Awarded Degrees

Awarded degrees

The Department of Linguistics has been the doctoral home to several hundred successful scholars who have had major impacts on the discipline of linguistics and related fields in acquisition and computation. Below is a partial roll of these accomplished individuals.

Ph.D. recipients

2020-2029

2020

Bhokari, Hassan A. (11/12/2020)
A Comprehensive Analysis of Coda Clusters in Hijazi Arabic: An Optimality-Theoretic Perspective
Filimonova, Valentyna (8/20/2020)
The social meaning of variable polite leísmo in Mexico City
Hwang, Young (4/2020)
Generational tone change in North Kyungsang Korean with a focus on English loanwords
Kasper-Cushman, Kelly (7/24/2020)
Mapping the functional distribution of human impersonal uses of on, ça, and ils in French
Nagle, Traci (9/2020)
Perception, Production, and the Implementation of Phonological Opacity in the Bangla Vowel Chain Shift
Patterson, Yina (3/2020)
A Study of Nominal-Clausal Relations in Chinese
Zhang, Yiwen (11/20/2020)
Subjectivity and Nominal Property Concepts in Mandarin Chinese

2010-2019

2019

Choi, Jun-Eun (8/2019)
The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in L2 Acquisition of Korean Case, Topic, and Focus Particles
Kojima, Chisato (3/29/2019)
Lexical Encoding of Length Contrasts in Learners of Japanese as a Second Language
Koylu, Yilmaz (9/2019)
Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English
Lin, Yu-Jung (6/2019)
Where did the Glide Glide into? Perceiving Mandarin Syllable Structure
Mahajna, Dua'a Abu Elhija (3/2019)
A Study of Loanwords and Code Switching in Spoken and Online Written Arabic by Palestinian Israelis
Nematollahi, Narges (8/01/2019)
The Iranian Epistolary Tradition: Origins and Developments (6th Century BCE to 7th Century CE)
Okelo, Beatrice Ng'uono (12/2019)
Aspects of Luo Anthroponymy: Morphophonological and Ethnopragmatic Perspectives
Tezil, David (5/22/2019)
A Variationist Study of the Haitian Postposed Determiner LA in Non-nasal Contexts
Weirich, Phillip (9/20/2019)
Explorations of Dialect Perception in Indiana
Whitcombe, Melissa (12/2019)
An Optimality Theoretical Approach to Iotation in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

2018

Alahmari, Musa (5/2018)
An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of some Aspects of the Phonology and Morphology in a Southwestern Saudi Arabian Arabic Dialect
Alashmari, Wafi (4/2018)
The Development of and Accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic: Verbal and Pronominal Form Selection
Alhuwaykim, Mamdouh Zaal M. (11/2018)
Aspects of the Phonology of a Northwestern Saudi Arabian Dialect: an Optimality Theoretic Analysis
Anderson, Jonathan (6/2018)
Aspects of the Phonetics and Phonology of Speech Rhythm in Akan (Asante-Twi)
Bongiovanni, Silvina (5/ 2018)
Production of Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization and Word-final Nasal Consonants in Two Dialects of Spanish
Dakota, Daniel (10/23/2018)
Using Distributional Word Representation for the Statistical Constituency Parsing of German
Diakite ,Boubacar (8/2018)
Some Aspects of Nko Tonal Phonology
Ehineni, Taiwo (8/2018)
A Morphophonological, Morphosyntactic and Ethnopragmatic Study of Yoruba Personal Names
Leongue, Vitor (11/16/2018)
Structural Evolution of the Tibetan Syllable: a Cross-Dialectal Study
Meyer, Anthony (11/29/2018)
A Multilinear Approach to the Unsupervised Learning of Morphology
Smiley, Charese (11/09/2018)
Native Language Identification Using Phonetic Algorithms
Todt-Regier, Kirsten (6/2018)
Duration Modulation in English and Spanish Vowels: Dynamic Time Warping as a Tool for Acoustic Phonetics

2017

Al-Raba'a, Basem (6/2017)
Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Arabic
Diouf, Fabienne (11/2017)
Urban Wolof Loanword Phonology
Montaño, Francisco (12/2017)
An Optimality-Theoretic Split-Margin Analysis of the Evolution of Consonant Clusters in Historical French Phonology
Sowers-Wills, Sara (6/2017)
Schema Theory as Support for Templatic Analysis in a Dynamic Systems Theory Approach to Early Phonological Development

2016

Herring, Joshua (12/2016)
Grammar Construction in the Minimalist Program
Kaden, Christiane (3/2016)
Lengthenings and Shortenings in Germanic
Washington, Jonathan (7/2016)
An Investigation of Vowel Anteriority in Three Turkic Languages Using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

2015

Albin, Aaron (5/2015)
Typologizing Native Language Influence on Intonation in a Second Language: There Transfer Phenomena in Japanese EFL
Ewusi, Kelly Trennepohl (5/2015)
Communicational Strategies in Ghanaian Pidgin English: Turn-taking, Overlap, and Repair
Kostakis, Andrew (10/2015)
Height, Frontness and the Special Status of /x/, /r/ and /I/ in Germanic Language History
Rice, Heather (12/2015)
Perceptual Acquisition of Secondary Palatalization in L2: Strengthening the Bonds between Identification and Discrimination with Multi-sequence Category Mapping
Scrivner, Olga (6/2015)
Probabilistic Approach in Historical Linguistics: Word Order Change in Infinitival Clauses, form Latin to Old French
Yang, Chung-Lin (3/2015)
Phonological Variation and L2 Word Learning: the Role of Orthography in Word Recognition and Production
Zanon, Kesnia(7/2015)
On Hybrid Coordination and Quantifier Raising in Russian

2014

Dow, Michael (10/2014)
Contrast and Markedness Among Nasal(ized) Vowels: A Phonetic-Phonological Study of French and Vimeu Picard
Ebarb, Kristopher (9/2014)
Tone and Variation in Idakho and Other Luhya Varieties
Israel, Ross (12/2014)
Building a Korean Particle Error Detection System from the Ground Up
Mazrui, Abdulwahid (6/2014)
The Challenges of Language Planning and Language Policy in Tanzania: Investigating Language Attitudes and Language Shifts in Zanzibar
Ragheb, Marwa (8/2014)
Building a Syntactically-Annotated Corpus of Learner English
Rankinen, Wil (8/2014)
Exogenous Influences on the Vowel System of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Siegel, Jason (6/2014)
Nou oblije pale mo-to: Code-Switching Between Haitian and Guianese French Creoles and their Lexifier in French Guiana
Tamati, Terrin (7/2014)
Individual and Group Differences in the Perception of Regional Dialect Variation in a Second Language

2013

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 Dialect
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

2000-2009

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

2008

Park, Hanyong (9/30/2008)
Phonological information and linguistic experience in foreign accent detection
Ikuta, Toshikazu (8/8/2008)
fMRI study of Grammar, Parkinson's Disease and Dopaminergic Medication
Oglesbee, Eric (7/31/2008)
Multidimensional Stop Categorization in English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Canadian French
Farris-Trimble, Ashley (7/31/2008)
Cumulative Faithfulness Effects in Phonology
Wilkerson, Gladys Rose (5/31/2008)
Talkin' Country: African-American English of Black Women in the Mississippi Delta
Purvis, Tristan Michael (4/30/2008)
A Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of Register Variation in Dagbani

2007

Shrager, Miriam (9/30/2007)
The Accentual Systems of Masculine Nouns in the Krivici Dialects
VanDam, Mark (7/31/2007)
Plasticity of Phonological Categories
Riordan, Brian (2/26/2007)
Comparing Semantic Space Models Using Child-directed Speech

2006

Burleson, Deborah (12/13/2006)
Training Segmental Production for Second Language Intelligibility
Kim, Maria (11/17/2006)
Discourse variation in American magazine advertisements
Swanson, Kimberly (9/4/2006)
Acquisition versus suppression of phonological processes in the second language acquisition of French and English
Nagao, Kyoko (8/15/2006)
Cross Language Study of Age Perception
Ofori, Seth (7/17/2006)
Topics in Akan Grammar
Roehrs, Dorian (2/3/2006)
The Morpho-Syntax of the Germanic Noun Phrase: Determiners Move Into the Determiner Phrase
Dillon, Caitlin Marie (1/27/2006)
Phonological Processing Skills and the Development of Reading in Deaf Children Who Use Cochlear Implants

2005

Pennington, Mark (12/17/2005)
The Phonetics and Phonology of Glottal Manner Features

2004

Clopper, Cynthia G. (8/31/2004)
Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation
El-Ghamry, Khaled (5/8/2004)
A Generalized Cue-Based Approach to the Automatic Acquisition of Subcategorization Frames
Peterson, Elizabeth (4/30/2004)
Socially-Appropriate Language Variation: A Study of Requests in Finnish

2003

McGarrity, Laura (12/20/2003)
Constraints on Patterns of Primary and Secondary Stress
Park, Kwang Chul (12/15/2003)
Initial Segmental & Phrasal Tones in the Korean Dialects
Lim, Byung-Jin (7/1/2003)
Perception, Production, and Orthography of Syllabification in Korean and English
Deguch, Masanori (7/1/2003)
Quantifier Scope: Its Relation to Prosody and Information Structures

2002

Brown, Karen Leigh (12/21/2002)
Epistemic Possibilities and the Sources of Belief
Glenn, Robert (12/21/2002)
Japanese Lexically Specified Accent: A Word Level Prominence System with Both Pitch and Loudness as Components
Kershner, Tiffany L. (8/31/2002)
The Verb in Chisukwa: Aspect, Tense, and Time
Bagwasi, Mompoloki M. (6/30/2002)
A Historical Development of a Botswana Variety of English
Blanco, Bernardo G. (6/30/2002)
The Role of Linguistic Input in Language Acquisition: A Listening Comprehension-Based Study Considering the Input Limitations of the E.F.L. Environment
Baertsch, Karen S. (6/30/2002)
An Optimality Theoretic Approach to Syllable Structure: The Split Margin Hierarchy

2001

Wee, Hae-Kyung S. (9/30/2001)
Topic and Focus: Sentential Logic, Discourse and Pragmatics
Lee, Minkyung Y. (8/31/2001)
Optionality and Variation in Optimality Theory: Focus on Korean Phonology
Kitahara, Mafuyu (7/31/2001)
Category Structure and Function of Pitch Accent in Tokyo Japanese
Erickson, John A. (4/30/2001)
Language Contact and Morphosyntactic Change: Shift of Case- Marker Functions in Turkic

