- Bilingualism/Second Language Acquisition
- Language Documentation
- Phonetics/Phonology
- Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis
- Psycho/Neurolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax/Semantics/Morphology
- Non-Thesis
Bilingualism/Second Language Acquisition
- Matthews, Marc (2014)
The use of first- and second-language fillers by second-language Japanese speakers
Chair: Wayland - Im, Hee Sung (2010)
Interlanguage use of English articles: A case study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean second language speakers of English
Chair: Locastro - Kirby, Emily (2008)
Cooperative Learning and Learner Perceptions of Language Acquisition in College-Level ESL Classrooms
Chair: LoCastro - Litzenberg, Jason (2003)
Yes/No-Question intonation of native speakers and international teaching assistants in academic discourse
Chair: Boxer - Shinge, Manjula (2001)
Interlocutor Familiarity in NNS-NNS Interaction
Chair: Boxer - Kwon, Sun-Jin (2000)
Paying and Responding to Compliments: A look at Korean ESL Learners
Chair: Thompson - Hashimoto, Tomomi (1999)
Processing of Japanese Sentences with Relative Constructions by Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language
Chair: Wehmeyer - Krassilova, Katherine (1996)
Intolerance of Ambiguity as a Sex Related Variable in Second Language Acquisition
Chair: Boxer - Castillo DeMelendez, Maria (1993)
Spanish Influence in the English Used in Venezuela
Chair: Thompson - Chu, Yuchi (1992)
The Effects of the Small-Group Cooperative Learning Technique on the Attitude and Oral Performance of Chinese Children Learning English as a Foreign Language in Taiwan
Chair: Thompson
Language Documentation
Phonetics/Phonology
- MacKenzie, Jordan (2016)
Fahali Hana Fahari: A Phonemic and Phonetic Analysis of Liquids /l/and /r/ in Swahili
Chair: McLaughlin - McCollum, Adam (2015)
Labial Harmony in Kazakh: Descriptive and Theoretical Issues
Chair: Wiltshire
Co-Chair: Henderson - Ballard, Lee (2010)
Akan vowel harmony in Optimality Theory
Chair: Wiltshire - Chen, Si (2010)
New typology of Japanese compound accents and an analysis in Optimality Theory
Chair: Wiltshire - Rowlings, Bethany (2010)
Acoustic properties of the Japanese tap by non-native as compared to native speakers of Japanese
Chair: Wayland - Chappell, Milla (2008)
The role of first-language transfer and universal markedness in second-language production and perception of word-final obstruents and obstruent clusters
Chair: Wiltshire - Welch, William (2006)
Aspects of Zarma (Songhay) tonology
Chair: Wiltshire - Moon, Russell (2002)
A comparison of the acoustic correlates of focus in Indian English and American English
Chair: Wiltshire - Hufnagle, Daniel (2002)
The Role of L1 phonology in L2 reading: The Verification Hypothesis and Korean learners of English
Chair: Antes - Hill, Rebecca (2001)
Production and perception of authentic and feigned Spanish accent
Chair: Wayland - Broce, Marlene (2000)
A sociolinguistics study of final liquids in a Rural Panamanian Dialect
Chair: Torres-Cacoullos - Hansen, Kathryn (1998)
Is there a basis for stree-times rhythm? Eight languages compared
Chair: Thompson - Hendricks, Rodger (1997)
Connectionist modeling of tone spread in Mende
Chair: Wiltshire - Anuszewski, Patricia (1997)
Regarding the representation and organization of the nodes, larynx and tongue root in a three-dimensional manner
Chair: Wiltshire - Jernigan, Justin (1997)
Tonal phonology of Vietnamese across dialects
Chair: Sullivan - Brinson, Georgia A. (1995)
Welsh initial mutations in Distributed Morphology
Chair: Miller - Galloway, Guice (1993)
