Faculty
Ph.D, University of Calgary
Associate Professor
Infant speech perception, first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, phonetics, phonology.
Office: ASH 4-57
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
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, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥
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
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
Email: guardado@ualberta.ca
Yaqian Huang
PhD, University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech science, psycholinguistics, voice quality, tone
Office: ASH 4-09
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
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
Email: lachler@ualberta.ca
Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute
(PhD, University of Toronto)
Associate Professor
Sociolinguistics of multilingualism, including indigenous, heritage, and second/foreign languages; language ideologies and identities
Office: ASH4-41
Email: yvonne.lam@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 4-15
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