| Student | Dissertation Title | Adviser |
| Summer 2011 - Spring 2012 | |
| Tanner, Darren | Agreement mechanisms in native and nonnative language processing: Electrophysiological correlates of interference and complexity | Lee Osterhout, Julia Herschensohn |
| Summer 2010 - Spring 2011 | |
| Kahn, Jeremy | Moving Beyond the Lexical Layer in Parsing Conversational Speech | Mari Ostendorf |
| Summer 2009 - Spring 2010 | |
| Goss-Grubbs, David | Deep Processing for a Portable Natural Language Interface to Databases | Emily Bender |
| Summer 2008 - Spring 2009 | |
| Dormer, Anya | Feature Valuation Without Deletion: Evidence from Aspect and Tense System of Russian | Karen Zagona |
| Drellishak, Scott | Widespread but Not Universal: Improving the Typological Coverage of the Grammar Matrix | Emily Bender |
| Li, Kening | The Information Structure of Mandarin Chinese: Syntax and Prosody | Ellen Kaisse |
| Kilanski, Kelley J | The Effects of Token Frequency and Phonological Neighborhood Density on Speech Production for Native and Non-Native Speakers of English | Richard Wright |
| Summer 2007 - Spring 2008 | |
| Da Conceicao, Manuel | Pronominal Affixation and Cliticization in Romance and Bantu Languages | Hargus, Klausenburger |
| Stevenson, Jeffrey | The Sociolinguistic Variables of Chilean Voseo | Beckford Wassink |
| Summer 2006 - Spring 2007 | |
| Kato, Kumiko | Japanese Gapping in Minimalist Syntax | Zagona |
| Summer 2005 - Spring 2006 | |
| Makihara, Hideo | On the Past Tense in Japanese Relative Clauses | Zagona |
| Summer 2004 - Spring 2005 | |
| Carmichael, Lesley | Situation-Based Intonation Pattern Distribution in a Corpus of American English | Wright |
| McBurney, Susan | Referential Morphology in Signed Languages | Newmeyer |
| Shirai, Setsuko | Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction | Wright |
| Waltmunson, Jay | The relative degree of difficulty of L2 Spanish /d, t/, trill and tap by L1 English speakers: Auditory and acoustic methods of defining pronunciation accuracy | Beckford Wassink |
| Summer 2003 - Spring 2004 | |
| Andrews, Donna | The Acquisition of Spanish Gender by English-speaking Children in a Partial Immersion Setting | Herschensohn |
| Curtis, Emily | Geminate weight: case studies and formal models | Hargus |
| Levi, Susannah | The representation of underlying glides: a cross-linguistic study | Kaisse |
| Russi, Cinzia | The grammaticalization of Italian clitic pronouns | Klausenburger |
| Yaden-Luthi, Bridget | Mental Representations of Spanish Morphology: Rules or Analogy? | Herschensohn |
| Yun, Yungdo | Glides and High Vowels in Korean Syllables | Kaisse |
| Summer 2002 - Spring 2003 | |
| Huang, Chia Hui | A restructuring of case theory: Evidence from S- selected case | Zagona |
| Rozelle, Lorna | The structure of sign language lexicons: Inventory and distribution of handshape and location | Hargus |
| Sato, Hiromi | Selection for clausal complements and tense features | Zagona |
| Sekiguchi, Tomoko | The syntax and interpretation of resultative constructions | Contreras |
| Sohng, Hong Ki | Topics in the syntax of East Asian languages: Long-distance anaphora and adverbial case | Kim |
| Summer 2001 - Spring 2002 | |
| Webster, Gabriel | Toward a psychologically and computationally adequate model of speech perception | Wright |
| Summer 2000 - Spring 2001 | |
| Lona, Jennifer S. | Negation and clausal structure | Zagona |
| Maruenda, Sonia | Aspect and case | Zagona |
| Schell, Karyn Anna | Functional categories and the acquisition of aspect in L2 Spanish: A longitudinal study | Herschensohn |
| Summer 1999 - Spring 2000 | |
| Kim, Soohee | Sub-phonemic duration difference in English /s/ and few-to-many borrowing from English to Korean | Hargus and Wright |
| Lindblad, Vern Myron | Sandhi of /rs/ sequences in North Norrland Swedish | Kaisse |
| Miranda, Ines | An optimality theoretic analysis of Nicaraguan Spanish diminutivization: Results of a field survey | Hargus |
| Wulf, Douglas | The Imperfective Paradox in the English Progressive and Other Semantic Course Corrections | Ogihara |
| Suh, Younghwan | A study of the auxiliary verb construction and verb serialization in Korean | Newmeyer |
| Summer 1998 - Spring 1999 | |
| Jeong, Youngkil | Clausal casemarking in Korean | Contreras |
| Kim, Jae Yoon | Complex verbs and argument structures in Korean | Brame |
| Varden, John Kevin | On high vowel devoicing in standard modern Japanese: implications for current phological theory | Hargus |
| Taff, Alice | Phonetics and Phonology of Unangan(Eastern Aleut) Intonation | Hargus |
| Summer 1997 - Spring 1998 | |
| Denham, Kristin | A minimalist account of optiona Wh-movement | Newmeyer |
| Hwang, Kyu-Hong | Nominative and default case checking in minimalist syntax | Contreras |
Johnson, Ernest | The influence of speaking Black English on spelling in standard English | Jenkins |
| Lyle, James | Aspects of ergativity | Contreras |
| Sien, Nam Cheol | An autosegmental analysis of ideophones in Korean | Kaisse |
| Tuttle, Siri | Metrical and tonal structures in Tanana Athabaskan | Hargus |
| Summer 1996 - Spring 1997 | |
| Ackles, Nancy | Historical syntax of the English articles in relation to the con/non-count distinction | Contreras |
| Fronk, Robert W. | Direct and indirect perception in French and Spanish infinitival forms | Klausenburger & Herschensohn |
| Gamon, Michael | The derivational formation of chain-links: Minimalism and binding theory | Contreras |
| Gess, Randall Scott | Optimality theory in the historical phonology of French | Kaisse |
| Jung, Hee-Bok | Articulatory components and modifications | Kaisse |
| Kim, Tai-Soo | Functional features in Korean. A minimalist approach | Contreras |
| Olarrea, Antonio | Pre and post verbal subject in Spanish: A minimalist account | Zagona |
| Park, Young | Prosody in Sino-Korean | Kaisse |
| Salome, Margaret | On the interface between aspect and arbitrary null objects: Evidence from Spanish | Zagona |
| Summer 1995 - Spring 1996 | |
| McKinnon, Richard S. | Electrophysical investigations of morphological phenomena | Osterhout |
| Moon, Seung Chul | An optimality approach to long distance anaphors | Newmeyer |
| Summer 1994 - Spring 1995 | |
| Siddaramaiah, Chandrashekar | Syntax of nominative case in Kannada | Emonds |
| Summer 1993 - Spring 1994 | |
| Atterberry, Perry | Locality constraints in A'-chains | Contreras |
| Petronio, Karen | Clause structure in American Sign Language | Contreras |
| Summer 1992 - Spring 1993 | |
| Artiagoitia, Xabier | Verbal Projections in Basque and Minimal Structure | Emonds |
| Lee, Sookhee | The Syntax and Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions | Emonds |
| Jung, Yeun Jin | A Restrictive Theory of Functional Categories and their Parametric Variation | Contreras |
| Kang, Ongmi | Korean Prosodic Phonology | Hargus |
| Masullo, Pascual | Incorporation and Case Theory in Spanish. A Crosslinguistic Perspective | Contreras |
| Roper, Jeffrey | Clausal Negation in Tamil | Zagona |
| Wu, Horng-ming | Aspects of Chinese Binding | Newmeyer |
