Out of the 70 Ling/ANLI PhD's 2000-2015:
43% tenured/tenure track (30% U.S. & Canada, 13% elsewhere)
11% non-tenure-track long-term teaching
7% short-term teaching
9% private sector
9% postdocs
7% government (tribal or U.S. federal)
3% university administrative
3% self-employed
4% unknown
4% other
43% tenured/tenure track (30% U.S. & Canada, 13% elsewhere)
11% non-tenure-track long-term teaching
7% short-term teaching
9% private sector
9% postdocs
7% government (tribal or U.S. federal)
3% university administrative
3% self-employed
4% unknown
4% other
2021
Elsayed Issa
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2021
Kevan Joe
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2021
Thesis: Advancing Beyond the Beginner Levels of Navajo Language Study
Tianyi Ni
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2021
Thesis: A Sketch Grammar of Siriano: It's Morphology and Phonology
Rebecca Whitney
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2021
Thesis:
John Culnan
Ph.D, 2021
Dissertation Title: Acoustic Analysis and Automatic Classification of Personality and Individual Expression from Speech
2020
Colleen Patton
Ph.D, 2020
Dissertation Title: Discursive Construction of Linguistic Value, Speakerhood, and Community in Scottish Gaelic and Breton Language Revitalization
Shannon Grippando
Ph.D, 2020
Dissertation Title: The Ink in Our Speech: Influence from Orthographic Complexity in Speech Production
Rachel Brown
Ph.D, 2020
Dissertation Title: The Comprehension of Ambiguous Multi-Word Phrases With and Without Context
Cheyenne Wing
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2020
Thesis: A Descriptive Grammar of the Tohono O'odham Language
Ryan Smith
Ph.D, 2020
Dissertation Title: Similative Plurality and the Nature of Alternatives
Mosiah Bluecloud
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2020
Thesis: Sketch Grammar of The Kickapoo Langauge
Christian DiRado Owens
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2020
Thesis: The Creation of the Moon: A Community-based Traditional Story Publication and Pedagogical Reference for the Karapanã Language Community
Amaris Le Fay
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2020
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2020
Colton Flowers
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2020
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2020
Jianrong Yu
Ph.D, 2020
Dissertation Title: Repetitive and Restitutive Presuppositions and the Semantics of English Verbal Roots
William Cotter
Joint PhD Anthropology and Linguistics 2020
Dissertation Title: Language, Culture, and Development in Amman, Jordan
Rebecca Cordes
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2020
2019
Zechy Wong
Ph.D, 2019
Dissertation Title: A Minimalist Model and Computational Toolkit for Code Switching: English-Chinese Code Switching in Singapore
Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson
Joint PhD Anthropology and Linguistics 2019
Dissertation Title: Language Use and Global Media Circulation among Argentine Fans of English Mass Media
Rana Nabors
Ph.D, 2019
Dissertation Title: A Comprehensive Analysis of Simple Verbs in Persian
Rianne Lyons
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2019
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2019
Kaylene BigKnife
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2019
Thesis:
Robert Autry
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2019
Thesis: Manju Tacire: Learning Manchu, an Introduction to the Manchus and their Language
Ragheb Al-Ghezi
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2019
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2019
Maria Alexeeva
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2019
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2019
Sarah Mountain
MA-Linguistics 2019
2018
Yan Chen
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: Inter-Talker Variability and Perception of Phonetically Similar Tones
Brittney Alexander
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics, 2018
Thesis: Speaking To The Cherokee Within: An Authoethnography on Language Impact on Identity Discomfort for Cherokees
Gregory Anderson
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2018
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2018
Elise Bell
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: Perception and Production of Welsh Vowels-Spanish Bilinguals
John Blazic
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2018
John Dukatz
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2018
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2018
Gus Hahn-Powell
Ph.D, 2018
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: Machine Reading for Scientific Discovery
Maureen Hoffman
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: Speaking and Being Chin in America: A Linguistic and Anthropological Look At a Refugee Community from Burma (Myamar)
Nicholas Kloehn
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: Three Papers on the Internal Properties of Words
Jamie Parchment
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: A Proposal for a Computational of Phonemic Acquisition
Priscilla Shin
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: The Semiotics and Social Practices of Constructing a "Proper" Singaporean Identity
Patrick Thomas
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: A Phonetic Description of the Kawaiisu Language
Megan Figueroa
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: "Who Breaked the Rule?": Rethinking English Past Tense Overregularizations
Yuan-Lu Chen
PhD, 2018
Dissertation Title: Improving Neural Net Machine Translation Systems with Linguistic Information
Phil Cash-Cash
Joint PhD Anthropology and Linguistics 2018
Dissertation Title: That Which Echoes in Our Words: Contemporary Language Use in the Indigenous Southern Plateau
Shaio-Hui Chen
Ph.D, 2018
Ph.D, 2018
Shiloh Drake
Ph.D, 2018
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: L1 Biases in Learning Root-and-Pattern Morphology
Dane Bell
Ph.D, 2018
Dissertation Title: Detecting Preventable Disease Risk on Social Media
2017
Julia Fisher
PhD, 2017
Dissertation Title: Investigating Speech Perception With functioanl Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mary Kalusa
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2017
Advisor: Sandiway Fong
HLT Internship Report: Lionbridge; Developing grammer rules based on Regular Expression for the Engish Grammer project
Ben Mullins
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2017
Advisor:
HLT Internship Report: Nextiva; Explore potential applications of natural language processing
Jorge Muriel
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2017
Advisor:
HLT Internship Report: AIRS; Develop natural language based software that wll aid the teachers in our English as a Second Language Department in thier daily duties.
