr. Batia Laufer
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The Department of English Language & Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Interests: vocabulary acquisition in additional languages; vocabulary testing second language acquisition; foreign language learning; reading comprehension; language attrition; lexicography; cross linguistic infl
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Prof. Dr. Ronald Leow
Prof. Dr. Ronald Leow
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Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
Interests: language curriculum development; teacher education; instructed language learning; psycholinguistics; cognitive processes in language learning; research methodology; (written) corrective feedback; CALL
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Prof. Dr. John Lipski
Prof. Dr. John Lipski
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Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University, 442 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: language contact; bilingualism; code-switching; Spanish and Portuguese variation; Afro-Hispanic language; creole languages
Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi
Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi
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1. IDHN - Institute of Digital Humanities, CY Cergy Paris Université, 95000 Cergy-Pontoise, France
2. Institut Universitaire de France, F75231 Paris, France
Interests: discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; digital humanities; semantics; pragmatics
Prof. Dr. Kang Kwong Luke
Prof. Dr. Kang Kwong Luke
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Programme in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Interests: Chinese linguistics; conversation analysis
Prof. Dr. Jeff MacSwan
Prof. Dr. Jeff MacSwan
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Applied Linguistics and Language Education (ALLE) and Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Programs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: bilingualism; codeswitching; applied linguistics; bilingual education
Dr. Abdessattar Mahfoudhi
Dr. Abdessattar Mahfoudhi
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English Language Program, Australian University – Kuwait, P.O. Box 1411, Safat 13015, Kuwait
Interests: first and second language acquisition and teaching; language and literacy disabilities
Prof. Dr. Yael Maschler
Prof. Dr. Yael Maschler
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Department of Hebrew Language, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
Interests: discourse and grammar; interactional linguistics; pragmatics; sociolinguistic approaches to discourse; discourse markers; grammaticization; bilingual discourse; modern Hebrew
Prof. Dr. Stephen May
Prof. Dr. Stephen May
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Faculty of Education and Social Work and Director of the Faculty’s Te Tai Tokerau Campus, School of Māori and Indigenous Education,University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand
Interests: language rights; language policy; bilingualism and bilingual education; critical multicultural approaches to education
Prof. Dr. Roger K. Moore
Prof. Dr. Roger K. Moore
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Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
Interests: spoken language processing; vocal interactivity in-and-between humans, animals and robots
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Dr. Francesca Romana Moro
Dr. Francesca Romana Moro
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Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale, 80121 Napoli, Italy
Interests: heritage languages; bilingualism; language contact; Austronesian languages
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Prof. Dr. Salikoko S. Mufwene
Prof. Dr. Salikoko S. Mufwene
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Department of Linguistics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Interests: evolutionary linguistics (including the emergence of Creoles, the indigenization of European colonial languages, language vitality); Bantu linguistics; language contact in Africa and the Caribbean
Dr. Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dr. Bhuvana Narasimhan
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Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Interests: first language acquisition; language and cognition; Hindi and Tamil linguistics; lexical semantics; morphosyntax; information structure
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Dr. Carmel O'Shannessy
Dr. Carmel O'Shannessy
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School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Interests: Australian contact languages; language acquisition; multilingualism; languages in education; language variation and change; Warlpiri; Light Warlpiri
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Prof. Dr. Carita Paradis
Prof. Dr. Carita Paradis
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Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: cognitive-functional approach; semantics; pragmatics; language change; text and discourse
Dr. M Carmen Parafita Couto
Dr. M Carmen Parafita Couto
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Centre for Linguistics, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, 2311 EZ Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: Bilingualism; code-switching; language contact; syntax
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Prof. Dr. Simone E. Pfenninger
Prof. Dr. Simone E. Pfenninger
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English Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: variationist SLA; psycholinguistics; multilingualism; the age factor in second language acquisition (SLA); lifespan perspectives of language learning; speech and language disorders; multilingualism inside and outside the classroom; cognitive mechanisms driving language change; causal and mechanism theories of explanation
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School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AL, UK
Interests: bilingualism; cognition; neuroplasticity; MRI; functional MRI
Prof. Dr. Melissa A. Redford
Prof. Dr. Melissa A. Redford
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Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1290, USA
Interests: spoken language production; speech prosody; typical and atypical speech acquisition; phonetics
Prof. Dr. Michael Robb
Prof. Dr. Michael Robb
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Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Interests: language acquisition; child language disorders; phonetics & phonological development; English as a second language
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Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Interests: language acquisitiion; morphology; language disorders; second language acquisition; heritage languages
Prof. Dr. Nuria Sagarra
Prof. Dr. Nuria Sagarra
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Interests: psycholinguistics; working memory; morphosyntactic processing; morphological anticipation
Prof. Dr. Rob Schoonen
Prof. Dr. Rob Schoonen
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Department of Language and Communication, Radboud University, 6525 XZ Nijmegen,The Netherlands
Interests: language assessment; language proficiency; second language acquisition
Dr. Raquel Serrano
Dr. Raquel Serrano
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Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: second language acquisition; time distribution of L2 practice/instruction; input spacing; vocabulary learning; L2 reading; study abroad
Prof. Dr. Adrian P. Simpson
Prof. Dr. Adrian P. Simpson
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Institute of German Linguistics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
Interests: phonetics and phonology of spontaneous speech; phonetic correlates of sex and gender; epiphenomenal sound production