Core Areas
Morphology: Alderete, Gerdts, Pappas
Phonetics: Bliss, Roberts, Wang,
Phonology: Alderete, Farris-Trimble,
Semantics: Gerdts, Han, Hedberg, Grant
Syntax: Bliss, Gerdts, Grant, Han, Hedberg, Pappas, Taboada
Applied Linguistics
Foreign language learning: Wong
Foreign language pedagogy: Hilgendorf
Language planning and literacy: Hilgendorf
Second language acquisition: Bliss, Farris-Trimble, Hilgendorf, Taboada, Wang, Teaching English for Academic Purposes (TEAP): Wong
Computational Linguistics
Corpus linguistics: Han, Hedberg, Taboada
Information retrieval and text processing: Taboada
Tree Adjoining Grammar: Han
Language and Cognition
Language acquisition: Farris-Trimble, Han, Hilgendorf, Wang, , Wong
Language learnability: Alderete
Neurolinguistics: Wang,
Psycholinguistics: Farris-Trimble, Grant, Wang,
Language Production: Alderete
Experimental Linguistics
Articulatory phonetics: Bliss
Experimental syntax: Han, Grant
Laboratory phonetics: Wang
Laboratory phonology: Alderete, Farris-Trimble,
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
Information structure: Hedberg, Taboada
Phrasal phonology and intonation: Hedberg
Systemic-functional linguistics: Taboada
Text analysis and narrative structure: Gerdts, Ignace
Indigenous Languages and Primary Linguistic Description
Athabaskan: Alderete (Tahltan, Navajo)
Algonquian: Bliss (Blackfoot)
Haida: Ignace
Salish: Gerdts (Halkomelem), Ignace (Secwepemctsin)
Sm'algyax: Ignace
Language education, maintenance and revitalization: Alderete, Bliss, Gerdts, Ignace
Additional Language Specializations
Chinese: Wang
Greek: Pappas
German: Hilgendorf
Korean/Japanese: Han
Spanish: Taboada
Linguistic Variation
Anthropological linguistics: Ignace
Historical linguistics: Pappas
Language contact: Hilgendorf
Sociolinguistics: Hilgendorf, Pappas
Typology: Alderete, Bliss, Gerdts