Ammon Pike
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2017
Advisor:
HLT Internship Report: The Long Now Foundation; To develop a massive database of interconnected dictionaries in all human languages.
Rebecca Sharp
PhD, 2017
Dissertation Title:Computational Natural Language Inference: Robust and Interpretable Question Answering
2016
Michael Capizzi
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Sandiway Fong
HLT Internship Report: PitchVantage; Speech Content Analysis
Raymond Daniels
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Sandiway Fong
HLT Internship Report: ULTRA Syntax Research Group; ULTRA Syntactic Parser
Ana Gonzales
Master of Arts in Linguistics, 2016
Advisor: Diane Ohala
Meng Jia
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Sandiway Fong
HLT Internship Report: Speaktoit Inc.; Voice-Enabling App Development & Sentiment Analysis
Heather Lent
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Mike Hammond
HLT Internship Report: Ewha Womans University; Natural Language Processing in Genetics
Zachiah Miller
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Mike Hammond
HLT Internship Report: Scholarship Universe; The Cerebro Project
Ellyn Oliver
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Sandiway Fong
HLT Internship Report: eMegaBook; Story Driven Advertising
Nicholas Walker
Master of Science in Human Language Technology, 2016
Advisor: Mike Hammond
HLT Internship Report: Lionbridge; Implementation of a Linguistic Rule Based Error Detection System
2015
Daniel Brenner
Advisor: Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: The Phonetics of Mandarin Tones in Conversation
University of Alberta
Post-doc
Alexandra Trueman
Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Complex Motion Predicates in Hiaki
University of Arizona, Dept. Linguistics
University of Arizona, Dept. Linguistics
Post Doc
Andrea Davis
Advisor: LouAnn Gerken
Dissertation Title: The Interaction of Language Proficiency and Talker Variability in Learning
Stanford University
Stanford University
Post Doc
Jae-Hyun Sung
Advisor: Diana Archangeli
Dissertation Title: A Cross-linguistic Articulatory Analysis of Palatalization in Korean, English, and Scottish Gaelic
University of Alberta
Instructor
University of Alberta
Instructor
2014
Hyun-Suk Sung
MA 2014
Advisor: Andrew Carnie
Lionel Mathieu
PhD 2014, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: The Influence of Unfamiliar Orthography on L2 Phonolexical Acquisition
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Instructor of French
Michael Tremel
MS HLT 2014, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
Jessamyn Schertz
PhD 2014, Advisor: Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: The Structure and Plasticity of Phonetic Categories Across Languages and Modalities
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor
Colin Gorrie
PhD 2014, Co-Advisors: Diana Archangeli and Andrew Carnie
Dissertation Title: Ideal-Typology
Self-employed, technology consultant
Susan Beth Lorenson
PhD 2014, Advisor: Mikle Hammond
Dissertation Title: Phonemic Awareness and Reading Ability in Literate Adults
Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences
Hyun Kyoung Jung
PhD 2014, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: On the Syntax of Applicative and Causative Constructions
Silla University, Busan, South Korea
Assistant Professor
Silla University, Busan, South Korea
Assistant Professor
Raymond Huaute
MA Native American Languages & Linguistics 2014, Advisor: Mary Willie
Cahuilla Private Elementary School and California State University, San Bernadino
Cahuilla Private Elementary School and California State University, San Bernadino
Cahuilla language teacher
Kristen Howe
MS HLT 2014, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
ESL tutor
ESL tutor
Chen-Chun E
Joint PhD 2014 Anthropology and Linguistics, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: The Syntax of Comparative Correlatives in Mandarin Chinese
National United University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor
National United University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor
Jae Hoon Choi
PhD 2014, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Pronoun-Noun Constructions and the Syntax of DP
Daegu University
Dissertation Title: Pronoun-Noun Constructions and the Syntax of DP
Daegu University
Assistant Professor
2013
Emma Erhardt
MS HLT 2013, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
Interactive Intelligence
Computational linguist
Interactive Intelligence
Computational linguist
Lynnika Butler
PhD 2013, Advisor: Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: Prosidically Driven Metathesis in Mutsun
Wiyot Tribe
Wiyot Tribe
Language Program Manager
Deniz Tat
PhD 2013, Co-Advisors: Heidi Harley and Simin Karimi
Dissertation Title: Word Syntax of Nominal Compounds: Internal and Aphasiological Evidence from Turkish
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Lecturer
Gregory Key
PhD 2013, Co-Advisors: Heidi Harley and Simin Karimi
Dissertation Title: The Morphosyntax of the Turkish Causitive Construction
Binghamton University
Binghamton University
Lecturer
Emily Kidder
PhD 2013 Anthropology and Linguistics, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: Prominence in Yucatec Maya: The Role of Stress in Yucatec Maya Words
IAC Publishing Labs, San Francisco
IAC Publishing Labs, San Francisco
Product manager
Kevin Schluter
PhD 2013
Dissertation Title: Hearing Words Without Structure: Subliminal Speech Priming and the Organization of the Moroccan Arabic Lexicon
New York University, Abu Dhabi
New York University, Abu Dhabi
Post Doc
Tatyana Slobodchikoff
PhD 2013
Dissertation Title: The Slavic Dual: Morphosyntactic Feature Economy as a Factor in Language Change
Troy University
Troy University
English Instructor
Adrienne Tsikewa
MA 2013
UC Santa Barbara
Ph.D. student
Ph.D. student
Kara Hawthorne
PhD 2013
Dissertation Title: From Sound to Syntax: The Prosidic Bootstrapping of Clauses
University of Mississippi, Dept. Comm. Sci. and Disorders
University of Mississippi, Dept. Comm. Sci. and Disorders
Assistant Professor
Ethan Dickinson
MA 2013
2012
David Medeiros
PhD 2012 Advisor: Professor Andrew Carnie
Dissertation Title: Economy of Command
University of Arizona, Linguistics
Visiting faculty member
University of Arizona, Linguistics
Visiting faculty member
Jeff Berry
PhD 2012 Co-Advisors: Diana Archangeli & Ian Fasel
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning Methods for Articulatory Data
Adobe
Data Science Engineer
Sylvia Reed
PhD 2012 Co-Advisors: Andrew Carnie & Heidi Harley
PhD 2012 Co-Advisors: Andrew Carnie & Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: The Semantics of Grammatical Aspect: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jeff Punske
PhD 2012 Advisor: Simni Karimi
PhD 2012 Advisor: Simni Karimi
Dissertation Title: Aspects of the internal structure of nominalization: roots, morphology and derivation
Southern Illinois University
Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University
Assistant Professor
LaToya Hinton
M.A. 2012 Native American Languages & Linguistics (NAMA) Advisor: Mary Willie
University of Arizona, LRC
Ph.D. student
M.A. 2012 Native American Languages & Linguistics (NAMA) Advisor: Mary Willie
University of Arizona, LRC
Ph.D. student
Howard Fitzgerald Swift Hawk Smith
MA 2012 Native American Languages & Linguistics (NAMA) Co-Advisors: Mary Willie & Ofelia Zepeda
Stony Brook University
Ph.D. student
MA 2012 Native American Languages & Linguistics (NAMA) Co-Advisors: Mary Willie & Ofelia Zepeda
Stony Brook University
Ph.D. student
2011
Ryan Nelson
MA 2011
MA 2011
Ben Fletcher
MA 2011
Lindsay Butler
PhD 2011 Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: The Morphosyntax and Processing of Number Marking in Yucatec Maya
Pennsylvania State University
completing MS in Speech-Language Pathology
PhD 2011 Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: The Morphosyntax and Processing of Number Marking in Yucatec Maya
Pennsylvania State University
completing MS in Speech-Language Pathology
Amy LaCross
PhD 2011 Co-Advisors: Diane Ohala & Adam Ussishkin
Dissertation Title: The Role of Language-Specific Phonology: Tracking Linguistics Variables in Khalkha Mongolian
Arizona State University
Research Assistant Professor
PhD 2011 Co-Advisors: Diane Ohala & Adam Ussishkin
Dissertation Title: The Role of Language-Specific Phonology: Tracking Linguistics Variables in Khalkha Mongolian
Arizona State University
Research Assistant Professor
Amanda Davenport
MA Native American Linguistics (NAMA) 2011 Advisor: Mary Willie
Meskwaki Language Program
Coordinator
Meskwaki Language Program
Coordinator
Joe Sanchez
MA Native American Linguistics (NAMA) 2011, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Northern Arizona University
Ph.D. student
2010
Ron Geronimo
MA Native American Linguistics (NAMA) 2010, Advisor: Ofelia Zepeda
Tohono O'odham Community College
Faculty and Director, Tohono O'odham Studies
MA Native American Linguistics (NAMA) 2010, Advisor: Ofelia Zepeda
Tohono O'odham Community College
Faculty and Director, Tohono O'odham Studies
Leila Lomashvili
PhD 2010 Advisor: Simin Karimi
Dissertation Title: Morphosyntax of Complex Predicates in South Caucasian Languages
Shawnee State University
Assistant Professor
Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
PhD 2010, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Contrasting Caustivies: A Minimalist Approach|
Western Michigan University
Assistant Professor
PhD 2010, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Contrasting Caustivies: A Minimalist Approach|
