Graduates of the PhD Program
1996-2007
1996
Benjamin Bahan
Ph.D. awarded: May 1996
Dissertation title: Non-Manual
Realization of Agreement in American Sign Language
Elaine Crowder
Ph.D. awarded: May 1996
Dissertation title: Gesture
and Perspective-Taking in Science Talk: When Learning Histories Vary
Chang-Soo Lee
Ph.D. awarded: May 1996
Dissertation title: Variation
in Use of Korean Honorific Verbal Endings: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study
1997
Dalia Cahana-Amitay
Ph.D. awarded: January
1997
Dissertation title: Syntactic
Aspects of the Production of Verbal Inflection in Aphasia
Hsiao-Chih Chang
Ph.D. awarded: May 1997
Dissertation title: The
Acquisition of First Person Reference in Chinese
Pascal Decampos
Ph.D. awarded: January 1997
Dissertation title: Predicate
Formation and the Syntax of Hausa Verbs
Desire M.K. Houngues
Ph.D. awarded: May 1997
Dissertation title: Topics
in the Syntax of Mina
Dawn MacLaughlin
Ph.D. awarded: May 1997
Dissertation title: The
Structure of Determiner Phrases: Evidence from American Sign Language
Monica Malamud Makowski
Ph.D. awarded: January
1997
Dissertation title: Discourse
Markers in Spanish
Julie Whitlow
Ph.D. awarded: May 1997
Dissertation title: Assessing
the Effects of Positive and Negative Input on Second Language Acquisition: A Study Investigating the Learnability of the English Passive by Speakers of
Japanese
1998
Aleka Blackwell
Ph.D. awarded: May 1998
Dissertation title: The
Effect of Parental Adjective Use on the Acquisition of Adjectives by Young
Children
Mary Bodwell
Ph.D. awarded: May 1998
Dissertation title: Discourse-Intensive Science Learning and
Science Education Reform: A Case Study of Teacher Professional Development
Pascal De Campos
Ph.D. awarded: January
1998
Dissertation title: Predicate
Formation and the Syntax of Hausa Verbs
Arlyne Luloff
Ph.D. awarded: May 1998
Dissertation title: Meta-Linguistic
Problems in Reading Disorders: General and Individual
Bhuvana Narasimhan
Ph.D. awarded: May 1998
Dissertation title: The
Encoding of Complex Events in English and Hindi
Saskia Stoessel
Ph.D. awarded: May 1998
Dissertation title: The
Investigation of Social Networks as a Factor in Language Maintenance and Shift
1999
Jian Kang
Ph.D. awarded: January
1999
Dissertation title: The
Composition of the Perfective Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Chotiros Permpikul
Ph.D. awarded: May 1999
Dissertation title: A
Comparative Analysis of Thai and English Contrastive Discourse Markers: With a
Discussion of the Pedagogical Implications
Joan Sawyer
Ph.D. awarded: May 1999
Dissertation title: Verb Adverb and Verb Particle Constructions:
their Syntax and Acquisition
Jui-Chi Su
Ph.D. awarded: May 1999
Dissertation title: The
Acquisition of Chinese Connectives by Mandarin-Speaking Children
Teruaki Tsushima
Ph.D. awarded: January
1999
Dissertation title: Developmental
Changes in Nonnative Speech Segment Discrimination
Xiaoyang Zhou
Ph.D. awarded: January
1999
Dissertation title: Processing
Strategies Used in Short-term
Memory by Japanese and Americans Learning Chinese as a
Second Language
2000
Normala Othman
Ph.D. awarded: January
2000
Dissertation title: A Comparative Analysis of Malay and English
Contrastive Discourse Markers
2001
Pilar Duran
Ph.D. awarded: May 2001
Dissertation title: The
Input Hypothesis Inverted: A Study
comparing the Effects of Input Given by children to their Hispanic Immigrant Mothers
and by Teachers to their Hispanic Immigrant Students
Jack E. Hoza
Ph.D. awarded: May 2001
Dissertation title: The
Mitigation of Face-Threatening Acts in Interpreted Interaction: Requests and Rejections in American Sign
Language and English
Yun-Hee Lee
Ph.D. awarded: May 2001
Dissertation title: The Use
of Social Deictic terms in Korean Fiction: Towards an Understanding of Literary
Discourse
Svetlana McCoy
Ph.D. awarded: May 2001
Dissertation title: Colloquial Russian
Particles –TO, ZHE, and VED’ as Set-Generating (“Kontrastive”)
Markers: A Unifying Analysis
Eiko Torii-Williams
Ph.D. awarded: January
2001
Dissertation title: An Analysis
of Japanese “Synonymous” Adverbs and its Pedagogical implications
Andrea Zukowski
Ph.D. awarded: May 2001
Dissertation title: Uncovering Grammatical Competence in
Children with Williams Syndrome
2002
Laura Freedgood
Ph.D. awarded: January
2002
Dissertation title: Voicing
the Evidence: The Pragmatic Power of
Interpreters in Trial Testimony
Jilani Warsi
Ph.D. awarded: January
2002
Dissertation title: Effects
of Visual Instruction on Second Language Productive Phonology
2004
Mohammed Al-Dossari
Ph.D. awarded: May 2004
Dissertation title: An Investigation of Bilingual Children's Metalinguistic Awareness in Two Typologically Unrelated Languages
Laura Dominguez
Ph.D. awarded: May 2004
Dissertation title: Mapping Focus: The Syntax and Prosody of Focus in Spanish
Rawiah Kabrah
Ph.D. awarded: May 2004
Dissertation title: Opacity and Transparency in the Phonology of Makkan Arabic: A Stratal Optimality-Theoretic Approach
Tuong Nguyen
Ph.D. awarded: Jan 2004
Dissertation title:
Payung Puttapong
Ph.D. awarded: Jan 2004
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Aisha Saidi
Ph.D. awarded: May 2004
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Kun-Lin Shu
Ph.D. awarded: April 2004
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2005
Elidea Bernardino
Ph.D. awarded: September 2005
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Barbora Skarabela
Ph.D. awarded: Sept 2005
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2006
Anna Do
Ph.D. awarded: May 2006
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Larry Ichimura
Ph.D. awarded: May 2006
Dissertation title:
Anti-Homophony Blocking and its Productivity in Transparadigmatic Relations
Heather Littlefield
Ph.D. awarded: May 2006
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Miki Sumitomo
Ph.D. awarded: May 2006
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Luz Vasquez
Ph.D. awarded: Jan 2006
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2007
Amanda Brown
Ph.D. awarded: May 2007
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Sarah Howell
Ph.D. awarded: May 2007
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