"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)
"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)
“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”
Aron Finholt
"Attitude Reports and Relative Belief: A New Perspective on the Swahili Dual Complementizer System",
(Advisor: John Gluckman
Amer Asiri
"Light Verbs in Tihami Arabic",
(Advisor: John Gluckman)
Andrew Collins
"Examining Markedness in the Agreement of Coordinated Noun Phrases in Spanish ",
(Advisor: John Gluckman)
Romina Duran
"Weak and Strong Definite Distinction in Qom",
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
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 Japanes",
(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)
