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Recent Dissertations
| 2007 |
Ahmad, Rizwan |
Shifting Dunes: Changing Meanings of Urdu in India
Robin Queen, chair |
| 2007 |
Becker, Christopher |
Clausal and Nominal Agreement in Russian: A Unified Approach
Acrisio Pires, chair |
| 2007 |
Felty, Robert |
Effects in Spoken Word Recognition of English and German by Native and Non-native Listeners
Patrice Beddor and Jose Benki, co-chairs |
| 2007 |
Fortin, Catherine |
Indonesian Sluicing and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Description and Explanation in a Minimalist Framework
Samuel Epstein, chair |
| 2007 |
Marlo, Michael |
The Verbal Tonology of Lumarachi and Lunyala: Two Dialects of Luluyia (Bantu, J. 30, Kenya)
Andries Coetzee, chair |
| 2007 |
Valentin-Marquez, Wilfredo |
Doing being boricua: Perceptions of national identity and the sociolinguistic distribution of liquid variables in Puerto Rican Spanish
Lesley Milroy and Teresa L. Satterfield, co-chairs |
| 2007 |
Ye, Yang |
Automatic Tense and Aspect Translation between Chinese and English
Steven Abney, chair |
| 2006 |
Narayan, Chandan |
Non-Native Speech Perception in Infancy and Adulthood: Perceptual Salience and a New Pattern of Development
Patrice Beddor and Janet F. Werker, co-chairs |
| 2006 |
Nguyen, Jennifer |
The Changing Social and Linguistic Orientation of the African American Middle Class
Lesley Milroy and Robin Queen, co-chairs |
| 2006 |
Ouali, Hamid |
Unifying Agreement Relations: A Minimalist Analysis of Berber
Samuel Epstein and Acrisio Pires, co-chairs |
| 2006 |
Pharris, Nicholas |
Winuunsi Tm Talapaas: A Grammar of the Molalla Language
Sarah Thomason, chair |
| 2006 |
Sicoli, Mark |
Tono: A Linguistic Ethnography of Tone and Voice in a Zapotec Region
Sally Thomason and Bruce Mannheim , co-chairs |
| 2006 |
Stiasny, Andrea |
Acquisition of Clitics in Croatian and Spanish and its Implications for Syntactic Theory
Acrisio Pires, chair |
| 2006 |
Williams, Ashley |
Bilingualism and the Construction of Ethnic Identity among Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lesley Milroy, chair |
| 2005 |
Kim, Hee Soo |
Causatives, Passives and Their Ambiguities in Korean, Japanese, and English
Acrisio Pires and Marilyn Shatz, co-chairs |
| 2005 |
Kumar, Aman |
Aspects of Hindi Syllable Structure
San Duanmu, chair |
| 2005 |
Onsuwan, Chutamanee |
Temporal relations Between Consonants and Vowels in Thai Syllables
Patrice Beddor, chair |
| 2005 |
Schleef, Erik |
Navigating Joint Activities in English and German Academic Discourse: Form, Function, and Sociolinguistics Distribution of Discourse Makers and Question Tags.
Robin Queen, chair |
| 2004 |
Diakoumakou, Evanthia |
Coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Modern Greek
Patrice Beddor, chair |
| 2004 |
Doan, Jeffrey |
The degradation of ethos in adversarial contexts
Jeffrey Heath, chair |
| 2004 |
Mendis, Dushyanthi |
A corpus-based study of the use and identification of metaphor in academic speech
John Swales, chair |
| 2003 |
Anderson, Bridget |
An acoustic study of Southeastern Michigan Appalachian and African American southern migrant vowel systems
Lesley Milroy, chair |
| 2003 |
Arehart, Mark |
Noun compound semantics: linguistic and general-purpose reasoning
Richmond Thomason, chair |
| 2003 |
Axelson, Elizabeth |
A longitudinal study of intercultural discourse in a master's thesis project group
John Swales, chair |
| 2003 |
Toebosch, Annemarie |
Gender-animacy and the morpho-syntax of object clitics in Dutch
Samuel Epstein and Christina Tortora, co-chairs |
| 2002 |
Dressen, Dacia |
Accounting for fieldwork in three areas of modern geology: a situated analysis of textual silence and salience
John Swales, chair |
| 2002 |
Freeman, Andrew |
In search of a koin & eacute; in San & lsquo;a & rsquo;
Jeffrey Heath and Raji Rammuny, co-chairs |
| 2002 |
Letsholo, Rose |
Syntactic domains in Ikalanga
Samuel Epstein, chair |
| 2001 |
Pimentel, Joseph |
Sociolinguistic reflections of privatization and globalization: the Arabic of Egyptian newspaper advertisements
John Swales, chair |
| 2000 |
Dyer, Judith |
Language and identity in a Scottish-English community: a phonological and discoursal analysis
Deborah Keller-Cohen and Lesley Milroy, co-chairs |
| 2000 |
Kim, Hyo-Young |
Flexibility of English stress
San Duanmu, chair |
| 2000 |
Kim, Mi-Roung |
Segmental and tonal interations in English and Korean: a phonetic and phonological study
Patrice Beddor and San Duanmu, co-chairs |
| 2000 |
Lindemann, Stephanie |
Non-native speaker "incompetence" as a construction of the native listener: attitudes and their relationship to perception and comprehension of Korean-accented English
Patrice Beddor and Lesley Milroy, co-chairs |
| 2000 |
Martinez, Ivelisse |
The effects of language on children's understanding of agency and causation
Marilyn Shatz, chair |
| 2000 |
Ostermann, Ana |
Reifying and defying sisterhood in discourse: communities of practice at work at an all-female police station and a feminist crisis intervention center in Brazil
Deborah Keller-Cohen, chair |
| 1999 |
Goetz, Peggy |
A comparison of 3- and 4-year-old English monolinguals, Mandarin monolinguals, and Mandarin-English bilinguals on a series of theory of mind-related tasks
Marilyn Shatz, chair |
| 1999 |
Miyake, Yoshimi |
The Japanese "deferential" prefix O: a natural history
Jeffrey Heath, chair |
| 1999 |
Wassink, Alicia |
A sociophonetic analysis of Jamaican vowels
Patrice Beddor and Lesley Milroy, co-chairs |
| 1998 |
Akar, Didar |
Patterns and variations in contemporary written business communications in Turkey: a genre study in four companies
Priscilla Rogers and John Swales, co-chairs |
| 1998 |
Evans-Romaine, Dorothy |
Palatalization and coarticulation in Russian
Patrice Beddor, chair |
| 1998 |
Harnsberger, James |
The perception of non-native nasal contrasts: a cross-linguistic perspective
Patrice Beddor, chair |
| 1998 |
Shin, Sarah |
Paibu dollar please!: bilingual Korean American children in New York City
Lesley Milroy, chair |
| 1997 |
Ahmad, Ummul |
Scientific research articles in Malay: a situated discourse analysis
John Swales, chair |
| 1997 |
Gordon, Matthew |
Urban sound change beyond city limits: the spread of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan
James Milroy and Lesley Milroy, co-chairs |
| 1997 |
Grande, Laura |
From "get" to "can": a natural semantic metalanguage study of Chinese de constructions in three pre-modern text samples
William Baxter, chair |
| 1997 |
Simpson, Rita |
Negotiating identities in Thai Conversation: a sociolinguistic discourse analysis of person-referring expressions
Rosina Lippi-Green and Lesley Milroy, co-chairs |
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