Rhythmic isomorphisms in speech and melody
Chair: Hollien
Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis
- Radice, Joseph (2018)
Narrating Racialization and Negotiating Caribbean Identity: A Critical Analysis of Racializing Discourse in Miami, Florida
Chair: Boxer - Braun, Naomi (2016)
Girl Gamer and the Power of Persona: The Experience of Video Game Livestreamers
Chair: Boxer - Howard, Sarah (2014)
Silence in police interviews: An analysis of structure and power
Chair: Boxer - Breland, Luke (2012)
Contextualization cues and teamwork in online video game gameplay discourse
Chair: Boxer - Goode, Heather (2011)
Contextual variables in tattoo parlor discourse
Chair: Boxer - Ambu-Saidi, Suaad (2010)
A gender and language analysis of Omani proverbs
Chair: Boxer - Tyson, Melissa (2009)
Don’t leave them behind: ELLs in the wake of NCLB
Chair: Boxer - Organes, Rachel (2009)
“If you do that again, I’m gonna be heartbroken”: The Language of Jewish American guilting
Chair: Boxer - Freeman, Kyle (2009)
Obama’s vision for education: Using critical discourse analysis to understand the ideology behind the non-ideology
Chair: Golombek - Ukanhova, Margarita (2007)
Reading between the lines: Analysis of frames in a text and its translation
Chair: LoCastro - Jimenez, Melina (2007)
“There’s just kind of, sort of a symmetry to it”: “sort of” and “kind of” as used in The Lord of the Rings movie appendices
Chair: Hardman - Buehring, Audrey (2006)
Framing in political discourse: Responding to politicians as parents
Chair: LoCastro - Mouat, Alex (2004)
Pragmatic knowledge and subjective evaluation in the acquisition of English taboo language
Chair: Boxer - Wears, Sarah (2004)
“Nonstandard orthographic representation: direct quotation in the news”
Chair: Wehmeyer - Regn, Karen (2004)
“You just can try”: The use of directives by international teaching assistants in a college chemistry laboratory
Chair: Boxer - Garcia, Sarah (2004)
Nonstandard orthographic representation: Direct quotation in the news
Chair: Wehmeyer - Prieto, Victor (2001)
The language of prayer as a speech event in Spanish speaking communities
Chair: Boxer - Fischer-Dorantes, Erica (2001)
Language and gender in Mexican free textbooks for the fifth grade of elementary school
Chair: Hardman
- Sniad, Tamara (1998)
Games with face: A Sociolinguistic analysis of cosmetic sales
Chair: Boxer - Bouani, Annice (1995)
The impact of temporal perceptions on cross-cultural communication in Moroccan-American marriages
Chair: Hardman - Chitauro, Moreblessing (1995)
Role and status of the Shona woman as portrayed in the language of a Shona cultural event
Chair: Hardman - Norris, Susanne (1994)
A Discourse-linking model of the Malay classifier
Chair: Thompson - Zan, Qifeng (1994)
Nushu–A women’s writing system
Chair: Hardman - Stringer, Jeffrey (1993)
Gender narratives of advanced ESL students: A methodology for identifying gendercentric discourse
Chair: Markel - Bro, John (1991)
Cues and miscues: Comprehending non-native discourse
Chair: Tyler - Bogdan, David (1984)
The Verb systems of Russian and English in the context of a tripartite narrative structure
Chair: Sullivan
Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
- Barrow, Julia
Syntactic Priming in Foreign Accented Speech
Chair: Kaan - Xu, Jingchen (2015)
Processing of Scope Ambiguity by Chinese L2 Learners of English
Chair: Kaan - Lee, Aleuna (2014)
Effects of syllable-length on short-term memory of number sequences: A cross-linguistic study of Korean and Japanese bilinguals
Chair: Cowles - Perdomo, Michelle (2014)
Effects of two training programs on the perception and production of Mandarin speech
