Idsardi, William

William Idsardi
Professor
Department of Linguistics
Program in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
College of Arts and Humanities
1401A Marie Mount Hall
Email: 
idsardi@umd.edu
Phone: 
301-405-8376
Website: 
Website
Themes and Tools: 
Neural Circuits, Learning and Plasticity, Motor Control Theme
Sensation, Perception, Communication Theme
General Research Interests: 
  • Phonology 
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
Background: 

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (Minor: Phonetics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. Dissertation: The Computation of Prosody 

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical Linguistics (Honours, with distinction), University of Toronto, 1988
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