Colin Phillips

Professor of Linguistics & Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Co-Director, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab & Maryland MEG Center
Associate Director, 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: colin@umd.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 feel fortunate to spend most of my time among a fantastic team of faculty and students in Maryland Linguistics. I am also happy to be a part of the largest and most integrated community of language scientists in North America (languagescience.umd.edu). This provides constant opportunities for learning new things. I coordinate the U of Maryland's interdisciplinary graduate training program on "Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity", supported by an award from NSF's IGERT program. I co-direct Maryland's Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center, and I am working with a team of colleagues to establish the new Maryland Neuroimaging Center, which opened in Summer 2011.

When I'm not doing these things, you might find me cycling or running, or swimming (slowly), or attempting to combine them in a triathlon. I might even be doing them together with our super-fit band of linguists.

Courses

Spring 2012

Psycholinguistics II (LING 641)

IGERT Lunch Talks
(Thursdays, 12:30pm, St Mary's Hall)

Psycholinguistics Lab Meetings
(Fridays, 12 noon, 1108B Marie Mount)

Past Semesters

LING 240: Language & Mind, last taught 2004, 2007 (honors)
LING 640: Psycholinguistics, last taught 2010
LING 641: Psycholinguistics II: last taught 2011
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
Language Science at Maryland
Current PhD Students: Pedro Alcocer, Wing-Yee Chow, Shevaun Lewis, Dave Kush, Maria Sol Lago, Dan Parker, Dustin Chacón, Shota Momma
Graduates: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki U., Japan); Nina Kazanina (U. of Bristol, UK), Leticia Pablos (Leiden Univ., Holland), Clare Stroud (Natl. Acad of Sciences), Matt Wagers (UC Santa Cruz), Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern U), Ellen Lau (Maryland/Tufts/Harvard Med Sch), Akira Omaki (Johns Hopkins U), Brian Dillon (UMass/Amherst)

Other

Family:
Zoe Phillips
Andrea Zukowski

Last updated 1/24/12
Photo credit: Rhoda Baer