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MIT Linguistics: Department of Linguistics & Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Faculty

Adam Albright: Phonology, Morphology, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics

Noam Chomsky: Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language

Michel DeGraff: Syntax, Semantics, Creole Languages

Kai von Fintel: Semantics, Syntax

Edward Flemming: Phonology, Phonetics

Suzanne Flynn: Second Language Acquisition

Danny Fox: Syntax, Semantics

Edward Gibson: Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, prosody, language processing, language learning

Martin Hackl: Semantics, Syntax, and Psycholinguistics

Morris Halle: Phonology, Morphology, Poetics, Slavic Languages

James Harris: Phonology, Spanish, Historical Linguistics

Irene Heim: Semantics

Sabine Iatridou (Graduate Program Director): Syntax, Semantics

Michael Kenstowicz: Phonology, Phonetics, African and East Asian Languages

Samuel Jay Keyser: Phonology, Lexical Theory, Poetics

Shigeru Miyagawa: Syntax, Japanese and Altaic Linguistics

Wayne O'Neil: Second Language Acquisition, Language Change, Linguistics and Education

David Pesetsky (Linguistics Section Head): Syntax, Morphology, Language & Music, Language Acquisition, Russian Syntax

Norvin Richards (Undergraduate Program Officer): Syntax, Endangered Languages, Austronesian Languages

Donca Steriade: Phonology, Morphology, Greek and Latin

Kenneth Wexler: Language Acquisition, Syntax



Visiting Faculty 2012

Maziar Toosarvandani: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Iranian, Uto-Aztecan and Germanic languages (American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellow)