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Savithry Namboodiripad
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Michigan and 2017 LSA Collegiate Fellow (Linguistics)
Education/Degree:
1 Linguistics (University of California, San Diego)
About
Savithry Namboodiripad earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and her BA and MA from the University of Chicago. She grew up speaking Malayalam in Minnesota, and her research explores how social structure shapes language use, variation, and emergence, particularly in multilingual post-colonial and immigrant contexts.
Current Work
Her teaching interests include linguistic discrimination and language policy, and she's currently part of a collaboration looking at climate issues in linguistics.
Research Area Keyword(s)
discrimination, fieldwork, historical linguistics, language, Language acquisition, language contact, language evolution, language variation, multilingualism, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax