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  • 2023-2024: 9 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Austin German The emergence of linguistic structure in Zinacantec Family Homesign Richard P. Meier, David Quinto-Pozos Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics (University of Chicago)  
    Venkata Govindarajan Modeling Intergroup Bias In Online Conversation Jessy Li, David Beaver Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Ithaca College)  
    Ekatarina Levina Accusative external possessives in German, English, Spanish, and Russian David Beaver Postdoctoral Research (University  of Vienna)  
    Sofia Pierson The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology in Ayöök: Child-Directed Speech, Child Language, and Learning in the Home Richard P Meier, Anthony C Woodbury IXL Learning (Spanish Language Arts Curriculum Designer)  
    May Plumb Temporal–modal semantics in Diza (Tlacochahuaya Zapotec) Anthony C Woodbury, Ashwini Deo Social Science Researcher (Trellis Stategies)  
    Scott Spicer Roots, templates and the interaction of their meaning: the case in Modern Hebrew John Beavers Postgraduate Associate for Academic Integrity  (University of Texas College of Liberal Arts)  
    Paige Erin Wheeler Phonetic Corpus Studies of Enenlhet Vowels: Quality, Duration, and Phonation PatienceEpps,  Scott Myers Quantitative Research Specialist (Trellis)  
    Elizabeth Wood Prosodic Structure in Spontaneous Speech: Phrase-Final Marking, Word-Initial Glottolization and Vowel Deletion in Chichicastenango K'iche' Scott Myers    
    Michael Everdell Arguments and adjuncts in O'dam : language-specific realization of a cross-linguistic distinction John Beavers Lecturer in Linguistics (Boston University)  
  • 2022-2023: 7 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Kristin Denglinger Syntactic distribution of English denominal verbs Stephn Wechsler Lecturer in Linguistics (University of Texas at Austin)  
    Zhe-Chen Guo The effects of speaking style, noise, and semantic context on speech segmentation : evidence from artificial language learning and eye-tracking experiments Rajka Smiljanic Postdoctoral Scholar (Northwestern University)  
    Cristian Juarez A typology of valence and valence-like changing mechanisms  in Northern Chaco Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina) Patience Epps, John Beavers Postdoctoral Researcher (Max Planck Institute)  
    Gladys Camacho Rios Verb morphology in South Bolivian Quechua : a case study of the Uma Piwra rural variety Anthony C Woodbury, Patience Epps Assistant Professor of Linguistics (University of Buffalo)  
    Dag Lindeberg Language dominance and language variation in American Sign Language Richard P Meier, Jenny Singleton Dictionary Project (Norwegian Government)  
    Kirsten Meemann Pardon Me? - Effects of Clear Speech, Masking Noise, and Accented Speech on Intelligibility and Listening Effort Rajka Smiljanic Research Manage (Spinnaker Insights - Christiane Schmitz-Trebeljahr) Seniox UX Researcher (Spread Group)
    James Tandy Diachrony of the Perfect Paradigm in Mayan Languages  Daniel Law  Document Technician, Federal Government  
  • 2021-2022: 1 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Frances Cooley Examining the role of phonological awareness, speech-based phonological recoding, and orthographic processing on reading development in deaf bilinguals of ASL and English David Quinto-Pozos Postdoctoral Researcher (University of South Florida) Assistant Professor of Psychology (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  • 2020-2021: 2 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Ambrocio Gutierrez Lorenzo A description and analysis of the syntax and functions of subordinate clauses in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec (with an introductory overview of TdVZ phonology and morphosyntax)  Anthony C Woodbury Assistant Professor of Linguistics (University of Colorado Boulder)  
    Jaime Perez Gonzalez The genius of Mocho' (Mayan) : morphosyntactic alignment and its interaction with grammatical aspect and information structure Nora England Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of California, Santa Cruz) Assistan Professor of Linguistics (University of California at Santa Barbara)
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