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Recently-Defended Ph.D.s
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2019
- Phillip Weirich. “Explorations of Dialect Perception in Indiana”
- Narges Nematollahi. “The Iranian Epistolary Tradition: Origins and Developments (6th Century BCE to 7th Century CE)”
- Yilmaz Koylu. “Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English”
- Yu-Jung Lin. “Where did the Glide Glide into? Perceiving Mandarin Syllable Structure”
- Dua’a Abu Elhija Mahajna. “A Study of Loanwords and Code Switching in Spoken and Online Written Arabic by Palestinian Israelis”
- Jun-Eun Choi. “The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in L2 Acquisition of Korean Case, Topic and Focus Particles”
- Chisato Kojima. “Lexical Encoding of Length Contrasts in Learners of Japanese as a Second Language”
- David Tezil. “A Variationist Study of the Haitian Postposed Determiner LA in Non-nasal Contexts”
2018
- Mamdouh Zaal M. Alhuwaykim. “Aspects of the Phonology of a Northwestern Saudi Arabian Dialect: an Optimality Theoretic Analysis”
- Anthony Meyer. “A Multilinear Approach to the Unsupervised Learning of Morphology”
- Vitor Leongue. “Structural Evolution of the Tibetan Syllable: a Cross-dialectal Study”
- Charese Smiley. “Native Language Identification using Phonetic Algorithms”
- Daniel Dakota. “Using Distributional Word Representation for the Statistical Constituency Parsing of German”
- Taiwo Ehineni. “A Morphophonological, Morphosyntactic and Ethnopragmatic Study of Yoruba Personal Names”
Anderson, Jonathan |
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Aspects of the Phonetics and Phonology of Speech Rhythm in Akan (Asante-Twi) |
Diakite, Boubacar |
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Topics in Nko Prosodic Phonology |
Ngone Diouf, Fabienne |
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Urban Wolof Loanword Phonology |
Montano, Francisco A. |
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An Optimality- eoretic Split-Margin Analysis of the Evolution of Historical French Phonology |
Regier, Kirsten |
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Duration Modulation in English and Spanish Vowels: Dynamic Time Warping as a Tool in Acoustic Phonetics |
Alshammari, Wafi |
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Development of and Accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic: Verbal and Pronominal Form Selection |
Bongiovanni, Silvina |
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Production of Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization and Word- nal Nasal Consonants in Two Dialects of Spanish |
Alahmari, Musa |
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An Optimality- eoretic Analysis of some Aspects of the Phonology and Morphology in a Southwestern Saudi Arabian Arabic Dialect |
2017
Sowers-Wills, Sara |
5/10/2017 |
Schema Thoery as Support for Templatic Analysis in a Dynamic Systems Theory Approach to Early Phonological Development |
Al-Raba’a, Basem |
5/4/2017 |
Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Arabic |
2016
Herring, Joshua |
11/15/2016 |
Grammar Construction in the Minimalist Program |
Washington, Jonathan |
6/29/2016 |
An Investigation of Vowel Anteriority in Three Turkic Languages Using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging |
Kaden, Christiane |
3/10/2016 |
Lengthenings and Shortenings in Germanic |
2015
Rice, Heather |
12/4/2015 |
Perceptual Acquisition of Secondary Palatalization in L2: Strengthening the Bonds between Identification and Discrimination with Multi-sequence Category Mapping |
Trennepohl-Ewusi, Kelly |
11/4/2015 |
Communicational Strategies in Ghanian Pidgin English: Turn-taking, Overlap, and Repair |
Kostakis, Andrew |
10/2/2015 |
Height, Frontness and the Special Status of /x/, /r/, and /l/ in Germanic Language History |
Zanon, Ksenia |
6/24/2015 |
On Hybrid Coordination and Quantifier Raising in Russian |
Albin, Aaron |
5/14/2015 |
Typologizing native language influence on intonation in a second language: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners |
Scrivner, Olga |
5/6/2015 |
Probabilistic Approach in Historical Linguistics: Word Order Change in Infinitival Clauses, from Latin to Old French |
Yang, Chung-Lin |
3/10/2015 |
Phonological variation and L2 word learning: The role of orthography in word recognition and production. |
2014
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad |
12/1/2014 |
Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Arabic as a Morphologically-Rich Language |
Dow, Michael C. |
10/2/2014 |
Contrast and Markedness Among Nasal(ized) Vowels: A Phonetic-Phonological Study of French and Vimeu Picard |
Rankinen, Wil |
7/18/2014 |
The Sociophonetic and Acoustic Vowel Dynamic of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula English |
Ebarb, Kris |
6/23/2014 |
Tone and Variation in Idakho and Other Luhya Varieties |
