M.A. Alumni by Year
2019
Ruoqian Cheng
"Acoustic analysis of nasal and lateral consonants: The merger in Eastern Min",Allard Jongman )
John-Patrick Doherty
"Hypothetical conditional clauses in Ibibio",Andrew McKenzie )
Shuxiao Gong
"Gradient acceptability in Mandarin non-word judgment",Jie Zhang )
Chang Liu
"The role of acoustic cues in Mandarin listeners' assimilation of Gong'an tones to Mandarin tones",Annie Tremblay )
Yen Thi Hai Tran
Written Exam
Alexandria Vogt-Woodin
"Ambiguity in attitude predicates: An investigation of English 'make sure'",Andrew McKenzie )
Delaney Wilson
"Morphological decomposition of regular and irregular verbs by native English speakers",Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele )
2018
Jonah Bates
"A typology of person marking referent reanalysis in six language families",Andrew McKenzie )
Kayla Clark
Written Exam
Phillip Kroh
"Rates of scalar implicature generation in second language English by native speakers of Japanese”,Utako Minai )
Mashael Mojamami
Written Exam
Lena Roesner
Written Exam
Tingting Wang
"Examining implicit causality in the processing of pronouns in English",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",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”,Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele )
Masashi Harada
"Pseudoclefts in Japanese",Andrew McKenzie )
Ryan Johnson
Written Exam
Charles Redmon
"Source characteristics of dorsal frication”,Allard Jongman )
Seulgi Shin
"The effects of prosodic structure on lexical access: An investigation of Korean denasalization",Annie Tremblay )
2016
Zhuo Chen
“The syntax of ha polar questions in Wuhu Chinese”,Andrew McKenzie )
David K. Kummer
“A ton of planks in plankton: Examining morpho-orthographic decomposition in the early stages of complex word processing”,Robert Fiorentino )
Xiakun Li
Written Exam
Wenting Tang
"The role of islands in dependency resolution: A comparison of filler-gap and cataphoric dependencies",Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino)
Xiao Yang
“Context-dependent meaning computation: An investigation of the effect of question under discussion on scalar impliature”,Robert Fiorentino & Utako Minai )
2015
Lauren Covey
“Gender agreement as a predictive processing cue: Evidence from L2 learners and speakers of Hindi”,Alison Gabriele )
Longcan Huang
“The syntax of Vietnamese causatives”,
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 ”,Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino )
Travis Major
“Syntactic Islands in Uyghur ”,
Maria Rangel
Written Exam
Ethan E. Skinner
“Sources of difficulty in the L2 acquisition of Chinese reflexives and pronouns”,Alison Gabriele )
Kimberly Swallom
Written Exam
Wen-chi Yeh
“Frequency-based lexical variation in Taiwanese onomatopeia”,Jie Zhang )
2013
Hesham Abdel Karim Aldamen
“The production of emphasis by second language learners of Arabic ”,Allard Jongman )
Ibrahima Ba
“The Clause Structure of Pulaar ”,
Jonathan Coffee
“Quantificational Pronouns in Uyghur ”,
Philip Duncan
“The morpho-syntax of indefinite pronouns in lliatenco Me’phaa ”,
Chih-Hsiang Hsieh
“The Perception of Epenthetic Vowels in Voiced and Voiceless Contexts in Japanese ”,Joan Sereno )
Robert Lewis Jr.
“Complementizer agreement in Najdi Arabic ”,
Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia
“Processing verbal inflection in native and non-native Spanish ”,Alison Gabriele & Robert Fiorentino )
Kotoko Nakata
“Perception of sound symbolism in mimetic stimuli: The voicing contrast in Japanese and English ”,Joan Sereno )
Sally Ocampo
“Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: a study of native and nonnative processing ”,Alison Gabriele )
Matthew Orzulak
Written Exam
Hanbo Yan
“The productivity of tone sandhi patterns in Wuxi Chinese ”,Jie Zhang )
2012
Adrienne M. Johnson
“Processing of wh-movement by second language learners ”,Allard Jongman )
Mark Allen Lanfranca
“An acoustic study of underspecified vowels in Turkish ”,Allard Jongman )
Goun Lee
“Acoustic characteristics of Korean fricatives and affricates ”,Allard Jongman )
Beatriz Lopez Prego
"Examining the nature of variability in native and nonnative Spanish ”,Alison Gabriele )
Naoko Takami
Written Exam
Eun Sun Tark
“An experimental study on Korean rhythm structure on the basis of rhythm metrics ”,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 ”,Alison Gabriele )
Hiba E. Gharib
“Transitivity alterations in Sorani Kurdish” ,Clifton Pye ))
Sarah Mealiff Coughlan
Written Exam
Stephen J. Politzer-Ahles
“Online processing of scalar implicatures in Chinese as revealed by event-related potentials ”,Robert Fiorentino )
Jeffrey R. Shouse
“Cortical responses to familiar and novel orthographic systems ”,Robert Fiorentino )
Breanna I. Vannocker
“The effect of background language and speaker differences on serial recall of aurally presented single-talker stimuli ”,Allard Jongman )
2010
Mujdey D. Abudalbuh
"`Effects of gender on the production of emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A sociophonetic study ”,Allard Jongman )
Jose Aleman Banon
"The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish: An ERP investigation ”,Alison Gabriele )
Kelly Harper Berkson
"The nature of optional sibilant harmony in Navajo ”,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 ”,Alison Gabriele )
Jiang Liu
“Durational properties of lexical stress and grammatical stress in Nanchag Chinese and their implications for Tonal contrasts ”,Jie Zhang )
Stephanie A. Lux
Written Exam
Yakefu Mayila
“English compound word processing: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese-English bilinguals ",Robert Fiorentino )
Valeria Mongush
“What transfers in L3 acquistion? An examination of relative clauses in L3 English ”,Alison Gabriele )Mircea C. Sauciuc
“Morphological productivity and the decomposition of complex words ”,Robert Fiorentino )
Khady Tamba
“The morpho-syntax of (anti)causatives in Wolof ”,
Emily J. Tummons
“Positional roots in Kaqchikel Maya ”,Clifton Pye )
2009
Hyunjung Lee
“An acoustic and aerodynamic study of stops in tonal and nontonal dialects of Korean ”,Allard Jongman )
2008
Sanae Akaba
"An acoustic study of the Japanese short and long vowel distinction ”,Allard Jongman )
I Nyoman Aryawibawa
“Semantic typology: Semantics of locative relations in Rongga (ISO 639-3: ROR) ”,Clifton Pye )
Michelle R. Bridges
"Auxilary verbs in Uyghur ”,
Daniel J. Kasparek
"Improving the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech Through Training: A Comparison of Word and Sentence Materials ",Allard Jongman )
Yu Ju Lee
"The role of lexical tone in spoken word recognition of Chinese ”,Joan Sereno )
Kasper C. Schirer
“You heard the new theory? : A syntactic analysis of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English ”,
Yun H. Stockton
“The effects of speaking rate on Mandarin tones ”,Joan Sereno )
2007
Saad M. Aldosari
"The acquisition of English unaccusative verbs by Arabic native speakers ”,Alison Gabriele )
Jacqueline J. Canard
“Relationship Between Levels of Literacy in Spanish (L1) and English (L2) of Adult Students in ESL Programs ”,
Wendy J. Herd
"Incomplete neutralization of /t/ and /d/ in flapping environments: An analysis of the north midland dialect of American English ”,Allard Jongman )
Mohammed K. Murad
“Language attitudes of Iraqi native speakers of Arabic: A sociolinguistic investigation ”,
Craig W. Turnbull-Sailor
“ Syntactic patterns of embedded wh- clauses ”,
Jing Wang
"The Second Language Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marker 'le' ”,Alison Gabriele )
2006
Donald L. Englund
“The syntactic structure of the focused adverbial cognate object in biblical Hebrew ”,
Melissa K. Stamer
“The influence of neighborhood density on the recognition of bisyllabic English words ”,Joan Sereno )
2005
Olga Dmitrieva
“Incomplete neutralization in Russian final devoicing: Acoustic evidence from native speakers and second language learners”,Allard Jongman )
Pedro Mateo Pedro
“Acquisition of the inflectional morphology in Q'anjob'al”,Clifton Pye )
Nathan D. Poell
“A phonetic study of the vowels and tones of western Cherokee”,Allard Jongman )
Nina V. Radkevich
“Multiple Wh-Questions in Russian”,
2004
Mariko Karasawa
"Native and Non-native Production and Perception of Japanese Affricate [ts] and the Fricative [s]”,Joan Sereno )
Diana Pastoriza
“Second Language Lexical Processing: Influence of Teaching Method and Word Characteristics”,Joan Sereno )
2003
Yuwen Lai
“The effect of aspiration on the fundamental frequency of the following tone in Taiwanese”,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”,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”,Joan Sereno )
Molly F. Collins
“Young children's understandings of the meaning of on in English and Korean”,Clifton Pye )
Kazumi Maniwa
“Acoustic and perceptual evidence of complete neutralization of the word-final tonal specificaition in Japanese ”,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”,Allard Jongman )
Junko Maekawa Young
“Movement of the object in English and Japanese in minimalist program”
Ruoqian Cheng
"Acoustic analysis of nasal and lateral consonants: The merger in in eastern min",
(Advisor: Allard Jongman )
John-Patrick Doherty
"Hypothetical conditional clauses in Ibibio",
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie )
Shuxiao Gong
"Gradient acceptability in Mandarin nonword 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,
Delaney Wilson
"Morphological decomposition of regular and irregular verbs by native English speakers",
(Advisors:Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele )
