People

Lead Investigator Ben Bergen Associated faculty Amy Schafer Katsuhiro Ota Students Ph.D.

"Team Hawai`i" at the CSDL conference in San Diego; Nov. 2006

Wen-Wei Han
Conceptual metaphor, Chinese character recognition

Song Jiang
Classifiers (in Chinese), linguistic relativism, language acquisition

Nian Liu
Cognitive Linguistics, second language acquisition

Jawee Perla
Creativity in mental simulation, consciousness

Carl Polley
Visual and auditory modalities in language processing and mental simulation, machine translation, Chinese

Manami Sato
Conceptual metaphor, language production

Kathryn Wheeler
Simulation semantics, grammar, perspective, Japanese

M.A.

Suann Robinson

Undergraduate

Audrey Hayashi

Iris Kolberg

Alumni

Napasri Timyam, now at Kasetsart University, Thailand
Semantics of grammatical constructions, social meaning, interaction among types of linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge, Thai

Henry Bley-Vroman, now at Boston University.

Avis Lau (née Chan), now at Washington University
Writing systems, spatial cognition, Chinese, Taiwanese

Gerald Bullock
(Second) language acquisition, semantics of grammatical constructions, simulation semantics

Sachie Maruyama
Conceptual metaphor, gender

Meylysa Tseng
Simulation semantics, negation, American Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language

Collaborators

Nancy Chang - UC Berkeley, Computer Science

Jerome Feldman - UC Berkeley, Computer Science

George Lakoff - UC Berkeley, Linguistics

Teenie Matlock - Stanford, Psychology

Shweta Narayan - UC Berkeley, Linguistics

Srini Narayanan - UC Berkeley, Computer Science