M.A. Alumni
2023
- Angela Feng
- Relative clauses in Kibembe
(Advisor: John Gluckman) - Jonathan Rancudo
- French Nonfinite Complementizers
(Advisor: John Gluckman) - Victoria "Tori" Routsong
- The Social N400: the effect of confederate language comprehension
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino) - Madeline "Maddie" Stewart
- Processing Regular Verbal Morphology: An ERP Study
(Advisors: Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele) - Chang Wang
- Investigating the variability of external sandhi application – a case study of morpho-syntactically complex Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi
(Advisor: Jie Zhang) - Xuan Wang
- Second Language Pronominal Processing by Chinese-speaking Learners of English: An ERP Study
(Advisors: Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele)
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)
2010
- Mujdey D. Abudalbuh
- Effects of gender on the production of emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A sociophonetic study
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - Jose Aleman Banon
- The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish: An ERP investigation
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele) - Kelly Harper Berkson
- The nature of optional sibilant harmony in Navajo
(Advisor: Jie Zhang) - Alonso J. Canales Viquez
- Acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in English by native speakers of Costa Rican Spanish: The case of simple present and present progressive
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele) - Jiang Liu
- Durational properties of lexical stress and grammatical stress in Nanchag Chinese and their implications for Tonal contrasts
(Advisor: Jie Zhang) - Stephanie A. Lux
- Written Exam
- Yakefu Mayila
- English compound word processing: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese-English bilinguals
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino) - Valeria Mongush
- What transfers in L3 acquistion? An examination of relative clauses in L3 English
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele) - Mircea C. Sauciuc
- Morphological productivity and the decomposition of complex words
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino) - Khady Tamba
- The morpho-syntax of (anti)causatives in Wolof
(Advisor: Harold Torrence) - Emily J. Tummons
- Positional roots in Kaqchikel Maya
(Advisor: Clifton Pye)
2009
- Hyunjung Lee
- An acoustic and aerodynamic study of stops in tonal and nontonal dialects of Korean
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
2008
- Sanae Akaba
- An acoustic study of the Japanese short and long vowel distinction
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - I Nyoman Aryawibawa
- Semantic typology: Semantics of locative relations in Rongga (ISO 639-3: ROR)
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Michelle R. Bridges
- Auxilary verbs in Uyghur
(Advisor: Sara Rosen) - Daniel J. Kasparek
- Improving the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech Through Training: A Comparison of Word and Sentence Materials
(Advisor:Allard Jongman) - Yu Ju Lee
- The role of lexical tone in spoken word recognition of Chinese
(Advisor: Joan Sereno) - Kasper C. Schirer
- You heard the new theory? : A syntactic analysis of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English
(Advisor: Sara Rosen) - Yun H. Stockton
- The effects of speaking rate on Mandarin tones
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
2007
- Saad M. Aldosari
- The acquisition of English unaccusative verbs by Arabic native speakers
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele) - Jacqueline J. Canard
- Relationship Between Levels of Literacy in Spanish (L1) and English (L2) of Adult Students in ESL Programs
(Advisor: Akira Yamamoto) - Wendy J. Herd
- Incomplete neutralization of /t/ and /d/ in flapping environments: An analysis of the north midland dialect of American English
(Advisor:Allard Jongman) - Mohammed K. Murad
- Language attitudes of Iraqi native speakers of Arabic: A sociolinguistic investigation
(Advisor: Adrienne Dwyer) - Craig W. Turnbull-Sailor
- Syntactic patterns of embedded wh- clauses
(Advisor: Sara Rosen) - Jing Wang
- The Second Language Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marker 'le'
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
2006
- Donald L. Englund
- The syntactic structure of the focused adverbial cognate object in biblical Hebrew
(Advisor: Sara Rosen) - Melissa K. Stamer
- The influence of neighborhood density on the recognition of bisyllabic English words
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
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