PhD Alumni 1997 - 1999

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1999 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Peggy Goetz                      

• Dissertation: A comparison of 3- and 4-year-old English monolinguals, Mandarin monolinguals, and Mandarin-English bilinguals on a series of theory of mind-related tasks
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Marilyn Shatz           
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Calvin College

Yoshimi Miyake              

• Dissertation: The Japanese "deferential" prefix O: a natural history
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Jeffrey Heath          
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor, Akita University

Alicia Wassink                  

• Dissertation: A sociophonetic analysis of Jamaican vowels                   
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Patrice Beddor and Lesley Milroy    
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington

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1998 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Didar Akar

• Dissertation: Patterns and variations in contemporary written business communications in Turkey: a genre study in four companies
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Priscilla Rogers and John Swales
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Bogazici University

Dorothy K. Evans-Romaine

• Dissertation: Palatalization and coarticulation in Russian                       
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Patrice Beddor
• Current Position/Title: Director, Critical Language Institute, Arizona State University

James Harnsberger

• Dissertation: The perception of non-native nasal contrasts: a cross-linguistic perspective
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Patrice Beddor
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor in Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Florida

Sarah Shin

• Dissertation: Paibu dollar please!: bilingual Korean American children in New York City
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Lesley Milroy
• Current Position/Title: Professor of Education, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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1997 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Ummul Ahmad

• Dissertation: Scientific research articles in Malay: a situated discourse analysis
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: John Swales
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor in Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Matthew Gordon

• Dissertation: Urban sound change beyond city limits: the spread of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: James Milroy and Lesley Milroy
• Current Position/Title: Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri

Laura Grande                    

• Dissertation: From "get" to "can": a natural semantic metalanguage study of Chinese de constructions in three pre-modern text samples    
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: William Baxter         
• Current Position/Title:

Rita (Simpson) Simpson-Vlach          

• Dissertation: Negotiating identities in Thai Conversation: a sociolinguistic discourse analysis of person-referring expressions                       
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Rosina Lippi-Green and Lesley Milroy
• Current Position/Title: ESL Program Manager, Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County