Soubeika Bahri
Semiotic and Discursive Displays of Tamazight Identity on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Revitalization Efforts in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Committee: Cecelia Cutler (Chair), Michael Newman, Miki Makihara, Lotfi Sayahi
Joanna Birnbaum
Good Choice and Context Availability: A Variationist Approach to the Subjunctive in New York City Spanish
Committee: Ricardo Otheguy (Chair), Beatriz Lado, Gita Martohardjono
Eric Chambers
‘Its Something You Do Bro’: Language and Identity on a Male Erotic Hypnosis Messageboard
Committee: Cecelia Cutler (Chair), Jillian Cavanaugh, Michael Newman
Jennifer A. Chard
Mandarin Assessment in Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers
Committee: Gita Martohardjono (Chair), Isabelle Barriere, Gisela Jia
Pablo Gonzalez Martinez
Do It Like a Syntactician: Using Binary Gramaticality Judgements to Train Sentence Encoders and Assess Their Sensitivity to Syntactic Structure
Committee: William Sakas (Chair), Martin Chodorow, Michael Mandel
Daniel C. Mann
Stabilizing Forces in Acoustic Cultural Evolution: Comparing Humans and Birds
Committee: Juliette Blevins (Chair), Marisa Hoeschele, David C. Lahti, Michael I. Mandel
Eleanor A. Morikawa
This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus
Committee: Cecelia Cutler (Chair), Matthew Garley, Jillian Cavanaugh, Lauren Squires
Tyler J. Peckenpaugh
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
Committee: Janet Dean Fodor (Chair), Dianne Bradley, Martin Chodorow
Rachel Rakov
Analyzing Prosody with Legendre Polynomial Coefficients
Committee: Rivka Levitan (Chair), Martin Chodorow, Kyle Gorman, Andrew Rosenberg
T. Leo Schmitt
The Practice of Mainland Chinese Students Adopting English Names and Its Motivations
Committee: Cecelia Cutler (Chair), Gita Martohardjono, Miki Makihara
Namseok Yong
Cue-based reflexive reference resolution: Evidence from Korean reflexive caki
Committee: Irina A. Sekerina (Chair), Jason Kandybowicz, William McClure, Jiwon Yun
Mieko Sperbeck (Ph.D. 2010)
The acquisition of consonant clusters by Japanese learners of English: Interactions of speech perception and production.
Advisor: Winifred Strange
Hala Abdelghany (Ph.D. 2010)
Prosodic phrasing and modifier attachment in standard Arabic sentence processing. Advisor: Janet Fodor
Martin Port (Ph.D. 2010)
Omitted Arguments and Complexity of Predication.
Advisor: William McClure
Didem Koban (Ph.D. 2010) | email
Overt vs. Null subject pronoun variation in the Turkish spoken in Turkey and in NYC.
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Marisa Monteleone (Ph.D. 2009)
Effects of first language voicing rules on the perception and production of English obstruent sequences by adult Hungarian and Polish learners of English.
Advisor: Winifred Strange
Malgorzata Szupica-Pyrzanowki (PhD 2009)
Morphological and phonological contributions to the production of verbal inflection in adult L2 learners and patients with agrammatic aphasia.
Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
Shukhan Ng (PhD 2009)
Current Affiliation: University of Texas at San Antonio)
Processing Chinese Empty Catagories.
Advisor: Janet Fodor
Amit Shaked (PhD 2009)
Attachment ambiguity in Hebrew complex nominals: Prosody and parsing
Advisor: Janet Fodor
Xuan-Nga Cao (previously Cao-Kam) (PhD 2009) | email
Contributions of Statistical Induction To Models of Syntax Acquisition.
Advisor: Janet Fodor
Erika Troseth (PhD 2009)
Adicity and Reference: Middle voice and its components.
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Mamori (Sugita) Hughes (PhD 2009)
Japanese -te iru and -te aru : The aspectual implications of the stage-level and individual-level distinction.
Advisor: William McClure
Yukiko Koizumi (PhD 2009)
Processing the Not-Because Ambiguity in English: The Role of Pragmatics and Prosody.
Advisor: Janet Fodor
Gabriella Morvay (PhD 2009)
The Processing of Complex Syntax and its Relation to Second Language Reading Comprehension.
Advisor: Elaine Klein
Kaori Furuya (PhD 2009)
The DP Hypothesis Through the Lens of Japanese Nominal Collocation Constructions.
Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
Fran Gulinello (PhD 2009)
The Acquisition of an L2 Vowel system: A Longitudinal Investigation.
Advisor: Charles Cairns
Stephanie Solt (PhD 2009) Website | Email
current affiliation: ZAS Berlin
The semantics of adjectives of quantity.
Advisor: William McClure
Neisha (White) Ziehmke (PhD 2008)
Increasing efficacy in academic English instruction: A case study seeking the correct balance between contrastive analysis focus on form and sociolinguistic awareness raising.
