M.A. Alumni by Year

2019

Jonah Bates
          "A typology of person marking referent reanalysis in six language families",
         (Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)
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
Tingting Wang
         "Examining implicit causality in the processing of pronouns in English"
         (Advisor: Alison Gabriele)
Delaney Wilson
         "Morphological decomposition of regular and irregular verbs by native English speakers"
         (Advisors:Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele)
Yuyu (Rustle) Zeng
         "A comparison of falling tone and rising tone in Chinese: a dissociation between production and perception"
         (Advisor: Allard Jongman)

2018

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

Bin Wei

Written Exam

Kunning Yang

Written Exam

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)

2016

David K. Kummer

“A ton of planks in plankton: Examining morpho-orthographic decomposition in the early stages of  complex word processing”,
(Advisor: 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)

Xiakun Li

Written Exam

Zhuo Chen

“The syntax of ha polar questions in Wuhu Chinese”,
(Advisor: Andrew McKenzie)

2015

Lauren Covey

“Gender agreement as a predictive processing cue: Evidence from L2 learners and speakers of Hindi”,
(Advisor: Alison Gabriele)

Hannah K. Jones

Written Exam

Longcan Huang

“The syntax of Vietnamese causatives”,
(Advisor: Jason Kandybowicz)

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”