Hammond, Mike | SLAT | Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

hammond@arizona.edu

Phone

(520) 621-5759

Office

Douglass 308

Personal Site

https://linguistics.arizona.edu/user/mike-hammond

Hammond, Mike

Professor

Home Department: Linguistics

SLAT Areas of Specialization: Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning, Technology in Second Language Teaching Minor/Certificate

Dr. Hammond is a professor in the Department of Linguistics. He also has appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program. His research is in the areas of phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and poetic meter.

Area of Specialization

Cognitive dimensions of L2 learning

Linguistic dimensions of L2 learning

Technology in Second Language Teaching (minor)

Currently Teaching

LING 529 – Human Language Technology I

This class serves as an introduction to human language technology (HLT), an emerging interdisciplinary field that encompasses most subdisciplines of linguistics, as well as computational linguistics, natural language processing, computer science, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics.
Content includes a combination of theoretical and applied topics such as (but not limited to) tokenization across languages, n-grams, word representations, basic probability theory, introductory programming, and version control.

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LING 578 – Speech Technology

Topics include speech synthesis, speech recognition, and other speech technologies. This course gives students background for a career in the speech technology industry. Graduate students will do extra readings, extra assignments, and have an extra presentation. Their final project must constitute original work in a speech technology.

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