Faculty
The list of our faculty members also has information regarding other academics (adjuncts, lecturers and emeriti), administrative staff, graduate students and alumni on each of their corresponding pages.
Ph.D, University of Calgary
Associate Professor
Infant speech perception, first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, phonetics, phonology.
Office: ASH 4-20
Phone: 780-492-3480
Email: slarcher@ualberta.ca
PhD, Goethe-University, Frankfurt
Associate Professor
Prosody, phonology, phonetics, information structure, typology, Finnish, Inuit
Office: ASH 4-24
Phone: 780-492-6912
Email: arnhold@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of Helsinki
Professor
Lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, statistical methods, exploiting multiple methods and sources of evidence.
Office: ASH 4-62
Phone: 780-492-1935
Email: arppe@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of Toronto
Professor and Chair
Field linguistics, morphosyntax, typology, cognitive linguistics, areal diffusion, Native American languages, particularly Salishan and Totonacan.
Office: ASH 4-36A
Phone: 780-492-5500
Email: dbeck@ualberta.ca
PhD, 黑料不打烊
Teaching Professor
Bilingualism, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics.
Office: ASH 4-43
Phone: 780-492-4970
Email: mblekher@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor
Pragmatics, psycholinguistics, figurative language, language development, psychology of language.
Office: ASH 4-60
Phone: 780-492-8272
Email: colston@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of Cambridge
Associate Professor
Heritage language acquisition, bilingualism, language typology, syntax, morphology, discourse-pragmatics, Greek
Office: ASH 4-61
Phone: 780-248-1492
Email: daskalak@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of British Columbia
Professor
Sociocultural linguistics, applied linguistics, heritage language socialization, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes
Office: ASH 4-44
Phone: 780-492-0804
Email: guardado@ualberta.ca
Yaqian Huang
PhD, University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech science, psycholinguistics, voice quality, tone
Dr. Huang will be in the Department as of June 2025.
PhD, University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor
Language documentation and revitalization; First Nations languages, especially Salish languages; semantics; syntax
Office: ASH 4-45
Phone: 780-492-5421
Email: huijsman@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of Joensuu
Professor and Director - Undergraduate Studies
Psycholinguistics, situated language comprehension, child language processing, discourse relations, spoken language, morphological processing.
Office: ASH 4-55
Phone: 780-492-5697
Email: jarvikiv@ualberta.ca
Undergraduate Advising: lingugr@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of New Mexico
Associate Professor and CILLDI Director
Language documentation, language revitalization.
Office: ASH 1-50C
Phone: 780-248-1179
Email: lachler@ualberta.ca
(PhD, University of Toronto)
Associate Professor
Sociolinguistics of multilingualism, including indigenous, heritage, and second/foreign languages; language ideologies and identities
Office: ASH4-41
Phone: 780-492-0105
Email: yvonne.lam@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of Toronto
Professor
Sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Canadian French.
Office: ASH 4-26
Phone: 780-492-9485
Email: terry.nadasdi@ualberta.ca
PhD, McGill University
Professor and Director - Graduate Studies
Second language, heritage language and bilingual acquisition in children, bilingual children with language and communication disorders.
Office: ASH 4-57
Phone: 780-492-0805
Email: jparadis@ualberta.ca
Graduate advising: linggrad@ualberta.ca
Applications inquiries: lingapps@ualberta.ca
PhD, University of Western Ontario & Université
Lumière Lyon 2
Associate Professor
Language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, First Nations languages.
Office: ASH 4-22
Phone: 780-492-5698
Email: jrosesla@ualberta.ca