PhD Alumni 2025 - Present

Emma Portugal

• Dissertation Title: Variation in the Perception and Production of Dialect Vowels in Gavaṛ, Armenia
• Chair: Savithry Namboodiripad

Csilla Tatár

• Dissertation Title: The prosodic and information structural underpinnings of speech and co-speech gesture alignment in Hungarian
• Co-Chairs: Ezra Keshet, Jelena Krivokapic

Promise McEntire

• Dissertation Title: Making Contact: Verbal Gestures in Burkina Faso
• Co-Chairs: Jessi Grieser, Michael Lempert

Aliaksei Akimenka

• Dissertation Title: How to Stop Moving (and Start Re-Moving), or an Eleatic Guide to the Derivation of Raising-to-Object and Tough Constructions in English
• Committee: Acrisio Pires (chair), Natasha Abner, Ezra Keshet and Teresa Satterfield

Dominique Canning

• Dissertation Title: Metalinguistic Commentary on Black Queer Language & Belonging
• Committee Co-Chairs: Robin Queen and Jelena Krivokapić

Lucy (Yu-Chuan) Chiang

• Dissertation Title: Acquisition of the Syntax Semantics of Light Verbs in Mandarin Bilinguals
• Committee Co-Chairs: Acrisio Pires and Natasha Abner

Sophia Eakins

• Dissertation Title: Kriolu in New England: Contact and Innovation in the Cabo Verdean Diaspora
• Committee Co-Chairs: Andries Coetzee and Marlyse Baptista
• Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Western Washington

Carrie Ann Morgan

• Dissertation Title: Sounds of space: Regimes of sociolinguistic value in Albania
• Committee Co-Chairs: Savithry Namboodiripad and Judith Irvine