Doctoral Alumni
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.
Recent dissertations are available in open access format here
| Year | Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ugurcan Vurgun | From Words to Worlds: Telicity and the Malleability of Event Representations |
| 2024 | Daoxin Li | Distributional learning of syntactic generalizations |
| 2024 | Gwendolyn Hildebrandt | Distributional cues to syntactic structure: case studies in Korean |
| 2024 | Aini Li | Inferring dynamics of sociolinguistic variation in speech perception |
| 2024 | George Balabanian | A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology |
| 2023 | Ollie Sayeed | f vs θ |
| 2023 | Lefteris Paparounas | Voice from syntax to syncretism |
| 2023 | Alexandros Kalomoiros | Presupposition and its (A-)symmetries |
| 2023 | Yiran Chen | Regularization and probabilistic learning in the acquisition of linguistic variation |
| 2023 | Ryan Budnick | Learning Grammar Distributions with Limited Feedback |
| 2022 | Nikita Bezrukov | Caucasus In Motion: Dynamic Wordhood And Morpheme Positioning In Armenian And Beyond |
| 2021 | Yosiane White | The Processing and Mental Representation of ING Variation |
| 2021 | Caitlin Richter | Alternation-Sensitive Phoneme Learning: Implications For Children’s Development And Language Change |
| 2021 | Ruaridh Purse | The Role of Morphological Structure in Phonetic Variation |
| 2021 | Wei Lai | The Online Adjustment of Speaker-Specific Phonetic Beliefs in Mulit-Speaker Speech Perception |
| 2021 | Spencer Caplan | The Immediacy of Linguistic Computation |
| 2021 | Faruk Akkus | (Implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice and Causatives |
| 2020 | Hong Zhang | The Distribution of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech: Empirical Observations and Theoretical Implications |
| 2020 | David Wilson | A Concatenative Analysis of Diachronic Afro-Asiatic Morphology |
| 2020 | Lacey Wade | The Linguistic and the Social Intertwined: Linguistic Convergence Toward Southern Speech |
| 2020 | Milena Šereikaitė | Voice and Case Phenomena in Lithuanian morphosyntax |
| 2020 | Jordan Kodner | Language Acquisition in the Past |
| 2020 | Taylor Jones | Variation and African American English: The Great Migration and Regional Differentiation |
| 2020 | Aletheia Cui | The Emergence of Phonological Categories |
| 2020 | Ava Creemers | Morphological Processing and the Effects of Semantic Transparency |
| 2020 | Andrea Ceolin | Functionalism, Lexical Contrast and Sound Change |
| 2019 | Ava Irani | Learning From Positive Evidence: The Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure |
| 2019 | Aaron Freeman | Rhotic Emphasis and Uvularization in Moroccan Arabic |
| 2019 | Kajsa Djaerv | Factive and Assertive Attitude Reports |
| 2019 | Nattanun Chanchaochai | Language Profiles of Thai Children with Autism: Lexical, Grammatical, and Pragmatic Factors |
| 2019 | Luke Adamson | Derivational Trapping and The Morphosyntax of Inflectionlessness |
| 2018 | Betsy Sneller | Mechanisms of Phonological Change |
| 2018 | Robert Wilder | Investigating Hybrid Models of Speech Perception |
| 2018 | Soohyun Kwon | The development of glide deletion in Seoul Korean: A corpus and articulatory study |
| 2018 | Amy Goodwin Davies | Morphological representations in lexical processing |
| 2018 | Sabriya Fisher | Variation and change in past tense negation in African American English |
| 2018 | Mao-Hsu Chen | Tone Sandhi Phenomena in Taiwan Southern Min |
| 2018 | Helen Jeoung | Optional Elements in Indonesian Morphosyntax |
| 2018 | Gudrun Gylfadottir | The Effective Borrowing of a Phonemic Contrast |
| 2017 | Einar Sigurdsson | Deriving case, agreement and voice phenomena in syntax. |
| 2017 | Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin | Parameterising Germanic ditransitive variation: a historical-comparative study |
| 2017 | Gayeon Son | Interactive development of FO as an acoustic cue for Korean stop contrast |
| 2017 | Sunghye Cho | Development of Pitch Contrast and Seoul Korean Intonation |
| 2016 | Marielle Lerner | The aquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a Mexican immigrant community |
