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Karen Baertsch, Associate Professor
Office: Faner 3079/3121Santiago Gualapuro, Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Santiago Gualapuro is an Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics at SIU's School of Languages and Linguistics.
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Office: Faner 3040Usha Lakshmanan, Professor
Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Linguistics
Dr. Lakshmanan received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1989. She joined SIU in 1990 and is currently Professor of Psychology, with a cross-appointment in the department of Linguistics. Her research interests encompass the interrelated areas of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, child first language acquisition, child and adult second language acquisition, language and cognition, and the language of youth media. In her research, which focuses on the relationship between psycholinguistic theory and language acquisition, she has addressed several aspects of grammatical development and language processing from a cross-linguistic perspective.
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Office: Life Science II, 275C
Phone: 618-453-3574
usha@siu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition Lab
Katherine Martin, Associate Professor
Linguistics
Katherine I. Martin is an associate professor in Linguistics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and head of the APPLES (Applied Psycholinguistics in Literacy, Education, & Second Language) Lab, part of the Saluki Linguistics Laboratory Consortium.
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Office: Faner 3042Shannon McCrocklin, Associate Professor
Linguistics
Shannon McCrocklin is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics.
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Office: Faner 3123Michael L. Olsen, Assistant Professor of Practice
Linguistics
My research is in corpus-assisted discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.
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Office: Faner 3044Rachel Olsen, Assistant Professor of Practice - TESOL
Linguistics
My first introduction to linguistics and TESOL came during my Cambridge CELTA and developed over the next several years as I taught EFL abroad.
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Office: Faner 3125Jeffrey Punske, Associate Professor
Linguistics
Dr. Jeffrey Punske is an Associate Professor in Linguistics within the School of Languages and Linguistics.
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Office: Faner 3230