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Complete Historical List of Awarded Ph.D.s
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Recently-Defended Ph.D.s
2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009
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 | Aspects of the Phonetics and Phonology of Speech Rhythm in Akan (Asante-Twi) | |
| Diakite, Boubacar | Topics in Nko Prosodic Phonology | |
| Ngone Diouf, Fabienne | Urban Wolof Loanword Phonology | |
| Montano, Francisco A. | An Optimality- eoretic Split-Margin Analysis of the Evolution of Historical French Phonology | |
| Regier, Kirsten | Duration Modulation in English and Spanish Vowels: Dynamic Time Warping as a Tool in Acoustic Phonetics | |
| Alshammari, Wafi | Development of and Accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic: Verbal and Pronominal Form Selection | |
| Bongiovanni, Silvina | Production of Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization and Word- nal Nasal Consonants in Two Dialects of Spanish | |
| Alahmari, Musa | 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 |