2000

Kim, Jong-Kyoo (9/30/2000)
Quantity-Sensitivity and Feature-Sensitivity of Vowels: A Constraint- Based Approach to Korean Vowel Phonology
Yankey, Emmanuel K. (7/31/2000)
Nzema Conversational Structure: A Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Investigation
Oda, Hiromi (6/30/2000)
Embodied Semantic Mechanism for Mimetic Words in Japanese
Yadroff, Michael G. (5/6/2000)
Formal Properties of Functional Categories: The Minimalist Syntax of the Russian Nominal and Prepositional Expressions
Kim, Ae-Ryung (3/31/2000)
A Derivational Quantification of "WH-Phrases"
Elliott, Nancy C. (1/31/2000)
A Sociolinguistic Study of Rhoticity in American Film Speech From the 1930's to the 1970's

1990-1999

1999

Chung, Chin Wan (12/19/1999)
Reduplication in Korean
Jensen, Helen B. (8/31/1999)
Reduced Relative Clauses in 18th Century Diaries and Letters: A Sociohistorical Perspective
Tiede, Hans-Joerg (7/31/1999)
Deductive Systems and Grammars: Proofs as Grammatical Structures
Zawaydeh, Bushra A. (5/8/1999)
The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals in Arabic
Westmoreland, Robert R. (3/31/1999)
Information and Intonation in Nauural Language Modality
Kuha, Mai (3/31/1999)
The Influence of Interaction and Instructions on Speech Act Data
Abe, Linda S. (2/28/1999)
The Effects of Discourse Structure Training and Interviews with Native Speakers on L2 Listening Comprehension
Winkler, Elizabeth G. (2/28/1999)
Limonese Creole: A Case of Contact-Induced Language Change

1998

Lee, Maureen B. (12/19/1998)
Downdrifts, Catathesis, and Focus in Teochew Chinese Intonation
Tajima, Keiichi (12/19/1998)
Speech Rhythm of English and Japanese: Experiments in Speech Cycling
Thonus, Terese (10/31/1998)
What makes a Writing Tutorial Successful: An Analysis of Linguistic Variables and Social Context
Yuan, Yi (6/30/1998)
Sociolinguistic Dimensions of the Compliment Event in the Southwestern Mandarin as Spoken in Kunming, P.R. China
Hardison, Debra M. (5/9/1998)
Acquisition of Second-Language Speech: Effects of Visual Cues, Context and Talker Variability
Salting, Donald E. (3/31/1998)
The Nested Subregister Model of Vowel Height
Wickboldt, June M (2/28/1998)
The Semantics of Since

1997

Park, Jae-Ick (12/31/1997)
Minimal Word Effects with Special Reference to Swahili
Jun, Young Chul (11/30/1997)
The Syntax-Semantics Interface of Genericity
Hardy, Jane E. (11/30/1997)
Perceptions of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic skills of Non-Native Speakers of English: A Study of University Faculty Attitudes
Alidou, Dioula Ousseina (9/30/1997)
A Phonological Study of Language Games in Six Languages of Niger
Rogers, Catherine L. (9/30/1997)
Intelligibility of Chinese-accented English
Shin, Seung-Hoon (8/31/1997)
Constraints Within and Between Syllables: Syllable Licensing and Contact in Optimality Theory
Shim, Minsu (8/31/1997)
The Vowel Phonology of the Kyongsang Dialect of Korean
Cummins, Fred (7/31/1997)
Rhythmic Coordination in English Speech: An Experimental Study
Barlow, Jessica A. (6/30/1997)
A Constraint-based Account of Syllable Onsets: Evidence from Developing Systems
Jarvis, Scott H. (6/30/1997)
The Role of L1-Based Concepts in L2 Lexical Reference
Morrill, Charles H. (5/10/1997)
Language, Culture, and Society in the Central African Republic: The Emergence and Development of Sango
Ortega, Marta (4/30/1997)
An Explanatory Intelligibility Test for Spanish ESL Speakers

1996

Greer, Susan E. (12/31/1996)
Attitudes of Teachers-in-Training Towards Varieties of English
Reynolds, Dudley W. (10/31/1996)
Repetition in Second Language Writing
Boe, David R. (9/30/1996)
Parameter Resetting in Adult Second Language Acquisition: Inflectional Richness and the Null Subject Parameter
Cook, Sally J. (8/31/1996)
A Study of the Acquisition of Gerundive Complements by Non-native Speakers

1995

Hiki, Kurumi (12/31/1995)
An Exploratory Study into Second Language Learner Knowledge of Semantically Similar Lexical Items: The Case of Verbs of Perception
Hasbun, Leyla (10/31/1995)
The Role of Lexical Aspect in the Acquisition of the Tense/Aspect System in L2 Spanish
Martin, Virginia S. (8/31/1995)
Reader Responsibility in Korean-English Compositions
de Jonge-Kannan, Catharina E. (7/31/1995)
Interlanguage Phonology: Perception and Production
Takenoya, Miyuki (7/31/1995)
Terms of Address in Japanese: Patterns of Use by Native Speakers & American Learners of Japanese
Rottet, Kevin J. (6/30/1995)
Language Shift and Language Death in the Cajun French-Speaking Communities of Terrebonne and LaFourche Parishes, Louisiana
Bentley, Mayrene (Mimi) E. (2/28/1995)
The Syntactic Effects of Animacy in Bantu Languages

1994

Cho, Mi-Hui (11/30/1994)
Vowel Harmony in Korean: A Grounded Phonology Approach
Ahmad, Mustapha (10/31/1994)
Aspects of Hausa Compounding
Whyte, Shona A. (7/31/1994)
The Role of Specialized Knowledge in Interlanguage Variation: The Discourse Domain Hypothesis
Al-Husaini, Abdullah A. (6/30/1994)
Second Language Acquisition of Lexical Semantics
Harshbarger, Lisa K. (4/30/1994)
An Investigation into the Relationship between Communicative Anxiety and Second Language Oral Proficiency
Anderson, Sven E. (3/31/1994)
A Computational Model of Auditory Pattern Recognition

1993

Tapia, Elena (12/31/1993)
Cognitive Demand as a Factor in Interlanguage Syntax: A Study in Topics and Texts
Scullen, Mary E. (12/31/1993)
The Prosodic Morphology of French
Kulemeka, Andrew T. (11/30/1993)
The Status of the Ideophone in Chichewa
Gonzales, Judith M. (10/31/1993)
A Description of Barcelona Codeswitching: An Integrated Approach
Chin, Steven B. (8/31/1993)
The Organization & Specification of Features in Functionally Disordered Phonologies
Kiyomi, Setsuko (7/31/1993)
A Typological Study of Reduplication as a Morphosemantic Process
Yoshikawa, Toshihiro (6/30/1993)
Acquisition of English Reflexives by L2 Learners
Lewis, Marshall C. (5/8/1993)
Verb Serialization in Gen and the Structure of Events
Hongladarom, Krisadawan (5/8/1993)
Evidentials in Tibetan: A Dialogic Study of the Interplay between Form and Meaning
Lee, Youngsong (2/28/1993)
Topics in the Vowel Phonology of Korean

1992

Lyuh, Inook (12/31/1992)
The Art of Refusal: A Comparison of Korean and American Cultures
Omar, Alwiya S. (9/30/1992)
Opening and Closing Conversations in Kiswahili: A Study of the Performance of Native Speakers and Learners
Lee, Jin-Seong (8/31/1992)
Phonology and Sound Symbolism of Korean Ideophones
Engber, Cheryl A. (6/30/1992)
A Study of Lexis and the Relationship to Quality in Written Texts of Second Language Learners of English
Csik, Steven (6/30/1992)
Inferencing on Semantic Representations of Causative Sentences
Edmundson, Robin J. (6/30/1992)
Evidence for Native Speaker Notions of Apologizing and Accepting Apologies in American English
Oloruntoba, Iyetunde C. (6/30/1992)
Sociocultural Dimensions of Nigerian Pidgin Usage (Western Niger Delta of Nigeria)
Wei, Meei-Yau (6/30/1992)
Practical Dialogue: Chinese Language Choices and Adaptations in New York City's Chinatown
Latkovski, Stephanie (5/9/1992)
An Ethnography of Language Identity: Latvians in America
Ke, Chuanren (5/9/1992)
Lateralization Effects of Language and Bilingualism: A Dichotic Study of Chinese and English Speakers
Hopkins, Tometro (5/9/1992)
Issues in the Study of Afro-Creoles: Afro-Cuban and Gullah

1991

Raksaphet, Phongsak (8/31/1991)
A Study of Thai-English Code-Mixing in Thai Newspapers and Journals
Dinouri, Abdallah (8/31/1991)
The Body in Language
Reed, Daniel J. (7/31/1991)
An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Oral Proficiency Ratings and Other Measures of Second Language Ability
Mustapha, Zaliha (7/31/1991)
Cognitive Processes in Reading: First and Second Language Readers
Hiki, Mitsuru (5/31/1991)
A Study of Learners' Judgments of Noun Countability
Al-Afaleg, Omar (5/4/1991)
A Comparison of Morpheme Acquisition Order in Learners of English as a Foreign Language vs. English as a second language: The Case of Adult Learners in Saudi Arabia

1990

Hoffman, Barbara (12/31/1990)
The Power of Speech: Language and Social Status among Mande Griots and Nobles
Koffi, Ettien Nda (12/31/1990)
The Interface between Phonology and Morpho(phono)logy in the Standardization of Anyi Orthography
Kelley, David (8/31/1990)
A Study of the Influence of Chinese and English (and Other Western Languages) on the Japanese Language
Kim, Hee Seob (8/31/1990)
The Manner Features in Phonological Representations

1980-1989

1989

Pino-Silva, Juan (10/31/1989)
A Study of Children's Language Proficiency Change over Time
Chaves, Eneida M. (8/31/1989)
The Interrelation of Age and Social-Psychological Factors in the Acquisition of Portuguese as a Second Language by Japanese Immigrants to Brazil
Sumbu, Mangoma (5/6/1989)
Code-Mixing in the Speech of a Multilingual Child
Williams, Charles (Kemp) F. (5/6/1989)
Chadic Diachronic Syntax: Reconstruction of Word Order in Proto-Chadic

