PhD Alumni 2010 - 2014

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2013 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Erica Beck

• Dissertation: The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Discrimination by 5-7 Year Old Children
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Carmel O'Shannessy
• Current Position/Title: Analyst, Leidos

Tim Chou

• Dissertation: Phi-Agree, A-movement, and Complementizer-Tense Relations in Chinese
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Samuel Epstein and Acrisio Pires
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

David Medeiros

• Dissertation: Formal Approaches to the Morphological Imperative
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Samuel Epstein and Acrisio Pires
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Northridge

Jon Yip

• Dissertation: Phonetic effects on the timing of gestural coordination in Modern Greek consonant clusters
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Patrice Beddor
• Current Position/Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong

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2012 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Terrence Szymanski

• Dissertation: Morphological Inference from Bitext for Resource-Poor Languages
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Steve Abney
• Current Position/Title: Data Scientist, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ)

Joseph Tyler

• Dissertation: Discourse Prosody in Production and Perception
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Ezra Keshet
• Current Position/Title: Conversation Designer, Sensely

Xinting Zhang

• Dissertation: A Comparison of Cue-Weighting in the Perception of Prosodic Phrase
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Andries W. Coetzee and San Duanmu
• Current Position/Title: Lecturer of English, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

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2011 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Miyeon Ahn

• Dissertation: Phonetics and Phonology Interplay in Loanword Adaptation: English Alveolar Fricative into Korean
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Andries W. Coetzee
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hankyong National University, Korea

Brook Hefright

• Dissertation: Language Contact as Bilingual Contrast among Bai Language Users in Jianchuan County
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Robin Queen
• Current Position/Title: Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Department of State

Susan Lin

• Dissertation: Production and Perception of Prosodically Varying Inter-Gestural Timing in American English Laterals
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Patrice Beddor
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley

Kevin McGowan

• Dissertation: Listener Expectations and the Processing of Foreign-Accented Speech
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Steve Abney, Patrice Beddor
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kentucky

Lauren Marie Squires

• Dissertation: Sociolinguistic Priming and the Perception of Agreement Variation: Testing Predictions of Exemplar-Theoretic Grammar
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Julie Boland and Robin Queen
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor, Department of English, The Ohio State University

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2010 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Anna M. Babel

• Dissertation: Contact and Context in Valley Spanish
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Sarah G. Thomason and Bruce Mannheim
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor, Hispanic Linguistics Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University

Yu-Fen Hsieh

• Dissertation: Sentence Processing in Chinese and Chinese-English Bilinguals: Syntax-Semantics Interaction During Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Julie Boland
• Current Position/Title: Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Konstantia (Dina) Kapetangianni

• Dissertation: The Minimalist Syntax of Control in Greek
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Samuel D. Epstein and Acrisio Pires
• Current Position/Title: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of North Texas

Miki Obata

• Dissertation: Root, Successive-Cyclic and Feature-Splitting Internal Merge: Implications for Feature-Inheritance and Transfer
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Samuel D. Epstein and Noam Chomsky
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor, Hosei University

Christopher V. Odato

• Dissertation: Children's Development of Knowledge and Beliefs about Englishlike(s)
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Deborah Keller-Cohen
• Current Position/Title: Instructional Consultant, Keene State College, New Hampshire

Sai Samant

• Dissertation: Arab American Youth and Sound Change in Southeastern Michigan
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Robin Queen
• Current Position/Title: Software Engineer, Amazon

Damon A. Tutunjian

• Dissertation: Re-Examining Facilitation from Coordinated Verb Phrases
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Julie Boland
• Current Position/Title: Researcher, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden