M.A. Alumni


2022

Amaya Madden
Second language judgments on and metalinguistics knowledge of Japanese negative polarity item licensing conditions
(Advisor: Utako Minai)
 
Corey McCulloch
L2 learners’ perception of non-native nasals in unfamiliar locations
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
 
Morgan Robertson
L1 English L2 French perception of nasal vowels
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
 
Tzu-Hsuan Yang
Processing of English lexical stress in different intonational contexts
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)
 
Yi "Kevin" Zhang
The role of segmental and suprasegmental information in the adaptation to English-accented Mandarin Chinese
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)

2021

Amer Asiri
Light Verbs in Tihami Arabic
(Advisor: John Gluckman)
Andrew Collins
Examining Markedness in the Agreement of Coordinated Noun Phrases in Spanish
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino)
Romina Duran
Weak and Strong Definite Distinction in Qom
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
Aron Finholt
Attitude Reports and Relative Belief: A New Perspective on the Swahili Dual Complementizer System
(Advisor: John Gluckman)
Hao Lin
Corrective Feedback Type and Structure Salience in Second Language Acquisition
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Ayumi Nobuki
The Role of the Contrastive Topic -wa in Negation: Empirical Evidence from Felicity Judgment of Negative Sentences in Japanese
(Advisor: Utako Minai)
Alesha Pisciotta
Online L2 Processing of the Spanish Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses: A Comparison between Processing Instruction and Meaningful Output-Based Instruction
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Charles Henry Pratt
Morphosyntactic Acquisition of Counterfactual Conditionals in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Wunan Zhang
Do listeners store surface or underlying forms of vowel variants? A study on dialectal variants of Mandarin
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)

2020

Sheyenne Fishero
Perception and Production of Mandarin-Accented English: The Effect of Degree of Accentedness on ISIB-L and ISIB-T
(Advisor: Joan Sereno & Allard Jongman)
Trevin Garcia
Subject Deletion in Southwest Kansas Latino English
(Advisor: John Gluckman)
Hyoju Kim
Word-level stress processing in Korean-speaking second language learners of English
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)
Nathan Schellenberg
Differential High Vowel Devoicing in Korean Illusory Vowel Perception
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Fenqi Wang
The Effect of Pitch Accent on the Perception of English Lexical Stress by Native Listeners
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)

2019

Ruoqian Cheng
Acoustic analysis of nasal and lateral consonants: The merger in Eastern Min
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
John-Patrick Doherty
Hypothetical conditional clauses in Ibibio
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
Shuxiao Gong
Gradient acceptability in Mandarin non-word judgment
(Advisor: Jie Zhang)
Chang Liu
The role of acoustic cues in Mandarin listeners' assimilation of Gong'an tones to Mandarin tones
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)
Yen Thi Hai Tran
Written Exam
Alexandria Vogt-Woodin
Ambiguity in attitude predicates: An investigation of English 'make sure'
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
Delaney Wilson
Morphological decomposition of regular and irregular verbs by native English speakers
(Advisors: Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele)

2018

Jonah Bates
A typology of person marking referent reanalysis in six language families
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
Kayla Clark
Written Exam
Phillip Kroh
Rates of scalar implicature generation in second language English by native speakers of Japanese
(Advisor: Utako Minai)
Mashael Mojamami
Written Exam
Lena Roesner
Written Exam
Tingting Wang
Examining implicit causality in the processing of pronouns in English
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Bin Wei
Written Exam
Kunning Yang
Written Exam
Yuyu (Rustle) Zeng
A comparison of falling tone and rising tone in Chinese: a dissociation between production and perception
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)

2017

Reema Al-Mutair
Written Exam
Nicholas Feroce
Working memory modulates the processing of pronominal ambiguity in Spanish: Evidence from event-related potentials
(Advisors: Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele)
Masashi Harada
Pseudoclefts in Japanese
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
Ryan Johnson
Written Exam
Charles Redmon
Source characteristics of dorsal frication
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Seulgi Shin
The effects of prosodic structure on lexical access: An investigation of Korean denasalization
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)

2016

Zhuo Chen
The syntax of ha polar questions in Wuhu Chinese
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
David K. Kummer
A ton of planks in plankton: Examining morpho-orthographic decomposition in the early stages of  complex word processing
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino)
Xiakun Li
Written Exam
Wenting Tang
The role of islands in dependency resolution: A comparison of filler-gap and cataphoric dependencies
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino)
Xiao Yang
Context-dependent meaning computation: An investigation of the effect of question under discussion on scalar impliature
(Advisors: Robert Fiorentino & Utako Minai)

2015

Lauren Covey
Gender agreement as a predictive processing cue: Evidence from L2 learners and speakers of Hindi
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Longcan Huang
The syntax of Vietnamese causatives
(Advisor: Jason Kandybowicz)
Hannah K. Jones
Written Exam
Michael S. Swarts
Written Exam

2014

Jie Liu
Grammatically-guided resolution of filler-gap dependencies: An investigation of Chinese multiple dependencies
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino)
Travis Major
Syntactic Islands in Uyghur
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)
Maria Rangel
Written Exam
Ethan E. Skinner
Sources of difficulty in the L2 acquisition of Chinese reflexives and pronouns
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Kimberly Swallom
Written Exam
Wen-chi Yeh
Frequency-based lexical variation in Taiwanese onomatopeia
(Advisor: Jie Zhang)

2013

Hesham Abdel Karim Aldamen
The production of emphasis by second language learners of Arabic
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Ibrahima Ba
The Clause Structure of Pulaar
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)
Jonathan Coffee
Quantificational Pronouns in Uyghur
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)
Philip Duncan
The morpho-syntax of indefinite pronouns in lliatenco Me’phaa
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)
Chih-Hsiang Hsieh
The Perception of Epenthetic Vowels in Voiced and Voiceless Contexts in Japanese
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
Robert Lewis Jr.
Complementizer agreement in Najdi Arabic
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)
Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia
Processing verbal inflection in native and non-native Spanish
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino)
Kotoko Nakata
Perception of sound symbolism in mimetic stimuli: The voicing contrast in Japanese and English
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
Sally Ocampo
Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: a study of native and nonnative processing
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Matthew Orzulak
Written Exam
Hanbo Yan
The productivity of tone sandhi patterns in Wuxi Chinese
(Advisor: Jie Zhang)

2012

Adrienne M. Johnson
Processing of wh-movement by second language learners
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Mark Allen Lanfranca
An acoustic study of underspecified vowels in Turkish
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Goun Lee
Acoustic characteristics of Korean fricatives and affricates
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Beatriz Lopez Prego
Examining the nature of variability in native and nonnative Spanish
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Naoko Takami
Written Exam
Eun Sun Tark
An experimental study on Korean rhythm structure on the basis of rhythm metrics
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)

2011

Abuduwaili Ayifu
Written Exam
Kristi N. Bond
Examining morphological sensitivity and individual differences in the acquisition of agreement in a second language
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Hiba E. Gharib
Transitivity alterations in Sorani Kurdish
(Advisor: Clifton Pye))
Sarah Mealiff Coughlan
Written Exam
Stephen J. Politzer-Ahles
Online processing of scalar implicatures in Chinese as revealed by event-related potentials
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino)
Jeffrey R. Shouse
Cortical responses to familiar and novel orthographic systems
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino)
Breanna I. Vannocker
The effect of background language and speaker differences on serial recall of aurally presented single-talker stimuli
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)






2005

Olga Dmitrieva
Incomplete neutralization in Russian final devoicing: Acoustic evidence from native speakers and second language learners
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Pedro Mateo Pedro
Acquisition of the inflectional morphology in Q'anjob'al
(Advisor: Clifton Pye)
Nathan D. Poell
A phonetic study of the vowels and tones of western Cherokee
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Nina V. Radkevich
Multiple Wh-Questions in Russian
(Advisor: Sara Rosen)

2004

Mariko Karasawa
Native and Non-native Production and Perception of Japanese Affricate [ts] and the Fricative [s]
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
Diana Pastoriza
Second Language Lexical Processing: Influence of Teaching Method and Word Characteristics
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)

2003

Yuwen Lai
The effect of aspiration on the fundamental frequency of the following tone in Taiwanese
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Natalia Evgenyevna Plotnikov
Ultimate phonological attainment of second language leaners: A perceptual study of advance Russian learners of English
Eva Rodríguez Gonzalez
L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Preterite
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
David A. Teeple
Concatenative morphology as universal: An optimality account, with analyses of Arabic and Sierra Miwok verbal morphology

2002

Ricardo M. Benitez
An acoustic and perceptual study of the vowels of Spanish
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
Molly F. Collins
Young children's understandings of the meaning of on in English and Korean
(Advisor: Clifton Pye)
Kazumi Maniwa
Acoustic and perceptual evidence of complete neutralization of the word-final tonal specificaition in Japanese
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Yumiko Sasaki
Kanji Conversion of Spelled Japanese Person Names
Travis W. Wade
Evaluating possible linguistic function of vertical scaling in speech intonation: Evidence from Japanese tone
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
Junko Maekawa Young
Movement of the object in English and Japanese in minimalist program