1988

Mahnke, Kathleen (12/31/1988)
Foreigner Talk Interaction in the Post-Secondary Content Classroom
Lloret Romanyach, Maria Rosa (12/31/1988)
Gemination and Vowel Length in Oromo Morphophonology
Babear, Saleh I. (12/31/1988)
An Investigation of the Avoidance Behavior in Adult Second Language Learners
Sani, Sammani (11/30/1988)
Political Language as a Source of Lexical Expansion: The Case of Hausa
Raddaoui, Ali Hechmi (11/30/1988)
Planning Language: Competing Models of Education in Multilingual Countries with English as a Second Language
Al-Gorashi, Ahmed K. (6/30/1988)
The English Communication Needs of Military Cadets in Saudi Arabia as Perceived by Junior Officers in the Saudi Army and Air Defense
Regan, Vincent David (5/7/1988)
A Conception of Language Embodied in the Dictionary

1987

Howell, Kenneth (12/31/1987)
The Post-Bloomfieldians and the Generativists: A Study in the History of American Linguistics
Charles-Luce, Jan (12/31/1987)
An Acoustic Investigation of Neutralization in Catalan
Ghowail, Thanaa Ibrahim MA (6/30/1987)
The Acoustic Phonetic Study of the two Pharyngeals /h,g/ and the two Laryngeals /?,h/ in Arabic
Junaidu, Ismail (5/10/1987)
Topicalization in Hausa
Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric (5/10/1987)
Linguistic Structure and Articulatory Dynamics: A Cross-Language Study
Thomas, Helen Lee (5/10/1987)
Effects of Different Acoustic Characteristics in Language Processing: A Dichotic Listening Study of Mandarin-English Speakers

1986

Shepardson, Kenneth (12/31/1986)
Productivity and the Swahili Lexicon
Katesi, Yime-Yime (12/31/1986)
Thanking in Engwi: A Study of Language in its Sociocultural Context
Farghal, Mohammed A. (12/31/1986)
The Syntax of Wh-questions and Related Matters in Arabic
Soler, Josep (12/31/1986)
Language Standardization and Norm Formation in Catalonia
Wright, Frank (8/31/1986)
Practical Words: An Ethnography of Second Language Learning (Kano, Nigeria)
Yeh, Ling-Hsia C. (8/31/1986)
Quantification in Chinese
Leko, Nedzad (8/31/1986)
Syntax of Noun Headed Structures in Serbo-Croatian and Corresponding Phrasal Structures in English
Sabimana, Firmard (6/30/1986)
The Relational Structure of the Kirundi Verb
Omer, Abdel-Hadi (3/31/1986)
Arabic in the Sudanese Setting: A Sociolinguistic Study

1985

Al-Aboudi, Fahmi (6/30/1985)
The Syntax of 'Idafag': Annexation in Arabic
Yong, Chul-Won (3/31/1985)
Case Relations in Some Nonconfigurational Languages

1984

Antonini, Maria M. (12/31/1984)
In the Defense of Kindergarten Children as Learners of an Explicit Second Language Rule
Yanco, Jennifer J. (12/31/1984)
Language Contact and Bilingualism among the Hausa and Zarma
Dalby, Jonathan M. (12/31/1984)
Phonetic Structure of Fast Speech in American English
Dissosway-Huff, Patricia A. (11/30/1984)
Acquisition of the Syntactic Category Adverb: Evidence from Second Language Learners' Written Use of English Adverbs
Shawish, Bashir M. (6/30/1984)
Some Aspects of the Syntax of Object Complements in Literary Arabic
Syeed, Syed M. (5/6/1984)
Morphological Causatives and the Problems of the Transformational Approach
El-Dalee, Mohamed S. (5/6/1984)
The Feature of Retraction in Arabic
Al-Najjar, Majed F. (3/31/1984)
Translation as a Correlative of Meaning: Cultural and Linguistic Transfer between Arabic and English
Al-Daifallah, Ahmad S. (1/31/1984)
Imperative Constructions in Contemporary English

1983

Fourakis, Margaritis S. (12/31/1983)
An Acoustic Study of Temporal Programming in Speech Production
Demuth, Katherine A. (9/30/1983)
Aspects of Sesotho Language Acquisition
Badecker, William J. (9/30/1983)
Formal Grammars and the Analysis of Infinitives
Hammar, Lucia B. (8/31/1983)
Syntactic and Pragmatic Options in Mongolian: A Study of Bol and N'
Ernst, Thomas B. (8/31/1983)
Towards an Integrated Theory of Adverb Position in English
Mountford, Keith W. (3/31/1983)
Bambara Declarative Sentence Intonation

1982

Smith, Evan (9/30/1982)
Relative 'that' and 'as': A Study in Category Change
Massamba, David P. (8/31/1982)
Aspects of Accent and Tone in Ci-Ruri
Al-Shorafat, Mohammed O. (7/31/1982)
A Study of Conditional Constructions in Modern English: Structure and Function
Rudin, Catherine (7/31/1982)
Complementizers and WH Constructions in Modern Bulgarian
Zaria, Ahmadu B. (6/30/1982)
Issues in Hausa Dialectology
Maxwell, Edith M. (1/10/1982)
A Study of Misarticulation from a Linguistic Perspective

