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Robin Melnick

Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

robin.melnick@pomona.edu

Office:

203

With Pomona Since: 2016

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
Education
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