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Graduate Students Receiving M.A.'s Since 1990

Updated June 15th, 2009

    Phonetics/Phonology

    • Anuszewski, Patricia (1997)
      Regarding the Representation and Organization of the Nodes, Larynx and Tongue Root in a Three-Dimensional Manner
      Chair: Wiltshire
    • Brinson, Georgia A. (1995)
      Welsh Initial Mutations in Distributed Morphology
      Chair: Miller
    • Broce, Marlene (2000)
      A Sociolinguistics Study of Final Liquids in a Rural Panamanian Dialect
      Chair: Torres-Cacoullos
    • Chappell, Milla (2008)
      The Role of First-Language Transfer and Universal Markedness in Second-Language Production and Perception of Word-final Obstruents and Obstruent Clusters
      Chair: Wiltshire
    • Galloway, Guice (1993)
      Rhythmic Isomorphisms in Speech and Melody
      Chair: Hollien
    • Hansen, Kathryn (1998)
      Is There a Basis for Stree-Times Rhythm? Eight Languages Compared
      Chair: Thompson
    • Hendricks, Rodger (1997)
      Connectionist Modeling of Tone Spread in Mende
      Chair: Wiltshire
    • Hill, Rebecca (2001)
      Production and Perception of Authentic and Feigned Spanish Accent
      Chair: Wayland
    • Hufnagle, Daniel (2002)
      The Role of L1 Phonology in L2 Reading:  The Verification Hypothesis and Korean Learners of English
      Chair: Antes
    • Jernigan, Justin (1997)
      Tonal Phonology of Vietnamese Across Dialects
      Chair: Sullivan
    • Moon, Russell (2002)
      A comparison of the acoustic correlates of focus in Indian English and American English
      Chair: Wiltshire
    • Welch, William (2006)
      Aspects of Zarma (Songhay) Tonology
      Chair: Wiltshire

     

    Syntax/Semantics/Morphology

    • Bragdon, Janice (2006)
      Verb-Particle Nominals in English
      Chair: Miller
    • Chavez-Cappellini, Yolanda (2002)
      A linguistic analysis of the toponyms of the Tambo Valley and surrounds in Moquegua
      Chair: Hardman
    • King, Wayne (1994)
      Cognitive Analysis of Russian Aspect
      Chair: Achard
    • Lee, Hyeran (1992)
      Local Binding Nature of Korean Reflexives
      Chair: Miller
    • Mashuta, Aquilina (1997)
      The Linguistic Structure of Slang in Shona Discourses
      Chair: Hardman
    • McGhee, Gwena (1992)
      Lexical Parametrization in Japanese and English
      Chair: Miller
    • Monahan, Philip (2003)
      Backward Object Control in Korean
      Chair: Potsdam
    • Moroni, Beatriz (1994)
      From Iidiomaticity to Cognition: A Journey into the Synergy of Meanings
      Chair: Casagrande
    • Moyna, Maria (1996)
      The Evolution of Verbal Voseo in Rio de la Plata Spanish: Evidence from Plays and Popular Songs Between 1880 and 1930
      Chair: Miller
    • Resnick, Jodi (2003)
      Negative Inversion in Modern Hebrew
      Chair: Hatav
    • Uptagraft, Betty (1992)
      Some Problematic Aspects of Subject/Verb Agreement in English
      Chair: Thompson

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    Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis

    • Bogdan, David (1984)
      The Verb Systems of Russian and English in the Context of a Tripartite Narrative Structure
      Chair: Sullivan
    • Bouani, Annice (1995)
      The Impact of Temporal Perceptions on Cross-Cultural Communication in Moroccan-American Marriages
      Chair: Hardman
    • Bro, John (1991)
      Cues and Miscues: Comprehending Non-Native Discourse
      Chair: Tyler
    • Buehring, Audrey (2006)
      Framing in Political Discourse: Responding to Politicians as Parents
      Chair: LoCastro
    • Chitauro, Moreblessing (1995)
      Role and Status of the Shona Woman as Portrayed in the Language of a Shona Cultural Event
      Chair: Hardman
    • Fischer-Dorantes, Erica (2001)
      Language and Gender in Mexican Free Textbooks for the Fifth Grade of Elementary School
      Chair: Hardman
    • Jimenez, Melina (2007)
      "There's Just Kind of, Sort of a Symmetry to It": "Sort of" and "Kind of" as Used in The Lord of the Rings Movie Appendices
      Chair: Hardman
    • Mouat, Alex (2004)
      Pragmatic knowledge and subjective evaluation in the acquisition of English taboo language
      Chair: Boxer
    • Norris, Susanne (1994)
      A Discourse-Linking Model of the Malay Classifier
      Chair: Thompson
    • Organes, Rachel (2009)
      "If you do that again, I'm gonna be heartbroken": The Language of Jewish American Guilting.
      Chair: Boxer
    • Prieto, Victor (2001)
      The language of Prayer as a speech event in Spanish speaking communities
      Chair: Boxer
    • Regn, Karen (2004)
      "You Just Can Try":  The Use of Directives By International Teaching Assistants in a College Chemistry Laboratory
      Chair: Boxer
    • Sniad, Tamara (1998)
      Games with Face: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Cosmetic Sales
      Chair: Boxer
    • Stringer, Jeffrey (1993)
      Gender Narratives of Advanced ESL Students: A Methodology for Identifying Gendercentric Discourse
      Chair: Markel
    • Tyson, Melissa (2009)
      Don't Leave Them Behind: ELLs in the Wake of NCLB
      Chair: Boxer
    • Ukanhova, Margarita (2007)
      Reading between the lines: Analysis of frames in a text and its translation
      Chair: LoCastro
    • Wears, Sarah (2004)
      "Nonstandard orthographic representation:  direct quotation in the news"
      Chair: Wehmeyer
    • Zan, Qifeng (1994)
      Nushu--A Women's Writing System
      Chair: Hardman

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    Bilingualism / Second Language Acquisition

    • Castillo DeMelendez, Maria (1993)
      Spanish Influence in the English Used in Venezuela
      Chair: Thompson
    • Chu, Yuchi (1992)
      The Effects of the Small-Group Cooperative Learning Technique on the Attitude and Oral Performance of Chinese Children Learning English as a Foreign Language in Taiwan
      Chair: Thompson
    • Hashimoto, Tomomi (1999)
      Processing of Japanese Sentences with Relative Constructions by Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language
      Chair: Wehmeyer
    • Kirby, Emily (2008)
      Cooperative Learning and Learner Perceptions of Language Acquisition in College-Level ESL Classrooms
      Chair: LoCastro
    • Krassilova, Katherine (1996)
      Intolerance of Ambiguity as a Sex Related Variable in Second Language Acquisition
      Chair: Boxer
    • Kwon, Sun-Jin (2000)
      Paying and Responding to Compliments: A look at Korean ESL Learners
      Chair: Thompson
    • Litzenberg, Jason (2003)
      Yes/No-Question intonation of native speakers and international teaching assistants in academic discourse
      Chair: Boxer
    • Shinge, Manjula (2001)
      Interlocutor Familiarity in NNS-NNS Interaction
      Chair: Boxer

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    Sociolinguistics

    • Bittson, Genevieve (2007)
      Gender, Sex and the Sociolinguistic Variable
      Chair: Blondeau
    • Broce, Marlene (2000)
      A Sociolinguistics Study of Final Liquids in a Rural Panamanian Dialect
      Chair: Torres-Cacoullos
    • Chavez-Cappellini, Yolanda (2002)
      A linguistic analysis of the toponyms of the Tambo Valley and surrounds in Moquegua
      Chair: Hardman
    • Ford, Megan (2007)
      Teaching Strategies and Standardized Tests: The Effects on Educational Experiences of African American Vernacular English Speaking Students
      Chair: LoCastro
    • Habib, Rania (2005)
      The role of social factors, lexical borrowing and speech accomodation in the variation of [q] and [?] in the colloquial arabic of rural imgrant families in Hims, Syria
      Chair: Andrew Lynch
    • Mero, Samantha (2003)
      Language Usage in Guinea West Africa
      Chair: Hardman
    • Sayers, Addie (2002)
      Language and the Manipulation of Teen Women's Identity: Creating Deficiency, Subverting Agency and Devaluing Teen Women's Personhood on the Multiple Levels of Discourse in Teen Women's Magazines
      Chair: Hardman
    • Sniad, Tamara (1998)
      Games with Face: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Cosmetic Sales
      Chair: Boxer

    Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics

    • Barkley, Christopher M. (2007)
      Effects of semantic associateion on the resolution of coordination ambiguities
      Chair: Kaan
    • Chevalier, Nicole (2008)
      When things  do (not) refer: An fMRI study on anaphora in discourse
      Chair: Kaan
    • Dallas, Andrea C. (2004)
      The Role of Working Memory, Concurrent Load, and Syntactic Complexity in L2 Sentence Processing
      Chair: Wayland

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      Non-Thesis

      • Al-Balushi, Rashid Ali (2003)
        Chair: Halmari
      • Al-Khairy, Mohamed (2000)
        Chair: Der-Houssikian
      • Bajouda, Waleed (1996)
        Chair: Der-Houssikian
      • Bartels, Michelle (1998)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Bassi, Clementine (2005)
        Chair: Miller
      • Bergerson, Sara (2006)
        Chair: LoCastro
      • Blakemore, Heather (1998)
        Chair: Wehmeyer
      • Blue, Robert (2003)
        Chair: Wayland
      • Bocock, Traci (2005)
        Chair: Wehmeyer
      • Bray, Jodi (1998)
        Chair: Wiltshire
      • Csonka, LaTasha (2005)
        Chair: Wayland
      • Dilascio, Kristie (2006)
        Chair: Wayland
      • Dow, Kathleen (2002)
        Chair: Halmari
      • Ebbeler, Sheldon (2006)
        Chair: Potsdam
      • Evans, Vyvyan (1996)
        Chair: Sullivan
      • Feigenbaum, Kim (1996)
        Chair: Miller
      • Foresman, Kennedy (1996)
        Chair: Sullivan
      • Frank, Jonathan (2004)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Garrison, James (1999)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Gavrin, Jeong-a (1999)
        Chair: Wiltshire
      • Griggs, Amelia (1998)
        Chair: Wyatt-Brown
      • Hankins, David (1996)
        Chair: Wyatt-Brown
      • Harllee, Amanda (2003)
        Chair: Miller
      • Hess, Barbara (1999)
        Chair: Thompson
      • Hodge, Hilary (2006)
        Chair: LoCastro
      • Kesselman, Rachel (2006)
        Chair: Wayland
      • Kim-Park, Pu-Nahm (1999)
        Chair: Sullivan
      • Kline, James (2002)
        Chair: Wayland
      • Larson, James (2006)
        Chair: Miller
      • Lochwyn, Ted (2000)
        Chair: Wyatt-Brown
      • Lopez-Merino, Luli (2003)
        Chair: Lynch
      • Mantooth, Ashlee (2008)
        Chair: LoCastro
      • Mast, Brian (1996)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Michel, Daniel (2007)
        Chair: Potsdam
      • Mullins, Melanie (2004)
        Chair: Hardman
      • Nakumu, Masayo (2004)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Nidever, Eileen (1997)
        Chair: Casagrande
      • Paik, Kyong-OK (2003)
        Chair: Antes
      • Pierce, Valerie (1996)
        Chair: Casagrande
      • Principe, Natercia (1999)
        Chair: Sullivan
      • Schall, Tracy (2000)
        Chair: Thompson
      • Jeremy Scott (2002)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Shapiro, Leah (2005)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Smouse, Rose Manto (2004)
        Chair: Der-Houssikian
      • Stack, Allison (1999)
        Chair: Thompson
      • Stephens, Meridith (2004)
        Chair: Boxer
      • Swait, Carolyn (2002)
        Chair: Antes
      • Terranova, Elizabeth (2005)
        Chair:Boxer
      • Trickel, Kent (1997)
        Chair: Thompson
      • Walker, Charles (1998)
        Chair: Wyatt-Brown
      • Wilson, Debbie (1999)
        Chair: Sullivan
      • Witty, Sean (2008)
        Chair: McLaughlin
      • Ziliak, Zoe (2007)
        Chair: Antes

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