Doctoral Alums
2024
Norielle Adricula
Dissertation: Examining the Role of Inherent and Derived Prominence in Tagalog Voice and Word Order
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Jared Desjardins
Dissertation: Morphophonemics of Classical Latin
Advisors: Laura A. Michaelis
Velda Khoo
Dissertation: Modeling Singlish: Authentic Hybridity in a Model Nation
Advisor: Kira Hall
Ayden Parish
Dissertation: Hearing Voices as Atypical Social Agents
Advisor: Kira Hall
Alyssa Strickler
Dissertation: Synchronic Sound Change as a Unique Look at Representation in /aɪ/ Raising in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
2023
Ghazaleh Kazeminejad
Dissertation: Computational Lexical Resources for Explainable Natural Language Understanding
Advisor: Martha Palmer
2022
Olivia Marrese
Dissertation: Just as a participants’ resource: Scales, stance, and action in interaction
Advisor: Chase Raymond
2021
Ling Liu
Dissertation: Morphological Generation with Deep Learning Approaches
Advisor: Mans Hulden
Dissertation: Conversational Storytelling in Arapaho: A Grammar of Narrative Initiations
Advisor: Andrew Cowell
Dissertation: Integrating Machine Learning into Language Documentation and Description
Advisor: Mans Hulden
Marielle Butters
Dissertation: Negation in four languages of Indonesia
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
2020
Evan Coles-Harris
Dissertation: Phonetic Convergence and Dialect Change in Nanjing, China
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Jesus Villalpando
Dissertation: Grammatical Aspect in Norogachi Rarámuri (Tarahumara; Uto-Aztecan)
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
2019
Tao Lin
Dissertation: Automatic Classification of Verb-Direction Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Advisor: Laura Michaelis and Martha Palmer
Marcus Avelar
Dissertation: Urban Spirits: Language, Race, and Modernity among Umbandistas in São Paulo, Brazil
Advisor: Kira Hall
Yahya Aseri
Dissertation: Encoding semantic relations between the predicate and participants through Arabic verbal morphology: A systems interaction approach
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Dissertation: Bringing together computational and linguistic models of implicit role interpretation
Advisors: Martha Palmer and Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: Syntactic and semantic improvements to computational metaphor processing
Advisor: Martha Palmer
2018
Luciana Marques
Dissertation: Perception of vowel nasality contrast in Brazilian Portuguese
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
2017
Samuel Beer
Dissertation: Grammatical Contraction in Nyang’i: A Descriptive and Comparative Study
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Stefanie Ramos-Bierge
Dissertation: Clause type and transitivity in Wixárika (Huichol): A Uto-Aztecan language
Advisor: Andrew Cowell
2016
Dissertation: The Space-time Topography of English Speakers
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Visual Speech Perception of Arabic Emphatics and Gutturals
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Niloofar Khalili
Dissertation: Contact-induced Cross-dialectal Phonetic Variability in an Endangered Iranian Language: The Case of Taleshi
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Dissertation: Stative and Stativizing Constructions in Arabic News Reports: A Corpus-Based Study
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Katherine Phelps Ridgeway
Dissertation: Phonetic training strategies for non-native speech perception
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Dissertation: Gesture-Speech Bimodalism in Arapaho Grammar: An Interactional Approach
Advisor: Andrew Cowell
Dissertation: Place Reference and Location Formulation in Kula Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2015
Dissertation: Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Influence of Lexical Class, Usage Frequency, and Constructional Content on Semantic Simulation
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: On the Acoustical and Perceptual Features of Vowel Nasality
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Hindi Complex Predicates: Linguistic and Computational Approaches
Advisors: Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan
Claire Bonial
Dissertation: Take a look at this! Form, Function and Productivity of English Light Verb Constructions
Advisors: Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Identification and Representation of Caused Motion Constructions, winner of the 2015 Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation, for dissertations representing outstanding, original and high impact scholarship in the field of cognitive science
Advisor: Martha Palmer
David Harper
Dissertation: An Analysis of Perceptual Factors in the Evolution of Spanish Approximants
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Michael Thomas
Dissertation: A Grammar of Sakun (Sukur)
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
2013
Dissertation: Beyond the Subject: The Interaction of Syntax and Semantics in the Production of English Verb Agreement
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Indexing Inferables and Organizational Shifts:'No'-Prefaces in English Conversations
Advisor: Barbara Fox
William Corvey
Dissertation: Leveraging Pragmatic Features for Microblogged Information Extraction During Crises
Advisor: Martha Palmer
Dissertation: Learning to 'Talk Indian': Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
Advisor: Kira Hall
2012
Dissertation: Aspects of a Grammar of Makary Kotoko
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Dissertation: Displaced Islamic Identities: Language, Time and Space in a Post 9/11 America
Advisor: Kira Hall
Dissertation: Similarity and Enhancement: Nasality from Moroccan Arabic Pharyngeals and Nasals
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Dissertation: Voices in Transition: Testosterone, Transmasculinity, and the Gendered Voice Among Female-to-Male Transgender People
Advisor: Kira Hall
2011
Kai-Yun Helen Chen
Dissertation: Sound Patterns in Mandarin Recycling Repair
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Advisors: Laura Michaelis and Albert Kim
2010
Susan Windisch Brown
Dissertation: Finding Meaning: Sense Inventories for Improved Word Sense Disambiguation
Advisor: Martha Palmer
Dissertation: Paradigms of Evaluation in Natural Language Processing: Field Linguistics for Glass Box Testing
Advisor: Martha Palmer
Dissertation: Lakota Intonation and Prosody
Advisor: David Rood
Saeko Ogihara
Dissertation: Verb Final Typology
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Jeff Stebbins
Dissertation: Usage Frequency and Articulatory Reduction in Vietnamese Tonogenesis
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
2009
Lori Heintzelman
Dissertation: The Re-education of Desire: The Role of Narrative in Religious-based Sexual Identity Transformation
Advisor: Kira Hall
Dissertation: Understanding Metaphorical Expressions: Conventionality, Mappings, and Comparison Processes
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Articulating a Transnational Family: 'Hippo Family' Language Learners in Japan and the USA
Advisor: Kira Hall
Weldu Weldeyesus
Dissertation: Language Socialization and Ensuing Identity Construction Among Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Denver
Advisor: Kira Hall
2008
Dissertation: The Automatic Predictionof Prosodic Prominence from Text
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
Dissertation: The 'War on Terror' Narrative: The (Inter)Textual Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality
Advisor: Kira Hall
Masako Hoye
Dissertation: Exploration of the Notionof Subject in Japanese
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: A Syntactic Analysis of Written English Quotatives
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Hiromi Sumiya
Dissertation: The Effect of Familiarity and Semantics on Early Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Hui-hsin Tseng
Dissertation: The Use of Morphological Knowledge in Chinese Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
2007
Kyung-Im Han
Dissertation: Consonant Cluster Phenomena: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison.
