This is a list of doctoral alumni since 1988. Click on a column heading to sort by year, name, or dissertation title. Click again to reverse the order.
Year | First Name | Last Name | Dissertation Title |
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2008 | Lukasz | Abramowicz | Socioeconomic Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Polish |
2019 | Luke | Adamson | Derivational Trapping and The Morphosyntax of Inflectionlessness |
2015 | Chris | Ahern | Cycles and Stability in Linguistic Signaling |
2021 | Faruk | Akkus | (Implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice and Causatives |
2007 | Sudha | Arunachalam | Early Verb Representations |
2014 | Dimka | Atanassov | Processing Strategies for Scalar Implicatures |
1994 | Julie | Auger | Pronominal Clitics in Quebec Colloquial French: A Morphological Analysis |
2017 | Hezekiah Akiva | Bacovcin | Parameterising Germanic ditransitive variation: a historical-comparative study |
1991 | Catherine | Ball | The Historical Development Of The It-Cleft |
2006 | Maciej | Baranowski | Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, SC |
1991 | Robert | Belnap | Grammatical Agreement Variation In Cairene Arabic |
2022 | Nikita | Bezrukov | Caucasus In Motion: Dynamic Wordhood And Morpheme Positioning In Armenian And Beyond |
1999 | Rajesh | Bhatt | Covert Modality In Non-Finite Contexts |
2000 | Nadia | Biassou | The Neural Encoding Of Lexical Perception In The Human Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study |
1997 | Charles | Boberg | Variation and Change in the Nativization of Foreign (a) in English |
2000 | David | Bowie | The Effect Of Geographic Mobility On The Retention Of A Local Dialect |
2023 | Ryan | Budnick | Learning Grammar Distributions with Limited Feedback |
1992 | Richard | Cameron | Pronominal and Null Subject Variation in Spanish: Constraints, Dialects, and Functional Compensation |
2021 | Spencer | Caplan | The Immediacy of Linguistic Computation |
2020 | Andrea | Ceolin | Functionalism, Lexical Contrast and Sound Change |
1995 | Seo-Young | Chae | External Constraints on Sound Change: The Raising of /o/ in Seoul Korean |
2010 | Lucas | Champollion | Parts of a Whole: Distributivity as a Bridge Between Aspect and Measurement |
2019 | Nattanun | Chanchaochai | Language Profiles of Thai Children with Autism: Lexical, Grammatical, and Pragmatic Factors |
2005 | Anne | Charity | Dialect Variation in School Settings Among African-American Children of Low Socioeconomic Status |
2023 | Yiran | Chen | Regularization and probabilistic learning in the acquisition of linguistic variation |
2018 | Mao-Hsu | Chen | Tone Sandhi Phenomena in Taiwan Southern Min |
2017 | Sunghye | Cho | Development of Pitch Contrast and Seoul Korean Intonation |
2007 | Jinyoung | Choi | Free Choice and Negative Polarity: A Compositional Analysis of Korean Polarity Sensitive Items |
2005 | Jeff | Conn | Of “Moice” and Men: The Evolution of a Male-Led Sound Change |
2013 | Toni | Cook | Morphological and Phonological Structure in Zulu Reduplication |
1996 | Sharon | Cote | Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English |
2020 | Ava | Creemers | Morphological Processing and the Effects of Semantic Transparency |
2003 | Cassandra | Creswell | Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation |
2001 | Sean | Crist | Conspiracy In Historical Phonology |
2020 | Aletheia | Cui | The Emergence of Phonological Categories |
2006 | Susan | Das | The Banarasi Bhojpuri Verb System |
1996 | Elizabeth | Dayton | Grammatical Categories of the Verb in African American Vernacular English |
2011 | Ariel | Diertani | Morpheme Boundaries and Structural Change: Affixes Running Amok |
2000 | Alexis | Dimitriadis | Beyond Identity: Topics in Pronominal and Reciprocal Anaphora |
2009 | Aaron | Dinkin | Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York |
2019 | Kajsa | Djaerv | Factive and Assertive Attitude Reports |
1998 | Christine | Doran | Incorporating Punctuation into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective |
2015 | Aaron | Ecay | A Multi-Step Analysis of the Evolution of English Do-Support |
