Colin Phillips

Professor of Linguistics
Co-Director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab & Maryland MEG Center
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program


Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
1401 Marie Mount Hall
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-3082 (office)
301-405-7104 (fax)
email: {myfirstname/at/umd/dot/edu}
office: 1413F Marie Mount Hall

I teach courses on various aspects of language and mind at the graduate and undergraduate level.

My research combines theoretical linguistics with language processing, language acquisition and neurolinguistics, with the primary focus on trying to understand the microstructure of linguistic computation. The ultimate objective is to be able to seamlessly integrate models of language, from high-level theoretical models all the way to the neurophysiological level. This will take a while.

I also coordinate the U of Maryland's new interdisciplinary graduate training program on "Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity", supported by an award from NSF's IGERT program (2008-2013). I co-direct Maryland's Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center, and I am working with a diverse team of colleagues to establish a new brain imaging center, supported by an NSF grant for acquisition of an MRI scanner.

Courses

Fall 2009

Psycholinguistics I (LING 640)

CNL Lunch Talks (schedule coming)
(Thursdays, 12:30pm)

Psycholinguistics Lab Meetings
(Fridays, 12 noon)

Past Semesters

LING 240: Language & Mind, last taught 2004, 2007 (honors)
LING 640: Psycholinguistics, last taught 2007
LING 641: Psycholinguistics II: last taught 2006, 2008
LING 646: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, last taught 2007
LING 849: Psycholinguistics Seminar 2006
LING 889: Electrophysiology of Language 2001, Neuroscience of Syntax 2003
LING 101: Introduction to Linguistics 1999 (U. of Delaware)
LING 610: Syntax II 2000 (U. of Delaware)

Research

Curriculum Vitae 
Downloadable Papers
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab
Current PhD Students: Akira Omaki, Brian Dillon, Pedro Alcocer, Wing-Yee Chow, Shevaun Lewis, Dave Kush, Maria Sol Lago, Dan Parker
Recent Graduates: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki U., Japan); Nina Kazanina (U. of Bristol, UK), Leticia Pablos (U. of Reading, UK), Clare Stroud (Natl. Acad of Sciences), Matt Wagers (UC Santa Cruz/NYU), Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern U), Ellen Lau (Tufts/Harvard Med Sch)

Other

Family:
Zoe Phillips
Andrea Zukowski

Last updated 8/30/09
Photo credit: Martha McGinnis