PhD Alumni 2020 - Present

Lauretta Cheng

• Dissertation Title: Ideology, Awareness and Sociophonetic Perception in Asian American and Canadian Speech
• Committee Co-Chairs: Andries Coetzee and Jon Brennan

Jeonghwa Cho

• Dissertation Title: Cross-linguistic Representation and Processing of Words, Grammatical features, and Sentences
• Committee Chair: Jon Brennan

Felicia Bisnath

• Dissertation Title: ASL-English language contact and its social meaning among deaf and hard-of-hearing users of ASL in the United States
• Committee Chair: Savithry Namboodiripad
• Current Position: Postdocoral Fellow, University of Bergen

Danielle Burgess

• Dissertation Title: Investigating the Source of Neg-First Biases in Typology and Acquisition
• Committee Chair: Marlyse Baptista

Justin Craft

• Dissertation Title: The Effect of Listener Experience and Social Expectation on Illusory Percepts
• Committee Co-Chairs: Pam Beddor and Jon Brennan

Tzu-Yun Tung

• Dissertation Title: Prediction and Memory Retrieval in Dependency Resolution
• Committee Chair: Jon Brennan
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics Department, University of Chicago

Rawan Bonais

• Dissertation Title: The Role of Transfer/Substrate Influence in the Development of Gulf Pidgin Arabic
• Committee Co-chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Acrisio Pires
• Current Position: Machine Learning Data Linguist, Amazon Web Services

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

• Dissertation Title: “Truly a language of our own” A corpus-based, experimental, and variationist account of Lánnang-uè in Manila
• Committee Co-chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Sally Thomason
• Current Position: Assistant Professor in Applied English Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tamarae Hildebrandt

• Dissertation Title: The Relationship between Online and Offline Measures of Gradient Sentence Acceptability
• Committee Chair: Jononathan Brennan

Andrew McInnerney

• Dissertation Title: The Argument/Adjunct Distinction and the structure of prepositional phrases
• Committee Chair: Acrisio Pires
• Current Position: Lecturer I in Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan

Joy Peltier

• Dissertation Title: “Little Words” in Contact and in Context: Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, English, and French
• Committee Chair: Marlyse Baptista
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina English Department and Linguistics Program

Moira Saltzman

• Dissertation Title: A History of Jejueo
• Committee Co-chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Sally Thomason
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Northridge

Yourdanis Sedarous

• Dissertation Title: An Experimental Study on the Syntax of English and Egyptian Arabic: A Unified Account of Bilingual Grammatical Knowledge
• Committee Co-chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Acrisio Pires
• Current Position: Lecturer I in Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan

Yushi Sugimoto

• Dissertation Title: Underspecification and (im)possible derivations: Toward a restrictive theory of grammar
• Committee Co-chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Acrisio Pires 
• Current Position: Lecturer (tenure-track position), Graduate School of Humanities (Language & Culture Division), Osaka University

Kelly Wright 

• Dissertation Title: Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
• Committee Chair: Pam Beddor
• Current Position: Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech University

 Jian Zhu

• Dissertation Title:  A computational account of selected patterns of linguistic variation and change
• Committee Co-chairs: Pam Beddor and David Jurgens
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia

Fahad Alrashed

• Dissertation Title: “Investigation of the Distributions, Deviations, and Generalizations in Arabic Plural System"
• Dissertation Chair: Jeffrey Heath

Chia-Wen Lo

• Dissertation Title: “Testing low-frequency neural oscillations in sentence understanding"
• Committee Chair: Jon Brennan
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Rachel Weissler

• Dissertation Title: “Leveraging African American English Knowledge: Cognition and Multidialectal Processing”
• Dissertation Co-Chairs: Jon Brennan and Robin Queen
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology, Linguistics, and Black Studies, University of Oregon

Ian Calloway

• Dissertation Title: "Perceptual Asymmetry and Sound Change: An Articulatory, Acoustic/Perceptual, and Computational Analysis"
• Dissertation Chair: Pam Beddor
• Current Position: Natural Language Processing / Deep Learning Engineer for ALEX - Alternative Experts

Jiseung Kim

• Dissertation Title: "Individual differences in the production and perception of prosodic boundaries in American English"
• Dissertation Co-Chairs: Pam Beddor and Jelena Krivokapic
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta

Emily Sabo

• Dissertation Title: “Social factors in the production, perception and processing of contact language varieties: Evidence from bilingual corpora, evaluations of perceived nativeness, and real-time processing (EEG) of Spanish-accented English"
• Dissertation Co-chairs: Marlyse Baptista and Jonathan Brennan
• Current Position: Mango Languages and Spanish Lecturer, University of Tennessee

Kate Sherwood

• Dissertation Title: "The Prosodic System of Southern Bobo Madare"
• Dissertation Chair: Jelena Krivokapic