Western Michigan University
Assistant Professor
Jeffrey Witzel
PhD 2010, Co-Advisors: Janet Nicol & Ken Forster
Dissertation Title: Backwards and Forwards: Behavioral and neurophysical investigations into dependency processing
University of Texas at Arlington
Associate Professor
Dissertation Title: Backwards and Forwards: Behavioral and neurophysical investigations into dependency processing
University of Texas at Arlington
Associate Professor
Anthi Zafeiri
M.S. HLT 2010, Co-Advisors: Mike Hammond & Erwin Chan
publishing company, Athens, Greece
Editor
publishing company, Athens, Greece
Editor
2009
Michael Don Anderson
PhD 2009, Co-Advisors: Simin Karimi & Heidi Harley
PhD 2009, Co-Advisors: Simin Karimi & Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Ellipsis as a diagnostic tool of feature strength and the syntactic structure of Ilocano
self-employed writer
Author of adventure series
self-employed writer
Author of adventure series
Jerid Cole Francom
PhD 2009, Co-Advisors: Janet Nicol & Simin Karimi
PhD 2009, Co-Advisors: Janet Nicol & Simin Karimi
Dissertation Title: Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure-- evidence from rating and reading tasks
Wake Forest University
Associate Professor
Jason Ginsburg
PhD (Syntax), MS (HLT) 2009, Advisor: Simin Karimi
PhD (Syntax), MS (HLT) 2009, Advisor: Simin Karimi
Mans Hulden
PhD 2009, Advisor: Mike Hammond
PhD 2009, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: Finite-state Machine Construction Methods and Algorithms for Phonology and Morphology
University of Colorado, Dept. Linguistics
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado, Dept. Linguistics
Assistant Professor
Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri
PhD 2009, Co-Advisors: Jane Hill & Ofelia Zepeda
Dissertation Title: Kenyan Language Ideologies, Language Endangerment, and Gikuyu (Kikuyu): How Discourses of Nationalism, Education, and Development Have Placed a Large, Indigenous Language at Risk
SWCA Environmental Consultants, Tucson
Managing editor
Dissertation Title: Kenyan Language Ideologies, Language Endangerment, and Gikuyu (Kikuyu): How Discourses of Nationalism, Education, and Development Have Placed a Large, Indigenous Language at Risk
SWCA Environmental Consultants, Tucson
Managing editor
Carly Tex
M.A. Native American Linguistics 2009, Advisor: Mary Willie
Nuumu Yadoha Language Program and other programs
Community language teacher/advocate/consultant
Nuumu Yadoha Language Program and other programs
Community language teacher/advocate/consultant
2008
Adam Baker
PhD 2008, Advisor: Mike Hammond
PhD 2008, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: A Biomechanical Model of the Human Tongue for Understanding Speech Production and Other Lingual Behaviors
community development worker abroad
community development worker abroad
Jordan Brewer
PhD 2008, Co-Advisors: Mike Hammond & Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Phonetic Reflexes of Orthographic Characteristics in Lexical Representation
Western Washingon University
Senior Instructor
Erin Ament (Good)
PhD 2008, Co-Advisors: Natasha Warner & Diane Ohala
DIssertation Title: The Processing and Acquisition of Two English Contours
Stay-at-home-mother
PhD 2008, Co-Advisors: Natasha Warner & Diane Ohala
DIssertation Title: The Processing and Acquisition of Two English Contours
Stay-at-home-mother
Mary Dungan Freiman
M.S. HLT 2008, Advisor: Ying Lin
L3-communications, Air Force Research Laboratory
Research scientist
L3-communications, Air Force Research Laboratory
Research scientist
Amelia Flores
M.A. NAMA 2008, Advisor: Mary Willie
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Tribal council member
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Tribal council member
Jaeci Hall
M.A. NAMA 2008, Advisor: Mary Willie
University of Oregon
Ph.D. student
Josh Harrison
M.S. HLT 2008, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Natural language processing scientist
M.S. HLT 2008, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Natural language processing scientist
Polly O'Rourke
PhD 2008, Advisor: Janet Nicol
Dissertation Title: The Nature of Syntactic Gender Processing in Spanish: An ERP Study|
Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland
Stacey Oberly
PhD 2008, NAMA 2004
Southern Ute Tribe
Southern Ute Indian Academy and
Ignacio High School
Ute language teacher
PhD 2008, NAMA 2004
Southern Ute Tribe
Southern Ute Indian Academy and
Ignacio High School
Ute language teacher
Sumayya Granger (Racy)
PhD 2008, Advisor: Andrew Carnie
Dissertation Title: Towards a Unified Treatment of Modality
University of Arizona, CESL
Assistant professor, Assistant director
Brent Ramerth
M.S. HLT 2008, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
Apple, Inc.
Software engineer
M.S. HLT 2008, Advisor: Sandiway Fong
Apple, Inc.
Software engineer
Peter Richtsmeier
PhD 2008, Co-Advisors: LouAnn Gerken & Diane Ohala
Dissertation Title: From Perceptual Learning to Speech Production: Generalizing Phonotactic Probabilities in Language Acquisition
Oklahoma State University, Dept. Comm. Sci. and Disorders
Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University, Dept. Comm. Sci. and Disorders
Assistant Professor
Yosuke Sato
PhD 2008, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Minimalist Interfaces: Selected Issues in Indonesian and Javanese
National University of Singapore
Assistant Professor
Angelina Serratos
PhD 2008, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Topics in Chemehuevi Morphosyntax: Lexical Categories, Predication, and Causation
Dissertation Title: Topics in Chemehuevi Morphosyntax: Lexical Categories, Predication, and Causation
University of Arizona, CESL
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dainon Woudstra
M.S. HLT 2008, Advisor: Mike Hammond
L3-communications, Air Force Research Laboratory
Lead speech technologist
2007
Shannon T. Bischoff
PhD 2007, Co-Advisors: Heidi Harley & Jane Hill
PhD 2007, Co-Advisors: Heidi Harley & Jane Hill
Dissertation Title: Functional Forms-Formal Functions: An Account of Coeur d'Alene Clause Structure
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Associate Professor
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Associate Professor
Shiao-hui Chan
PhD 2007, Advisor: Tom Bever
Dissertation Title: Linguistic Sequencing in the Cortex and Basal Ganglia
National Taiwan Normal University
Associate Professor
Selene Gardner
M.A. Linguistics 2007, M.A. Information Resources & Library Science 2009
M.A. Linguistics 2007, M.A. Information Resources & Library Science 2009
Scott Jackson
PhD 2007, Advisor: Tom Bever
Dissertation Title: Information, Truth, Structure, and Sound
Center for the Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland
Peter Norquest
PhD Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI) 2007, Co-Advisors: Jane Hill & Diana Archangeli
Dissertation Title: A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai
Univ. Arizona, Linguistics and Anthropology
Postdoc and lecturer
PhD Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI) 2007, Co-Advisors: Jane Hill & Diana Archangeli
Dissertation Title: A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai
Univ. Arizona, Linguistics and Anthropology
Postdoc and lecturer
Naomi Ogasawara
PhD 2007, Advisor: Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: Processing of Speech Variability: Vowel Reduction in Japanese
University of Aizu
Senior Associate Professor
University of Aizu
Senior Associate Professor
Benjamin Tucker
PhD 2007, Advisor: Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English Flap
University of Alberta
Associate Professor
Dissertation Title: Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English Flap
University of Alberta
Associate Professor
2006
Lara Coggin
M.A. NAMA 2006, Advisor: Ofelia Zepeda
Virginia Commonwealth University
Assistant Professor
M.A. NAMA 2006, Advisor: Ofelia Zepeda
Virginia Commonwealth University
Assistant Professor
Candace Galla
M.A. NAMA 2006, Advisor: Ofelia Zepeda
Univ. British Columbia
Assistant Professor
Tania Granadillo
PhD Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI) 2006, Advisor: Jane Hill
Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Account of Language Documentation Among the Kurripako of Venezuela
Univ. Western Ontario, Dept. Anthropology
Assistant Professor
Catherine Hicks Kennard
PhD 2006, Co-Advisors: Diana Archangeli & Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: Gender and Command: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Female and Male Drill Instructors in the United States Marine Corps
Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University
Associate Professor
Jeongrae Lee
PhD 2006, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: The Korean Internally-Headed Relative Clause Construction: Its Morphological, Syntactics, and Semantic Aspects
Defense Language Institute
Defense Language Institute
Chien-jer (Charles) Lin
PhD Anthropology and Linguistics (ANLI) 2006, Co-Advisors: Jane Hill & Tom Bever
Dissertation Title: Grammar and Parsing: A Typological Investigation of Relative-Clause Processing
Indiana University, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor
Constantino Martínez Fabián
PhD 2006, Advisor: Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: Yaqui Coordination
University of Sonora
Maestro de tiempo completo
University of Sonora
Maestro de tiempo completo
Daniel Siddiqi
PhD 2006, Advisor: Andrew Carnie
Dissertation Title: Distributed morphology without secondary exponence: a local account of licensing thematic licensing of vocabulary items and strong verb alternations
Carleton University
Associate Professor
Azita Taleghani
PhD 2006, Co-Advisors: Heidi Harley & Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: The Interaction of Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian
University of Toronto, Mississauga
Senior Lecturer
PhD 2006, Co-Advisors: Heidi Harley & Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: The Interaction of Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian
University of Toronto, Mississauga
Senior Lecturer
Alina Twist
PhD 2006, Advisor: Adam Ussishkin
Dissertation Title: A Psycholinguistic Investigation of the Verbal Morphology of Maltese
JTG Inc.
Project manager
Dissertation Title: A Psycholinguistic Investigation of the Verbal Morphology of Maltese
JTG Inc.
Project manager
Gwanhi Yun
PhD 2006, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: The Interaction Between Palatizations and Coarticulation in Korean and English
Daegu University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: The Interaction Between Palatizations and Coarticulation in Korean and English
Daegu University
Assistant Professor
2004
Ruby Basham
MA 2004, Advisor: Mike Hammond
MA 2004, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Debbie Cole
PhD 2004, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: Performing 'unity in diversity' in Indonesian poetry: Voice, ideology, grammar, and change
Univ. Texas Rio Grande Valley, Writing and Language Studies
Associate Professor
Jason Haugen
PhD 2004, Advisor: Heidi Harley
Dissertation Title: Issues in comparative Uto-Aztecan morphosyntax
Oberlin College
Assistant Professor
Oberlin College
Assistant Professor
Jianyuan Wang
M.A. 2004, Advisor: Andrew Carnie
2003
Ana Carla Bruno
PhD 2003, Advisor: Jane Hill
PhD 2003, Advisor: Jane Hill
Dissertation Title: Waimiri Atroari grammar: Some phonological, morphological, and syntactic aspects
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
Scott Farrar
PhD 2003,Advisor: Terry Langendoen
PhD 2003,Advisor: Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: An onotology for linguistics on the Semantic Web
Derive.io, Colorado
founder and CTO of company
founder and CTO of company
Wei Feng
PhD 2003
Dissertation Title: Third-tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese: An experimentally based optimality theoretic account
Dissertation Title: Third-tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese: An experimentally based optimality theoretic account
Rachel Hayes-Harb
PhD 2003, Advisor: Natasha Warner
Dissertation Title: How are second language phoneme contrasts learned
Dissertation Title: How are second language phoneme contrasts learned
University of Utah
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Bob Kennedy
PhD 2003, Advisor: Diana Archangeli
Dissertation Title: Confluence in Phonology: Evidence from Micronesian reduplication
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lecturer
Ki-Shan Dawn Lara
M.A. NAMA 2003, Advisor: Mary Willie
Humboldt State University
Assistant Professor
M.A. NAMA 2003, Advisor: Mary Willie
Humboldt State University
Assistant Professor
Kelina Lobo
M.A. NAMA 2003, Advisor: Mary Willie
San Francisco Bay Area Education Management
Project manager/linguist
Erin O'Bryan
PhD 2003, Advisor: Tom Bever
Dissertation Title: Event structure in language comprehension
Life Care Centers, America
Speech language pathologist
Kazutoshi Ohno
PhD 2003, Advisor: Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: The interpretation of focalizers in Japanese and English
Univ. Macau, Center for Japanese Studies
Lecturer
PhD 2003, Advisor: Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: The interpretation of focalizers in Japanese and English
Univ. Macau, Center for Japanese Studies
Lecturer
Tracy Williams
M.A. NAMA 2003
Language Revitalization Department
Green Bay Oneida Community
Language Revitalization Department
Green Bay Oneida Community
2002
Meghan Hulsey (O'Donnell)
M.A. Linguistics 2002, Advisor: Natasha Warner
M.A. Linguistics 2002, Advisor: Natasha Warner
Sonya Bird
PhD 2002, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: The phonetics and phonology of Lheidli intervocalic consonants
University of Victoria, Canada
Associate Professor
Will Lewis
PhD 2002, Advisor: Terry Langendoen
Dissertation Title: A distributional and theoretic study of P2 clitic cluster changes in South Slavic
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
Mizuki Miyashita
PhD 2002, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Disstertation Title: Tohono O'odham syllable weight: Descriptive, theoretical and applied aspects
University of Montana
Associate Professor
University of Montana
Associate Professor
2001
Tomas Amador
M.A. NAMA 2001
M.A. NAMA 2001
Danny Chen
PhD 2001
Dissertation Title: A quantificational theory of aspect for Chinese and English
Tania Zamuner
PhD 2001, Advisor: Mike Hammond
PhD 2001, Advisor: Mike Hammond
Dissertation Title: Input-based phonological acquisition
Barbara Meek
PhD 2001
Dissertation Title: Kaska language socialization, acquisition and shift
Univ. Michigan, Dept. Anthropology
Associate Professor
2000
Jessica Maye
PhD 2000, Advisor: LouAnn Gerken
PhD 2000, Advisor: LouAnn Gerken
Dissertation Title: The acquisition of speech and sounds categories on the basis of distributional information
Matthew Smith
M.A. NAMA 2000
1999
Allyson Carter
PhD 1999
PhD 1999
Dissertation Title: An integrated acoustic and phonological investigation of weak syllable omissions
Dirk Elzinga
PhD 1999
Dissertation Title: The consonants of Gosiute
Andrea Heiberg
PhD 1999
Dissertation Title: Features in optimality theory: A computational model
Sean Hendricks
PhD 1999
Dissertation Title: Reduplication without template constraints: A study in bare-consonant reduplication
Hisako Ikawa
PhD 1999
Dissertation Title: Events and anaphoric processes
1998
Jessica Weinberg
MA Linguistics 1998
MA Linguistics 1998
Keiichiro Suzuki
PhD 1998
Dissertation Title: A typological investigation of dissimilation
Amy Fountain
PhD 1998 Anthropology-Linguistics (ANLI)
PhD 1998 Anthropology-Linguistics (ANLI)
Dissertation Title: An optimality theoretic account of Navajo prefixal syllables
1997
Colleen Fitzgerald
PhD 1997
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: O'odham rhythms
Lee Fulmer
PhD 1997
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: Parallelism and planes in optimality theory: Evidence from afar
Kumi Kogure
MA 1997
John Mugane
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: Bantu nominalization structures
Patricia Perez
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: Consonant duration and stress effects on the P-centers of English disyllables
Shang-Kook Suh
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: Consonant geminates: Towards a theory of integrity and inalterability
Nayla Mohammed Ali Yateem
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: Issues in word order
Shensheng Zhu
PhD 1997
Dissertation Title: A dynamic semantic theory of Chinese anaphora
1996
Yong-Hyung Cho
PhD 1996
PhD 1996
Dissertation Title: Quantitative and prosidic representation of tone and intonation in the KyungNam Dialect of Korean
Henry (Chip) Gerfen
PhD 1996
PhD 1996
Dissertation Title: Phonology at two levels: A new model of lexical phonology
Jen-I Li
PhD 1996
Dissertation Title: Preverbal NP positions in Mandarin Chinese
Diane Ohala
PhD 1996
Dissertation Title: Cluster reduction and constraints in acquisition
Pilar Pinar Gerfen (Larrubia)
PhD 1996
Dissertation Title: Negative polarity licensing and negative concord in the Romance languages
1994
Sung-hoon Hong
PhD 1994
PhD 1994
Dissertation Title: Issues in round harmony: Grounding, identity and their interaction
Young-Gie Min
MA 1994
MA 1994
Suhchuan Jane Tsay
PhD 1994
Dissertation Title: Phonological pitch
1993
Jean Ann
PhD 1993
PhD 1993
Dissertation Title: A linguistic investigation of the relationship between physiology and handshape
David Basilico
PhD 1993
PhD 1993
Dissertation Title: Quantification and locality
Kenneth Drozd
PhD 1993
Dissertation Title: A unification categorical grammar of child English negation
Lawrence Hagberg
PhD 1993
Dissertation Title: An autosegmental theory of stress
James Myers
PhD 1993
Dissertation Title: A processing model of phonological rule application
Kyoko Yoshimura
PhD 1993
PhD 1993
Dissertation Title: Empty categories and focus in Japanese
1992
Bruce Long Peng
PhD 1992
PhD 1992
Dissertation Title: A unified theory of tone-voice
1991
Thomas Bourgeois
PhD 1991
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Instantiative Phonology
Megan Crowhurst
PhD 1991
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Minimality and foot structure in metrical phonology and prosidic morphology
Zarina Estrada Fernandez
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Arguments and clausal relations in Pima Bajo
Kazuhiko Fukushima
PhD 1991
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Generalized floating quantifiers
Musahide Ishihara
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: The Lexical Prosidic Phonology of Japanese Verbs
Husni Muadz
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Coordinate structures: A planar representation
Paul Saka
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Lexical decomposition in cognitive semantics
Mary Willie
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Navajo pronouns and obviation
Wendy Wiswall
PhD 1991
Dissertation Title: Partial vowel harmonies as evidence for a Height Node
1990
Fernando Escalante
PhD 1990
PhD 1990
Dissertation Title: Voice and argument structure in Yaqui
Prapa Sookgasen
PhD 1990
Dissertation Title: Morphology, syntax and semantics of auxiliaries in Thai
Cari Spring
PhD 1990
Dissertation Title: Implications of Axininca Campa for prosidic morphology and reduplication
Shizuko Tomodo
PhD1990
Dissertation Title: Cost and benefit in language use: A case study of sentence particles in Japanese
Shi Zhang
PhD 1990
Dissertation Title: The status of imperatives in theories of grammar
1989
Tatsushi Motohashi
PhD 1989
PhD 1989
Dissertation Title: Case theory and the history of the Japanese language
1988
Jiazhen Hu
1988
1988
Dissertation Title: Temporal interpretation in English
Sachiko Yamahashi
1988
Dissertation Title: Resolving the problem of Japanese 'no': An analysis of words
1987
Kayoko Hirata
1987
1987
Dissertation Title: Temporal properties in Japanese
Chiyo Nishida
1987
Dissertation Title: Interplay between morphology and syntax: A lexical analysis of inflection and cliticization in Spanish
Natsuko Tsujimura
1987
Dissertation Title: A comprehensive theory of switch-reference
1986
David Freeman
1986
1986
Dissertation Title: Use of pragmatic cohesion cues to resolve degrees of pronoun reference ambiguity in reading
Hsiao-Mei Liu
1986
Dissertation Title: A categorical grammar analysis of Chinese separable compounds and phrases
1985
Francis Byrne
1985
1985
Dissertation Title: Verb serialization and predicate complementation in Sacramaccan
Stuart Davis
1985
Dissertation Title: Topics in syllable geometry
Deborah Stephens
1985
Dissertation Title: Linguistic aspects of codeswitching among Spanish/English bilingual children
1984
Barbara Hollenbach
1984
1984
Dissertation Title: The phonology and morphology of tone and laryngeals in Copala Trique
Renate Kempf
1984
Dissertation Title: Computer-assisted and traditional methods of text analysis- A comparative study of east and west German newspaper language
Esmerelda Martin-Callejo
1984
Dissertation Title: Some aspects of Basque morphology and syntax
Ofelia Zepeda
PhD 1984
Dissertation Title: Topics in Papago morphology
1983
Teresa Dalle
1983
1983
Dissertation Title: Phrasal verbs: The effectiveness of current grammatical theory in applied ESL and some pedagogical implications
Dean-John Hazel
1983
Dissertation Title: Seneca phonetics: An articulatory and acoustic investigation
Thomas Larson
1983
Dissertation Title: A theory of non-illocutionary use
1982
Heizo Nakajima
1982
1982
Dissertation Title: Rule incompatibility phenomena
James Wenger
1982
Dissertation Title: Some universals of honorific language with special reference to Japanese
1981
Eloise Jelinek
1981
1981
Dissertation TItle: On defining categories: Aux and predicate in colloquial Egyptian Arabic
1980
Madeline Maxwell
1980
1980
Dissertation Title: Language acquisition in a deaf child: The interaction of sign variations, speech and print
Shigeru Miyagawa
PhD 1980
PhD 1980
Dissertation Title: Complex verbs and the lexicon
Susan Penfield
PhD 1980
Dissertation Title: Selected grammatical characteristics of Mohave English
Barbara Dianna Reed Hartman
1980
1980
Dissertation Title: Therapeutic discourse: A phenomenological view
Irel Urreitzieta-Rivera
1980
1980
Dissertation Title: Basque and Caucasian: A survey of the methods used in establishing ancient genetic affiliations
1978
Susan Berk-Seligson
1978
1978
Dissertation Title: Phonological Variation in a Synchronic/Diachronic Sociolinguistic Context
Jean Ann Zukowski Faust
1978
Dissertation Title: Readability criteria used in materials selection for English as a second language
1977
Wendy Anderson Redlinger
1977
1977
Dissertation Title: Bilingual langauge development in preschool Mexican-American children
Roseann Duenas Gonzalez
1977
1977
Dissertation Title: The design and validation of an evaluative procedure to diagnose the English aural-oral competency of a Spanish speaking person in the justice system
Henriette Murray
1977
Dissertation Title: A stratificational analysis of Afrikaans syntax and morphology
Carollyn Rowland Dirksen
1977
Dissertation Title: A sociocultural comparison of the use of directives by adolescent females
1974
Natalie Ann Brostoff Kuhlim
1974
1974
Dissertation Title: Selected written syntactic characteristics of a Papago college dialect of English and a standard English writing program for Papago students
Pauline Komnenich
1974
1974
Dissertation Title: Hormonal influences in verbal behavior in women
