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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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2014

Khady Tamba

“Clausal nominalization in Wolof”,
(Advisor: Harold Torrence)

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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)

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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)

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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.))

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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)

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2009

Jongil Kwon

“Topics in the syntax and semantics of Korean embedded clauses”,
(Advisor: Sara Rosen)

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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)

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2007

Sabri S. Al-Shboul

“On defaultness in Jordanian Arabic”,
(Advisor: Clifton Pye)

Kazumi Maniwa

“Acoustics and perception of clear fricatives”,
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)

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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)

 

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)

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2003

Travis W. Wade

"Acoustic variability and perceptual learning of nonnative -accented speech sounds”,
(Advisor: Allard Jongman)

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