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Rachel Szekely (PhD 2008)
current affiliation: Long Island University
A second route to truth: feature-placing, existence, and the interpretation of there-sentences.
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Jed Shahar (PhD 2008)
current affiliation: Queensborough Community College
What some its are: Non-referential it, extraposition, and copies.
Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
Mari Fujimoto (PhD 2008)
current affiliation: Hofstra University and Queens College
L1 acquisition of Japanese particles: A corpus-based study
Advisor: William McClure
Eric Stenshoel (PhD 2008)
The Theta Parameter: Syntax Under a Radical UTAH.
Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
Tomoyuki Yabe (PhD 2007)
current affiliation: Queens College
The morpho-syntax of complex verbal expressions in the Horn of Africa
Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
Tanya Viger (PhD 2007)
Fundamental frequency in Mandarin Chinese an English: Implications for second-language speakers
Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
Ronald Simon (PhD 2007) | email
current affiliation: Labor & Industry for Education
A Platonic conception of language
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Michael Horwitz (PhD 2007)
Genetic and areal stability of phrasal word order and its potential as a typological marker
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Eulalia Canals (PhD 2007)
The acquisition of tense and aspect by Moroccan learners of L2 Catalan and Spanish in Barcelona public schools
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of Language Didactics in the Faculty of Education. Member of GREIP research group
(http://greip.uab.cat/en/)
Naomi Lapidus Shin (PhD 2006) | email
The development of null vs. overt subject pronoun expression in monolingual Spanish-speaking children: The influence of continuity of reference
Advisor: Helen Smith Cairns
Current affiliation: Assistant Professor of Spanish & Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics and Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese. The University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM 87131
(http://naomishin.wordpress.com/)
Mary Sepp (PhD 2006) | email
Phonological constraints and free variation in compounding: A corpus study of English and Estonian noun compounds
Advisor: Martin Chodorow
Alison Gabriele (PhD 2005) | email
current affiliation: University of Kansas
The acquisition of aspect in a second language: A bidirectional study of learners of English and Japanese
Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
Peter Slomanson (PhD 2005) | email
current affiliation: Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
The verbal morphosyntax of non-canonical contact languages: Malay-derived constraints and the inflectional domain in Afrikaans and Sri Lankan Malay
Advisor: Edward Bendix
Miki Suzuki (PhD 2005) | email
current affiliation: Microsoft
Clause stacking and antisymmetry in Japanese relative clauses
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Gerald Dempsey (PhD 2004)
Glottal effects in Icelandic phonology
Advisor: Charles E Cairns
Eiji Nishimoto (PhD 2004)
A corpus-based delimitation of new words: Cross-segment comparison and morphological productivity
Advisor: Dianne Bradley
Ruth Reeves (PhD 2004)
current affiliation: Vanderbilt University
The meanings of personal pronouns: de se interpretation of long-distance anaphora in Icelandic and other languages
Advisor: William McClure
Maurizio Santoro (PhD 2004)
Mastery of Italian accusative and dative clitics by English speaking college students
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Nora Ellen Aion (PhD 2003)
Selected topics in Nootka and Tubatulabal phonology
Advisor: Charles E Cairns
Daniel Chapuis (PhD 2003)
On the role of Malagasy in the creation of the vernaculars of reunion
Advisor: Edward Bendix
Antonino Gulli (PhD 2003)
current affiliation: Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Phrasal Reduplication in Syntax
Advisors: Marcel den Dikken and Richard Kayne
Kathy Kessler (PhD 2003)
ERP correlates of word order and morphosyntactic phenomena in adult native speakers and second language learners of English
Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
Mana Kobuchi-Philip (PhD 2003) | email
current affiliation: Queens College, CUNY
Distributivity and the Japanese Floating Numeral Quantifier
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Nenad Lovric (PhD 2003)
Implicit prosody in silent readings: Relative clause attachment in Croatian
Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
Keiko Uehara (PhD 2003)
current affiliation: Gunma University
Center-embedding and nominative repetition in Japanese sentence processing
Advisor: Dianne Bradley
Maria Vicenta Blasco Aznar (PhD 2002)
On the acquisition of object pronominal clitics in Spanish
Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
Nydia Flores (PhD 2002)
Subject personal pronouns in Spanish narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York City: A variationist study
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Gail August (PhD 2001)
current affiliation: Hostos Community College
The road to second language reading: How do we get there?
Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
Dwijen Bhattacharjya (PhD 2001)
The genesis and development of Nagamese: Its social history and linguistic structure
Advisor: Edward Bendix
Linda A. Pelc (PhD 2001)
current affiliation: LaGuardia Community College
L1 lexical, morphology and morphosyntactic attrition in Greek-English bilinguals
Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
Ivy Sichel (PhD 2001) | email | website
currrent affiliation: Hebrew University
Studies in the syntax of pronouns and features with particular reference to Hebrew
Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
Stephanie Smolinsky (PhD 2001)
Brilliance, energy and size in vowels: A cross-linguistic study of phonetic symbolism
Advisor: Edward Bendix
Nancy Stern (PhD 2001) | email | website
current affiliation: City College of New York, CUNY
The meaning and use of English -self pronouns
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Eva Fernandez (PhD 2000) | email
current affiliation: Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center
Bilingual sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Advisor: Dianne Bradley
Christina Mary de Kleine (PhD 1999)
A morphosyntactic analysis of Surinamese Dutch as spoken by the Creole population of Paramaribo, Suriname
Advisor: William Stewart
Janine Graziano-King (PhD 1999)
Current affiliation: Kingsborough Community College
Acquisition of comparative forms in English
Advisor: Helen S Cairns
Yuki Hirose (PhD 1999)
current affiliation: Tokyo University
Resolving reanalysis ambiguity in Japanese relative clauses
Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
Robert Hollander (PhD 1999)
MIGHT: Evidence and argument from negation and conjunction for an epistemic modality and its logical structure
Advisor: Edward Bendix
Stanley Koike (PhD 1999)
A Monosemy approach to the Japanese particle no: Functional categories as linkers and antisymmetry in natural language
Advisor: William McClure
Barbara Bevington (PhD 1998)
Indexical expressions: Syntax and context
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Gerardo A Lorenzino (PhD 1998)
The Angolar Creole Portuguese of Sao Tome: Its grammar and sociolinguistic history
Advisor: John Holm
Jose Antonio Mendez (PhD 1998)
Stress and glides in Spanish syllable structure
Advisor: William Stewart
Albert W Romano (PhD 1998)
Gender and language: A Goodwin look at Lakoff
Advisor: Charles E Cairns
Francisco Ordonez (PhD 1997)
current affiliation: SUNY Stony Brook
Word order and clause structure in Spanish and other Romance languages
Advisor: Richard Kayne
Jiaye Xie (PhD 1997)
Processing NP-trace and reflexives in Chinese
Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
Marianne Janko Washburn (PhD 1998)
Non-primary language acquisition of word order in German
Eleanor Olds Batchelder (PhD 1997)
Computational evidence for the use of frequency information in discovery of the infant's first lexicon
Heliana Ribeiro De Mello (PhD 1997)
The genesis and development of Brazilian vernacular Portuguese
Iris Elisha (PhD 1997)
Functional categories and null subjects in Hebrew and child Hebrew
Rhoda Gilbert (PhD 1997)
Integrating the methods and strategies of conversational analysis
Katherine Reese Green (PhD 1997)
Non-standard Dominican Spanish : evidence of partial restructuring
Ingeborg Lasser (PhD 1997)
Finiteness in adult and child German
Francisco Ordonez (PhD 1997)
current affiliation: SUNY Stony Brook
Word order and clause structure in Spanish and other Romance languages
Irina A. Sekerina (PhD 1997)
current affiliation: College of Staten Island/CUNY Graduate Center
The syntax and processing of scrambling constructions in Russian
Marcia Babbitt (PhD 1996)
Lexical acquisition in second language learning
Carol Montgomery (PhD 1996)
Conversation closings : the effects of gender, ethnicity and social proximity
Rosalie Schwartz (PhD 1996)
Discourse dynamics of discriminatory practices in a job training situation
Sheila Meltzer (PhD 1995)
Modularity : evidence from coreference processing in Spanish
Sharon L Utakis (PhD 1995)
Quantification and definiteness in child grammar
Nina Wacholder (PhD 1995)
Acquiring syntactic generalizations from positive evidence : an HPSG model
Joyce Blanchette Milambiling (PhD 1994) | email
current affiliation: University of Northern Iowa
On the same floor: a sociolinguistic study of a two-way bilingual program
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Deborah Mandelbaum (PhD 1994)
Syntactic conditions on saturation
Shiwen Pan (PhD 1994)
A sociolinguistic study of Mainland Putonghua and Taiwan Guoyu in New York City
Nava Ayala Shaked (PhD 1994)
The treatment of phrasal verbs in a natural language processing system
Judy B Bernstein (PhD 1993)
current affiliation: William Patterson University
Topics in the syntax of nominal structure across romance
Jill Caryn Burstein (PhD 1992) | email | website
current affiliation: ETS
The stress and syntax of compound nominals
Advisors: Bob Fiengo, Martin Chodorow, Richard Sproat