| 2016 | Hilary Prichard | The Role of Higher Education in Linguistic Change |
| 2016 | Anton Ingason | Realizing morphemes in the Icelandic noun phrase |
| 2015 | Chris Ahern | Cycles and Stability in Linguistic Signaling |
| 2015 | Yong-cheol Lee | Prosodic Focus Within and Across Languages |
| 2015 | Kobey Shwayder | Words and Subwords: Phohology in a Piece-Based Syntactic Morphology |
| 2015 | Aaron Ecay | A Multi-Step Analysis of the Evolution of English Do-Support |
| 2014 | Lauren Friedman | The St. Louis Corridor: Mixing, Competing, and Retreating Dialects |
| 2014 | Meredith Tamminga | Persistence in the Production of Linguistic Variation |
| 2014 | Brittany McLaughlin | Animacy in Morphosyntactic Variation |
| 2014 | Dimka Atanassov | Processing Strategies for Scalar Implicatures |
| 2013 | Toni Cook | Morphological and Phonological Structure in Zulu Reduplication |
| 2013 | Josef Fruehwald | The Phonological Influence on Phonetic Change |
| 2013 | Yanyan Sui | Phonological and Phonetic Evidence for Trochaic Metrical Structure in Standard Chinese. |
| 2013 | Kyle Gorman | Generative Phonotactics |
| 2013 | Jon Scott Stevens | Information Structure, Grammar & Strategy in Discourse. |
| 2012 | Caitlin R. Light | The Syntax and Pragmatics of Fronting in Germanic. |
| 2012 | Giang Huong Nguyen | Vietnamese Vowel System. |
| 2012 | Laurel MacKenzie | Locating Variation Above the Phonology. |
| 2012 | Catherine Lai | Rises all the way up: The interpretation of prosody, discourse attitudes and dialogue structure |
| 2011 | Aviad Eilam | Explorations in the Informational Component |
| 2011 | Ariel Diertani | Morpheme Boundaries and Structural Change: Affixes Running Amok |
| 2010 | Joshua Tauberer | Learning [voice] |
| 2010 | Jonathan Gress-Wright | Opacity and transparency in phonological change |
| 2010 | Lucas Champollion | Parts of a Whole: Distributivity as a Bridge Between Aspect and Measurement |
| 2009 | Joel Wallenberg | Antisymmetry and the Conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and Phrase Structure in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective |
| 2009 | Maya Ravindranath | Language Shift and the Speech Community: Sociolinguistic Change in a Garifuna Community in Belize |
| 2009 | Jean-François Mondon | The Nature of Homophony and its Effects on Diachrony and Synchrony |
| 2009 | Laia Mayol | Pronouns in Catalan: Information, Discourse and Strategy |
| 2009 | Michael Friesner | The Social and Linguistic Predictors of the Outcomes of Borrowing in the Speech Community of Montreal |
| 2009 | Keelan Evanini | The Permeability of Dialect Boundaries: A Case Study of the Region Surrounding Erie, Pennsylvania |
| 2009 | Aaron Dinkin | Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York |
| 2008 | Suzanne Wagner | Linguistic Change and Stabilization in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood |
| 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 |
| 2008 | Tatjana Scheffler | Semantic Operators in Different Dimensions |
| 2008 | Marjorie Pak | The Postsyntactic Derivation and its Phonological Reflexes |
| 2008 | Yoon-kyoung Joh | Plurality and Distributivity |
| 2008 | Damien Hall | A Sociolinguistic Study of the Regional French of Normandy |
| 2008 | Lukasz Abramowicz | Socioeconomic Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Polish |
| 2007 | Jonathan Wright | Laryngeal Contrast in Seoul Korean |
| 2007 | Daniel Johnson | Stability and Change Along a Dialect Boundary: The Low Vowels of Southeastern New England |
| 2007 | Jinyoung Choi | Free Choice and Negative Polarity: A Compositional Analysis of Korean Polarity Sensitive Items |
| 2007 | Sudha Arunachalam | Early Verb Representations |
| 2006 | Sophia Malamud | Semantics and Pragmatics of Arbitrariness |
| 2006 | Ian Ross | Games Interlocutors Play: New Adventures in Compositionality and Conversational Implicature |
| 2006 | Sergio Romero | Sociolinguistic variation and linguistic history in Mayan: the case of K’ichee’ |
| 2006 | Na-Rae Han | Korean Zero Pronouns: Analysis and Resolution |
| 2006 | Michelle Fox | Usage-Based Effects in Latin American Spanish Syllable-Final /s/ Lentition |
| 2006 | Susan Das | The Banarasi Bhojpuri Verb System |
| 2006 | Maciej Baranowski | Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, SC |
| 2005 | Alan W. Lee | Tone patterns of Kelantan Hokkien and Related Issues in Southern Min Tonology |
| 2005 | Alexander Williams | Complex Causatives and Verbal Valence |
| 2005 | Victoria Tredinnick | On the Semantics of Free Relatives With -Ever |
| 2005 | Tara Sanchez | Constraints on Structural Borrowing in a Multilingual Contact Situation |
| 2005 | Thomas Morton | Sociolinguistic variation and language change in El Palenque de San Basilio, Colombia |
| 2005 | Jeff Conn | Of “Moice” and Men: The Evolution of a Male-Led Sound Change |
| 2005 | Anne Charity | Dialect Variation in School Settings Among African-American Children of Low Socioeconomic Status |
| 2004 | Kimiko Nakanishi | Domains of Measurement: Formal Properties of Non-Split/Split Quantifier Constructions |
| 2004 | Thomas McFadden | The Position of Morphological Case in the Derivation: A Study on the Syntax-Morphology Interface |
| 2003 | Kieran Snyder | The Relationship Between Form and Function in Ditransitive Constructions |
| 2003 | John Schultz | Term Selection for Information Retrieval Applications |
| 2003 | Rashmi Prasad | Constraints on the Generation of Referring Expressions, with Special Reference to Hindi |
| 2003 | Elise Morse-Gagne | Viking Pronouns in England: Charting the Course of They, Their, and Them |
| 2003 | Eleni Miltsakaki | The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure |
| 2003 | Elsi Kaiser | The Quest for a Referent: A Crosslinguistic Look at Reference Resolution |
| 2003 | Katherine Forbes | Discourse Semantics of S-Modifying Adverbials |
| 2003 | Cassandra Creswell | Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation |
| 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 |
| 2002 | Megumi Kobayashi | A Quantitative Study of Accent Change and Variation in Tokyo Japanese: Focusing on Adjective and Nouns |
| 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 | Paul Kingsbury | The Chronology of the Pali Canon: The Case of the Aorists |
| 2002 | Ronald Kim | Topics in the Reconstruction and Development of Indo-European Accent |
| 2001 | Anita Henderson | Is Your Money Where Your Mouth Is? Hiring Managers' Attitudes Toward African-American Vernacular English |
| 2001 | Sean Crist | Conspiracy In Historical Phonology |
| 2000 | Amanda Seidl | Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory Of The Syntax-Phonology Interface |
| 2000 | Roumyana Pancheva-Izvorski | Free Relatives And Related Matters |
| 2000 | Christine Moisset | Variable Liaison In Parisian French |
| 2000 | Hikyoung Lee | Korean Americans As Speakers Of English: The Acquisition Of General And Regional Features |
| 2000 | Masato Kobayashi | Historical Phonology Of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants |
| 2000 | Alexis Dimitriadis | Beyond Identity: Topics in Pronominal and Reciprocal Anaphora |
| 2000 | David Bowie | The Effect Of Geographic Mobility On The Retention Of A Local Dialect |
| 2000 | Nadia Biassou | The Neural Encoding Of Lexical Perception In The Human Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study |
| 1999 | Rajesh Bhatt | Covert Modality In Non-Finite Contexts |
| 1998 | Laura Wagner | The Semantics and Acquisition of Time in Languge |
| 1998 | Bruce Nevin | Aspects of Pit River Phonology |
| 1998 | Corey Miller | Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Synthesis |
| 1998 | Beth Hockey | The Interpretation and Realization of Focus: An Experimental Investigation or Focus in English and Hungarian |
| 1998 | Chung-hye Han | The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar |
| 1998 | Christine Doran | Incorporating Punctuation into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective |
| 1997 | David Embick | Voice and the Interfaces of Syntax. |
| 1997 | Miriam Meyerhoff | "Be I No Gat": Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama |
| 1997 | Lou Matossian | Burglars, Babysitters, and Persons: A Sociolinguistic Study of Generic Pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis |
| 1997 | Soonhyun Hong | Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity in Optimality Theory |
| 1997 | Carmen Fought | The English and Spanish of Young Adult Chicanos |
| 1997 | Charles Boberg | Variation and Change in the Nativization of Foreign (a) in English |
| 1996 | Naomi Nagy | Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community |
| 1996 | Chang-Bong Lee | Conditionals as a Discourse-Bound Entity: Pragmatics of Korean Conditionals |
| 1996 | Arturs Karins | The Prosodic Structure of Latvian |
| 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 | Shi-Zhe Huang | Quantification and Predication in Mandarin Chinese: A Case Study of Dou |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Dayton | Grammatical Categories of the Verb in African American Vernacular English |
| 1996 | Sharon Cote | Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English |
| 1995 | Ekaterina Zubritskaya | The Categorical and Variable Phonology of Russian |
| 1995 | Umit Turan | Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis |
| 1995 | Kenjiro Matsuda | Variable Zero-Marking of (0) in Tokyo Japanese |
| 1995 | Richard Lungstrum | Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse |
| 1995 | Jeong-Hwa Kim | Linguistic Variation and Territorial Functioning: A Study of the Korean Honorific System |
| 1995 | Shengli Feng | Prosodic Structure and Prosodically Constrained Syntax in Chinese |
| 1995 | Seo-Young Chae | External Constraints on Sound Change: The Raising of /o/ in Seoul Korean |
| 1994 | Julie Roberts | Acquisition of Variable Rules: (-t, d) Deletion and (ing) Production in Preschool Children |
| 1994 | William Reynolds | Variation and Phonological Theory |
| 1994 | Julie Auger | Pronominal Clitics in Quebec Colloquial French: A Morphological Analysis |
| 1993 | Linda Maisel | Variation in Q'eqchi' (Q'eqchi' Mayan): Four compound deictic forms and their role in structuring discourse |
| 1993 | Young-Suk Lee | Scrambling As Case-Driven Obligatory Movement |
| 1993 | Josep Fontana | Phrase Structure And The Syntax Of Clitics In The History Of Spanish |
| 1992 | Peter Patrick | Linguistic Variation In Urban Jamaican Creole: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Kingston, Jamaica |
| 1992 | Margaret Moser | The Negation Relation: Semantic And Pragmatic Aspects Of A Relational Analysis Sentential Negation |
| 1992 | Richard Cameron | Pronominal and Null Subject Variation in Spanish: Constraints, Dialects, and Functional Compensation |
| 1991 | Otto Santa Ana | Phonetic Simplification Processes in the English of the Barrio: A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles |
| 1991 | Susan Pintzuk | Phrase Structures In Competition: Variation And Change In Old English Word Order. |
| 1991 | Rosemary Kauffman | Parking Court: A Linguistic Analysis Of Instrumental Adaptation To Addressee, Time, Adversary, And Identity |
| 1991 | Caroline Heycock | Layers Of Predication: The Non-Lexical Syntax Of Clauses |
| 1991 | Niloofar Haeri | Sociolinguistic Variation In Cairene Arabic: Palatalization And The Qaf In The Speech Of Men And Women |
| 1991 | Robert Belnap | Grammatical Agreement Variation In Cairene Arabic |
| 1991 | Catherine Ball | The Historical Development Of The It-Cleft |
| 1991 | Raffaella Zanuttini | Syntactic Properties Of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study Of Romance Languages. |
| 1991 | Shobha Satyanath | Variation And Change: (Daz) In Guyanese. |
| 1991 | Thomas Veatch | English Vowels: Their Surface Phonology And Phonetic Implementation In Vernacular Dialects |
| 1990 | Ann Taylor | Clitics and Configurationality in Ancient Greek. |
| 1990 | Robin Sabino | Towards a Phonology of Negerhollands: An Analysis of Phonological Variation. |
| 1990 | Ruth Herold | Mechanisms Of Merger: The Implementation And Distribution Of The Low Back Merger In Eastern Pennsylvania. |
| 1990 | Enric Vallduvi | The Informational Component |
| 1990 | Asha Tickoo | On Preposing and Word Order Rigidity. |
| 1989 | Beatrice Santorini | The Generalization Of The Verb-Second Constraint In The History Of Yiddish |