Ph.D. Alumni By Year
2022
- Shuxiao "Donald" Gong
- The Obligatory Contour Principle Effects in Phonological Learning
(Advisor: Jie Zhang)
- Jinmyung Lee
- Testing the transfer of the online /i/-/ɪ/ training effect to Korean L2 learners of English: From speech perception to spoken word recognition
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay) - Tingting Wang
- Examining the Role of Subjecthood and Pronominalization in Reference Resolution in L1 and L2 Processing: An Eye-tracking Study
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele) - Delaney Wilson
- Examining Morphological Decomposition of Regular and Irregular Verbs and the Role Individual Variation in Second Language Learners
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino)
- Yuyu "Rustle" Zeng
- The Process of Producing Chinese Words: Discrete or Cascaded?
(Advisors: Jie Zhang and Robert Fiorentino)
2021
- Nicholas Feroce
- Examining the Effect of Training on L2 Processing and Comprehension of Spanish Null and Overt Subject Pronouns
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino)
- Seulgi Shin
- Phonetic variations driven by prosodic structure and their function in speech production
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay)
2020
- Jonah Bates
- Typology and Analysis of Person Marking Referent Reanalysis
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie) - Longcan Huang
- Modification with De in Mandarin Chinese
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Charles Redmon
- Lexical acoustics: Linking phonetic systems to the higher-order units they encode
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - Wenting Tang
- Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino) - Xiao Yang
- Linguistic Cues Guide Prediction in the Processing of Mandarin Relative Clauses: An ERP Study
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino)
2018
- Lauren Covey
- An ERP investigation of individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies by native and non-native speakers
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino)
2017
- Ibrahima Ba
- Nominalization in Pulaar
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie) - Katrina Connell
- The use of segmental and suprasegmental information in lexical access: A dirst- and second-language Chinese investigation
(Advisors: Annie Tremblay and Jie Zhang) - Philip Duncan
- The role of argument structure in Me-phaa verbal agreement
(Advisors: Andrew McKenzie and Harold Torrence) - Mingxing Li
- Sibilant contrast: Perception, production, and sound change
(Advisor: Jie Zhang) - Kotoko Nakata
- Explicit learning of Japanese mimetic words using voicing, gemination, and reduplication rules
(Advisor: Joan Sereno) - Zhen Qin (Quentin)
- How native Chinese listeners and second-language Chinese learners process tones in word recognition: An eye-tracking study
(Advisors: Annie Tremblay and Jie Zhang)
2016
- Yu-Fu Chien
- Observing the contribution of both underlying and surface representations: Evidence from priming and event-related potentials
(Advisors: Joan Sereno and Jie Zhang) - Caitlin E. Coughlin
- Processing morphologically complex words in native and non-native French
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino) - Yingjie Li
- Effects of High Variability Phonetic Training on Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Mandarin Chinese Tones for L2 Chinese Learners
(Advisors: Joan Sereno and Manuela Gonzales-Bueno (School of Education Ph.D.)) - Maria Theresa Martinez-Garcia
- Tracking bilingual activation in the processing and production of Spanish stress
(Advisor: Annie Tremblay) - Hanbo Yan
- The nature of variation in tone Sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu
(Advisor: Jie Zhang)
2015
- Saad M. Aldosari
- The role of individual differences in the acceptability of island violations in native and non-native speakers
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele) - Turki A.S. Binturki
- The acquisition of negation in Najdi Arabic
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Joleen Chia-Ying Chu
- The role of non-linguistics cognitive development and language-specific morphological properties in the first language acquisition of demonstratives
(Advisor: Utako Minai) - Adrienne M. Johnson
- Individual differences in predictive processing: Evidence from subject filled gap effects in native and non-native speakers of English
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino) - Goun Lee
- Production and perception of Korean and English word-level prominence by Korean speakers
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - Beatriz Lopez Prego
- The online use of markedness information in L1 and L2 Spanish gender agreement
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino)
2014
- Khady Tamba
- Clausal nominalization in Wolof
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)
2013
- Mujdey Abudalbuh
- Ideology, gender roles, and pronominal choice: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English third person generic pronouns by native speakers of Arabic
