Professors Emeriti

Alton (Pete) Becker

altonb@umich.edu

Pete Becker is professor emeritus of Linguistics and Anthropology. He is a specialist in Southeast Asian languages.

Robbins Burling

rburling@umich.edu

Much of Robbins Burling's work centers on the linguistics and ethnology of tribal Northeast India and Bangladesh, and of related areas further east inS outheast Asia. He has worked since the 1950's (though with long interruptions) with the Garo people who are found in both NE India andin Bangladesh. He has written extensively about both the culture of these people and about their language. In addition he has a strong interest in the evolution of the human ability to learn a language.

J. C. (Ian) Catford

catford@umich.edu

Ian Catford held the directorship of the English Language Institute and the Communication Sciences Laboratory. His research focusses on the phonetics of Caucasian languages. He is author of Fundamental Problems in Phonetics (Indiana University Press, 1977) and A Practical Introduction to Phonetics (Oxford Universtiy Press,1988). He was editor for the journal Translation and Chairman of the Board for the journal Language Learning.

Alexander-Zeev Guiora

aguiora@research.haifa.ac.il

Alexander-Zeev Guiora's research interests are in psycholinguistics, specifically the psychology of language behavior, a systematic inquiry into the relationship between developmental templates such as, empathy, language ego, gender identity, and time perception on the one hand and language behavior, such as pronunciation in second language and obligatory structures in native language on the other.

Lesley Milroy

amilroy@umich.edu

Lesley Milroy's interests in sociolinguistics extend across several subareas; bilingualism, language ideology and language standardization, variation theory, rural and urban dialectology. She has worked on phonological change and language attitudesin speech communities in Detroit, Michigan. She has attempted to develop sociohistorical accounts of language change and to that extent overlap with historical linguistics. Her work in Conversation Analysis deals with irregular data of various kinds, notably aphasic conversational data and mixed language data in bilingual communities.

Joan Morley

hjmorley@umich.edu

Larry Selinker

John Swales

John Swales is Professor of Linguistics, and Co-Director of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) project. His principal research interest lies in written discourse, particularly academic and research writing. Associated interests involve genre theory, methods of discourse analysis, English for Academic Purposes, and comparative rhetoric.