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Philip Baldi
Professor emeritus of Linguistics and Classics
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Research Interests:
Language change, morphology, Indo-European linguistics

Matthew Carlson
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, phonology, morphology, the mental lexicon, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language development, gesture.

Paola E. (Giuli) Dussias
Associate Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
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Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, sentence parsing, code-switching, second language acquisition

Carrie Jackson
Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
SLA, psycholinguistics, sentence processing

Judith F. Kroll
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies
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Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language processing

Ping Li
Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology
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Research Interests:
Cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, computational and neural mechanisms of language acquisition.

John Lipski
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Spanish phonology, Spanish and Portuguese dialectology and language variation, the linguistic aspects of bilingualism, and the African contribution to Spanish and Portuguese.

Carol Miller
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Typical and atypical language development; children with specific language impairment; cognitive processes in communication disorders, with emphasis on cognitive and perceptual processing in children and adults with language disorders.

Karen Miller
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Her field of research centers on first language acquisition in English and Spanish-speaking children and she has been working with children in Chile, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. She is especially interested in how linguistic variation is acquired by children and the extent to which variable input affects the acquisition of grammatical morphology. She also studies children’s acquisition of semantics and pragmatics. Other areas of research in which she is interested include bilingualism in children and the effect of variation on language processing in children and adults. Her work on language acquisition and variation is currently being funded by the National Science Foundation. For more information please visit: http://childlanguagelab.la.psu.edu/

Marianna Nadeu
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics

Richard Page
Head of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Germanic linguistics, historical linguistics, language change, language contact, Pennsylvania German, and phonology.

Michael T. Putnam
Assisant Professor of German and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Bilingualism, contact linguistics, linguistic formalisms (generative linguistics), syntax, morphology, semantics, heritage linguistics, global varieties of Germanic languages, philosophy of language

Eleonora Rossi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
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Rena Torres Cacoullos
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Language variation and change, grammaticalization, language contact, Spanish linguistics

Janet van Hell
Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Director of the Linguistics Program
Professor of Language Development (Radboud U. Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
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Research Interests:
Second language learning and bilingualism/multilingualism; code-switching, bimodal bilingualism; language development in children with a typical or atypical language development, cognitive neuroscience.

Daniel J. Weiss
Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Language Acquisition, Statistical Learning, Comparative Cognition and Communication with Nonhuman Primates.