PHD ALUMNI

Mohamad Z. Abd-Rabbo, PhD 1987-88
Professor, English Department, Bir-Zeit University.
Dissertation: Some Morphological Constraints in Classical Arabic

Makin Abdulkhaliq, PhD 2000-01 --
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, CoStar Group.
Dissertation: English Noun Classes and Generative Lexical Mechanisms

Rebecca Nogieru Agheyisi, PhD 1970-71
Dissertation: West African Pidgin English: Simplification & Simplicity

Lubna Alsagoff, PhD 1991-92 --
Director, Curriculum & Research, Educom Pte Ltd, Singapore.
Dissertation: Topic in Malay: The Other Subject

Alexandre Alsina, PhD 1992-93 --
Associate Professor (Professor titular d'universitat), Department de Traduccio i Filologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Dissertation: Predicate Composition: A Theory of Syntactic Function Alternations

Elaine Slosberg Andersen, PhD 1976-77
Professor, University of Southern California.
Dissertation: Learning to Speak with Style: A Study of the Sociolinguistic Skills of Children

Arto Tapani Anttila, PhD 1997-98 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Variation in Finnish Phonology and Morphology

Jennifer E. Arnold, PhD 1997-98 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill.
Dissertation: Reference Form and Discourse Patterns

Ash Asudeh, PhD 2003-04 --
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Dissertation: Resumption as Resource Management

Michael Barlow, PhD 1987-88 --
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Dissertation: A Situated Theory of Agreement

Naomi Susan Baron, PhD 1972-73
Professor of Linguistics, American University.
Dissertation: The Evolution of English Periphrastic Causatives: Contributions to a General Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change

Luc Vartan Baronian, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, University of Quebec, Chicoutimi.
Dissertation: North of Phonology

Abdullahi Bature, PhD 1990-91
Professor, Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero State University.
Dissertation: Thematic Arguments and Semantic Roles in Hausa

John Travis Beavers, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin.
Dissertation: Argument/Oblique Alternations and the Structure of Lexical Meaning

Alan Edward Bell, PhD 1969-70
Dissertation: A State-Process Approach to Syllabicity and Syllable Structure

Anthony Fred Beltramo, PhD 1972-73
Dissertation: Lexical and Morphological Aspects of Linguistics Acculturation by Mexican Americans in San Jose, California

Emily Menon Bender, PhD 2000-01 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington.
Dissertation: Syntactic Variation and Linguistic Competence: The Case of AAVE Copula Absence

Sarah Benor, PhD 2003-04 --
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.
Dissertation: Second Style Acquisition: The Linguistic Socialization of Newly Orthodox Jews

Renee Allison Blake, PhD 1996-97 --
Associate Professor, NYU.
Dissertation: All O' We Is One? Race, Class, and Language in a Barbados Community

Lev Blumenfeld, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, Carleton University.
Dissertation: Constraints on Phonological Interactions

Elizabeth Owen Bratt, PhD 1995-96 --
Researcher, CSLI, Stanford.
Dissertation: Argument Composition and the Lexicon: Lexical and Periphrastic Causatives in Korean

Linda Kay Brown, PhD 1977-78
Dissertation: Word Formation in Pocomchi

Gretchen Brunk, PhD 1971-72
Dissertation: Syntactic Glosses in Latin Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon Origin

Miriam Jessica Butt, PhD 1992-93 --
Professor, University of Konstanz.
Dissertation: The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Listener Perceptions of Sociolinguistic Variables: The Case of (ING)

Kathie Lou Carpenter, PhD 1986-87 --
Associate Professor, University of Oregon.
Dissertation: How Children Learn to Classify Nouns in Thai

Veda R. Charrow, PhD 1973-74
Dissertation: Deaf English - An Investigation of the Written English Competence of Deaf Adolescents

Teresa Ching-Sha Chen, PhD 1973-74
Dissertation: A Statistical Study of Mandarin Phonology

Lynn Cherny, PhD 1994-95 --
Software Interaction Designer, Ghostweather.
Dissertation: The Mud Register: Conversational Modes of Action in a Text-Based Virtual Reality

Young-Mee Yu Cho, PhD 1990-91 --
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University.
Dissertation: Parameters of Consonantal Assimilation

Hye-Won Choi, PhD 1996-97 --
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
Dissertation: Optimizing Structure in Context: Scrambling and Information Structure

Brady Clark, PhD 2003-04 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern.
Dissertation: A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to Syntactic Change

Jennifer Ann Cole, PhD 1994-95 --
Assistant (Assistant Professor), Universität Konstanz.
Dissertation: The Prosodic Domain Hierarchy in Reduplication

