Faculty

The list of our faculty members also has information regarding other academics (adjuncts, lecturers and emeriti), administrative staff, graduate students and alumni on each of their corresponding pages.

Stephanie Archer
Stephanie Archer 
Ph.D, University of Calgary

Associate Professor
Infant speech perception, first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, phonetics, phonology.
Office: ASH 4-20
Phone: 780-492-3480
Email: slarcher@ualberta.ca

Anja Arnhold
Anja Arnhold 
PhD, Goethe-University, Frankfurt

Associate Professor
Prosody, phonology, phonetics, information structure, typology, Finnish, Inuit
Office: ASH 4-24
Phone: 780-492-6912

Email: arnhold@ualberta.ca

Antti Arppe
Antti Arppe 
PhD, University of Helsinki

Professor
Lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, statistical methods, exploiting multiple methods and sources of evidence.
Office: ASH 4-62
Phone: 780-492-1935

Email: 
arppe@ualberta.ca

David Beck
David Beck 
PhD, University of Toronto

Professor and Chair
Field linguistics, morphosyntax, typology, cognitive linguistics, areal diffusion, Native American languages, particularly Salishan and Totonacan.
Office:
ASH 4-36A
Phone: 780-492-5500
Email: 
dbeck@ualberta.ca

Marina Blekher
Marina Blekher 
PhD, University of Alberta

Teaching Professor
Bilingualism, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics.
Office:
ASH 4-43
Phone: 780-492-4970
Email:
 mblekher@ualberta.ca

Herbert L. Colston
Herbert L. Colston 
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Professor
Pragmatics, psycholinguistics, figurative language, language development, psychology of language.
Office: ASH 4-60
Phone: 780-492-8272
Email: colston@ualberta.ca

Evangelia Daskalaki
Evangelia Daskalaki 
PhD, University of Cambridge

Associate Professor
Heritage language acquisition, bilingualism, language typology, syntax, morphology, discourse-pragmatics, Greek
Office: ASH 4-61
Phone: 780-248-1492
Email: daskalak@ualberta.ca

Martín Guardado
Martín Guardado 
PhD, University of British Columbia

Professor
Sociocultural linguistics, applied linguistics, heritage language socialization, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes
Office: ASH 4-44
Phone: 780-492-0804
Email: guardado@ualberta.ca

Yaqian Huang
Yaqian Huang 
PhD, University of California, San Diego

Assistant Professor
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech science, psycholinguistics, voice quality, tone
Dr. Huang will be in the Department as of June 2025.

Marianne Huijsmans
Marianne Huijsmans
PhD, University of British Columbia

Assistant Professor
Language documentation and revitalization; First Nations languages, especially Salish languages; semantics; syntax
Office: ASH 4-45
Phone: 780-492-5421

Email: huijsman@ualberta.ca

Juhani Järvikivi
Juhani Järvikivi 
PhD, University of Joensuu

Professor and Director - Undergraduate Studies
Psycholinguistics, situated language comprehension, child language processing, discourse relations, spoken language, morphological processing.
Office: ASH 4-55
Phone: 780-492-5697
Email: jarvikiv@ualberta.ca
Undergraduate Advising: lingugr@ualberta.ca

Jordan Lachler
Jordan Lachler 
PhD, University of New Mexico

Associate Professor and CILLDI Director
Language documentation, language revitalization.
Office:
 ASH 1-50C
Phone: 780-248-1179
Email:
 lachler@ualberta.ca

Yvonne Lam
Yvonne Lam (PhD, University of Toronto)

Associate Professor 
Sociolinguistics of multilingualism, including indigenous, heritage, and second/foreign languages; language ideologies and identities
Office: ASH4-41
Phone: 780-492-0105
Email: yvonne.lam@ualberta.ca

Terry Nadasdi 
PhD, University of Toronto

Professor
Sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Canadian French.
Office: ASH 4-26
Phone: 780-492-9485

Email: terry.nadasdi@ualberta.ca

Johanne Paradis
Johanne Paradis 
PhD, McGill University

Professor and Director - Graduate Studies
Second language, heritage language and bilingual acquisition in children, bilingual children with language and communication disorders.
Office: ASH 4-57
Phone: 780-492-0805
Email:  jparadis@ualberta.ca
Graduate advising:  linggrad@ualberta.ca
Applications inquiries:  lingapps@ualberta.ca

Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada 
PhD, University of Western Ontario & Université
Lumière Lyon 2

Associate Professor
Language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, First Nations languages.
Office:
 ASH 4-22
Phone: 780-492-5698
Email:
 jrosesla@ualberta.ca