Linguistics Department
614 Pioneer Drive
Rochester, MI 48309-4482
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(248) 370-2175
Fax: (248) 370-3144
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The faculty in the Department of Linguistics have interests that cover all core areas of linguistics as well as language instruction.
Please contact our staff for more information about the Department of Linguistics or to be put in touch with one of our faculty members.
Faculty and Staff
Kelly Bambrick
Special Lecturer
michiya@oakland.edu
Rebecca Gaydos
Special Instructor
Applied linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
116 Fitzgerald House
(248) 370-2176
gaydos@oakland.edu
Linda Hubarth
Linguistics Office Assistant II
450K Pawley Hall
(248) 370-2175
hubarth@oakland.edu
Gleice Jones
Lecturer
gosilva@oakland.edu
Alexandria Murphy
Lecturer
acmurphy@oakland.edu
Kuniko Nielsen
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Perception and Production
118 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8807
nielsen@oakland.edu
Jason Overfelt
Assistant Professor
Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Experimental Linguistics
117 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8848
overfelt@oakland.edu
Claudia Pilarski
Linguistics Graduate Assistant
121 Fitzgerald House
cjpilarski@oakland.edu
Helena Riha
Special Lecturer
riha2@oakland.edu
Samuel Rosenthall
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, Graduate Advisor
Phonology
115 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8805
srosenth@oakland.edu
Michael B. Smith
Professor
Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics, German and Russian Linguistics
114 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8811
smith@oakland.edu
Angela Super
Special Lecturer
super@oakland.edu
Rhonda Yates
Special Lecturer
rmyatesr@oakland.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Hsiang-Hua (Melanie) Chang
Associate Professor of Chinese
Chinese Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy and Assessment
362 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-4248
chang23@oakland.edu
Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood
Associate Professor of Japanese
Second Language Acquisition, Japanese/Foreign Language Pedagogy, Sentence Processing
360 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-4565
kashiwag@oakland.edu
Raquel Prieta
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Sentence Processing, Language Instruction Methodology
373 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2153
rprieta@oakland.edu
Peter J. Binkert
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, Classics)
Daniel H. Fullmer
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, English)
William Schwab
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, English)