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