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Department Head - Linguistics
Director of the Douglass Phonetics Lab
Affiliate Faculty: Cognitive Science GIDP, American Indian Studies GIDP
SLAT Areas of Specialization: Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning
Dr. Warner is a professor in the Department of Linguistics, and also has appointments in the Cognitive Science GIDP, the American Indian Studies GIDP, and SLAT. Her research is in the areas of phonetics, experimental phonology, and psycholinguistics, focusing on speech perception. Her research is divided into two areas: phonetics/psycholinguistics/experimental phonology, and language revitalization. In phonetics, her main interest is production and perception of reduced, spontaneous speech, but she also works on other projects. In language revitalization, she works with the dormant Mutsun language of California (Southern Costanoan) on reclaiming the spoken language through learning from archival materials, primarily from J.P. Harrington. She has worked with Mutsun community members on publishing the dictionary and on language learning materials.
She also directs the Douglass Phonetics Lab. She works on language revitalization for the dormant Native American language Mutsun (Costanoan, formerly spoken in coastal California). Her language interests are Japanese, Dutch, and Mutsun.