Ph.D. Alumni by Year
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)
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2005
- Ling Yan
- “Movement to the left periphery of vP”,
(Advisor: Sara Rosen)
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- Wael Zuraig
- "The production of lexical stress by native speakers of Arabic and English and by Arab learners of English",
(Advisor: Joan Sereno)
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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)
