Linguistics PhD Dissertations


2025

  • Leah Nodar, "Africatown English: Early History and Developments"

2024

  • Vanessa Sheu, "Plausibility and the Aural Processing of Mandarin Garden-path Sentences by L1, L2, and Heritage Speakers"
  • Margaret Crabtree, "The Morphology of Location in American Sign Language (ASL)"
  • Alexis Zhou, "The Use of Authentic Matericals to Train L2 Suprasegmental Features: Evidence from L2 Lexical Tone in Mandarin and L2 Lexical Pitch Accent in Japanese"
  • Yuhyean Seo, "Cross-Linguistic Influence in L1 Phonetic Categories in Korean Heritage Speakers and Long-Term Immigrants"

2023

  • Seyyed Tamimi Sa'd, "Negation in Khuzestani Arabic and an Emerging Sign Language"
  • Ye-Jee Jung, "Production and Perception of Korean and Korean-Accented English Clear Speech"
  • Laura Solano Escobar, "The Acquisition of Subjunctive Mood by Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish"
  • Syndey Dickerson, "Second Language Discourse Marker Development: A Concept-based Approach to Instruction"

2022

  • Esteban Zuniga Arguello, "A Formal Syntatic Analysis of Motion Predicates in Limonese Creole"
  • Khadeejah Alaslani, "On the Causative Verb Forms of Arabic: Form I and Form II and Their Associations with (In)Directness of Causation"
  • April Grotberg, "Quantifying Phonological Feature Co-occurrence"
  • Serpil Karabuklu, "Modal Signs and Cooccurring Nonmanual Markers in Turkish Sign Language (TID)"
  • Mai Yamamoto, "Agnostic Responses to Reports and Assessments"