Terry Regier

Job title: 
Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science; Director of the Language & Cognition Lab; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Department: 
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Bio/CV: 

Terry Regier is a Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and the Lab Director of the Language & Cognition Lab. He is interested in semantic categories, why they vary across languages in the ways they do, and what that cross-language variation reveals about the mind and about communication.  He also has an interest in political language use concerning the Palestine question and the Arab world generally.