Robin Melnick

Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science; On leave for the 2020-2021 academic year

robin.melnick@pomona.edu

Office:

Edmunds Hall

203

(909) 607-8222

With Pomona since:

2016

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Expertise

As a linguist and cognitive scientist, Robin Melnick is particularly interested in quantitative, experimental and computational study of language variation—socio-cultural, historical, cross-linguistic—but especially that variation we see within the individual speaker, moment-to-moment choice, as a lens through which we may explore what underlies language structure and triggers change.

Areas of Expertise

Psycholinguistics, cognition of language
Quantitative variation
Corpus and computational methods
Statistics for linguistics

Research Interests

Probabilistic grammar and stochastic models of variation
Cognition of language/psycholinguistics, especially processing motivations in linguistic phenomena
Corpus and computational methods in language and cognitive sciences
Sociolinguistic and diachronic variation
Empirical and computational syntax

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, designation in Cognitive Science
Stanford University

M.A., Linguistics
Stanford University

M.A., Linguistics, certificate in Computational Linguistics
San José State University

B.A., Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

Recent Courses Taught

Topics in Quantitative Linguistics
Introduction to Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Computational Linguistics