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Ph.D.
Ye Ma (2023)
Dissertation Title: The Processing of Aspectual Verbs in Mandarin Chinese
Dissertation Committee: Alan Beretta (Co-Chair), Brian Buccola (Co-Chair), Suzanne Wagner, Karthik Durvasula, Jason Moser
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Naiyan Du (2023)
Dissertation Title: Against strict correspondence between phonetic measurements and phonological representations
Dissertation Committee: Karthik Durvasula (Co-Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin (Co-chair), Silvina Bongiovanni, Suzanne Wagner
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Ho-Hsin Huang (2020)
Dissertation Title: To epenthesize or not? Segment insertion in Mandarin loanwords
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Chair), Alan Beretta, Karthik Durvasula, Suzanne Wagner, Anne Violin-Wigent
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chinese at Michigan State University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Kaylin Smith (2020)
Dissertation Title: Distinguishing different levels of representation in the acoustics: A case study in Scottish English epenthesis
Dissertation Committee: Karthik Durvasula (Co-Chair), Alan Beretta (Co-Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin, Jason Moser
Current Position: Data and Operations Analyst at Principle Asset Management
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Chenchen Xu (2020)
Dissertation Title: The phonology and phonetics of Rugao syllable contraction : vowel selection and deletion
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Chair), Karthik Durvasula, Suzanne Wagner, Anne Violin-Wigent
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Yan Cong (2020)
Dissertation Title: Competition in natural language meaning : the case of adjective constructions in Mandarin Chinese and beyond
Dissertation Committee: Brian Buccola (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Karthik Durvasula
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chinese and SLA at Purdue University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Mohamed Ruthan (2020)
Dissertation Title: Aspects of Jazani Arabic
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Co-Chair), Suzanne Wagner (Co-Chair), Karthik Durvasula, Brahim Chakrani
Current Position: Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Xiaomei Wang (2020)
Dissertation Title: Local identity and language attitude in standardization : evidence from Tianjin Chinese tone sandhi
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Co-Chair), Suzanne Wagner (Co-Chair), Karthik Durvasula, Deogratias Ngonyani, Anne Violin-Wigent
Current Position: Lecturer at Tianjin University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Ni-La Lê (2019)
Dissertation Title: Syntactic analysis and the acquisition of vietnamese pluralizers
Dissertation Committee: Cristina Schmitt (Chair), Alan Munn, Marcin Morzycki, Brian Buccola
Current Position: UX Researcher at Apple, Inc.
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Adam Gobeski (2019)
Dissertation Title: Factor phrases : the semantics of multiplicative modification of events, degrees, and nominals, and the grammar of arithmetic
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Co-Chair), Suzanne Wagner (Co-Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Andrew Trotter (2019)
Dissertation Title: Testing phonological representations through behavioral and electrophysiological methods
Dissertation Committee: Alan Beretta (Co-Chair), Karthik Durvasula (Co-Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin, Suzanne Wagner
Current Position: Data Reporting & Visualization Specialist at American Board of Emergency Medicine
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Danny Feldscher (2019)
Dissertation Title: Natural language addition via degrees, events, and focus
Dissertation Committee: Alan Munn (Chair), Marcin Morzycki, Cristina Schmitt, Karthik Durvasula
Current Position: Data Scientist at Amazon, Inc.
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Li-Jen Shih (2019)
Dissertation Title: The role of phonology and phonetics in the adaptation of English words into standard Chinese
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Anne Violin-Wigent
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Monica Nesbitt (2019)
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Internal Social change on Local Phonology
Dissertation Committee: Suzanne Wagner (Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin, Karthik Durvasula, Anne Violin-Wigent, Aaron Dinkin
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Hannah Forsythe (2018)
Dissertation Title: Discourse and grammatical cues in the acquisition of Spanish pronouns
Dissertation Committee: Cristina Schmitt (Chair), Alan Munn, Marcin Morzycki, Bill Van Patten
Current Position: Epidemiologist at Michigan Public Health Institute
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Kali Morris (2018)
Dissertation Title: Defaults and the theory of grammar
Dissertation Committee: Alan Munn (Chair), Marcin Morzycki, Cristina Schmitt, Suzanne Wagner
Current Position: Linguist at Appen Global
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Mingzhe Zheng (2018)
Dissertation Title: You have to learn to adapt : a sociolinguistic study of Chinese Americans in the “Asian city” of southeast Michigan
Dissertation Committee: Suzanne Wagner (Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin, Karthik Durvasula, Anne Violin-Wigent
Current Position: Lecturer of Chinese at University of California Berkeley
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Patrick Kelley (2018)
Dissertation Title: More people understand eschers than the linguist does: the causes and effects of grammatical illusions
Dissertation Committee: Alan Beretta (Chair), Marcin Morzycki, Yen-Hwei Lin, Karthik Durvasula
Current Position: Senior Technical Progam Manager at Amazon, Inc.
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Qian Luo (2018)
Dissertation Title: Consonantal Effects on F0 in Tonal Languages
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Co-Chair), Karthik Durvasula (Co-Chair), Suzanne Wagner, Alan Beretta, Anne Violin-Wigent
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Sayako Uehara (2018)
Dissertation Title: Word segmentation for Japanese and English speakers: language-independent and language-dependent cues
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Co-Chair), Karthik Durvasula (Co-Chair), Cristina Schmitt, Suzanne Wagner
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Japanese at Michigan State University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Ai Taniguchi (2017)
Dissertation Title: The Formal Pragmatics of Non-At-Issue Intensification in English and Japanese
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Mutsuko Endo-Hudson
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Linguistics at University of Toronto-Mississauga
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Curtis Anderson (2016)
Dissertation Title: Intensification and Attenuation Across Categories
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Alan Beretta
Current Position: Linguist at Gap International
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Joe Jalbert (2016)
Dissertation Title: Restricting sideward movement: the course of the derivation and the directionality of movement
Dissertation Committee: Alan Munn (Chair), Cristina Schmitt, Marcin Morzycki, Suzanne Wagner
Current Position: Senior Data Analyst at Ryder Supply Chain Solutions
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Jonathan Choti (2016)
Dissertation Title: Phonological (a)symmetries of nasal prefixes in Bantu
Dissertation Committee: Deogratias Ngonyani (Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin, Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt
Current Position: Assistant Professor of African Languages at Michigan State University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Ai Kubota (2015)
Dissertation Title: Adverbs of evaluation in Japanese : a conditional account
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Chair), Mutsuko Endo-Hudson, Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Chia-Hsin Yeh (2015)
Dissertation Title: Speech processing of Hai-lu Hakka falling tones and tone sandhi
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Chair), Cristina Schmitt, Alan Munn, Anne Violin-Wigent
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Ashley Hesson (2014)
Dissertation Title: Medically Speaking: co-variation as stylistic clustering within physician recommendations
Dissertation Committee: Suzanne Wagner (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Robert Smith, Gabriela Alfaraz
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Gregory Johnson II (2014)
Dissertation Title: Restructuring and infinitives : the view from Appalachia
Dissertation Committee: Alan Munn (Co-Chair), Cristina Schmitt (Co-Chair), Marcin Morzycki, Suzanne Wagner
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Jessica Gamache (2014)
Dissertation Title: The structure and meaning of compounds in child and adult grammars
Dissertation Committee: Cristina Schmitt (Chair), Alan Munn, Yen-Hwei Lin, Laura Dilley
Last updated: 04/09/2024
J. Daniel Hasty (2012)
Dissertation Title: This might could help us better understand syntactic variation: the double modal construction in Tennessee English
Dissertation Committee: Suzanne Wagner (Chair), Alan Munn, Gabriela Alfaraz, Carol Myers-Scotton
Current Position: Professor of Linguistics for the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Olga Eremina (2012)
Dissertation Title: The semantics of Russian indefinite pronouns : scope, domain widening, specificity, and proportionality and their interaction
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Alan Beretta
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Steve Johnson (2012)
Dissertation Title: Personality, gender, and the Northern Cities Shift
Dissertation Committee: Dennis Preston (Chair), Anne Violin-Wigent, Yen-Hwei Lin, Deogratias Ngonyani
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Chiung-Yao Wang (2011)
Dissertation Title: Children’s acquisition of Tone 3 Sandhi in Mandarin
Dissertation Committee: Cristina Schmitt (Co-Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin (Co-Chair), Alan Munn, Grover Hudson
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Irina Agafonova (2011)
Dissertation Title: On syntax, alternative semantics, and computation in coordination
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Chair), Yen-Hwei Lin, Alan Beretta, John Hale
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Mahmoud Al-Mahmoud (2011)
Dissertation Title: Markedness in the perception of L2 English consonant clusters
Dissertation Committee: Yen-Hwei Lin (Chair), Grover Hudson, Deogratias Ngonyani, Anne Violin-Wigent
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Jaclyn Ocumpaugh (2010)
Dissertation Title: Regional variation in Chicano English : incipient dialect formation among L1 and L2 speakers in Benton Harbor, MI
Dissertation Committee: Dennis Preston (Chair), Barbara Abbott, Yen-Hwei Lin, Brad Rakerd
Last updated: 04/09/2024
Matthew Husband (2010)
Dissertation Title: On the compositional nature of stativity
Dissertation Committee: Marcin Morzycki (Chair), Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, Alan Beretta
Current Position: Associate Professor in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford
Last updated: 04/09/2024