Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
With Pomona Since: 2016
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Expertise
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.
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
Areas of Expertise
- Psycholinguistics, cognition of language
- Quantitative variation
- Corpus and computational methods
- Statistics for linguistics
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Education
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics, designation in Cognitive Science
Stanford UniversityM.A., Linguistics
Stanford UniversityM.A., Linguistics, certificate in Computational Linguistics
San José State UniversityB.A., Computer Science
University of California, BerkeleyRecent Courses Taught
- Topics in Quantitative Linguistics
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Computational Linguistics