2011 | Aviad | Eilam | Explorations in the Informational Component |
1997 | David | Embick | Voice and the Interfaces of Syntax. |
2009 | Keelan | Evanini | The Permeability of Dialect Boundaries: A Case Study of the Region Surrounding Erie, Pennsylvania |
1995 | Shengli | Feng | Prosodic Structure and Prosodically Constrained Syntax in Chinese |
2018 | Sabriya | Fisher | Variation and change in past tense negation in African American English |
1993 | Josep | Fontana | Phrase Structure And The Syntax Of Clitics In The History Of Spanish |
2003 | Katherine | Forbes | Discourse Semantics of S-Modifying Adverbials |
1997 | Carmen | Fought | The English and Spanish of Young Adult Chicanos |
2006 | Michelle | Fox | Usage-Based Effects in Latin American Spanish Syllable-Final /s/ Lentition |
2019 | Aaron | Freeman | Rhotic Emphasis and Uvularization in Moroccan Arabic |
2014 | Lauren | Friedman | The St. Louis Corridor: Mixing, Competing, and Retreating Dialects |
2009 | Michael | Friesner | The Social and Linguistic Predictors of the Outcomes of Borrowing in the Speech Community of Montreal |
2013 | Josef | Fruehwald | The Phonological Influence on Phonetic Change |
2018 | Amy | Goodwin Davies | Morphological representations in lexical processing |
2013 | Kyle | Gorman | Generative Phonotactics |
2010 | Jonathan | Gress-Wright | Opacity and transparency in phonological change |
2018 | Gudrun | Gylfadottir | The Effective Borrowing of a Phonemic Contrast |
1991 | Niloofar | Haeri | Sociolinguistic Variation In Cairene Arabic: Palatalization And The Qaf In The Speech Of Men And Women |
2008 | Damien | Hall | A Sociolinguistic Study of the Regional French of Normandy |
1998 | Chung-hye | Han | The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar |
2006 | Na-Rae | Han | Korean Zero Pronouns: Analysis and Resolution |
2001 | Anita | Henderson | Is Your Money Where Your Mouth Is? Hiring Managers' Attitudes Toward African-American Vernacular English |
1990 | Ruth | Herold | Mechanisms Of Merger: The Implementation And Distribution Of The Low Back Merger In Eastern Pennsylvania. |
1991 | Caroline | Heycock | Layers Of Predication: The Non-Lexical Syntax Of Clauses |
1998 | Beth | Hockey | The Interpretation and Realization of Focus: An Experimental Investigation or Focus in English and Hungarian |
1997 | Soonhyun | Hong | Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity in Optimality Theory |
1996 | Shi-Zhe | Huang | Quantification and Predication in Mandarin Chinese: A Case Study of Dou |
2016 | Anton | Ingason | Realizing morphemes in the Icelandic noun phrase |
2019 | Ava | Irani | Learning From Positive Evidence: The Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure |
2018 | Helen | Jeoung | Optional Elements in Indonesian Morphosyntax |
2008 | Yoon-kyoung | Joh | Plurality and Distributivity |
2007 | Daniel | Johnson | Stability and Change Along a Dialect Boundary: The Low Vowels of Southeastern New England |
2020 | Taylor | Jones | Variation and African American English: The Great Migration and Regional Differentiation |
2003 | Elsi | Kaiser | The Quest for a Referent: A Crosslinguistic Look at Reference Resolution |
2023 | Alexandros | Kalomoiros | Presupposition and its (A-)symmetries |
1996 | Mark | Karan | The Dynamics of Language Spread: A Study of the Motivations and the Social Determinants of the Spread of Sango in the Republic of Central Africa |
1996 | Arturs | Karins | The Prosodic Structure of Latvian |
1991 | Rosemary | Kauffman | Parking Court: A Linguistic Analysis Of Instrumental Adaptation To Addressee, Time, Adversary, And Identity |
1995 | Jeong-Hwa | Kim | Linguistic Variation and Territorial Functioning: A Study of the Korean Honorific System |
2002 | Ronald | Kim | Topics in the Reconstruction and Development of Indo-European Accent |
2002 | Paul | Kingsbury | The Chronology of the Pali Canon: The Case of the Aorists |
2002 | Eon-Suk | Ko | The Phonology and Phonetics of Word Level Prosody and its Interaction With Phrase Level Prosody: A Study of Korean in Comparison to English |
2002 | Megumi | Kobayashi | A Quantitative Study of Accent Change and Variation in Tokyo Japanese: Focusing on Adjective and Nouns |
