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Graduate Students
Miyeon Ahnmyahn@umich.edu Miyeon is a second-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 Babelambabel@umich.edu Anna Babel is a fourth-year student in the departments of Linguistics and Anthropology. In 2008, she will conduct fieldwork on language contact and sociolinguistic register in central Bolivia. An ex-Peace Corps volunteer, she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina, and also studied in Argentina and Russia. Her hobbies include participant-observing gossip, changing diapers, and chasing bats out of her office.
Christopher Beckerbeckerc@umich.edu Christopher is a candidate in the Linguistics and Slavic joint-degree program. His primary research interests include syntactic agreement between the subject and predicate, as well as agreement internal to the noun phrase, especially in Slavic languages.
Anthony Brasherabrasher@umich.edu Anthony is a fifth-year student and is interested in historical linguistics and the phonetics/phonology interface. His dissertation work looks the effects of clear speech and coarticulation.
Eric Brownericeric@umich.edu Eric is a first-year student who received his BA in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested in situations of language contact and change, particularly with the languages of Southeast Asia, immigrant languages, and variants of Portuguese
Katherine's dissertation research is on bilingual identities in Hong Kong. She investigates how distinctive "styles" (Irvine 2001) of code-switching relate to social categorization, and what roles language ideologies have played in the (re)construction and negotiation of group and individual identities. During fieldwork, Katherine also produced a sociolinguistic documentary film, "Multilingual Hong Kong: Present Yat1 Go3 Project" (www.foryue.org), as a resource for raising public awareness on issues of bilingualism, bilingual education and language-related social discrimination.
Lisa Del Tortoldeltor@umich.edu Lisa is a PhD candidate studying sociolinguistics, Lisa's particular areas of interest include bilingualism of immigrant communities in Canada and the US, code-switching, style, and language ideologies.
gfthrak@umich.edu Gerardo received his BA in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. After that, he received an MA in English Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Spain, and an MA in Linguistics with Honors at the University of Kansas. He is a fifth-year PhD student and he works on Syntactic Theory (especially on Linearization, Agreement and the pro-drop parameter) and also on sentence comprehension, focusing on the processing of empty categories.
Brook Hefrighthefright@umich.edu Brook is a third-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.
Yu Fen Hsiehyfhsieh@umich.edu Yu-fen is a third-year graduate student. She is mainly interested in psycholinguistics, especially sentence comprehension and second language acquisition. Her current research is on syntactic ambiguity resolution in Mandarin Chinese
Vera Irwinveremeev@umich.edu Vera is a PhD candidate in the dual-degree program between the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Linguistics. She is working on her dissertation that explores sociolinguistic aspects of bilingual situation among Russian-speaking migrant groups in Germany.
kapetang@umich.edu Dina received her BA in French Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She finished her MA in Linguistics at EMU and is a fifth-year student in the Linguistics program at UM. Dina is interested in syntactic theory and language acquisition. Her research interests include Minimalist syntax, Agreement, Control, Clause Structure and Complementation in Modern Greek and the syntactic status of subjects in the acquisition of null subject languages.
Susan Linsslin@umich.edu Susan is a fourth-year student mainly interested in computational linguistics, phonetics and phonology.
clunis@umich.edu Kevin is a second-year student interested in the intersection of computational linguistics with phonetics/phonology. He has a bachelors degree in linguistics and has spent the last decade working as a programmer, system administrator, and technical leader of the UM webmaster team.
David Medeirosmedeiros@umich.edu David is a first-year student interested in syntax.
mobata@umich.edu Miki is a second 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 Odatocvodato@umich.edu Chris is a third-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.
Nancy Pereznkoch@umich.edu Nancy is a Ph.D. candidate interested in historical and descriptive linguistics. She is currently working on a reconstruction of the Matlatzinkan branch of Oto-Pamean.
ssamant@umich.edu Sai is a fifth-year student, whose research focuses on sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and sociophonetics. Her current research includes projects on the sociolinguistics and of a Marathi-English immigrant community in the U.S., and on the language ideologies of minority/oppressed groups in India. Sai is currently developing a topic for her dissertation.
lsquires@umich.edu Lauren is a second-year student studying sociolinguistics. Her interests include computer-mediated discourse, relations between online and offline interaction, language and media, and folk linguistics and metalanguage. She maintains a side interest in syntax. She has an MA in linguistics from the University of Virginia and a BA from American UniversityAmerican University.
Terrence Szymanskitdszyman@umich.edu Terrence is a first-year student interested in computational linguistics. He previously received his BSE in Electrical Engineering and BA in Classical Languages. His other interests include Greek papyrology and digital libraries.
Damon Tutunjiandamont@umich.edu Damon is a fourth-year student whose primary interest is psycholinguistics and sentence comprehension. He is currently investigating implicit agents in passive constructions and the anticipatory activation of arguments that occurs when a verb is processed.
Joseph Tylerjctyler@umich.edu Joseph is a first-year student with interests primarily in interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and conversation analysis. He earned his BS in Languages with a major in German from Georgetown University.
Li Yanglyshane@umich.edu Li is a fifth-year student interested in computational linguistics, syntax and semantics.
Jonathan Yipjonyip@umich.edu Jonathan is a first-year graduate student interested in phonetics, phonology, and the phonetics/phonology interface. In 2006, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating in Linguistics and German
Xinting Zhangzxt@umich.edu Xinting is a third-year student. She received her M.A. from Tianjin Normal University, China. She's interested in phonology and the phonetics/phonology interface.
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