Clyde Coreil (PhD 1992)
Fusion in language : a case for supralexical unit
Luisa C Garro (PhD 1992)
Lexical access in bilinguals : the case of English-based Spanish calques
Arhonto Terzi (PhD 1992)
Pro in finite clauses : a study of the inflectional heads of the Balkan languages
M. Sorie Yillah (PhD 1992)
Temne phonology and morphology
Akua Duku Anokye (PhD 1991) email
current affiliation: Arizona State University, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Linguistic form and social function : a discourse analysis of rhetorical and narrative structure in oral and written African American folk narrative texts
Advisor: William Stewart
Kristine Cecilie Gjerlow-Johnson (PhD 1991)
Metalinguistic abilities in literate adults
Tsutomu Sakamoto (PhD 1991)
Processing empty subjects in Japanese : implications for the transparency hypothesis
Ken Sheppard (PhD 1991)
At sea in SLA : evidence of UG in the acquisition of French and English verbs
Elaine C Klein (PhD 1990)
current affiliation: Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center
The null-prep phenomenon in second language acquisition
Claudia Leacock (PhD 1990)
current affiliation: ETS
Lexically based parsing with application to infinitival control constructions in English
David Man (PhD 1990)
The function of perception in the acquisition of non-native inflectional morphology : the case of the past in English
Thomas L Maxfield (PhD 1990)
On the learnability of a version of generalized phrase structure grammar
Walter Petrovitz (PhD 1990)
Argument opacity
Susan Jagendorf - Sobierajski (PhD 1988)
The Influence of English on Contact Spanish: Preverbal Bare Subjects
Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
Cindy Greenberg (PhD 1987) | email
Metalinguistic Awareness and Adult Literacy.
Advisor: Charles Cairns
Dana McDaniel (PhD 1986)
Conditions on Wh-Chains
Advisor: Robert Fiengo
Wayne Cowart (PhD 1983)
Reference relations and syntactic processing : evidence of a pronoun's influence on a syntactic decision that affects word naming
Walter T French (PhD 1983)
Northern Naga : a Tibeto-Burman mesolanguage
Nina M Hyams (PhD 1983)
The acquisition of parameterized grammars
Martin R Gitterman (PhD 1982)
Grammatical complexity as a predictor of L2 performance
Martin S Harris (PhD 1982)
The role of sentence context in the perception and production of internal open juncture
John Klosek (PhD 1982)
Second language communication strategies and grammatical accuracy
Olga Romero (PhD 1982)
Aspects of code-switching in bilingual children
Robert Lee Silvey (PhD 1982)
Language, politics, and The Federalist : a linguistic approach to interpretation
Penny Willis (PhD 1982)
The initial consonant mutations in the Brythonic Celtic languages
Evelyn P Altenberg (PhD 1981)
Bilingual lexical retrieval
Edwin L Battistella (PhD 1981)
Topics in the theory of inflection
Advisor: Bob Fiengo
W. Neil Elliott (PhD 1981)
Grammatical number
Jennifer Ryan Hsu (PhD 1981)
The development of structural principles related to complement subject interpretation
Carolyn Panzer Sobel (PhD 1981)
A generative phonology of Danish
Elsa Lattey (PhD 1980)
Grammatical systems across languages : a study of participation in English, German and Spanish
Ellen Perecman (PhD 1980)
Language realization in phonemic jargonaphasia : a case study
Miriam R Eisenstein (PhD 1979)
current affiliation: New York University
The development of dialect discrimination and stereotyping in adult learners of English as a second language
Advisor: D. Terence Langendoen
Steven L Strauss (PhD 1979)
Some principles of word structure in English and German
Anita Janda (PhD 1978)
The linguistic analysis of the honey bee's dance language
Geoffrey Nunberg (PhD 1977)
The pragmatics of reference
John S Ritter (PhD 1978)
The status of Chomsky's theory of transformational generative grammar as a mentalist theory of language
Alan L Tusher (PhD 1978)
The utilization of silent pauses in spontaneous speech by the listener
Mark H Feinstein (PhD 1977)
The linguistic nature of prenasalization
Ricardo Otheguy (PhD 1977) | email
current affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center
The meaning of Spanish el, la and lo
Ruth Marion Graeme Ramsay (PhD 1977)
Multilinguals and successful language learners : cognitive strategies and styles of approach to language learning in adults
Ben Schapiro (PhD 1977)
English appositive structures and right movement
Rochele Berkovits (PhD 1975)
The interaction of bias, context, and intonation in the perception of surface structure ambiguity
Georgette Loup (PhD 1975)
The treatment of quantifier scope in a transformational grammar
Zafrira Malisdorf (PhD 1975)
Sentential complements in Hebrew
John Dore (PhD 1973)
The development of speech acts
Nancy Kalish-Landon (PhD 1973) | email | website
Professional's title as a demand characteristic : a potential methodological confound in language research
Martin David Pam (PhD 1973)
Tigrinya phonology
Ernestine R Daniels (PhD 1972)
The old French case system : a functional study