Former Lab Members

Jamie Andrus

MA year: 2009

Thesis: A sociophonetic investigation of creaky voice in Pacific Northwest English

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Misha Burgess

PhD year: 2015

Dissertation: Faculty attitudes towards heritage laguage and heritage language teaching policy in Washington State community college Spanish departments

Advisor: Betsy Evans

PhD year: 2019

Dissertation: When change comes from within: The origin and diachronic development of 'positive' anymore from pre-Modern Scots to Modern North American English

Advisors: Alicia Beckford Wassink & Edith Aldridge

PhD Year: 2020

Dissertation: Old Stereotypes “Live Free or Die”: Addressing the Evaluation Problem of non-rhoticity in southeastern New Hampshire

Advisors: Betsy Evans & Alicia Beckford Wassink

PhD Year: 2019

Dissertation: Pronouns Raising and Emerging

Advisors: Barbara Citko & Alicia Beckford Wassink

BA Year: 2021

Honors Thesis:

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Department of Linguistics

Applied linguistics, bilingualism, phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, Spanish.

Advisor: Richard Wright

PhD year: 2019

Dissertation: Productivity, influence, and evolution: The complex language shift of Modern Ladino

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Valerie Freeman

PhD year: 2015

Dissertation: The phonetics of stance-taking

Advisor: Richard Wright

Lisa Galvin

MA year: 2005

Thesis: Dubliners in Seattle: A sociophonetic analysis of Irish-English in the U.S.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Russell Hugo

PhD year: 2016

Dissertation: Endangered languages, technology and learning: A Yakama/Yakima Sahaptin case study

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

Wendy C. Kempsell Jacinto

PhD year: 2016

Dissertation: Language attitudes and bilingualism in Turkish-German popular film

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Monica Jensen

Department of Linguistics

Sociolinguistics, Syntax.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

PhD year: 2020

Dissertation: The Spatiality of Perceptual Dialectology

Advisor: Betsy Evans

Lotus Jo-Fu Lin

ILABS Postdoctoral Fellow

Advisor: Patricia Kuhl

Julia Colleen Miller

PhD year: 2013

Dissertation: The Phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan)

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

PhD year: 2021

Dissertation: Exploring Applications of Rootedness in Sociolinguistic Research in Southern Oregon

Advisor: Betsy Evans

Meghan Oxley

PhD year: 2015

Dissertation: Southern, Texan, or Both?: Southernness and Identity in Deer Park, Texas

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Laura Panfili

PhD year: 2018

Dissertation: Cross-Linguistic Acoustic Characteristics of Phonation: A Machine Learning Approach

Advisor: Richard Wright

Sarala Puthuval

PhD year: 2017

Dissertation: Language maintenance and shift across generations in Inner Mongolia, China

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

John M. Riebold

PhD year: 2015

Dissertation: The Social Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/ in Washington State

Advisors: Alicia Beckford Wassink & Richard Wright

Michael Scanlon

PhD year: 2020

Dissertation: Stylistic variation in African American Language: examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

PhD year: 2022

Dissertation: Sociolinguistic and Phonetic Perception of Second Language Mandarin Chinese

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Rachael Tatman

PhD year: 2017

Dissertation: Modeling the Perceptual Learning of Novel Dialect Features

Jay Waltmunson

PhD year: 2005

Dissertation: 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

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Chih-Chi Wen

MA year: 2003

Thesis: Phonological change in Atayal

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink