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”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
2020
Jonah Bates
“Typology and Analysis of Person Marking Referent Reanalysis” ,Andrew McKenzie )Longcan Huang
“Modification with De in Mandarin Chinese”,Clifton Pye )
Charles Redmon
“Lexical acoustics: Linking phonetic systems to the higher-order units they encode ”,Allard Jongman )
Wenting Tang
“Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
Xiao Yang
“Linguistic Cues Guide Prediction in the Processing of Mandarin Relative Clauses: An ERP Study” ,Robert Fiorentino )
2018
Lauren Covey
"An ERP investigation of individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies by native and non-native speakers ",Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
2017
Ibrahima Ba
"Nominalization in Pulaar ”,Andrew McKenzie )
Katrina Connell
“The use of segmental and suprasegmental information in lexical access: A dirst- and second-language Chinese investigation ”,Annie Tremblay and Jie Zhang )
Philip Duncan
“The role of argument structure in Me-phaa verbal agreement” ,Andrew McKenzie and Harold Torrence)
Mingxing Li
"Sibilant contrast: Perception, production, and sound change ”,Jie Zhang )
Kotoko Nakata
"Explicit learning of Japanese mimetic words using voicing, gemination, and reduplication rules ”,Joan Sereno )
Zhen Qin (Quentin)
"How native Chinese listeners and second-language Chinese learners process tones in word recognition: An eye-tracking study ”,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 ”,Joan Sereno and Jie Zhang )
Caitlin E. Coughlin
“Processing morphologically complex words in native and non-native French ”,Robert Fiorentino )
Yingjie Li
"Effects of High Variability Phonetic Training on Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Mandarin Chinese Tones for L2 Chinese Learners ",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 ”,Annie Tremblay )
Hanbo Yan
“The nature of variation in tone Sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu ”,Jie Zhang )
2015
Saad M. Aldosari
“The role of individual differences in the acceptability of island violations in native and non-native speakers ”,Alison Gabriele )
Turki A.S. Binturki
“The acquisition of negation in Najdi Arabic ”, 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 ”,Utako Minai )
Adrienne M. Johnson
“Individual differences in predictive processing: Evidence from subject filled gap effects in native and non-native speakers of English ”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
Goun Lee
"Production and perception of Korean and English word-level prominence by Korean speakers ”,Allard Jongman )
Beatriz Lopez Prego
"The online use of markedness information in L1 and L2 Spanish gender agreement ”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
2014
Khady Tamba
“Clausal nominalization in Wolof ”,
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 ”,Allard Jongman )
Mohammed Al-Malahmeh
“The interaction of indirect evidentiality, temporality and epistemic modality in Jordanian Arabic: The case of deverbal agentives ”, Clifton Pye )
Kelly Harper Berkson
“Phonation types in Marathi: An acoustic investigation ”,Jie Zhang and Allard Jongman )
Kristi Bond
“The role of the L1 and individual differences in L2 sensitivity to morphosyntactic features: An ERP investigation ”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
Hyunjung Lee
“Evidence of diachronic sound change: A comparative acoustic study of Seoul and Kyungsang Korean ”,Allard Jongman )
Jiang Liu
“Effects of variance and input distribution on the training of L2 learners' tone categorization ”,Jie Zhang )
Stephen Politzer-Ahles
“Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigation of scalar implicature ”,Robert Fiorentino )
Mahire Yakup
“Acoustic correlates of lexical stress in native speakers of Uyghur and L2 learners ”,Joan Sereno and Arienne Dwyer)
2012
Atef Atallah Eid Alsarayreh
“The licensing of negative sensitive items in Jordanian Arabic ”,Clifton Pye )
Jose Aleman Banon
“The native and nonnative processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish: an ERP investigation ”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
Hiba Gharib
“A semantic analysis of ‘cut’ and ‘break’ verbs in Sorani Kurdish ”, Clifton Pye )
Sok-Ju Kim
“The syntax and acquisition of negative polarity items in heritage Korean ”,
Alonso Canales Viquez
“The online processing of wh-dependencies in English by native speakers of Spanish ”,Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino )
2011
Rania Nayef Al-Aqarbeh
"Finiteness in Jordanian Arabic: Morpho-syntactic and semantic approach ”, Clifton Pye )
Wendy Herd
“The perceptual and production training of allophones and phonemes in L2 Spanish ”,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 ",Joan Sereno and Paul Markham (School of Education Ph.D.))
2010
Emad M. Al-Kulaib
"The Acquisition of English and Arabic Existential c onstructions ”, Clifton Pye )
Mohammad S. Al-Masri
“The acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis in urban Jordanian Arabic ”,Allard Jongman )
I Nyoman Aryawibawa
“Spatial reference in Rongga (ISO 639-3: ROR), Balinese (ISO 639-3: BAN), and Indonesia (ISO 639-3: IND) ”, Clifton Pye )
Pedro Mateo Pedro
"The acquistion of verb inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya: A longitudinal study ”, 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 ”, Clifton Pye )
2009
Jongil Kwon
“Topics in the syntax and semantics of Korean embedded clauses ”,
2008
Yuwen Lai
“Acoustic realization and perception of English lexical stress by Mandarin learners ”,Allard Jongman )
Bradley B. Montgomery-Anderson
“A reference grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee ”,
Saad Nasser Aldwayan
“The acquisition and processing of Wh-movement by Najdi learners of English ”,Alison Gabriele and Sara Rosen)
2007
Sabri S. Al-Shboul
“On defaultness in Jordanian Arabic ”, Clifton Pye )
Kazumi Maniwa
“Acoustics and perception of clear fricatives ”,Allard Jongman )
2006
Farah H. Alenezi
“Formal constraints on Arabic/English code-switching: A lexically-based approach ”, Clifton Pye )
Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez
“ Morphological regularity and neighborhood density effects in the acquisition and processing of the Spanish Preterite ”,Joan Sereno )
2005
Ling Yan
“Movement to the left periphery of vP ”,
Wael Zuraig
"The production of lexical stress by native speakers of Arabic and English and by Arab learners of English ",Joan Sereno )
2004
Mohamed M. Galal
“A minimalist approach to relative clauses in Modern Standard Arabic ”,
Ivonne L. Heinze
“Kaqchikel and Spanish language contact: The case of bilingual Mayan children ”, Clifton Pye )
2003
Travis W. Wade
"Acoustic variability and perceptual learning of nonnative -accented speech sounds ”,Allard Jongman )
