Core Areas
Morphology: Pappas, Schneider
Phonetics: Bliss, Wang, Yeung
Phonology: Farris-Trimble, Yeung, Ng
Semantics: Han, Grant, Vander Klok
Syntax: Bliss, Grant, Han, Pappas, Taboada, Vander Klok, Schneider
Applied Linguistics
Foreign language learning: Wong
Foreign language pedagogy: Hilgendorf
Language planning and literacy: Hilgendorf
Second language acquisition: Bliss, Farris-Trimble, Hilgendorf, Taboada, Wang, Bedard, Yeung
Teaching English for Academic Purposes (TEAP): Wong
Computational Linguistics
Corpus linguistics: Han, Hedberg, Taboada, Ng, Schneider
Information retrieval and text processing: Taboada, Ng
Tree Adjoining Grammar: Han
Natural Language Processing Lab
Language and Cognition
Language acquisition: Farris-Trimble, Han, Hilgendorf, Wang, Bedard, Yeung, Wong
Neurolinguistics: Wang, Yeung
Psycholinguistics: Farris-Trimble, Grant, Wang, Yeung
Experimental Linguistics
Articulatory phonetics: Bliss
Experimental syntax: Han, Grant
Laboratory phonetics: Wang
Laboratory phonology: Alderete, Farris-Trimble, Yeung
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
Information structure: Ng, Taboada
Systemic-functional linguistics: Taboada
Text analysis and narrative structure: Ignace, Schneider
Indigenous Languages and Primary Linguistic Description
Algonquian: Bliss (Blackfoot)
Haida: Ignace, Bedard
Salish: Schneider (Halkomelem), Ignace (Secwepemctsin)
Halkomelem Ethnobotany Project
Sm'algyax: Ignace
X̱aad Kil (Northern/Old Massett dialect of Haida): Bedard
Language education, maintenance and revitalization: Bliss, Bedard, Ignace, Schneider
Additional Language Specializations
Chinese: Wang
French: Vigouroux
Greek: Pappas
German: Hilgendorf
Javanese: Vander Klok
Korean/Japanese: Han
Spanish: Taboada
Linguistic Variation
Anthropological linguistics: Ignace, Vigouroux
Historical linguistics: Pappas
Language contact: Hilgendorf
Sociolinguistics: Hilgendorf, Pappas, Vigouroux
Typology: Alderete, Bliss, Gerdts