CLS Faculty

The faculty of the Center for Language Sciences spans several departments in the College, including Linguistics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Philosophy, and American Sign Language. Faculty members jointly participate in colloquia, course instruction, student advising, dissertation committees, hiring, grant writing and collaborative research.

Allen, James F.: Dessauer Professor, Computer Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics; E-mail: user@cs.rochester.edu (user=james); Phone: (585) 275-5288; Office: Computer Studies 721; Interests: computational linguistics, conversational agents
Aslin, Richard N.: William R. Kenan Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science;
Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging; E-mail: user@cvs.rochester.edu (user=aslin); Phone: (585) 275-8687; Office: Meliora 406; Interests: development, vision, audition, speech recognition
Braun, David: Professor, Philosophy; E-mail: user@rochester.edu (user=david.braun); Phone: (585) 275-8107; Office: Lattimore 525; Interests: philosophy of language
Carlson, Greg: Professor, Linguistics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy; E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=carlson); Phone: (585) 275-5907; Office: Lattimore 506; Interests: semantic theory, psycholinguistics, discourse
Gunlogson, Christine: Assistant Professor, Linguistics; E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=gunlog); Phone: (585) 275-5136; Office: Lattimore 512; Interests: formal semantics and pragmatics; how the form and meaning of questions relates to their use; intonational meaning; semantics of declarative and interrogative sentence types
McDonough, Joyce: Chair, Linguistics; Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=jmmcd); Phone: (585) 275-2895; Office: Lattimore 505; Interests: phonetics, laboratory phonology, Athabaskan linguistics, morphological typology, speech processing
Newport, Elissa L.: Chair, George Eastman Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail: user@bcs.rochester.edu (user=newport); Phone: (585) 275-8689; Office: Meliora 414; Interests: language acquisition and its relationship to language structure; mechanisms of learning and development
Paauw, Scott: Visiting Instructor, Linguistics; E-mail: user@buffalo.edu (user=shpaauw); Phone: (585) 273-2366; Office: Lattimore 509; Interests: Austronesian Linguistics, Malay Dialects, Sri Lanka Malay, Morphology, Typology, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics (especially issues relating to diglossia and language planning), Languages in Contact, Pidgins & Creoles
Runner, Jeff: Associate Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences;
Curriculum Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies; E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=runner); Phone: (585) 275-2626; Office: Lattimore 511; Interests: experimental syntax; syntactic/linguistic theory; syntax-semantics interface; phrase structure; the roles of structural and pragmatic constraints on noun phrase (co-)reference
Schubert, Lenhart K.: Professor, Computer Science; E-mail: user@cs.rochester.edu (user=schubert); Phone:; Office:; Interests: language, knowledge representation, inference and planning
Supalla, Ted: Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and American Sign Language; E-mail: user@bcs.rochester.edu (user=supalla); Phone: (585) 273-5130 (TTY), (585) 273-3525 (TTY); Office: Meliora 422, Lattimore 116; Interests: sign language structure and creolization, psycholinguistics
Tanenhaus, Michael K.: Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics;
Director, Center for Language Sciences; E-mail: user@bcs.rochester.edu (user=mtan); Phone: (585) 275-5491; Office: Meliora 420; Interests: psycholinguistics, language and reading comprehension
Webb, Rebecca: Visiting Instructor, Linguistics; E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=webb); Phone: (585) 273-2366; Office: Lattimore 510; Interests: gesture, its relationship to both signed and spoken languages; metaphoric gesture; gesture in autism