Core Areas
Morphology: Alderete, Gerdts, Pappas
Phonetics: Bliss, Roberts, Wang, Yeung
Phonology: Alderete, Farris-Trimble, Yeung
Semantics: Gerdts, Han, Hedberg, Grant, Vander Klok
Syntax: Bliss, Gerdts, Grant, Han, Hedberg, Pappas, Taboada, Vander Klok
Applied Linguistics
Foreign language learning: Wong
Foreign language pedagogy: Hilgendorf
Language planning and literacy: Hilgendorf
Second language acquisition: Bliss, Farris-Trimble, Hilgendorf, Taboada, Wang, Yeung
Teaching English for Academic Purposes (TEAP): Wong
Computational Linguistics
Corpus linguistics: Han, Hedberg, Taboada
Information retrieval and text processing: Taboada
Tree Adjoining Grammar: Han
Natural Language Processing Lab
Language and Cognition
Language acquisition: Farris-Trimble, Han, Hilgendorf, Wang, Yeung, Wong
Language learnability: Alderete
Neurolinguistics: Wang, Yeung
Psycholinguistics: Farris-Trimble, Grant, Wang, Yeung
Language Production: Alderete
Experimental Linguistics
Articulatory phonetics: Bliss
Experimental syntax: Han, Grant
Laboratory phonetics: Wang
Laboratory phonology: Alderete, Farris-Trimble, Yeung
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)
Halkomelem Ethnobotany Project
Sm'algyax: Ignace
Language education, maintenance and revitalization: Alderete, Bliss, Gerdts, Ignace
Additional Language Specializations
Chinese: Wang
Greek: Pappas
German: Hilgendorf
Javanese: Vander Klok
Korean/Japanese: Han
Spanish: Taboada
Linguistic Variation
Anthropological linguistics: Ignace
Historical linguistics: Pappas
Language contact: Hilgendorf
Sociolinguistics: Hilgendorf, Pappas
Typology: Alderete, Bliss, Gerdts