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Graduate Students

This page lists current graduate students in the linguistics program at Penn, with their areas of interest and email addresses.

SinceNameInterestsEmail
2010-Chris AhernSemantics
2008-Dimka AtanassovSemantics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Computational
2011-Akiva BacovcinSyntax, Morphology, Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
2008-Jana BeckSyntax, Historical, Greek & Balkan Linguistics
2006-Stefanie BrodySociolinguistics
2011-Mao-Hsu ChenPhonetics
2011-Sunghye ChoPhonetics, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition
2006-Toni CookSociolinguistics, Morphology
2009-Claire CrawfordComputational, Corpus Linguistics
2010-Aaron EcayHistorical Syntax
2011-Sabriya FisherSociolinguistics, Syntax, Historical, Pidgins & Creoles
2011-Aaron FreemanHistorical, Sociolinguistics, Phonology, Language Contact, Arabic Linguistics
2008-Lauren FriedmanHistorical, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, French Linguistics
2008-Josef FruehwaldSociolinguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
2006-Kyle GormanPhonetics, Computational
2011-Anton IngasonHistorical, syntax, corpus linguistics, Icelandic
2011-Henrik KoivuniemiHistorical, Sociolinguistics
2010-Soohyun KwonSociolinguistics
2005-Catherine LaiPhonetics, Semantics, Pragmatics
2009-Yong-cheol LeePhonetics
2008-Marielle LernerSociolinguistics, Language Contact, Spanish Linguistics
2007-Caitlin LightHistorical, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics
2006-Laurel MacKenzieSociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
2007-Brittany McLaughlinSociolinguistics, Literacy
2007-Satoshi NambuSyntax, Historical, Sociolinguistics, Acquisition
2005-Giang NguyenPhonetics, Sociolinguistics, Vietnamese Linguistics
2009-Hilary PrichardSociolinguistics, Historical, Phonetics
2008-Lydia RieckLanguage acquisition
2009-Kobey ShwayderPhonology, Morphology, Computational
2008-Gayeon SonPhonology, Phonetics, Semantics
2008-Jon StevensSemantics, Psycholinguistics, Computational, Historical
2007-Yanyan SuiPhonology, Syntax
2009-Meredith TammingaSociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
2010-Jingjing TanPhonetics, Phonology
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall (campus map)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Telephone: (215) 898-6046
Fax: (215) 573-2091
For more information, contact Amy Forsyth at