Academic and research staff

Academic staff

  • Dunstan Brown
    Professor (from Sept. 2012)
    Morphology, Morphology-Syntax interaction, Typology
  • Cathy Dantec
    Teaching fellow in French
  • Paul Foulkes
    Professor
    Forensic phonetics, Sociolinguistics
  • Helen Goodluck
    Professor
    Child language, Adult language processing, Syntax
  • Sam Hellmuth
    Lecturer,
    UG admissions tutor
    Phonetics and phonology, Varieties of Arabic
  • Tamar Keren-Portnoy
    Lecturer
    Language acquisition, Phonological development
  • Paul Kerswill
    Professor
    Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change
  • Shin-Sook Kim
    Research fellow
    Syntax and semantics, East Asian linguistics
  • Caitlin Light
    Lecturer  (from Sept. 2012)
    Syntax, Variation and change in English and Germanic
  • Carmen Llamas
    Lecturer
    Sociolinguistics, Language and identity
  • Giuseppe Longobardi
    Professor (from Nov. 2012)
    Syntax, Semantics, Historical-comparative linguistics
  • Heather Marsden
    Lecturer
    Second language acquisition, Syntax, East Asian linguistics
  • Maria Muradás-Casas
    Teaching fellow in Spanish

Academic staff

  • Richard Ogden
    Senior lecturer
    Phonetics, Conversation Analysis, Sign Language
  • Susan Pintzuk
    Professor
    Syntactic variation and change, History of English
  • Bernadette Plunkett
    Senior lecturer
    Acquisition of syntax, Syntax, French
  • Lisa Roberts
    Teaching fellow
    Forensic Phonetics, Sociophonetics
  • Nadine Saupe
    Teaching fellow in German
  • Peter Sells 
    Professor and Head
    Syntax, Semantics, East Asian linguistics
  • Hidekazu Tanaka
    Lecturer
    Syntax, Japanese linguistics
  • Ann Taylor
    Senior lecturer
    History of English, Syntactic variation and change
  • George Tsoulas
    Senior lecturer
    Syntax, Semantics, East Asian & Greek linguistics
  • Marilyn Vihman
    Professor
    Language development, Phonology, Bilingualism
  • Traci Walker
    RCUK fellow
    Pragmatics, Phonetics, Conversation Analysis
  • Anthony Warner
    Professor
    History of English, Variation, Syntax
  • Dominic Watt
    Senior lecturer
    Forensic phonetics, Sociolinguistics
  • Eytan Zweig
    Lecturer
    Semantics, Neurolinguistics

Research fellows and assistants

Bayesian biometrics for forensics

Towards a better understanding of the needs of English learners of foreign languages: Are English listeners 'stress-deaf'?

Effects of input in early word learning

Language tutors

Teaching fellows

Sessional teaching staff

Postgraduates who teach

  • Kim Witten
  • Nathan Atkinson