Chair: Cowles - Kirkham, Joseph (2013)
Syntactic prediction as evidenced by elided structures and word-category violations
Chair: Kaan - Overfelt, Carlie (2012)
Sentence processing in Spanish bilinguals: Exploring adjectival interpretations
Chair: Kaan - Chevalier, Nicole (2008)
When things do (not) refer: An fMRI study on anaphora in discourse
Chair: Kaan - Barkley, Christopher M. (2007)
Effects of semantic associateion on the resolution of coordination ambiguities
Chair: Kaan - Dallas, Andrea C. (2004)
The Role of Working Memory, Concurrent Load, and Syntactic Complexity in L2 Sentence Processing
Chair: Wayland
Sociolinguistics
- Maine, Kristin (2019) Stance Adverbial Use in the United States Senate Chair: Boxer
- Harter, Claire (2015)
“Loo Fey?”: A Linguistic Ethnography of Bargaining in the Dakar Marketplace
Chair: McLaughlin - Bao, Yanmin (2011)
Codeswitching in Beginning Chinese Class: an Exploratory Investigation of Teachers’ Bilingual Practices in an American University Setting
Chair: Blondeau - Bittson, Genevieve (2007)
Gender, Sex and the Sociolinguistic Variable
Chair: Blondeau - Ford, Megan (2007)
Teaching Strategies and Standardized Tests: The Effects on Educational Experiences of African American Vernacular English Speaking Students
Chair: LoCastro - Habib, Rania (2005)
The role of social factors, lexical borrowing and speech accomodation in the variation of [q] and [?] in the colloquial arabic of rural imgrant families in Hims, Syria
Chair: Andrew Lynch - Mero, Samantha (2003)
Language Usage in Guinea West Africa
Chair: Hardman - Sayers, Addie (2002)
Language and the Manipulation of Teen Women’s Identity: Creating Deficiency, Subverting Agency and Devaluing Teen Women’s Personhood on the Multiple Levels of Discourse in Teen Women’s Magazines
Chair: Hardman - Chavez-Cappellini, Yolanda (2002)
A linguistic analysis of the toponyms of the Tambo Valley and surrounds in Moquegua
Chair: Hardman - Broce, Marlene (2000)
A Sociolinguistics Study of Final Liquids in a Rural Panamanian Dialect
Chair: Torres-Cacoullos - Sniad, Tamara (1998)
Games with Face: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Cosmetic Sales
Chair: Boxer
Syntax/Semantics/Morphology
- Nakai, Jun (2015)
A Movement Approach to Japanese Relative Clauses
Chair: Potsdam - Deacon, Robert (2011)
P-Forms in Distributed Morphology: Accounting for a type of semilexical form
Chair: Henderson - Prince, Rose (2011)
Russian and Polish verbal morphology: Comparative feature encoding
Chair: Henderson - Hughes, Todd (2011)
Wakhi agreement clitics
Chair: Henderson - Hettick, Christian (2009)
Improving the automatic diacritization of Arabic using a web-based bootstrapping algorithm
Chair: Filip - Bragdon, Janice (2006)
Verb-particle nominals in English
Chair: Miller - Resnick, Jodi (2003)
Negative inversion in Modern Hebrew
Chair: Hatav - Monahan, Philip (2003)
Backward object control in Korean
Chair: Potsdam - Chavez-Cappellini, Yolanda (2002)
A linguistic analysis of the toponyms of the Tambo Valley and surrounds in Moquegua
Chair: Hardman - Mashuta, Aquilina (1997)
The linguistic structure of slang in Shona discourses
Chair: Hardman - Moyna, Maria (1996)
The evolution of verbal voseo in Rio de la Plata Spanish: Evidence from plays and popular songs Between 1880 and 1930
Chair: Miller - Moroni, Beatriz (1994)
From idiomaticity to cognition: A journey into the synergy of meanings
Chair: Casagrande - King, Wayne (1994)
Cognitive analysis of Russian aspect
Chair: Achard - Lee, Hyeran (1992)
Local binding nature of Korean reflexives
Chair: Miller - McGhee, Gwena (1992)
