Faculty

Full-time Faculty
Photo Name Position Research Interests
Frederic Adams Professor & Chair

embodied cognition, extended mind, intentional action, information and knowledge, naturalixed semantics, semantics of fiction, teleological functioins
Robin Andreasen Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies

animal cognition, philosophy of biology, race and gender science
Louis Arena Emeritus
Benjamin Bruening Professor

syntax, semantics, morphology, typology
Peter Cole Professor

comparative syntax, the description of endangered languages, linguistic theory
Jeffrey Heinz Assistant Professor

phonology, formal language theory, formal learning theory, grammatical inference
Gabriella Hermon Professor

comparative syntax, the description of endangered languages, linguistic theory, language acquisition
Arild Hestvik Associate Professor

psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience of language; syntax, morphosyntax and phonology; atypical language development and language impairments. See http://udel.edu/~arild
Nancy Schweda Nicholson Professor

sociolinguistics, language, power and the law, language planning and policy development for interpreter services, especially in (1) American courts; (2) international criminal tribunals and (3) emergency management and homeland security contexts
Satoshi Tomioka Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

semantics, pragmatics, prosody and intonation, syntax
Irene Vogel Professor

phonology, phonetics, prosody
Joint Faculty
Photo Name Position Research Interests
Cole Galloway Professor

motor behavior ande development of infants, therapies
Roberta Golinkoff H. Rodney Sharp Professor

language acquisition, verbs, precursors, segmentation, theory development
Anna Papafragou Associate Professor

language acquisition, psycholinguistics, semantics
Research Faculty
Photo Name Position Research Interests
H. Timothy Bunnell Associate Professor

acoustic phonetics, speech synthesis, speech recognition
Beth Mineo Mollica Associate Professor & Director of Center for Disability Studies

communication disorders, speech pathology
The Adjunct Faculty
Photo Name Position Research Interests
Ken Hyde Instructor
Bill Idsardi Adjunct Professor

phonology, phonetics, neuroscience
Thierry Morlet Adjunct Assistant Professor

hearing and speech science
Kyoko Nagao Adjunct Assistant Professor

articulatory and acoustic phonetics, audiology
Linda Napoli Vallino Adjunct Associate Professor

audiology, speech pathology
Thomas Powers Assistant Professor

Ethics (Environmental, Scientific Research, Information and other Emerging Technologies)
Ya-ping Tsai Instructor

semantics, syntax