People

Lead Investigator

Ben Bergen

Associated faculty

Amy Schafer

Katsuhiro Ota

Students

Ph.D.

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

Manami Sato
Conceptual metaphor, language production

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

Kathryn Wheeler
Simulation semantics, grammar, perspective, Japanese

M.A.

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

Wen-Wei Han
Conceptual metaphor, Chinese character recognition

Sachie Maruyama
Conceptual metaphor, gender

Jawee Perla
Creativity in mental simulation, consciousness

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

Undergraduate

Kristen Ciano

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 Pomona College

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

Collaborators

Kim Binsted - UH, Information and Computer Sciences

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