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  • Ph.D. Recipients

    Ph.D. Recipients


    Year1991 NameAhmad Atawneh Dissertation  AffiliationProfessor of Applied Linguistics, Hebron University Palestine
    Year1991 NameDorit Kaufman DissertationFirst Language Attrition as a Creative Interplay Between Two Languages AffiliationProfessor, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
    Year1991 NameMee Hwa Lee DissertationA Parametric Approach to Code-Mixing Affiliation 
    Year1992 NameHye Bae Yoo Dissertation  AffiliationProfessor, Dept of English Language and Literature, University of Incheon, Korea
    Year1995 NameJanie Rees-Miller DissertationLinguistics Features of Disagreement in Face-to-Face Encounters in University Settings AffiliationDepartment of Modern Languages, Marietta College
    Year1996 NameSu-I Chen DissertationA Theory of Palatalization and Segment Implementation AffiliationDepartment of Languages, Clemson University
    Year1996 NameMarcia Haag DissertationLexical Categories in Choctaw and Universal Grammar AffiliationDepartment of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma
    Year1996 NameEriko Sato DissertationThe Logical Interpretation of English and Japanese Sentences AffiliationAssistant Professor, Director of East Asian Languages, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University
    Year1999 NameHasan Basri DissertationPhonological and Syntactical Reflections of the Morphological Structure of Selayarese AffiliationTadulako University, Indonesia
    Year1999 NameDuncan Hutchins DissertationCreoles and Comprehension in the Courtroom Affiliation 
    Year1999 NameBhavani Saravanan DissertationMorphotactics: Patterns in Tamil Morphology Affiliation 
    Year2000 NameChristine Sungeun Cho DissertationThree Forms of Case Agreement in Korean AffiliationDepartment of English Education, Yeungnam University, Korea
    Year2000 NameBarbara Citko DissertationParallel Merge and the Syntax of Free Relatives AffiliationProfessor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
    Year2000 NameMartin U. Kappus DissertationTopics in German Negation AffiliationLecturer, Computational Linguistics; Applied Linguistics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Year2003 NameYiya Chen DissertationThe Phonetics and Phonology of Contrastive Focus in Standard Chinese AffiliationProfessor, LUCL (Leiden University Center of Linguistics), Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
    Year2003 NameMeghan Sumner DissertationTesting the Abstractness of Phonological Representations in Modern Hebrew Weak Verbs AffiliationAssociate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
    Year2005 NameMargo DelliCarpini DissertationPhonological Awareness and Adult Second Language Literacy Development AffiliationDean, College of Education and Human Development, Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
    Year2005 NameFranc Marušič DissertationOn Non-simultaneous Phases AffiliationProfessor, Department of Linguistics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
    Year2005 NameRuiqin Miao DissertationLoanword Adaptation in Mandarin Chinese: Perceptual, Phonological and Sociolinguistic Factors AffiliationThe School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Year2005 NameMasha Vassilieva DissertationAssociative and Pronominal Plurality AffiliationESL Department, Virginia International University
    Year2005 NameHiroko Yamakido DissertationThe Nature of Adjectival Inflection in Japanese AffiliationProfessor, Dept of English Language and Culture, Fuji Women's University, Japan
    Year2006 NameMarianne L. Borroff DissertationThe Articulatory Phasing of Glottal Stop AffiliationInstitute for English Language Programs, Harvard University
    Year2006 NameJonathan E. MacDonald DissertationThe Syntax of Inner Aspect AffiliationAssociate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois
    Year2006 NameMark Volpe DissertationJapanese Morphology and its theoretical consequences: Derivational morphology in Distributed Morphology Affiliation 
    Year2007 NameCarlos de Cuba DissertationOn (Non)Factivity, Clausal Complementation and the CP-Field AffiliationDepartment of Communications and Performing Arts, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