2000 | Masato | Kobayashi | Historical Phonology Of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants |
2020 | Jordan | Kodner | Language Acquisition in the Past |
2018 | Soohyun | Kwon | The development of glide deletion in Seoul Korean: A corpus and articulatory study |
2021 | Wei | Lai | The Online Adjustment of Speaker-Specific Phonetic Beliefs in Mulit-Speaker Speech Perception |
2012 | Catherine | Lai | Rises all the way up: The interpretation of prosody, discourse attitudes and dialogue structure |
1996 | Chang-Bong | Lee | Conditionals as a Discourse-Bound Entity: Pragmatics of Korean Conditionals |
2015 | Yong-cheol | Lee | Prosodic Focus Within and Across Languages |
2005 | Alan W. | Lee | Tone patterns of Kelantan Hokkien and Related Issues in Southern Min Tonology |
1993 | Young-Suk | Lee | Scrambling As Case-Driven Obligatory Movement |
2000 | Hikyoung | Lee | Korean Americans As Speakers Of English: The Acquisition Of General And Regional Features |
2016 | Marielle | Lerner | The aquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a Mexican immigrant community |
2012 | Caitlin R. | Light | The Syntax and Pragmatics of Fronting in Germanic. |
1995 | Richard | Lungstrum | Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse |
2012 | Laurel | MacKenzie | Locating Variation Above the Phonology. |
1993 | Linda | Maisel | Variation in Q'eqchi' (Q'eqchi' Mayan): Four compound deictic forms and their role in structuring discourse |
2006 | Sophia | Malamud | Semantics and Pragmatics of Arbitrariness |
1997 | Lou | Matossian | Burglars, Babysitters, and Persons: A Sociolinguistic Study of Generic Pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis |
1995 | Kenjiro | Matsuda | Variable Zero-Marking of (0) in Tokyo Japanese |
2009 | Laia | Mayol | Pronouns in Catalan: Information, Discourse and Strategy |
2004 | Thomas | McFadden | The Position of Morphological Case in the Derivation: A Study on the Syntax-Morphology Interface |
2014 | Brittany | McLaughlin | Animacy in Morphosyntactic Variation |
1997 | Miriam | Meyerhoff | "Be I No Gat": Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama |
1998 | Corey | Miller | Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Synthesis |
2003 | Eleni | Miltsakaki | The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure |
2000 | Christine | Moisset | Variable Liaison In Parisian French |
2009 | Jean-François | Mondon | The Nature of Homophony and its Effects on Diachrony and Synchrony |
2003 | Elise | Morse-Gagne | Viking Pronouns in England: Charting the Course of They, Their, and Them |
2005 | Thomas | Morton | Sociolinguistic variation and language change in El Palenque de San Basilio, Colombia |
1992 | Margaret | Moser | The Negation Relation: Semantic And Pragmatic Aspects Of A Relational Analysis Sentential Negation |
1996 | Naomi | Nagy | Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community |
2004 | Kimiko | Nakanishi | Domains of Measurement: Formal Properties of Non-Split/Split Quantifier Constructions |
1998 | Bruce | Nevin | Aspects of Pit River Phonology |
2012 | Giang Huong | Nguyen | Vietnamese Vowel System. |
2002 | Mary | O'Malley Madec | From the Centre to the Edge: The Social Contours and Linguistic Outcomes of Contact with English in an Irish Core and Peripheral Community |
2008 | Marjorie | Pak | The Postsyntactic Derivation and its Phonological Reflexes |
2000 | Roumyana | Pancheva-Izvorski | Free Relatives And Related Matters |
2023 | Lefteris | Paparounas | Voice from syntax to syncretism |
1992 | Peter | Patrick | Linguistic Variation In Urban Jamaican Creole: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Kingston, Jamaica |
1991 | Susan | Pintzuk | Phrase Structures In Competition: Variation And Change In Old English Word Order. |
2003 | Rashmi | Prasad | Constraints on the Generation of Referring Expressions, with Special Reference to Hindi |
2016 | Hilary | Prichard | The Role of Higher Education in Linguistic Change |
2021 | Ruaridh | Purse | The Role of Morphological Structure in Phonetic Variation |