Tamati, Terrin |
6/20/2014 |
Individual and Group Difference in the Perception of Regional Dialect Variation in a Second Language |
Ragheb, Marwa |
6/13/2014 |
Building a Syntactically-Annotated Corpus of Learner English |
Mazrui, Abdulwahid |
5/6/2014 |
The Challenges of Language Planning and Language Policy in Tanzania: Investigating Language Attitudes and Language Shifts in Zanzibar |
Israel, Ross |
4/11/2014 |
Building a Korean Particle Error Detection System from the Ground up |
2013
Siegel, Jason F. |
12/9/2013 |
Non oblije pale mo-to: Code-switching between Haitian and Guianese French Creoles and their lexifer in French Guiana |
Gradoville, Michael |
8/14/2013 |
A Comparative Usage-Based Approach to the Reduction of the Spanish and Portuguese Preposition para |
Casserly, Elizabeth D. |
6/24/2013 |
Effects of Real-Time Cochlear Implant Simulation on Speech Perception and Production |
Hantgan, Abbie |
6/5/2013 |
Aspects of Bangime Phonology and Morphology |
Hsu, Yu-Yin |
4/5/2013 |
The Interaction of Information Structure and Syntactic Representation in Chinese |
Shimunek, Andrew |
2/19/2013 |
The Serbi-Mongolic Language Family: Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Old Mandarin, and Old Tibetan Records on the Hsien-pei (Xianbei) Languages and their Relationship to Mongolic, with Notes on Chinese Phonology |
Tu, Jung-yueh |
1/10/2013 |
Word Prosody in Loanword Phonology: Focus on Japanese Borrowings into Taiwanese Southern Min |
2012
Chang, Yufen |
8/31/2012 |
First Language Attrition: An Investigation of Taiwanese Tones and Tone Sandhi |
Hao, Yen-Chen |
8/10/2012 |
The Effect of L2 Experience on Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Consonants, Vowels, and Tones |
Yoon, Junghyoe |
7/31/2012 |
Case Drop in Korean—Its Empirical and Theoretical Investigation |
Kim, Ock Hwan |
6/30/2012 |
The Syntax of Inaudible Noun Phrases in Korean |
Miller, Nikole D. |
5/7/2012 |
An Assessment of Language Attitudes towards African American Vernacular English |
Park, Indrek |
5/4/2012 |
A Grammar of Hidatsa |
Alqassas, Ahmad |
4/30/2012 |
The Morpho-syntax and Pragmatics of Levantine Arabic Negation: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis |
Rodrigues, Paul |
2/29/2012 |
Processing Highly Variant Language Using Incremental Model Selection |
Kivik, Piibi-Kai |
2/29/2012 |
Conversation-for-learning in Estonian Coffee-hour: An Interactional Linguistic Perspective |
Lamanna, Scott |
1/31/2012 |
Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The Role of Language and Dialect Contact in the Formation of a New Variety of U.S. Spanish |
2011
Kim, Tae Sik |
11/11/2011 |
Small Projections and Grammaticalization in Korean |
Yoshida, Kenji |
9/30/2011 |
Phonetics and Phonology of Shiki-accent Systems in Mid-Western Japanese Dialects |
Anderson, Vicki |
7/31/2011 |
Bidialectalism in Intense Language Variety Contact: An “Unexpected” Development in the Death of Pennsylvania Dutchified English |
2010
Das, Anupam |
12/31/2010 |
Linguistic Politeness and Interpersonal Tiesa among Bengalis on the Social Network Site Orkut: The Bulge Theory Revisited |
Panteleyeva, Natalya |
12/31/2010 |
Statistical Methods of Latent Structure Discovery in Child-Directed Speech |
Green, Christopher |
11/30/2010 |
Prosodic Phonology in Bamana (Bambara): Syllable complexity, metrical structure, and tone |
Grimes, Steven |
10/31/2010 |
Quantitative Studies in Hungarian Phonotactics and Syllable Structure |
Sanders, Nathan |
10/31/2010 |
A Statistical Measure for Syntactic Dialectometry |
Iskrova, Iskra |
9/30/2010 |
Prosody and intonation in two French-based Creoles: Hairian Creole and Guadeloupean Creole |
Emonds, Amanda |
7/31/2010 |
On the Representation of Conventional Expression in L1-English L2-French Acquisition |
Mohamed, Emad |
7/31/2010 |
Orthographic Enrichment for Arabic Grammatical Analysis |
Henriksen, Nicholas |
5/30/2010 |
Question Intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish |
Silbert, Noah |
5/7/2010 |
Integration of Phonological Information in Obstruent Consonant Identification |
Rojas, David |
5/7/2010 |
Features and Methods for Automatic Dialect Identification |
Kim, Jungsun |
2/28/2010 |
The Influence of Dialect Exposure to Phonological Categories in Perceptual and Production Acquisition |
2009
Mendez Vallejo, Dunia Catalina |
9/7/2009 |
Focalizing ser (‘to be’) in Columbian Spanish |
Kapatsinski, Vsevolod |
5/31/2009 |
The Architecture of Grammar in Artificial Grammar Learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task |
Jose, Brian |
4/30/2009 |
Testing the Apparent-Time Construct in a Young Speech Community: Steel City Speech in and around Gary, Indiana on its 100th Birthday |
Lee, Dongmyung |
1/30/2009 |
Loanword Tonology of South Kyungsang Korean |
Thompson, Mikael |
1/30/2009 |
A Study of the Analogical Extension of the Mongolian Hidden-n Declension in Colloquial Standard Khalkha |