Mark Aronoff,a native of Montreal,Quebec,is a morphologist and distinguished professor at Stony Brook University. The editor of Language from 1995 to 2001 and president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2005,he has been elected a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The University of Michigan College of Literature,Science,and the Arts (LSA) is the liberal arts and sciences school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Established in 1841,the college is home to both the University of Michigan Honors Program and Residential College.
Sarah Grey Thomason is an American scholar of linguistics,Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her work on language contact,historical linguistics,pidgins and creoles,Slavic Linguistics,Native American languages and typological universals. She also has an interest in debunking linguistic pseudoscience,and has collaborated with publications such as the Skeptical Inquirer,The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and American Speech,in regard to claims of xenoglossy.
Marianne Mithun is an American linguist specializing in American Indian languages and language typology. She is a professor of linguistics at the University of California,Santa Barbara,where she has held an academic position since 1986.
Janet Pierrehumbert is Professor of Language Modelling in the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow of Trinity College,Oxford. She developed an intonational model which includes a grammar of intonation patterns and an explicit algorithm for calculating pitch contours in speech,as well as an account of intonational meaning. It has been widely influential in speech technology,psycholinguistics,and theories of language form and meaning. Pierrehumbert is also affiliated with the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury.
Mary Esther Beckman is a Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the Ohio State University.
Ann Lesley Milroy is a sociolinguist,and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan. Her work in sociolinguistics focuses on urban and rural dialectology,language ideology and standard.
Nick C. Ellis is a Welsh psycholinguist,professor of psychology,and research scientist at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan. As a researcher,Ellis' focus is on applied linguistics with interest in second language acquisition,corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics,emergentism,complex dynamic systems approaches to language,reading and spelling acquisition in different languages,computational modeling,and cognitive linguistics.
Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton is a professor of anthropology at the University of California,Los Angeles. She specializes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology,including work in sociophonetics,language and identity,ethnography and visual anthropology.
James Loyd Hilton is an American psychologist,educator,and academic administrator.
Keren D. Rice is a Canadian linguist. She is a professor of linguistics and serves as the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto.
Anne Harper Charity Hudley is an American linguist who works on language variation in secondary schools. Since 2021,she has been a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
Patrice (Pam) Speeter Beddor is John C. Catford Collegiate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan,focusing on phonology and phonetics. Her research has dealt with phonetics,including work in coarticulation,speech perception,and the relationship between perception and production.
Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University. She is known for her work on the language of gender and sexuality.
Donca Steriade is a Romanian-American professor of Linguistics at MIT,specializing in phonological theory.
Joel D. Blum is a scientist who specializes in isotope geochemistry and environmental geochemistry. He is currently a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. Blum has several named professorships including the John D. MacArthur,Arthur F. Thurnau and Gerald J. Keeler Distinguished Professorship. Blum is a past Co-Editor- in-Chief of Chemical Geology and Elementa,and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the American Chemical Society journal Earth and Space Chemistry.
Marlyse Baptista is a linguist specializing in morphology,syntax,pidgin and creole languages,language contact,and language documentation. Until 2022,Baptista was the Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan,and now holds the position of President's Distinguished Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America for 2024.
Laura J. Downing is an American linguist,specializing in the phonology of African languages.
Marilyn Shatz is an American scholar known for her work in language development and discourse. She holds the title of Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan,where she worked from 1977 until retiring in 2009.
