Current Graduate Students

Awards and Honors

Recent PhDs awarded

Master of Arts Degrees Recently Granted


Student

Thesis Title

 

Summer 2007 - Spring 2008

Gulas, Derek
Montero, David The Perception of the Acoustic Correlates of Stress: A Cross-linguistic Study on English, French, and Spanish

 

Summer 2006 - Spring 2007

Barrett, Benjamin Makah Attitudinal Study
Bertram, Albert An Application of a Connectionist Cognitive Model to Word Sense Disambiguation
Bullock, David TreeTran: A Tool for Visual Selection and Testing of Transfer Rules for Machine Translation
Clare, Jonathan The Acquisition of the French Plus-que-parfait: Do Americans Get it?
Goss-Grubbs, David An Approach to Tense and Aspect in Minimal Recursion Semantics
McNeill, William Segmentation and Feature Selection for Conversational Speech Syntactic Language Models
Poulson, Laurie Evaluating a Cross-linguistic Grammar Model: Methodology and Test-suite Resource Development
Ruopp, Achim Finding and Evaluating Structured Bilingual Corpora on the Web
Scanlon, Michael A Social Network Study of a Seattle Neighborhood
Tinnemore, Anna Challenges to Automatic Speech Recognition: An Analysis of Adolescent Collaborative Group Meetings

 

Summer 2005 - Spring 2006

Emery, Nancy Iconicity Embodied and the Scope of Language: Classifier Constructions in Signed Languages
Kahn, Jeremy Gillmor Moving Beyond the Lexical Layer in Parsing Conversational Speech
Walsh, Annemarie To raise or not to raise: Variability in the Acquisition of French Verb Movement by Intermediate, Advanced and Near-native Anglophones

 

Summer 2004 - Spring 2005

Darnell, David Towards a Probabilistic Account of the Future Implicature of Yet
Drellishak, Scott A Survey of Coordination Strategies in the World's Languages
Galvin, Lisa Dubliners in Seattle: A Sociophonetic analysis of Irish-English in the U.S.
Kwon, Jinyeoun Effects of oral-nasal Consonantal Contexts on perception of English Vowel Contrasts by Korean Listeners
Preston, Laurel An Exploration of Two Factors Affecting the Temporal Interpretation of Nouns
Stevens, Jeffrey P. A feature-driven account of the empty object typology
Stone-Garcia, Miriam

Hemispheric Lateralization for Linguistic Intonation: A Dichotic Listening Study

Tanner, Darren The Second Language Acquisition of German and the Verb Second Parameter:A Generative Account of the Thematic/Nonthematic Verb Distinction In Verb Raising to COMP0
Yribar, Scott The Mental Representation of High Vocoids in Spanish: An Exemplar-based Analysis

 

Summer 2003 - Spring 2004

Blanchard, Duane Toward a hierarchical and unified tagset
Cho, Haewon Intonation transfer in second language acquisition: An analysis of English intonation by Korean speakers
DiPrima, Richard A generative syntactic approach to word order variation in Russian
Dormer, Anya On prefixation and goal of motion construction in Russian
Giesler, Jessica A conflicting-cue study examining the relative strengths of consonant transition cues as affected by vowel, noise and position
Kilanski, Kelley Czech clitics: A syntactic analysis of the clitic cluster and the second position
Olson, Darik Lone nouns in Spanish / English mixed discourse: code switches or borrowings?, a variationist analysis
Ring, Jessica An historical and sociolinguistic analysis of the quotative verb be+like
Toronto, Benjamin Improvement of word-based models for text compression
Tur, Sylwia Perception of a non-native language contrast: voiced and voiceless stops as perceived by Tamil speakers

 

Summer 2002 - Spring 2003

Azara, Misty The role of the pitch accent in discourse
Heller, Aixa Minimalism and movement in French causatives
Miller, Julia An acoustic analysis of tone in Doig River and Blueberry River Beaver
Partanen, Laura Poverty of the stimulus in L2 Spanish: The Overt Pronoun Constraint
Preston, Melissa An acoustic study of Turkish vowel harmony
Parvi, Joyce Rules or no rules? An examination of the L2 acquisition of French intransitive verbs
Wen, Chih-Chi Phonological change in Atayal

 

Summer 2001 - Spring 2002

Li, Kening Pitch perturbation and its implications for the tonal development from Middle Chinese to Old Mandarin
Munson (Waltmunson), Jeremy Formal pronunciation instruction for the beginning adult learner of Spanish: Acoustic measures and criteria of accurate L2 phonology
Stevenson, Jeff Spanish dialect preferences and recognition abilities among university students

 

Summer 2000 - Spring 2001

Battle, Robert Some problems for optimality theory presented by Sudanese Colloquial Arabic
Bohnenkamp, Zachary Comparative phonologies of Spanish, Galician and Portuguese
Keck, Kathy J.  
Kurishita, Noriko The left periphery structure of obligatory focus  GA sentences in Japanese

 

Summer 1999- Spring 2000

Berger-Morales, Julia Quantifiers and Agreement in the German DP
Carmichael, Lesley Measurable degrees of foreign accent: A correlational study of perception, production, and acquisition
Curtis, Emily Closed syllable vowel-shortening and durational correlates of the mora in Korean
Levi, Susannah Glides, laterals, and Turkish Vowel Harmony
Russi, Cinzia On the allomorphy of the Italian masculine definite article

 

Summer 1998 - Spring 1999

Shirai, Setsuko Gemination in Loans from English to Japanese

 

Summer 1997 - Spring 1998

Cripe, Jewel The acquisition of the Kiswahili passive construction
Driscoll, Miriam  
Huang, Chia-Hui Across-linguistic study on quantifiers
Tums, Nora Presuppositionality and some of its syntactic effects: A reconsideration of existential there-sentences
Vanden-Bosch, Stacey  
Webster, Gabriel Efficiency in human and computer syntactic processing

 

Summer 1996 - Spring 1997

Azzam, Karla Lynne Tone association in the Tokyo and Kansai dialects of Japan.
Criqui, Katia  
Grossblatt, Benjamin Sahaptin ejection and the fortis/lentis model
Kong, Ying Yee Prosodic development in Cantonese
Menzinger, Lucia On the category P as a universal subordinator: Evidence from constructions involving Como and Segun in Spanish
Peterson, Diana Nominalization and pronominalization in written narratives by deaf high school students
Snow, Laura Ann Restrictions on extraction in full and partial WH-movement in German

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