Yole Correa-Zoli, PhD 1969-70
Dissertation: Lexical and Morphological Aspects of American Italian in San Francisco

William Albert Croft, PhD 1986-87 --
Professor, University of Manchester.
Dissertation: Categories and Relations in Syntax: The Clause-Level Organization of Information (Vols I and II)

Christopher Douglas Culy, PhD 1989-90 --
Senior Research Scientist, FXPAL.
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Internally Headed Relative Clauses

David Dowell Cusic, PhD 1980-81
Dissertation: Verbal Plurality and Aspect

Mary Dalrymple, PhD 1989-90 --
University Lecturer in General Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College, Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Department, Oxford University.
Dissertation: Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding

Richard Byrd Dasher, PhD 1994-95 --
Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems and Director, US-Japan Management Program, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Grammaticalization in the System of Japanese Predicate Honorifics

Bradley Cahn Davidson, PhD 1997-98 --
Vice President, Client Services, Adelphi Inc.
Dissertation: Interpreting Medical Discourse: A Study of Cross-Linguistic Communication in the Hospital Clinic

Anthony Ruiz Davis, PhD 1996-97 --
Senior Linguist, StreamSage Inc. in Washington, DC.
Dissertation: Lexical Semantics and Linking in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Martha Swearingen Davis, PhD 1997-98
Associate Professor, English Dept., University of the District of Columbia.
Dissertation: A Syntactic, Semantic and Diachronic Analysis of Palenquero BA

Charles E. DeBose, PhD 1974-75
Dissertation: Papiamentu: A Spanish-based creole

Ashwini Deo, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Yale University.
Dissertation: Tense and Aspect in Indo-Aryan: Variation and Diachrony

Keith Denning, PhD 1989-90
Keith died on November 16, 1998. He was Associate Professor in the Department of English Language/Literature at East Michigan University. There is a Memorial Page for him at the EMU Linguistics Program web site.
Dissertation: The Diachronic Development of Phonological Voice Quality, With Special Reference to Dinka and Other Nilotic languages

Margaret Deuchar, PhD 1978-79 --
Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Bangor.
Dissertation: Diglossia in British Sign Language

Afia Dil, PhD 1972-73
Dissertation: The Hindu and Muslim Dialects of Bengali

Cathryn Donohue, PhD 2003-04 --
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno.
Dissertation: Morphology Matters: Case Licensing in Basque

Daniel Dor, PhD 1994-95
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University.
Dissertation: An Epistemically-Based Analysis of Lexical Selection

James Joseph Duran, PhD 1975-76
Dissertation: The Role of Swahili in a Multilingual Rural Community in Kenya

Mary Louise Edwards, PhD 1977-78 --
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse University.
Dissertation: Patterns and Processes in Fricative Acquisition: Longutidinal Evidence from Six English-Learning Children

Bruno Estigarribia, PhD 2006-07 --
Post Doctoral Fellow, FPG Child Development Institute/Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dissertation: Asking questions: Language Variation and Language Acquisition

David Anderoff Evans, PhD 1980-81
President, CEO and Chief Scientist, CLARITECH Corporation.
Dissertation: Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse

Martina Theresia Faller, PhD 2001-02 --
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester.
Dissertation: Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua

Lily Wong Fillmore, PhD 1975-76
Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation: The Second Time Around: Cognitive and Social Strategies in Second Language Acquisition

Daniel Paul Flickinger, PhD 1987-88 --
Project Manager: LINGO Project, CSLI, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Lexical Rules in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Vivienne Funn Fong, PhD 1997-98 --
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Order of Things: What Directional Locatives Denote

Itamar Francez, PhD 2006-07, --
Lecturer, Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics, Yale University.
Dissertation: Existential Propositions

John Stephen Fry, PhD 2001-02 --
Lecturer, Linguistics Department, San Jose State University.
Dissertation: Ellipsis and Wa-marking in Japanese Conversation

Edward Roy Gammon, PhD 1966-67
Dissertation: The Statistical Determination of Linguistic Units

Lars Holm Gantzel, PhD 1965-66
Dissertation: The Meaning of Terminal Pitch Pattern

David Dixon Gardner, PhD 1969-70
Dissertation: A Frequency Dictionary of Classical Latin Words, Volumes I, II

Olga Kaunoff Garnica, PhD 1973-74
Dissertation: Some Prosodic Characteristics of Speech to Young Children

Rudolf Pell Gaudio, PhD 1995-96 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Purchase.
Dissertation: Men Who Talk Like Women: Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Hausa Muslim Society

James Paul Gee, PhD 1975-76
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dissertation: Perception, Intentionality, and Naked Infinitives: A Study in Linguistics and Philosophy

Veronica Gerassimova, PhD 2004-05 --
Dissertation: Unbounded Dependency Constructions in Western Austronesian

Jonathan Ginzburg, PhD 1991-92 --
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, King's College, London.
Dissertation: Questions, Queries and Facts: A Semantics and Pragmatics for Interrogatives

Michael Wilmont Grady, PhD 1968-69
Dissertation: Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase

Aaron Halpern, PhD 1991-92
Research Scientist, Celera.
Dissertation: Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics

Eunjoo Han, PhD 1993-94
Seoul Women's University, Korea.
Dissertation: Prosodic Structure in Compounds

Kristin Hanson, PhD 1990-91 --
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation: Resolution in Modern Meters

Lilith Margaret Haynes, PhD 1972-73
Dissertation: Language in Barbados and Guyana: Attitudes, Behaviours and Comparisons

Barbara Frant Hecht, PhD 1982-83 --
John Tracy Clinic, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Dissertation: Situations and Language: Children's Use of Plural Allomorphs in Familiar and Unfamiliar Settings

Linda Gail Hemphill, PhD 1974-75
Dissertation: A Conceptual Approach to Automated Language Understanding and Belief Structures: With a Complete Disambiguation of the Word 'For'

Vera Milada Henzl, PhD 1974-75
Dissertation: Cultivation and Maintenance of Literary Czech by American Speakers

Annette Herskovits, PhD 1981-82
Dissertation: Space and the Prepositions in English: Regularities and Irregularities in a Complex Domain

Judith Golden Hochberg, PhD 1986-87
IBM Research.
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Word Stress Rules in Spanish

Ann Thayer Holmquist, PhD 1974-75
Dissertation: A Semantic Approach to Narrative Fiction

Ki-Sun Hong, PhD 1990-91
Associate Professor, Department of English, Seoul National University, Korea.
Dissertation: Argument Selection and Case Marking in Korean

Catherine Houghton, PhD 1984-85
Dissertation: Structure in Language and Music: A Linguistic Approach

Delia Farach Hufton, PhD 1978-79
Dissertation: Parametros Del Lunfardo

Masayo Iida, PhD 1992-93 --
Senior Researcher, Yahoo, Inc.
Dissertation: Context and Binding in Japanese

David Ingram, PhD 1969-70
Dissertation: the Role of Person Deixis in Underlying Semantics

Sharon Inkelas, PhD 1988-89 --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley.
Dissertation: Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon

Michael Vincent Inman, PhD 1992-93 --
Senior Linguist, Sehda, Inc., Menlo Park, California.
Dissertation: Semantics and Pragmatics of Colloquial Sinhala Involitive Verbs

Tim Florian Jaeger, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Science Department, University of Rochester.
Dissertation: Redundancy and Syntactic Reduction in Spontaneous Speech

Akira Ishikawa, PhD 1984-85
Professor, Sophia University, Japan.
Dissertation: Complex Predicates and Lexical Operations in Japanese

Mark Edward Johnson, PhD 1987-88 --
Professor, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Science, Brown University.
Dissertation: Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar

Carolyn Echols Johnson, PhD 1980-81 --
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia.
Dissertation: Children's Questions and the Discovery of Interrogative Syntax

Smita Joshi, PhD 1992-93 --
Senior Technical Writer, Infospace.
Dissertation: Selection of Grammatical and Logical Functions in Marathi

Megumi Kameyama, PhD 1985-86
Megumi died on January 23, 1999. She was Senior Research Scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. There is a Memorial Page for her hosted by the Stanford Linguistics Department.
Dissertation: Zero Anaphora: The Case of Japanese

Makoto Kanazawa, PhD 1993-94 --
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics.
Dissertation: Learnable Classes of Categorial Grammars

Jonni Miikka Kanerva, PhD 1988-89 --
Research Scientist, InXight, Palo Alto.
Dissertation: Focus and Phrasing in Chichewa Phonology

Stefan Heinz Kaufmann, PhD 2001-02 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
Dissertation: Aspects of the Meaning and Use of Conditionals

Karen Louise Halladay Kavavik, PhD 1968-69
Dissertation: Noun Suffixes in Modern Spanish: A Synchronic Study of Formal and Statistical Properties

Suzanne E. Kemmer, PhD 1987-88 --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rice University.
Dissertation: The Middle Voice: A Typological and Diachronic Study

Brett L. Kessler, PhD 1998-99 --
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Washington University in St. Louis.
Dissertation: Estimating the Probability of Historical Connections Between Languages

Jong-Bok Kim, PhD 1994-95 --
Associate Professor, Kyung-Hee University.
Dissertation: The Grammar of Negation: A Lexicalist, Constraint-Based Perspective

Yookyung Kim, PhD 1996-97 --
Principal Research Scientist, Fluential Inc. Sunnyvale, CA.
Dissertation: A Situation Semantic Account of Existential Sentences

Hee-Sun Kim, PhD 2003-04 --
Coordinator and Lecturer, Korean Language Program, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Use of Multiple Sources of Information in Korean Sentence Processing

Tracy Holloway King, PhD 1992-93 --
Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center.
Dissertation: Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian

Andrew Koontz-Garboden, PhD 2006-07 --
Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester.
Dissertation: States, Changes of State, and the Monotonicity Hypothesis

Andras Kornai, PhD 1991-92 --
Chief Scientist, Metacarta.
Dissertation: Formal Phonology

Paul Robert Kozelka, PhD 1983-84
Foreign Service Officer, US Information Service at the American Embassy in Paris.
Dissertation: The Development of National Languages: A Case Study of Language Planning in Togo

Elizabeth Anne Krainer, PhD 1987-88
Self-employed Therapist.
Dissertation: Challenges in a Psychotherapy Group: Reflections of Direct and Indirect Discourse Strategies

Paul R. Kroeger, PhD 1991-92 --
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington.
Dissertation: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog

Rebecca W. Labrum, PhD 1981-82
Dissertation: Conditions of Double Negation in the History of English With Comparison to Similar Developments in German

Charles Chieh-li Lee, PhD 1996-97 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Dissertation: The Human Sentence Processor: Memory Structure and Accessibility

Hanjung Lee, PhD 2000-01 --
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University.
Dissertation: Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A Unified Approach

Roger Levy, PhD 2004-05 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UCSD.
Dissertation: Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity

Stephen Rudy Luckau, PhD 1974-75
Dissertation: A Tonal Analysis of Grebo and Jabo

Marlys Arlene Macken, PhD 1983-84 --
Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dissertation: Phonological Universals and Variation: On Pattern and Diversity in Acquisition

Arman Maghbouleh, PhD 2005-06
President, Cariden Technologies, Inc.
Dissertation: Intonation Recognition Models Based on Convex Optimizations

Robert P. Malouf, PhD 1997-98 --
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University.
Dissertation: Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Christopher D. Manning, PhD 1994-95 --
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

Jean-Philippe Marcotte, PhD 2004-05 --
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Program, University of Minnesota.
Dissertation: Causative Alternation Errors in Child Language Acquisition

Marilyn Martin-Jones, PhD 1988-89 --
Professor, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Dissertation: Models and Methods in the Study of Bilingualism among Linguistic Minorities (Vol. I, Vol. II)

Yo Matsumoto, PhD 1992-93 --
Professor, Dept of Linguistics, Kobe University, Japan.
Dissertation: On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese

Al-Amin M. Mazrui, PhD 1980-81 --
Professor, Department of Black Studies, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Acceptability in a Planned Standard: The Case of Swahili in Kenya

Bonnie McElhinny, PhD 1993-94 --
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.
Dissertation: We All Wear the Blue: Language, Gender and Police Work

David Alexander McKercher, PhD 2000-01 --
Continuing Sessional Instructor, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Dissertation: The Polysemy of with in First Language Acquisition

John Hamilton V McWhorter, PhD 1992-93 --
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
Dissertation: Toward a New Model of Genesis: Competing Processes in the Birth of Saramaccan Creole

Norma Mendoza-Denton, PhD 1996-97 --
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
Dissertation: Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistics Study of Gang Affiliation in an Urban High School

Hiroshi Miyaji, PhD 1965-66
Dissertation: A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese Words, Volume I, Volume II

Tara Warrier Mohanan, PhD 1989-90 --
Associate Professor, Department of English Languages/Literature, National University of Singapore.
Dissertation: Arguments in Hindi

Melissa Monroe, PhD 1987-88
Writer, TESOL, composition consultant in Berlin.
Dissertation: The Expressive Function of Nominal Structure in Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens

Yukiko Morimoto, PhD 1999-2000 --
Researcher, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) & Humboldt University, Berlin.
Dissertation: Discourse Configurationality in Bantu Morphosyntax

