Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

I retired from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in January 2025. During 22 years in the UAB School of Education, I served in many roles but most prominently as professor of English ...

An introductory course in linguistic analysis of the English language covering the fundamental concepts of morphology, phonetics, phonology, and syntax. The fourth number of the course code shows the ...

Linguistics is a scientific subject, which means linguistics majors ask questions and test hypotheses about language. Students may focus on the role of language in society or how children and adults ...

Every language has an organised sound system. Phonology is concerned with processes in the mind, determining the rules of a language and how we organise, study and form sounds in speech. We each have ...

My main research interest is historical phonology, both to reconstruct the sounds of the past and to account for sound change over time. I focus on theories of diachronic phonology which interface ...