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Academic Staff

	Klaus Abels, PhD, Lecturer in Syntax in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115B, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4061 Email: k.abels@ucl.ac.uk Syntactic theory; universal aspects of word and morpheme ordering; representational and computational properties of syntax and the relation between them;
	Richard Breheny, PhD, Reader in Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 108, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: 020 7679 4039 Email: r.breheny@ucl.ac.uk Semantics, pragmatics, the development of semantic and communicative competence, psycholinguistics (experimental pragmatics), philosophy of psychology and linguistics.
	Robyn Carston, MA, PhD, Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 107, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0)20 7679 4037 Email: robyn.carston@ucl.ac.uk Pragmatics, semantics, cognitive processing, cognitive architecture, philosophy of language, communication and interpretation, theory of mind, figurative meaning, linguistic creativity.
	Judit Druks, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115F, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4261 Email: j.druks@ucl.ac.uk I am interested in brain and language relations. My research concentrates on language impairments - semantic, syntactic and morphological - of aphasic and dementia patients. I have worked on noun-verb processing differences in non-brain-damaged adults and children, in SLI children, and aphasic, and Alzheimer's dementia, and semantic dementia patients; on the availability of grammatical morphemes and prepositions in the speech of aphasic patients; on syntactic comprehension deficits in aphasia; acquired dyslexia; and modality specific aphasia.
	John Harris, MA, PhD, Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 109, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4042 Email: john.harris@ucl.ac.uk Phonological theory; phonetics-phonology interface; phonological disorder; variation and change in English.
	Nathan Klinedinst, PhD, Lecturer in Pragmatics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115c, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4062 Email: nathank@ucl.ac.uk Meaning and communication in natural language, as a part of the cognitive sciences.
	Ad Neeleman, PhD, Professor in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 110, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4045 Email: a.neeleman@ucl.ac.uk Syntactic theory; the interaction between syntax and other linguistic modules; the flexibility of syntactic structures.
	Nausicaa Pouscoulous, PhD, Lecturer in Experimental Pragmatics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115E, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4073 Email: n.pouscoulous@ucl.ac.uk Theoretical and experimental pragmatics, semantics, the development of pragmatic and communicative competence, language acquisition, philosophy of language.
	Kriszta Szendroi, Lecturer in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115D, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4063 Email: k.szendroi@ucl.ac.uk Syntax and its interfaces, particularly topic and focus, acquisition of syntax and semantics; language processing
	Hans van de Koot, Head of Research Department of Linguistics, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 112, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4049 Email: h.v.d.koot@ucl.ac.uk Syntactic theory, especially the development of a syntactic theory that explains the core properties of grammatical dependencies; the relation of this theory to syntax-external systems; the computational complexity of language recognition problems.
	Deirdre Wilson, FBA, PhD, BPhil, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 102C, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +00 44 (0)20 7679 4021 Email: deirdre.wilson@ucl.ac.uk Pragmatics, semantics, style, poetics, philosophy of language.
	Moira Yip, MA, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115A, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4056 Email: m.yip@ucl.ac.uk Phonology, Optimality Theory, tone, morphophonology, Chinese linguistics.

Affiliated Staff

	Michael Ashby, MA, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 323, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4090 Email: m.ashby@ucl.ac.uk EFL: treatment of vowels in weak syllables, stress in phrasal verbs and idioms; general phonetic theory (especially the nature of phonetic categorisation by trained observers); English intonation (again from EFL/pedagogical angle).
	Bronwen G. Evans, MSc, PhD, Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 321, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4089 Email: bronwen.evans@ucl.ac.uk Experimental Phonetics.
	Yi Xu, PhD, Reader in Speech Sciences in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 318, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4082 Email: yi.xu@ucl.ac.uk Mechanisms of speech production; melodic aspect of speech; intonation modeling, synthesis and recognition; and speech perception as it is related to production.

Research Staff

	Heather Ferguson, Research Fellow, PhD, MSc, MA in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 111, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 4046 Email: h.ferguson@ucl.ac.uk Experimental Investigations of Semantic-Pragmatic Inferences. On-line investigations of counterfactuals, negation and ToM.
	Ivona Kucerova, PhD, Research Associate in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115C, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4244 Email: i.kucerova@ucl.ac.uk
	Luisa Marti, PhD, Honorary Research Fellow in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 111, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 00 44 (0) 20 7679 4048
	Paula Rubio, PhD, Research Fellow in Dept. Linguistics Email: p.rubio-fernandez@ucl.ac.uk
	Reiko Vermeulen, PhD, Research Associate in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4083 Email: r.vermeulen@ucl.ac.uk Syntax: the interface between syntax and information structure; argument structure; Japanese and Korean linguistics.

Teaching Staff

	Mary Pearce, Research Associate, PhD in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London.Email: mary_pearce@sil.org
	Alexandra Perovic, PhD in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115D, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7669 4063 Email: a.perovic@ucl.ac.uk Typical and atypical language development, especially the syntactic development in children with developmental disorders: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome; acquisition of Serbian/Croatian