Alumni
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Christopher Adam
Year of Graduation: 2015
Dissertation Title: Three-Dimensional Constraints on Human Cognition as Expressed in Human Language
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft
Benjamin Anible
Year of Graduation: 2016
Dissertation Title: Iconicity effects in translation direction: bimodal bilingual language processing
Dissertation advisor: Jill Morford
Evan Ashworth
Year of Graduation: 2014
Dissertation Title: Language Ideologies and Orthographies: Developing a Writing System for Than Ówîngeh
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Clay Beckner
Year of Graduation: 2013
Dissertation Title: Quantitative determinants of prefabs: A corpus-based, experimental study of multiword units in the lexicon
Dissertation advisor: Jill Morford
Keiko Beers
Year of Graduation: 2020
Dissertation Title: Exploring Language Endangerment and Language Change in Tohono O'odham Exploring Language Endangerment and Language Change in Tohono O'odham
Dissertation advisor: Rosa Vallejos
Josefina Bittar
Year of Graduation: 2021
Dissertation Title: Spanish-origin verbal and grammatical borrowing in Paraguayan Guaraní
Dissertation advisor: Rosa Vallejos
Susan Brumbaugh
Year of Graduation: 2017
Dissertation Title: Anglo and Hispanic Vowel Variation in New Mexican English
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Paromita Chakraborti
Year of Graduation: 2003
Dissertation Title: Diglossia in Bengali
Melvatha Chee
Year of Graduation: 2017
Dissertation Title: Longitudinal cross-sectional study on the acquisition of Navajo verbs in children aged 4 years through 11 years
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Sarah Grace Dalton
Year of Graduation: 2019
Dissertation Title: Using Electrophysiology to Investigate Changes in Brain Activation in Individuals with Chronic Stroke
Dissertation advisor: Holly Jacobson
Lukas Denk
Year of Graduation: 2023
Dissertation Title: Stable Complexity: Verbal Inflection in Prominent and Frequent Environments
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Paul De Palma
Year of Graduation: 2010 (PhD., emphasis in computational linguistics)
Dissertation Title: Syllables and Concepts in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith (Linguistics) and George Luger (Computer Science)
Agripino de Souza Silveira Neto
Year of Graduation: 2011
Dissertation Title: Subject Expression in Brazilian Portuguese: Construction and Frequency Effects
Dissertation advisor: Catherine E. Travis
Shelece Easterday
Year of Graduation: 2017
Dissertation Title: Highly complex syllable structure: A typological study of its correlates and diachronic development
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Paul Edmunds
Year of Graduation: 2009
Dissertation Title: ESL speakers’ production of lexical stress in English: Effects of acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Hugo Garcia
Year of Graduation: 2016
Dissertation Title: From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft
Angus B. Grive-Smith
Year of Graduation: 2009
Dissertation Title: The Spread of Change in French Negation
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Aubrey Healey
Year of Graduation: 2017
Dissertation Title: Evolution of complex predicates with cuenta expressing semantic events of cognition in Spanish
Dissertation advisor: Damián Vergara Wilson
Laura Hirrel
Year of Graduation: 2018
Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: Cyclic gestures and multimodal symbolic assemblies: An argument for symbolic complexity in gesture
Dissertation advisor: Sherman Wilcox
Terry Janzen
Year of Graduation: 1998
Dissertation Title: Topicality in ASL: Information Ordering, Constituent Structure, and the Function of Topic Marking
Dissertation advisor: Joan Bybee
Dagmar Jung
Year of Graduation: 1999
Dissertation Title: The dynamics of polysynthetic morphology
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Pavlina Kalm
Year of Graduation: 2022
Dissertation Title: Social verbs: a force-dynamic analysis
Dissertation advisor: Rosa Vallejos
Ah Rim Kim
Year of Graduation: 2015
Dissertation Title: The pragmatics and evolution of the utterance-final particles-ketun and-canha in Modern Spoken Koren
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft
Daejin Kim
Year of Graduation: 2024
Dissertation Title: Articulation of the tongue back in American English and Seoul Korean
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Michele Kiser
Year of Graduation: 2014
Dissertation Title: Analyzing Navajo Discourse: Form and Function of Intonation Units
Dissertation advisor: Paul Platero
You Min Lin
Year of Graduation: 2016
Dissertation Title: Chinese DE constructions in secondary predication: Historical and typological per
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft
Amy Lindstrom
Year of Graduation: 2017
Dissertation Title: Didn’t see that coming: An analysis of unexpressed subjects in English discourse
Dissertation advisor: Naomi Shin
Aaron W. Marks
Year of Graduation: 2024
Dissertation Title: Topics in Wappo Phonology
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Elisa Maroney
Year of Graduation: 2004
Dissertation Title: Aspect in American Sign Language
Dissertation advisor: Phyllis Wilcox
Rebeca Martinez-Gomez
Year of Graduation: 2018
Dissertation Title: Fresa Style in Mexico: Sociolinguistic Stereotypes and the Variability of Social Meanings
Dissertation advisor: Christian Koops
Alfred Jana Matiki
Year of Graduation: 2001
Dissertation Title: Language planning and social change: A study of linguistic exclusion and the legislative process in Malawi
Dissertation advisor: Garland Bills
John Mitchell Sances
Year of Graduation: 2022
Dissertation Title: Seeing is Believing: The Role of the Visual Stimulus in Cognitive Knowledge of Sound Structure
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Ricardo Napoleao de Souza
Year of Graduation: 2019
Dissertation Title: The Interaction of Domain-initial Effects with Lexical Stress: Acoustic Data from English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Dissertation advisor: Caroline Smith
Karen Naughton
Year of Graduation: 2001
Dissertation Title: Linguistic description and analysis of verbs of visual perception in American Sign Language (ASL)
Dawn Nordquist
Year of Graduation: 2006
Dissertation Title: Corpus patterns and elicited language : implications for language storage and processing
Dissertation advisor: Joan Bybee
Corrine Occhino
Year of Graduation: 2016
Dissertation Title: A Cognitive Approach to Phonology: Evidence from Signed Languages
Dissertation advisor: Sherman Wilcox
David Paez Acevedo
Year of Graduation: 2023
Dissertation Title: Conceptual Meaning in Phonology: Multimodal Iconic Expressions in Discourse Focus
Dissertation advisor: Jill Morford
Michael Regan
Year of Graduation: 2021
Dissertation Title: Causal structure prediction for causal reasoning
Dissertation advisor: William Croft
Andres Sabogal
Year of Graduation: 2018
Dissertation Title: Argument Focus Alternatives in Wayuunaiki Clauses
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Daniel Sanford
Year of Graduation: 2009
Dissertation Title: Figuration and Frequency: a usage-based account of metaphor
Dissertation advisor: Catherine Travis
Joanne Scheibman
Year of Graduation: 2000
Dissertation Title: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation
Dissertation advisor: Joan Bybee
Christopher Shank
Year of Graduation: 2007
Dissertation Title: The Relationship Between Metaphorical Language Use and Transitivity: A Cognitive Linguistic Case Study of the English Verbs of Tactile Perception
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Benjamin Sienicki
Year of Graduation: 2014
Dissertation Title: “Hey, you guys!”: A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Sara Siyavoshi
Year of Graduation: 2019
Dissertation Title: The Expression of Modality in Iranian Sign Language (ZEI)
Dissertation advisor: Sherman Wilcox
K. Aaron Smith
Year of Graduation: 2003
Dissertation Title: The Dilemma of the English Progressive: Evaluating its Historical Sources in a Universal Context
Dissertation advisor: Joan Bybee
Natalya P. Stukova
Year of Graduation: 2011
Dissertation Title: The Role of Formulaic Language in the Construction of Grammar
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Logan Sutton
Year of Graduation: 2014
Dissertation Title: Kiowa-Tanoan: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Jason Timm
Year of Graduation: 2016
Dissertation Title: Lexical variation, lexical innovation, and speaker motivations: a historical psycholinguistic approach
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft
Hien Tran
Year of Graduation: 2018
Dissertation Title: Conceptual Structures of Vietnamese Emotions
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Simoni Maria Valadares
Year of Graduation: 2019
Dissertation Title: Palikur Language (Arawak, Amazonian): Sociolinguistics, Grammar Sketch, and the Morphosyntax and Semantics of Spatial Terms
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Victor A. Valdivia Ruiz
Year of Graduation: 2016
Dissertation Title: Verbs of Speech and Cognition: Structural Patterns in New Mexico Spanish
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Jackelyn Van Buren
Year of Graduation: 2017
Dissertation Title: CUASI NOMÁS INGLÉS: Prosody at the Crossroads of Spanish and English in 20th Century New Mexico
Dissertation advisor: Christian Koops
Jens Van Gysel
Year of Graduation: 2024
Dissertation Title: A usage-based account of ongoing structural changes in Sanapaná: Grammar sketch and case studies
Dissertation advisor: Rosa Vallejos-Yopán
Erin Wilkinson
Year of Graduation: 2009
Dissertation Title: Typology of signed languages: Differentiation through kinship terminology
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft
Jay S. Williams
Year of Graduation: 2009
Dissertation Title: An Intermediate Grammar of Navajo: A Guide for Bilingual Educators
Dissertation advisor: Melissa Axelrod
Joan Esse Wilson
Year of Graduation: 2020
Dissertation Title: Treatment Intervention for Social Functioning and Social Cognition in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Utilizing Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) at the Right Temporoparietal Junction (rTPJ)
Dissertation advisor: Sherman Wilcox
Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
Year of Graduation: 2004
Dissertation Title: A typological, historical, and functional study of adpositions in the languages of the world
Tim Zingler
Year of Graduation: 2020
Dissertation Title: Wordhood issues: Typology and grammaticalization
Dissertation advisor: Bill Croft & Caroline Smith
