Ph.D. Alumni by Year
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 c onstructions ”,
(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 )