    Year2007 NameTomoko Kawamura DissertationSome Interactions of Focus and Focus Sensitive Elements Affiliation 
    Year2007 NameZheng Xu DissertationInflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory AffiliationProfessor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Year2009 NameYunju Suh DissertationPhonological and Phonetic Asymmetries of Cw Combinations AffiliationAmazon, UK
    Year2009 NameJulie Weisenberg DissertationAudience Design Effects in Sign Language Interpretation Affiliation 
    Year2010 NameYoung-ran An DissertationFrequency, Gradience, and Variation in Consonant Insertion AffiliationAssociate Professor, Department of English, Korea Christian University, Korea
    Year2010 NameRoksolana Mykhaylyk DissertationOptional Object Scrambling in Child and Adult Ukrainian AffiliationSpeech Linguistic Project Manager and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Google, Inc. and Department of Psychology at CSI CUNY
    Year2011 NameJiwon Hwang DissertationNon-native Perception and Production of Foreign Sequences AffiliationDepartment of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University
    Year2011 NameMiran Kim DissertationThe phonetics of stress manifestation: Segmental variation, syllable constituency and rhythm AffiliationAssistant professor, Department of English Education, Gyeongsang National University, Korea
    Year2011 NameChih-hsiang Shu DissertationSentence Adverbs in the Kingdom of Agree AffiliationAssistant Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Year2012 NameAndrei Antonenko DissertationFeature-Based Binding and Phase Theory AffiliationLecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
    Year2012 NameHijo Kang DissertationDiachrony in Synchrony: Korean Vowel Harmony in Verbal Conjugation AffiliationAssistant Professor, Department of English Education, Chosun University, Korea
    Year2012 NameHyun-ju Kim DissertationThe phonetics of stress manifestation: Segmental variation, syllable constituency and rhythm AffiliationDirector of English Education, SUNY Korea
    Year2012 NameYu-an Lu DissertationThe Role of Alternation in Phonological Relationships AffiliationAssociate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    Year2012 NameTanya Scott DissertationWhoever doesn't HOP must be Superior!: The Russian left-periphery and the Emergence of Superiority AffiliationAdjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at College of Staten Island
    Year2012 NameYukiko Asano DissertationThematic resultative expressions in English and Japanese: A view from the syntax of event aspect. Affiliation 
    Year2014 NameIvana LaTerza DissertationThe DP Category and Serbian Nominal Structure Affiliation 
    Year2014 NameKatharina Schuhmann Dissertation  AffiliationAssistant Professor of German and Linguistics, Penn State University
    Year2015 NameSvitlana Antonyuk DissertationQuantifier Scope and Scope Freezing in Russian AffiliationPostdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
    Year2016 NamePoppy Slocum Dissertation  AffiliationAssistant Professor, Communication Studies Program, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
    Year2017 NameAmmar Alammar DissertationFrequency, Gradience, and Variation in Consonant Insertion AffiliationAssistant Professor, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
    Year2017 NameSophia Kao DissertationPhonological Learning Bias in Tone Patterns AffiliationLanguage Engineer, Apple
    Year2017 NameAla'a Melebari Dissertation  AffiliationAssistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
    Year2017 NameChong Zhang DissertationDissertation: Stacked relatives: their structure, processing, and computation AffiliationSoftware Engineer/Linguist, Kasisto, NY
    Year2017 NameHisako Takahashi DissertationOn the syntax of spatiotemporal PPs Affiliation 
    Year2018 NamePaola Cépeda DissertationNegation and Time. Against expletive negation in temporal clauses AffiliationDirector, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Washington U. of St. Louis
    Year2018 NameJungyeon Kim DissertationProduction and Perception of English Word-final Stops by Korean Speakers AffiliationAssistant Professor at Kangwon National University in South Korea
    Year2018 NameRobert Pasternak DissertationThe mereology of attitudes AffiliationPostdoctoral researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