Lexical parametrization in Japanese and English
Chair: Miller - Uptagraft, Betty (1992)
Some Problematic aspects of subject/verb agreement in English
Chair: Thompson
Other
- Bontrager, Gregory (2015)
Concepts and issues in orthographic design
Chair: McLaughlin
Non-Thesis
- Mitchell, Noah (2019) Chair: Golombek
- Liu, Lu (2018)
Chair: Wulff - Muntzner, Christopher (2018)
Chair: Henderson - Sickerman, Joseph (2018)
Chair: Wulff - Chen, Yi-An Jason (2017)
Chair: McLaughlin - Billig, David (2017)
- Dimanche, JD (2017)
Chair: Potsdam - Lu, Zhongyuan (2017)
Chair: Potsdam - Ojeda, Adriana (2017)
Chair: Wayland - Bossley, Elizabeth (2015)
Chair: Golombek - Al Mufarreh, Raniah (2014)
Chair: Wulff - Alhaider, Siham (2014)
Chair: Lord-Ward - Harder, Mary (2014)
Chair: Wayland - Alanazi, Mohammed (2013)
Chair: Potsdam - Albaty, Yasser (2013)
Chair: Potsdam - Matwick, Kelsi (2013)
Chair: Wehmeyer - Matwick, Keri (2013)
Chair: Lord - Alqahtany, Ashwag (2013)
Chair: Boxer - Alruayni, Dawhah (2013)
Chair: Henderson - Klager, Patrick (2013)
Chair: Golombek - Dolce, Thomas (2012)
Chair: Golombek - Bloemke, Nathaniel (2011)
Chair: Golombek - Nekorchuk, Russell (2011)
Chair: Miller - Shelly, Victoria (2011)
- Troyo, Talia (2011)
- Zhong, Jingya (2010)
- McPeek, Tyler (2010)
- Rangel, Bobbie (2010)
- Tanaka, Mami (2010)
Chair: Locastro - McNamara, Julianne (2010)
Chair: Boxer - Shear, Susan (2009)
Chair: Kaan - Dawidziuk, Laura (2009)
Chair: Cowles - Mantooth, Ashlee (2008)
Chair: LoCastro - Witty, Sean (2008)
Chair: McLaughlin - Michel, Daniel (2007)
Chair: Potsdam - Ziliak, Zoe (2007)
Chair: Antes - Hodge, Hilary (2006)
Chair: LoCastro - Kesselman, Rachel (2006)
Chair: Wayland - Larsen, James (2006)
Chair: Miller - Ebbeler, Sheldon (2006)
Chair: Potsdam - Bergerson, Sara (2006)
Chair: LoCastro - Dilascio, Kristie (2006)
Chair: Wayland - Bocock, Traci (2005)
Chair: Wehmeyer - Csonka, LaTasha (2005)
Chair: Wayland - Bassi, Clementine (2005)
Chair: Miller - Terranova, Elizabeth (2005)
Chair: Boxer - Shapiro, Leah (2005)
Chair: Boxer - Stephen, Meridith (2004)
Chair: Boxer - Mullins, Melanie (2004)
Chair: Hardman - Frank, Jonathan (2004)
Chair: Boxer - Nakamura, Masayo (2004)
Chair: Boxer - Smouse, Rose Manto (2004)
Chair: Der-Houssikian - Al-Balushi, Rashid Ali (2003)
Chair: Halmari - Harllee, Amanda (2003)
Chair: Miller - Lopez-Merino, Luli (2003)
Chair: Lynch - Paik, Kyong-OK (2003)
Chair: Antes - Blue, Robert (2003)
Chair: Wayland - Dow, Kathleen (2002)
Chair: Halmari - Kline, James (2002)
Chair: Wayland - Scott, Jeremy (2002)
Chair: Boxer - Swait, Carolyn (2002)
Chair: Antes - Lochwyn, Ted (2000)
Chair: Wyatt-Brown - Schall, Tracy (2000)
Chair: Thompson - Al-Khairy, Mohamed (2000)
Chair: Der-Houssikian - Earp, Barbara (1999)
Chair: Thompson - Hess, Barbara (1999)
Chair: Thompson - Principe, Natercia (1999)
Chair: Sullivan - Wilson, Debbie (1999)
Chair: Sullivan - Garrison, James (1999)
Chair: Boxer - Gavrin, Jeong-a (1999)
Chair: Wiltshire - Kim-Park, Pu-Nahm (1999)
Chair: Sullivan - Stack, Allison (1999)
Chair: Thompson - Blakemore, Heather (1998)
Chair: Wehmeyer - Bray, Jodi (1998)
Chair: Wiltshire - Bartels, Michelle (1998)
Chair: Boxer - Griggs, Amelia (1998)
Chair: Wyatt-Brown - Walker, Charles (1998)
Chair: Wyatt-Brown - Nidever, Eileen (1997)
Chair: Casagrande - Trickel, Kent (1997)
Chair: Thompson - Bajouda, Waleed (1996)
Chair: Der-Houssikian - Evans, Vyvyan (1996)
Chair: Sullivan - Mast, Brian (1996)
Chair: Boxer - Feigenbaum, Kim (1996)
Chair: Miller - Foresman, Kennedy (1996)
Chair: Sullivan - Hankins, David (1996)
Chair: Wyatt-Brown - Pierce, Valerie (1996)
Chair: Casagrande