(Advisors: Naima Boussofara and Allard Jongman) - Mohammed Al-Malahmeh
- The interaction of indirect evidentiality, temporality and epistemic modality in Jordanian Arabic: The case of deverbal agentives
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Kelly Harper Berkson
- Phonation types in Marathi: An acoustic investigation
(Advisors: Jie Zhang and Allard Jongman) - Kristi Bond
- The role of the L1 and individual differences in L2 sensitivity to morphosyntactic features: An ERP investigation
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino) - Hyunjung Lee
- Evidence of diachronic sound change: A comparative acoustic study of Seoul and Kyungsang Korean
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - Jiang Liu
- Effects of variance and input distribution on the training of L2 learners' tone categorization
(Advisor: Jie Zhang) - Stephen Politzer-Ahles
- Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigation of scalar implicature
(Advisor: Robert Fiorentino) - Mahire Yakup
- Acoustic correlates of lexical stress in native speakers of Uyghur and L2 learners
(Advisors: Joan Sereno and Arienne Dwyer)
2012
- Atef Atallah Eid Alsarayreh
- The licensing of negative sensitive items in Jordanian Arabic
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Jose Aleman Banon
- The native and nonnative processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish: an ERP investigation
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino) - Hiba Gharib
- A semantic analysis of ‘cut’ and ‘break’ verbs in Sorani Kurdish
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Sok-Ju Kim
- The syntax and acquisition of negative polarity items in heritage Korean
(Advisor: Harold Torrence) - Alonso Canales Viquez
- The online processing of wh-dependencies in English by native speakers of Spanish
(Advisors: Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino)
2011
- Rania Nayef Al-Aqarbeh
- Finiteness in Jordanian Arabic: Morpho-syntactic and semantic approach
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Wendy Herd
- The perceptual and production training of allophones and phonemes in L2 Spanish
(Advisors: Allard Jongman and Joan Sereno) - Yen-Kuang Ho
- The perception and production of American English vowels by EFL learners in Taiwan: The influence of first langauge and proficiency levels
(Advisors: Joan Sereno and Paul Markham (School of Education Ph.D.))
2010
- Emad M. Al-Kulaib
- The Acquisition of English and Arabic Existential constructions
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Mohammad S. Al-Masri
- The acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis in urban Jordanian Arabic
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - I Nyoman Aryawibawa
- Spatial reference in Rongga (ISO 639-3: ROR), Balinese (ISO 639-3: BAN), and Indonesia (ISO 639-3: IND)
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Pedro Mateo Pedro
- The acquistion of verb inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya: A longitudinal study
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Chris Souillé-Rigaut
- A semantic account of quasi-lexemes in modern English: Processing semiotic units of Greek or Latin origin into lexical units
(Advisor: Clifton Pye)
2009
- Jongil Kwon
- Topics in the syntax and semantics of Korean embedded clauses
(Advisor: Sara Rosen)
2008
- Yuwen Lai
- Acoustic realization and perception of English lexical stress by Mandarin learners
(Advisor: Allard Jongman) - Bradley B. Montgomery-Anderson
- A reference grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee
(Advisor: Akira Yamamoto) - Saad Nasser Aldwayan
- The acquisition and processing of Wh-movement by Najdi learners of English
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele and Sara Rosen)
2007
- Sabri S. Al-Shboul
- On defaultness in Jordanian Arabic
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Kazumi Maniwa
- Acoustics and perception of clear fricatives
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)
2006
- Farah H. Alenezi
- Formal constraints on Arabic/English code-switching: A lexically-based approach
(Advisor: Clifton Pye) - Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez
- Morphological regularity and neighborhood density effects in the acquisition and processing of the Spanish Preterite
(Advisors: Joan Sereno)
2005
- Ling Yan
- Movement to the left periphery of vP
(Advisor: Sara Rosen) - Wael Zuraig
- The production of lexical stress by native speakers of Arabic and English and by Arab learners of English
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
2004
- Mohamed M. Galal
- A minimalist approach to relative clauses in Modern Standard Arabic
(Advisor: Sara Rosen) - Ivonne L. Heinze
- Kaqchikel and Spanish language contact: The case of bilingual Mayan children
(Advisor: Clifton Pye)
2003
- Travis W. Wade
- Acoustic variability and perceptual learning of nonnative -accented speech sounds
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)