People in Language & Cognition

Charles J. Fillmore, Professor Emeritus

lexicon, semantics, syntax, text comprehension, English, Japanese

Alice Gaby, Assistant Professor

Australian languages; language, culture, and cognition; language documentation and description; linguistic typology
agaby@berkeley.edu

Susanne Gahl, Assistant professor

Psycholinguistics; Corpus linguistics; usage-based effects on language and cognition; language production and comprehension.

William F. Hanks, Professor

Department of Anthropology: The organization and dynamics of routine language use, Shamanism, and colonial history of Yucatan.

Carla Hudson Kam, Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology: First and second language acquisition: In particular, I am interested in how these processes may constrain the form of languages, and how they might influence how languages change over time

Keith Johnson, Professor

phonetics, pyscholinguistics
(510) 643-7617
keithjohnson@berkeley.edu

Paul Kay, Professor Emeritus

color naming and perception, grammar, lexicon
Languages: English, French
(510) 666-2885
paulkay@berkeley.edu
ICSI

George P. Lakoff, Professor

cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of language, conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, syntax-semantics-pragmatics; also the application of cognitive linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics
lakoff@berkeley.edu

Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus

Department of Psychology: linguistics (cognitive, functional, typological), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural

Eve E. Sweetser, Professor

semantics, syntax, historical linguistics, Celtic languages, speech act theory, metaphor theory, semantic change, grammaticalization, grammatical meaning, gesture
sweetser@berkeley.edu