1981

Kim, Young J. (11/30/1981)
A Semantic Study of Transitive Relations in Korean: A Cognitively Based Analysis
Fais, Laurel C. (10/30/1981)
Towards a Reorientation of Linguistic Theory
Mitleb, Fares M. (9/30/1981)
Segmental and Non-Segmental Structure in Phonetics: Evidence from Foreign Accent
Papa, Eugene (8/31/1981)
Two Studies on the History of Southern Italian Vocalism
Nemer, Julie F. (7/31/1981)
Sound Patterns and Strategies: Loanwords in Judeo-Spanish
Diehl, Lon (6/30/1981)
Lexical-Generative Grammar: Toward a Lexical Conception of Linguistic Structure
Wheatley, Barbara J. (5/9/1981)
Phonotactic Norms and the Prediction of Phonotactic Rules
Hastings, Ashley J. (3/31/1981)
Natural Equational Phonology

1980

Frey, Juliet S. (12/31/1980)
Perceptions of Cause
Bedou-Jondoh, Edina Ayaba E. (11/30/1980)
Some Aspects of the Predicate Phrase in Gegbe
Suaieh, Saadun (11/30/1980)
Aspects of Arabic Relative Clauses: A Study of the Structure of Relative Clauses in Modern Written Arabic
DeLancey, Scott (8/31/1980)
Deictic Categories in the Tibeto-Burman Verb
Clifton, John M. (5/10/1980)
Phonologically Possible Rules and Dependency Relations: A Study of Stop/Fricative Variations

1970-1979

1979

Bakir, Murtadha J. (12/31/1979)
Aspects of Clause Structure in Arabic: A Study in Word Order Variation in Literary Arabic
Flege, James E. (9/30/1979)
Phonetic Interference in Second Language Acquisition
Johnson, Sahnny (7/31/1979)
Nonverbal Communication in the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Maxwell, Daniel N. (2/28/1979)
A Crosslinguistic Correlation between Word Order and Casemarking

1978

Lozano, Maria D. (9/30/1978)
Stop and Spirant Alternations: Fortition and Spirantization Processes in Phonology

1977

Dresel, Linda (8/31/1977)
An Experimental Study of Hausa Tone
Disraeli, A. Stephen (5/8/1977)
Aspects of Disambiguation

1976

Hutchison, John P. (12/31/1976)
Aspects of Kanuri Syntax
Nikiema, Norbert (10/31/1976)
On the Linguistic Bases of Moore Orthography
Bokamba, Eyamba G. (8/31/1976)
Question Formation in Some Bantu Languages
Williams, Wayne R. (8/31/1976)
Linguistic Change in the Syntax and Semantics of Sierra Leone Krio
Wasserman, Robert D. (8/31/1976)
Theories of Linguistic Variation
Kokora, Dago P. (8/31/1976)
Studies in the Grammar of Koyo
Butar-Butar, Maruli (6/30/1976)
Some Movement Transformations and Their Constraints in Indonesian
Sample, Ward A. (5/9/1976)
The Application of Rules in the Phonology of Olukisa

1975

Okello, Betty J. (12/31/1975)
Some Phonological and Morphological Processes in Lango
Miner, Kinneth L. (12/31/1975)
Interference Relations in Menomini Phonology
Escure, Genevieve J. (9/30/1975)
Weakening and Deletion Processes in Language Change
Perry, Thomas A. (9/30/1975)
Problems in Subject-Verb Agreement
Phillips, John S. (8/31/1975)
Vietnamese Contact French: Acquisitional Variation in a Language Contact Situation
Ringen, Catherine O. (8/31/1975)
Vowel Harmony: Theoretical Implications
Cheun, Sang-Buom (1/10/1975)
Phonological Aspects of Late Middle Korean
Austen, Cheryl L. (1/10/1975)
Aspects of Bukusu Syntax and Phonology

1974

Caflisch, Jacob (12/12/1974)
Transfer and Hypothetical Functions in Contemporary Russian
Baird, Rey L. (8/31/1974)
A Variable Recursive Mechanism in Samoan
Noll, Craig A. (8/31/1974)
Noncyclic Transformations in English Syntax
Schneeberg, Nan (8/31/1974)
Sayanci Phonology
Lehmann, Twila (5/12/1974)
On the Well-Formedness of Derived Tree Structures: The Question of Pruning
De Loof, Dennis P. (5/12/1974)
The Gothic Text of Ephesians: A Decipherment, Edition, and Translation
Dillinger, Dale (5/12/1974)
History of Linguistics: The Renaissance and Ellipsis in the Grammars of Despauterius, Linacre, Scaliger & Sanctius
Moser, Rex E. (5/12/1974)
Foregrounding in the Sunjata, the Mande Epic
Sakellariades, George C. (2/23/1974)
A Transformational Analysis of the So-Called Weak personal Pronouns in Modern Greek
Lee, Byung-Gun (1/10/1974)
Underlying Segments in Korean Phonology

1973

Taylor, John E. (12/1/1973)
A Generative Phonology of Faroese Utilizing Unordered Rules
Lee, Chung-Min (9/29/1973)
Abstract Syntax and Korean With Reference to English
Thayer, James E. (8/31/1973)
The Deep Structure of the Sentence in Sara-Ngambay Dialogues, Including a Description of Phrase, Clause, and Paragraph
Sohn, John Young (8/31/1973)
A Study of Grammatical Cases of Korean, Japanese, and Other Major Altaic Languages
Coady, James M. (8/31/1973)
The Utilization of Transformational Theory for the Teaching of English
Jensen, James R. (5/13/1973)
Stress and the Verbal Phonology of Tubatulabal
Beukenkamp, Eric J. (5/13/1973)
Vowel Lowering in the So-Called Quechua Modals
Higgins, Susan G. (5/13/1973)
Internal Noun Phrase Relations of Complex Noun Phrases and the Concept of Agency
Yang, Dong-Whee (4/21/1973)
Topicalization and Relativization in Korean

1972

Thompson, Robert McMillan (10/27/1972)
A Descriptive Procedure for Coding and Decoding Chinese Ideographs
Eckman, Fred R. (9/22/1972)
Some Constraints on Pronominalization
Wright, James R. (8/31/1972)
Spanish Verb Morphophonology
Migliazza, Ernest C. (5/14/1972)
Yanomama Grammar and Intelligibility
Smith, Rondal B. (5/14/1972)
Empirical Evidences and Theoretical Interpretations of Greek Phonology: Prolegomena to a Theory of Sound Patterns in the Hellenistic Greek Koine
Absi, Samir A. (4/22/1972)
Passive-Reflexive Verbs in Lebanese
Moravcsik, Edith A. (3/25/1972)
Some Cross-Linguistic Generalizations about Yes-No Questions and Their Answers

1971

Long, Ronald W. (9/7/1971)
A Comparative Study of the Northern Mande Languages
Sayyid, Muhammad Abdul-Wahid (6/14/1971)
Pronominalization in Urdu
Filbeck, David (6/14/1971)
T'In: A Historical Study
Freidin, Robert (5/30/1971)
Interpretive Semantics and the Syntax of English Complement Constructions
Koo, Jang H. (2/20/1971)
Language Conflict and Its Specification: Experimental Study

1970

Gradman, Harry L. (12/19/1970)
The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis: What It Is, and What It Isn't
Howie, John Metcalf (10/16/1970)
The Vowels and Tones of Mandarin Chinese: Acoustical Measurements and Experiments
Karttunen, Frances (10/16/1970)
Problems in Finnish Phonology
Tang, Shao-Ming (9/30/1970)
A New English Grammar for the Teachers of English in the Republic of China
Sangster, Linda R. (9/8/1970)
A Semantic Analysis of Word Order in French, with Particular Attention to the Position of the Adjective with Respect to the Substantive
Jordan, Ronald D. (8/31/1970)
Subjective Response Uncertainty as a Function of Task Structure and Flexibility of Closure
Sangster, Rodney B. (7/30/1970)
The Linguistic Thought of Roman Jakobson
Derwing, Bruce L. (6/8/1970)
Transformational Grammar and Language Acquisition: A Study in the Empirical and Methodological Foundations of Contemporary Linguistic Theory
Tullai, Gerald J. (6/8/1970)
The Simplicity Criterion: A Study in the Development of the Methodology of Linguistic Science
Palacas, Arthur L. (5/23/1970)
The Place of Modal Verbs in the Grammar of English with Special Emphasis on 'Can', 'May', and 'Must'
Collins, Grace C. (1/31/1970)
Two Views of Kalagan Grammar
Tai, James Hau-y (1/31/1970)
Coordination Reduction

1960-1969

1969

Walker, Edward C. (10/24/1969)
Grammatical Relations and Sentence Memory
Hutchinson, Larry G. (10/24/1969)
Pronouns and Agreement in Temne
Karttunen, Lauri J. (6/30/1969)
Problems of Reference in Syntax
Feider, Helga (6/30/1969)
A Comparative Syntactic Description of Spoken and Written English
Lefkowitz, Robert W. (3/30/1969)
Semantic Structure
Orosz, Robert A. (3/30/1969)
The Category of Definiteness and Its Structural Correlates in English and Hungarian
Ree, Joe J. (2/28/1969)
Some Aspects of Korean Syntax

1968

Hsueh, Feng-Sheng (9/30/1968)
Phonology of Old Mandarin: A Structuralistic Approach
Kerek, Andrew (9/30/1968)
Stress, Length, and Prominence: Linguistic Aspects of Prosody in Hungarian Quantitative-Lambic Verse
Williams, Clyde E. (9/30/1968)
Quechua Phonology
Schaarschmidt, Gunter (9/30/1968)
The Syntax of sja-Verbs in Russian
Murphy, Lawrence W. (6/30/1968)
Sosva Vogul Grammar
Johansson, Stig (6/30/1968)
Studies in the History and Development of the English Language
Peeke, M. Catherine (6/30/1968)
Preliminary Grammar of Auca (Ecuador)

1967

Wilson, James L. (9/30/1967)
Some Phonological, Morphological, and Syntactic Correspondences between Standard Dutch and Afrikaans
Rice, Lester A. (9/30/1967)
Hungarian Morphological Irregularities with Contributions to Feature Theory
Sanders, Gerald A. (9/30/1967)
Some General Grammatical Processes in English
Luthy, Melvin J. (9/30/1967)
Phonological and Lexical Aspects of Colloquial Finnish
Song, Seok Choong (8/31/1967)
Some Transformational Rules in Korean
Nash, Rose F. (6/30/1967)
Turkish Intonation: An Instrumental Study
Pogoli, Bardhyl (6/30/1967)
Albanian Writing Systems

1966

Lee, Ernest W. (9/30/1966)
Proto-Chamic Phonologic Word and Vocabulary
Warburton, Irene P. (9/30/1966)
On the Verb in Modern Greek
Bridgeman, Loraine I. (9/30/1966)
Oral Paragraphs in Kaiwa (Guarani)
Cheng, Robert Liang-Wei (9/30/1966)
Some Aspects of Mandarin Syntax
Chiang, Helen T. (9/30/1966)
Phonology of an Amoy Dialect
Daly, John P. (6/30/1966)
Generative Syntax of Mixteco
Houston, Susan H. (6/30/1966)
The Acquisition and Operation of Language
Lehtinen, Mari K. (6/30/1966)
An Analysis of a Finnish-English Bilingual Corpus I. Interference Phenomena; II. Rules for Code-Switching and Code-Accommodation
Lakoff, George P. (6/30/1966)
On the Nature of Syntactic Irregularity
Soga, Matsuo (6/30/1966)
Some Syntactic Rules of Modern Colloquial Japanese

1965

Pia, J. Joseph (1/31/1965)
Somali Sounds and Inflections
Maher, John P. (9/30/1965)
Indo-European Origins of Some Slavic Grammatical Categories: Substantives in 'ji', 'ja', 'je' and 'jane'
Carmony, Marvin D. (9/30/1965)
The Speech of Terre Haute: A Hoosier Dialect Study
Shum, Shu-Ying (9/30/1965)
A Transformational Study of Vietnamese Syntax
Cook, Howard R. (9/30/1965)
Pre-Speech Auditory Training: Its Contribution to Second Language Teaching and Motivation for Continuous Broadcasting
Loflin, Marvin D. (9/30/1965)
A Transformational Grammar of Simple Sentences in Cuzco Quechua
Roldan, Maria de las M. (9/30/1965)
Ordered Rules for Spanish: Selected Problems of Syntactic Structure

1964

Blair, Robert W. (9/30/1964)
Yucatec Maya Noun and Verb Morpho-Syntax
Berberi, Dilaver (8/31/1964)
Phonological and Morphological Adaptation of Turkish Loanwords in Contemporary Albanian GEG Dialect of Kruja: A Synchronic Analysis
Henning, William A. (8/31/1964)
Phoneme Discrimination Training and Student Self-Evaluation in the Teaching of French Pronunciation
Scholes, Robert J. (6/30/1964)
Grammaticality of Phonemic Strings, with Reference to Pre-Vocalic Consonant Clusters in American English

1963

Pound, Glen M. (6/30/1964)
Phonological Distortion in Spoken Secret Languages: A Consideration of Its Nature and Use
O'Grady, Geoffrey N. (9/30/1963)
Nyanumata Grammar
Reibel, David A. (9/30/1963)
A Grammatical Index to the Compound Nouns of Old English Verse
Alani, Salman H. (9/30/1963)
Phonology of Contemporary Standard Arabic
Seiden, William (6/30/1963)
Havasupai Phonology and Morphology
Bender, Byron W. (6/30/1963)
A Linguistic Analysis of the Place-Names of the Marshall Islands
Kinkade, Marvin D. (6/30/1963)
Phonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis
Pillai, S. Agesthialingom (6/30/1963)
A Generative Grammar of Tamil
Ramanujan, Attipat Krishnaswami (6/30/1963)
A Generative Grammar of Kannada
Salzmann, Zdenek (6/30/1963)
A Sketch of Araphao Grammar

1962

Osborn, Jr., Henry A. (9/30/1962)
Warao Phonology and Morphology
Gunter, Richard L. (9/30/1962)
Elliptical Forms of the English Transitive Sentence
Morton, Ermel J. (6/30/1962)
A Descriptive Grammar of Tongan (Polynesian)
Lyra, Franciszek (6/30/1962)
English and Polish in Contact
Melamed, Judith T. (6/30/1962)
An Experiment in Sound Discrimination in English and Thai
Fraenkel, Gerd (6/30/1962)
A Generative Grammar of Azerbaijani

1961

Contreras, Heles (9/30/1961) The Phonological System of a Bilingual Child
Zeps, Valdis J. (6/30/1961) Latvian and Finnic Linguistic Convergences
Chaiyaratana, Chalao (6/30/1961) A Comparative Study of English and Thai Syntax

1960

Leuschel, Donald A. (9/30/1960)
Spanish Verb Morphology
Ekhtiaredin, Mansour A. (6/30/1960)
Emerson's Poetic Language: A Linguistic and Literary Investigation
Kruatrachue, Foongfuang (6/30/1960)
Thai and English: A Comparative Study of Phonology for Pedagogical Applications
Ristinen, Elaine K. (5/30/1960)
Samoyed Phonemic Systems

Before 1960

1959

Hale, Kenneth L. (6/30/1959)
A Papago Grammar
Constantino, Ernesto A. (6/30/1959)
A Generative Grammar of a Dialect of Ilocano

1958

Sholes, George N. (9/30/1958)
Transformations in French Grammar
Subramoniam, Vadasery Iyemperumal (6/30/1958)
A Descriptive Analysis of a Dialect of Tamil

1957

Sleator, Mary D. (9/30/1957)
Phonology and Morphology of an American English Dialect

1956

Ingemann, Frances (9/30/1956)
An East Cheremis Grammar

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