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Graduate Students
Miyeon Ahn myahn@umich.edu Miyeon is a third year student studying phonology. She is interested in Optimality Theory, phonology-morphology and phonetics-phonology interface. Her current research interests include English reduplication, OCP effects in partial reduplication and opacity in Korean palatalization.
Anna Babel
ambabel@umich.edu
Anna is interested in the social motivations behind patterns of
language contact between Quechua and Spanish in central Bolivia. She
is currently writing her dissertation on the role of the individual
interaction in the emergence of large-scale constructs such as
register and identity. Anna's alter ego is a graduate student in
linguistic anthropology.
beckel@umich.edu
Erica is a second year student interested in language acquisition,
bilingualism, language contact, psycholinguistics and Arabic and its
dialects. She is currently planning a project examining bilingual
language acquisition in pre-school aged children. Before starting a
PhD in Linguistics, she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and
Master's Degree in Foreign Language Education and worked as a
translator for a number of years.
Anthony Brasher abrasher@umich.edu Anthony is a PhD candidate and is interested in historical linguistics and the phonetics/phonology interface. His dissertation work looks the effects of clear speech and coarticulation.
ericeric@umich.edu
Eric is a third year graduate student interested in language contact
and change. His specific interests include pidgins and creoles,
contact-induced sound change, and the language ideologies and
sociolinguistics of contact situations. His qualifying paper looks at
intergeneration language change in Southeast Asian communities in the
United States and he just recently returned from preliminary
dissertation research in Cape Verde.
ctchou@umich.edu
Tim is a second-year student primarily interested in theoretical
syntax (principle-and-parameter approach and minimalism), Chinese
linguistics, comparative syntax, and the syntax-semantics/phonology interfaces.
Brook Hefright hefright@umich.edu Brook is a fourth year student interested in language contact, language ideology, and the languages of southwest China. His current research focuses on language contact and ethnic identity among the Bai of Yunnan Province. He has also researched the role of language crossing and style-shifting in the negotiation and construction of identity in English.
Yufen Hsieh
yfhsieh@umich.edu
Yufen is a fifth-year student interested in psycholinguistics,
especially L1 and bilingual syntactic representation, syntax-semantics
interaction in sentence comprehension, and L2 processing of grammar.
Her dissertation research investigates sentence processing in Chinese
and Chinese-English bilinguals. Part of the research has been published
in the paper entitled "Limited Syntactic Parallelism in Chinese
Ambiguity Resolution."
kapetang@umich.edu
Dina is a Ph.D. candidate interested in syntactic theory,
syntax-semantics interface, and language development. In her
dissertation she examines Control in different syntactic domains in
Modern Greek with the goal to provide a unifying account of the
observed empirical facts, the proper analysis of which remains an
active and interesting point of debate among researchers. In addition
to her theoretical work, Dina is also conducting experimental work on
how adult speakers of Greek interpret certain types of Control
structures.
Donggeol Lee yidg@umich.edu Donggeol is a first year student interested in syntax.
Susan Lin sslin@umich.edu Susan is a fifth year student mainly interested in computational linguistics, phonetics and phonology.
clunis@umich.edu
Kevin is a fourth year student interested in phonetics and
computational linguistics. His QRP applied gestural theories of
speech perception and coarticulation to the improvement of unit
selection speech synthesis. His dissertation research investigates
the low level perceptual correlates of listeners' social biases.
Before returning to graduate school, Kevin was a programmer, system
administrator and team leader of the University of Michigan's web
infrastructure team.
David Medeiros medeiros@umich.edu David is a second year student interested in syntax.
mobata@umich.edu
Miki is a fourth year student interested in syntax, especially in
A'-movement. In her recent papers she worked on finiteness sensitivity
in wh-movement and superiority effects.
Christopher Odato cvodato@umich.edu Chris is a fourth year student studying sociolinguistics with particular interest in teenage and young adult speech. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 2000 with a concentration in Anthropology-Linguistics.
lsquires@umich.edu Lauren Squires is a fourth-year student primarily interested in sociolinguistics, including language ideology, computer-mediated discourse, mass media, and linguistic variation. Her dissertation research applies findings from sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics to investigate the processing and perception of syntactic variation.
Terrence Szymanski tdszyman@umich.edu Terrence is a fifth year student interested in computational approaches to traditional linguistics. His QRP investigated a probabilistic framework for inducing historical sound changes and linguistic phylogenies from cognate wordlists. He is also involved in a project creating software tools for linguistic analysis of field data. He previously received his BSE in Electrical Engineering and BA in Classical Languages. His other interests include Greek papyrology and digital libraries.
Damon Tutunjian
damont@umich.edu
Damon is a PhD candidate whose primary interest is psycholinguistics
and sentence comprehension, with a strong focus on argument structure
related issues. Among other topics, he has investigated the
anticipatory activation of implicit agents in passive constructions as
well as the effect of prosodic focus and information structure on
verbal argument activation. His dissertation research concerns the
role of lexical-semantic features in establishing the parallel
preference of coordinated verb phrases.
Joseph Tyler
jctyler@umich.edu
Joseph Tyler is a third year student with interests in prosody and
discourse. His current QRP research involves looking for correlates
between discourse structure, as represented by Segmented Discourse
Representation Theory (SDRT), and the prosodic measures of pitch and
pause duration. He is interested in prosody, semantic and pragmatic
theories of discourse structure, and the role of prosody on discourse
production and comprehension. He previously received his BS in
Languages (German) from Georgetown University.
Stephen Tyndall styndall@umich.edu Stephen is a first year student interested in historical linguistics.
Li Yang lyshane@umich.edu Li is a PhD candidate interested in computational linguistics, syntax and semantics.
jonyip@umich.edu
Jon is a third year student who is interested in phonetics and
phonology. He is currently working on his QRP, which investigates
speakers' use of spatial coarticulation during vowel clarification in
English. He received his BA Linguistics and German from the University
of California, Berkeley. Other interests of his include articulatory
phonetics, experimental phonology, and prosody.
Xinting Zhang
zxt@umich.edu
Xinting is a fifth-year student interested in phonetics and phonology,
particularly the areas of speech perception and second language
acquisition. Her QRP investigated the issue of gradient phonological
well-formedness using a lexical decision task in Standard Chinese. Her
dissertation research will be examining the contribution of prosody to
the perception of a foreign accent.
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