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Hyun-Jung Yang
Dissertation: Grammar as an Interactional Resource in Korean Spontaneous Conversations
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2006
Dissertation: Transitivity in Arapaho: A Construction Grammar Approach
Advisors: Laura Michaelis and Andrew Cowell
Cynthia Girand
Dissertation: Prenuclear Accentual Structure in Conversational English
Advisor: Alan Bell
2005
Ayako Ikeno
Dissertation: Perceptual and AcousticCues in English Accent Variation: Accent Classification for Speaker Identification
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2003
Phyllis Bellver
Dissertation: An Investigation into the Functional Syntax of Spoken Basque
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: Training Strategies for Improving Listeners' Comprehension of Foreign-Accented Speech
Advisors: Lise Menn, Alice Healy (PSYC)
Kristine S. Stenzel
Dissertation: A Reference Grammar of Wanano, winner of the 2004 Mary R. Haas Award for an unpublished manuscript that “makes a significant substantive contribution to our knowledge of the indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere”.
Advisors: Barbara Fox, Jule Gomez de Garcia
2002
Valerie Wallace
Dissertation: The Roles of Babble in Language Acquisition: Evidence from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Advisors: Lise Menn, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano (SLHS)
Dissertation: The Phonetics of Sequence Organization: An Investigation of Lexical Repetition in Other-Initiated Repair Sequences in American English
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Linda Nicita
Dissertation: Cognitive Verbs in Spanish: A Discourse Profile of acordarse, creer, saber and Related Verbs
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2001
Dissertation: Verb Sense and Verb Subcategorization Probabilities
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
Dissertation: Linguistic Informativeness and Speech Production: An Investigationof Contextual and Discourse-Pragmatic Effects on PhonologicalVariation
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
2000
Dissertation: Practices in Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Kristin Homer
Dissertation: A Discourse Constraint on Subject Information Questions
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
William Raymond
Dissertation: Toward a Theory of Grammatical Encoding in Speech Production: Evidence from Speech Errors
Advisors: Alan Bell, Laura Michaelis
1999
Linh-Chan Brown
Dissertation: The Grammaticalization of Directed Motion in Vietnamese
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: A Grammar of East Dangla: The Simple Sentence
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Debra Biasca
Dissertation: Language Development in Jacobsen(11q Deletion) Syndrome: The Interaction of Language, Cognition and Genetics
Advisor: Lise Menn
1998
Andrea Feldman
Dissertation: Constructing Grammar: Fillers, Formulas and Function
Advisor: Lise Menn
Robert Jasperson
Dissertation: Repair after Cut-off: Explorationsin the Grammar of Focused Repair of the Turn-Constructional-Unit-so-far
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Language and Activity: We, you and I in Instructional Talk
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Julia Fisher
Dissertation: Mental Lexicons of Children: Multiple Routes to Lexical Access withImplications for Reading
Advisor: Alan Bell
Tilo Weber
Dissertation: Shared Background and Repair in German Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1997
Dissertation: Effects of Linguistic Properties and Message Length on Misunderstandings in Aviation Communication
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
1996
Barbara Diekmann
Dissertation: The Mutual Shaping of Task Context and System Interface in Directory Assistance Conversations
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1995
Harold ‘Skip’ Wilcox
Dissertation: Salience Imbalance and Metaphor
Advisor: Lise Menn
1994
Won-Ho Kim
Dissertation: Grammatical Relations and Anaphora in Korean
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Randall Sparks
Dissertation: The Structure of Self-Repair in English Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Communicative Strategies in Conversational Kickapoo
Advisor: Allan Taylor
Dissertation: Prepositions and Particles in English: A Discourse-Based, UnifyingAccount
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1993
Dissertation: Zero Anaphora in Chinese: Cognitive Strategies in Discourse Processing
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Discourse, Grammar, and Grammaticalization: Synchronic and Diachronic Analyses of Mandarin Adverbial markers JIU and CAI
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1992
Eun-Il Kim
Dissertation: Voice in Korean
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Rebecca Burns-Hoffman
Dissertation: A Discourse Analysis of Variationin Children's Language in pre-School, Small Group Settings
Advisor: Lise Menn
1990
Robert Koops
Dissertation: Aspects of the Grammar of Kuteb
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Dissertation: The Semantics of Temporal Categorization: The Aspectual System of Koyukon Athabaskan
Advisor: David Rood