2009 | Maya | Ravindranath | Language Shift and the Speech Community: Sociolinguistic Change in a Garifuna Community in Belize |
1994 | William | Reynolds | Variation and Phonological Theory |
2021 | Caitlin | Richter | Alternation-Sensitive Phoneme Learning: Implications For Children’s Development And Language Change |
1994 | Julie | Roberts | Acquisition of Variable Rules: (-t, d) Deletion and (ing) Production in Preschool Children |
2006 | Sergio | Romero | Sociolinguistic variation and linguistic history in Mayan: the case of K’ichee’ |
2006 | Ian | Ross | Games Interlocutors Play: New Adventures in Compositionality and Conversational Implicature |
1990 | Robin | Sabino | Towards a Phonology of Negerhollands: An Analysis of Phonological Variation. |
2005 | Tara | Sanchez | Constraints on Structural Borrowing in a Multilingual Contact Situation |
1991 | Otto | Santa Ana | Phonetic Simplification Processes in the English of the Barrio: A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles |
1989 | Beatrice | Santorini | The Generalization Of The Verb-Second Constraint In The History Of Yiddish |
1991 | Shobha | Satyanath | Variation And Change: (Daz) In Guyanese. |
2023 | Ollie | Sayeed | f vs θ |
2008 | Tatjana | Scheffler | Semantic Operators in Different Dimensions |
2003 | John | Schultz | Term Selection for Information Retrieval Applications |
2000 | Amanda | Seidl | Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory Of The Syntax-Phonology Interface |
2020 | Milena | Šereikaitė | Voice and Case Phenomena in Lithuanian morphosyntax |
2015 | Kobey | Shwayder | Words and Subwords: Phohology in a Piece-Based Syntactic Morphology |
2017 | Einar | Sigurdsson | Deriving case, agreement and voice phenomena in syntax. |
2018 | Betsy | Sneller | Mechanisms of Phonological Change |
2003 | Kieran | Snyder | The Relationship Between Form and Function in Ditransitive Constructions |
2017 | Gayeon | Son | Interactive development of FO as an acoustic cue for Korean stop contrast |
2008 | Augustin | Speyer | Topicalization and Clash Avoidance. On the Interaction of Prosody and Syntax in the History of English with a Few Spotlights on German |
2013 | Jon Scott | Stevens | Information Structure, Grammar & Strategy in Discourse. |
2013 | Yanyan | Sui | Phonological and Phonetic Evidence for Trochaic Metrical Structure in Standard Chinese. |
2014 | Meredith | Tamminga | Persistence in the Production of Linguistic Variation |
2010 | Joshua | Tauberer | Learning [voice] |
1990 | Ann | Taylor | Clitics and Configurationality in Ancient Greek. |
1990 | Asha | Tickoo | On Preposing and Word Order Rigidity. |
2005 | Victoria | Tredinnick | On the Semantics of Free Relatives With -Ever |
1995 | Umit | Turan | Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis |
1990 | Enric | Vallduvi | The Informational Component |
1991 | Thomas | Veatch | English Vowels: Their Surface Phonology And Phonetic Implementation In Vernacular Dialects |
2020 | Lacey | Wade | The Linguistic and the Social Intertwined: Linguistic Convergence Toward Southern Speech |
2008 | Suzanne | Wagner | Linguistic Change and Stabilization in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood |
1998 | Laura | Wagner | The Semantics and Acquisition of Time in Languge |
2009 | Joel | Wallenberg | Antisymmetry and the Conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and Phrase Structure in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective |
2021 | Yosiane | White | The Processing and Mental Representation of ING Variation |
2018 | Robert | Wilder | Investigating Hybrid Models of Speech Perception |
2005 | Alexander | Williams | Complex Causatives and Verbal Valence |
2020 | David | Wilson | A Concatenative Analysis of Diachronic Afro-Asiatic Morphology |
2007 | Jonathan | Wright | Laryngeal Contrast in Seoul Korean |
1991 | Raffaella | Zanuttini | Syntactic Properties Of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study Of Romance Languages. |
2020 | Hong | Zhang | The Distribution of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech: Empirical Observations and Theoretical Implications |
1995 | Ekaterina | Zubritskaya | The Categorical and Variable Phonology of Russian |