PhD Alumni 2015 - 2019

2019 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Ariana Bancu

• Dissertation: “Dynamics of language contact and language variation: the case of Transylvanian Saxon in the homeland and the diaspora”
• Dissertation Chair: Marlyse Baptista
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Linguistics, Northeastern Illinois University

Marcus Berger

• Dissertation: “The Syntax of Bora Subject Clitics: Anaphora and Long Distance Binding"
• Dissertation Chair: Acrisio Pires
• Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, US Census Bureau

Alan Hezao Ke

• Dissertation: "The syntax, semantics and processing of agreement and binding grammatical illusions”
• Dissertation Co-Chairs: Samuel Epstein and Acrisio Pires 
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University

David Ogden

• Dissertation: "Processing Fluency, Perceptual Adaptation, and Language Attitudes: Does Adaptation Improve Comprehension Ease and Attitudes Toward Non-Native Speakers?"
• Dissertation Chair: Pam Beddor

Alicia Stevers

• Dissertation: "The said construction: usage, change, and social meaning in English and Spanish"
• Dissertation Co-Chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Ezra Keshet
• Current Position: Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University

Stephen Tyndall

• Dissertation: "Computational Phylogeny with Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo: The Case of Indo-European"
• Dissertation Chair: Sarah Thomason
• Current Position: Backend engineer, Nokia, Georgia

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2018 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Hayley Heaton

• Dissertation: Media Influence on Implicit and Explicit Language Attitudes
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Anne Curzan
• Current Position: Research Associate at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan

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2017 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Will Nediger

• Dissertation: Unifying Structure-Building in Human Language: The Minimalist Syntax of Idioms
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Acrisio Pires
• Current Position: Freelance crossword constructor

• Dissertation: Phonological Contrast in Bai
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Andries Coetzee and San Duanmu
• Current Position: Research Scientist at Seam Social Labs

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2016 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Candice Scott

• Dissertation: Tense and Aspect Markers in African American English
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Marlyse Baptista
  

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2015 Linguistics PhD Alumni

Tridha Chatterjee

• Dissertation: Bilingualism, language contact and change: The case of Bengali and English in India
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Acrisio Pires
• Current Position/Title: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University

Yan Dong

• Dissertation: The Prosody and Morphology of Elastic Words in Chinese: Annotations and Analyses
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: San Duanmu
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

Sujeewa Hettiarachchi

• Dissertation: Syntactic Competence and Processing: Constraints on Long-distance A-bar Dependencies in Bilinguals
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Acrisio Pires
• Current Position/Title: Senior Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition,  School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University

Harim Kwon

• Dissertation: Cue primacy and spontaneous imitation: Is imitation phonetic or phonological?
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Pam Beddor and Andries Coetzee
• Current Position/Title: Assistant Professor, Department of English, George Mason University

Jae-Young Shim

• Dissertation: The Contrast-dependent CI-Calculation of Topic and Focus in Korean Transitive Constructions
• Dissertation Chair or Co-Chairs: Samuel Epstein
• Current Position/Title: Department of English Language and Literature, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea