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Mahdavi Mazdeh, Mohsen
Assistant Professor

Home Department: Linguistics

SLAT Areas of Specialization: Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning

Dr. Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, with additional appointments in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) program and the Roshan Graduate Program in Persian and Iranian Studies. He is a phonologist, and his research focuses primarily on prosody (e.g., poetic meter, intonation, and stress) and the syntax–phonology interface. Most of his work centers on Iranian languages. In addition to phonology, his research also engages with other aspects of these languages, including their morphosyntax, history, literary traditions, and contact with neighboring languages such as Arabic and Turkish.

Area of Specialization
Cognitive dimensions of L2 learning
Linguistic dimensions of L2 learning

Currently Teaching

LING 510 – Foundations of Phonological Theory I

Investigation of the principles that underlie current phonological theory, concentrating on the representation of sounds and the regular patterns of sound in natural language. Topics include distinctive feature theory, syllable theory, the core skeleton, rule formulation and rule interactions. Graduate-level requirements include a greater number of problems.