    Year2018 NameVahideh Rasekhi Dissertation  AffiliationElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellow in Iranian Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
    Year2018 NameLing Wang DissertationA Model-based Approach: the use of entropy-based quantities to characterize phone variation Affiliation 
    Year2019 NameHonaidah Ahyad Dissertation  AffiliationVisiting Scholar
    Department of Linguistics,
    Stony Brook University
    Year2019 NameHongchen Wu DissertationQuantifier Scope in Mandarin AffiliationAssistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Year2020 NameAlëna Aksënova DissertationTool-assisted Induction of Subregular Languages and Mappings AffiliationLinguist, Google (NYC office)
    Year2020 NameHyunah Baek DissertationProsodic resolution of syntacticambiguity in first and second languages AffiliationAssistant Professor, Ajou University
    Year2020 NameAniello De Santo DissertationStructure and Memory: A Computational Model of Storage, Gradience, and Priming AffiliationAssistant professor, Dept. Of Linguistics, University of Utah
    Year2020 NameHossep Dolatian DissertationComputational Locality of Cyclic Phonology in Armenian AffiliationTechnical Editor, ServiceNow
    Year2020 NameSo Young Lee DissertationProcessing of wh-scope AffiliationAssistant Professor, Department of English, Miami University
    Year2020 NameChikako Takahashi DissertationThe interaction between L1 and L2 phonetic learning AffiliationLecturer in Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
    Year2020 NameRussell Tanenbaum DissertationOrder and Chaos in the Cluster: A Typology of Pronominal and Nonpronominal Clitics Affiliation 
    Year2021 NameSedigheh Moradi DissertationMonotonicity in Morphosyntax Affiliation 
    Year2021 NameJon Rawski DissertationStructure and Learning in Natural Language AffiliationAssistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University
    Year2021 NameAnna Melnikova DissertationThe Architecture of Russian Dative Verbless Constructions Affiliation 
    Year2021 NameLei Lui DissertationPhrasal Weight Effect on Word Orders Affiliation 
    Year2022 NameNazila Shafiei DissertationComputational Locality and Domain of Syntactic Long-distance Dependencies AffiliationLanguage Engineer, Amazon Alexa  AI
    Year2022 NameDakotah Lambert DissertationUnifying Classification Schemes for Language and Processes With Attention to Locality and Relativizations Thereof AffiliationPost-doctorant at
    the Laboratoire Hubert Curien of  l'Université Jean-Monnet
    Year2022 NameJi Yea Kim DissertationMorphophonological consonant epenthesis in suffix realizations Affiliation 
    Year2022 NameAlex Hong-Lun Yeung DissertationProsodic structure and tone preferences in Hong Kong Cantonese expressive morphology AffiliationAssistant Professor, SUNY Oswego
    Year2022 NameYang Liu DissertationAddressing Outstanding Questions of the Mandarin Syllable Affiliation 
    Year2023 NameKhanin Chaiphet DissertationThe Structure of Discontinuous Noun Phrases in Thai: Right-Dislocation and Quantifier Float Affiliation 
    Year2023 NameVeronica Miatto DissertationEmerging Structures, Generational and Regional Variation in Italian Word-final Inserted Schwas Affiliation 
    Year2023 NameAndrija Petrovic DissertationInsights From the Interfaces: Morphological Processes as String Transductions Affiliation 
    Year2023 NameAmanda Mahnaz Yazdani DissertationHow Experiences in L1 and L2 Influence L1 Phonetic Change: A Case Study Affiliation 
  • D.A. Recipients

    D.A. Recipients


    Year1987 NameAbdelkhalek Hannaoui
    Year1987 NameZahra Mustafa
    Year1988 NameDevashree Chattopadhyay
    Year1988 NameDorothy Laager
    Year1989 NameSusanne Seidel
    Year1990 NameMagali Duignan
    Year1990 NameAda Muntaner
    Year1991 NameAhmad Abdul-Hadi
    Year1991 NameYue Yuan Huang
    Year1991 NameJong-seong Lim
    Year1992 NameMenayame Ndolo
    Year1993 NameFrancis Alip
    Year1993 NameIndira Ayyar
    Year1993 NameAlice Niyondagara
    Year1995 NameAdriana Gonzalez-Moncada
    Year1995 NameChilin Wang
    Year1996 NameAntonio Howell
    Year1997 NameDongmei Zeng
    Year1999 NameBarbara Brownworth
    Year1999 NameJanice Marcin
    Year1999 NameTeresa Perez-Gamboa