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Graduate Students Receiving Ph.D.'s Since 1990

Updated November 28, 2005

Phonetics/Phonology

  • Al-Khairy, Mohamed (2005)
    Acoustic characteristics of Arabic fricatives
    Chair: Wayland
  • Bray, Jodi (2001)
    Defining Sonority:  A Phonetics/Phonology Account of the Sonority Sequencing Principle
    Chair: Wiltshire
  • DeJong, Gea (1998)
    Ear Witness Characteristics and Speaker Identification
    Chair: Hollien
  • Jefferies, Ann A. (1990)
    Beyond Tone: Function of Pitch in Shona
    Chair: Der-Houssikian
  • Li, Bin (2006)
    Production and Perception of English /n/ and /l/ by Chinese Dialect Speakers
    Chair: Wayland
  • Pickering, Lucy (1999)
    The Analysis of Prosodic Systems in the Classroom discourse of Native Speaker and Nonnative Speaker Teaching Assistants
    Chair: Boxer
  • Sawallis, Thomas R. (1996)
    An Autonomous System for Quantifying the Perceptual Use of Acoustic Speech Cues: Voicing in Intervocalic/Ind/ in French
    Chair: Sullivan

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Syntax/Semantics/Morphology

  • Ajani, Timothy (2001)
    Aspect in Yoruba and Nigerian English
    Chair: Hardman
  • Almeida, Marta (1999)
    Compound Word in Portuguese
    Chair: Miller
  • Belyayeva, Dinah (1997)
    A Model of Conceptual Structure Mapping
    Chair: Sullivan
  • Boutin, Michael (1994)
    Aspect in Bonggi
    Chair: Der-Houssikian
  • Haddad, Youssef (2007)
    Adjunct Control in Telugu and Assamese
    Chair: Potsdam
  • Hu, Mingliang (1991)
    Function of Word Order in Mandarin Chinese
    Chair: Chu
  • Kang, Seung-Man (1998)
    The Syntax and Morphology of Default Case
    Chair: Miller
  • Kim, Insoo (1992)
    On the Condition of Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments in Korean
    Chair: Lipski
  • Kwon, Yeon-Jin (1993)
    LF Movement, Licensing, and Clausal Structure in Korean
    Chair: Miller
  • Lee, Hyeran (1997)
    A Feature-Based Account of Long-Distance Anaphora
    Chair: Mohammad
  • Liu, Lening (1996)
    The Grammaticalization of Chinese Conjunctive Adverbs
    Chair: Chu
  • Matsuzaki, Toru (2001)
    Verb Meanings and Teir Effects of Syntactic Behaviors: A Study with Special Reference to English and Japanese
    Chair: Wehmeyer
  • Miller, Miroslawa (1995)
    Verbal Clitic Movement in Polish-Expanded Agr Phrase in the Minimalistic Program Perspective
    Chair: Miller
  • Moyna, Irene (2000)
    Compounding in Spanish: Patterns and Changes
    Chair: Miller
  • Schafer, Michelle (1998)
    The Asymmetry Principle: A Functional Investigation of Transitivity Topic-Comment Structuring in English
    Chair: Chu
  • Tyler, Leslie J. (1999)
    The Syntax and Semantics of Zero Verbs: A Minimalist Approach
    Chair: Wehmeyer
  • Williams, Patrice D. (1991)
    Tense-Aspect in African-American English: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
    Chair: Der-Houssikian

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Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis

  • Beers, Kristy (2000)
    A Descriptive Analysis of the Social Functions of Swearing in American English
    Chair: Boxer
  • Bogdan, David R. (1998)
    Discourse Functions of Tense and Aspect in Polish and Japanese Narrative
    Chair: Sullivan
  • Cook, Leilani Christine (1995)
    How Charms Work: A Pragmatics Approach to Old, Middle, and Modern English Charms
    Chairs: Thompson/Nelson
  • Kim, Jinkyoung (1996)
    Negations in Korean: A Functional/Discourse Approach
    Chair: Chu
  • McGarry, Richard G. (1990)
    Evaluating Interethnic Conflict in the Press: A Cross-Linguistic Discourse Analysis
    Chair: Der-Houssikian
  • Nelms, Jodi (2001)
    A Descriptive Analysis of the Uses and Functions of Sarcasm in the Discourse of Higher Education
    Chair: Boxer
  • Simpson, JoEllen M. (1994)
    A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Filled Pauses Among Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
    Chair: Thompson
  • Wu, Dongying (1994)
    Chinese Display Advertisements and Register Variation
    Burns
  • Yang, Changyong (2001)
    Topicality in Korean - A Discourse Functional Approach: A case of -nun, -nuntey, and -isscanha
    Chair: Chu
  • Yoo, Beom (1995)
    Discourse Makers So and Now and Organizational Meta-Talk of American English by Native and Korean Speakers
    Chair: Tyler

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Bilingualism / Second Language Acquisition

  • Al-Mansour, Nasser (1998)
    Linguistic Constraints on Code-Switching: a Case Study of Saudi Spoken-Arabic-English Code-Switching
    Chair: Der-Houssikian
  • Alvarado, Christine S. (1990)
    Discourse Styles and Interactive Tasks in the Classroom Acquisition of English as a Second Language
    Chair: DeBeaugrande
  • Amoako, Joe (1992)
    Ghanaian Pidgin English: In Search of Diachronic, Synchronic, and Sociolinguistic Evidence
    Chair: Burns
  • Cheng, Zhaohui (2000)
    Word Structure and Vocabulary Acquisition: Theory and Application to Mandarin Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language
    Chair: Chu
  • Dutra, Deise P. (1998)
    The Acquisition of English Root Modality by Non-Native Speakers
    Chair: Achard
  • Graham, William R. (1997)
    Bay Islands English: Linguistic Contact and Convergence in the Western Caribbean
    Chair: Burns
  • Ha, Jongbum (2005)
    Developing English Determiners through Internet Chat: An Experiment with Kroean EFL Students
    Chair: Thompson
  • Kim, Hye-Ryun (1993)
    First and Second Language Acquisition of Binding: An Investigation of Korean-Speaking Children and Korean Adult Learners of English
    Chair: Tyler
  • Kwon, Sunhee (2006)
    The Role of Output and Task Design on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
    Chair: Thompson
  • Maranzana, Elisa (1997)
    Toward a Theory of Reading Acquisition as an Interface of Implicit and Explicity Learning
    Chair: Miller
  • Ojeda, Jeanna Howell (2004)
    English as a Second Language Writing Revisited: Grading Timed Essay Responses for Overall Quality and Global Assets
    Chair: Wyatt-Brown
  • Park, Hee-Nam (2005)
    Second language reading: the interrelationships among text adjuncts, students' proficiency levels and reading strategies
    Chair: Wayland
  • Thoren, Krista (1993)
    Salience of Errors to Learners of French: Toward a Characterization of Salience in Second language Acquisition
    Chair: Birdsong
  • Vines, Joe E. (1997)
    An Assessment of the effects of Computer-Based Writing Instruction Upon TESL
    Chair: Thompson
  • Yeon, Sang-Hee (2004)
    Teaching English word-final alveolopalatals to native speakers of Korean
    Chair: Wayland
  • Zimmerman, Kate (2005)
    Female discourses: powerful and powerless speech in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur
    Chair: Boxer
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Sociolinguistics

  • Prieto, Victor (2005)
    Spanish evaluative morphology[electronic resource]: pragmatic, sociolinguistic, and semantic issues
    Chair: Boxer

 

Forensic Linguistics

  • Linfoot, Kerry (2007)
    Forensic linguistics, first-contact police interviews, and basic officer training
    Chair: Hardman

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