Randa Cecilia Mulford, PhD 1980-81
Dissertation: Talking Without Seeing: Some Problems of Semantic Development in Blind Children

Patricia Causey Nichols, PhD 1975-76
Professor, San Jose State University.
Dissertation: Linguistic Change in Gullah: Sex, Age, and Mobility

Rachel Nordlinger, PhD 1997-98 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
Dissertation: Constructive Case: Dependent-Marking Nonconfigurationality in Australia

Eunjin Oh, PhD 2000-01 --
Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
Dissertation: Non-Native Coarticulation: The Case of Consonant-Vowel Syllables

David Oshima, PhD 2005-06 --
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kobe University.
Dissertation: Perspectives in Reported Discourse

Olasope Oyediji Oyelaran, PhD 1969-70
Dissertation: Yoruba Phonology

Iraset Paez-Urdaneta, PhD 1979-80
Dissertation: The Use of 'Tu' and 'Usted': Patterns of Address in the Middle Class of Caracas

John C. Paolillo, PhD 1991-92 --
Associate Professor, SLIS and Informatics, Indiana University.
Dissertation: Functional Articulation in Diglossia: A Case Study of Grammatical and Social Correspondences in Sinhala

Gayle Holley Partmann, PhD 1972-73
Dissertation: Le Dioula vehiculaire en Cote d'Ivoire: Etude comparative des jeunes locuteurs primaire et secondaires du dioula

William Taylor Patterson, PhD 1966-67
Dissertation: The Lexical Structure of Spanish, With Special Consideration for the Genealogical and Chronological Properites

Christopher Jude Piñón, PhD 1994-95 --
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
Dissertation: An Ontology for Event Semantics

Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno, PhD 1982-83 --
Law School, Rio de Janeiro.
Dissertation: Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar

Rob Podesva, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Dissertation: Phonetic Detail in Sociolinguistic Variation

Carl Jesse Pollard, PhD 1984-85 --
Professor, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars, Head Grammars, and Natural Language

Elisabeth Angela Popov, PhD 1966-67
Dissertation: The Semantic Structure of the Russian Diminutives

Mary Louise Pratt, PhD 1974-75
Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, NYU.
Dissertation: Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

Kurt Jonathan Queller, PhD 1993-94
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Idaho.
Dissertation: Scheming and Manipulating: How Phonological Structure Emerges Out of the Child's Manipulation of Output Lexical Form

Jacquelyn Rahman, PhD 2003-04 --
Assistant Professor, Interim Director of Linguistics Program, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio.
Dissertation: It's a Serious Business: The Construction of Middle-class White Characters by African American Narrative Comedians

Gillian C. Ramchand, PhD 1993-94 --
Associate Professor, Institute for Linguistics, University of Tromsoe, Norway.
Dissertation: Aspect and Argument Structure in Modern Scottish Gaelic

Claude Manley Reichard, PhD 1980-81 --
Senior Lecturer, Writing & Critical Thinking, Department of English, Stanford University
Dissertation: Meter and Rhythm in English Verse: Towards a Musical Synthesis

Janine Konauka Reklaitis, PhD 1970-71
Dissertation: Theory of Analogical Change: Application to Lithuanian

Susanne Zalta Riehemann, PhD 2000-01 --
Research Linguist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International.
Dissertation: A Constructional Approach to Idioms and Word Formation

Sarah J. Roberts, PhD 2004-05 --
Lecturer, Stanford University, Autumn/Winter Quarters 2005-06.
Dissertation: The Emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the Early 20th Century: The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis

Joy Louise Robinson, PhD 1977-78
Dissertation: Verbal Deference in Catalan: A Sociolinguistic Inverstigation of the Pronouns of Address

Theodore Stephan Rodgers, PhD 1966-67
Dissertation: Measuring Vocabulary Difficulty: An Analysis of Item Variables in Learning Russian-English and Japanese-English Vocabulary Pairs

Mary Rose, PhD 2005-06 --
Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics Department, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Language, Place and Identity in Later Life

Merritt Ruhlen, PhD 1972-73
Independent Researcher.
Dissertation: Rumanian Phonology

Sylvia Weber Russell, PhD 1974-75
Dissertation: Computer Understanding of Conceptually Complex Phrases

Mariko Saiki, PhD 1986-87
Associate Professor, Kanazawa University.
Dissertation: Grammatical Functions in the Syntax of Japanese Nominals

Deborah Salgo, PhD 1988-89 --
ESL Tutoring.
Dissertation: Cohesion in Children's Fictional Stories: Transitivity and a Goal-Directed Causal Analysis

Hinrich Schuetze, PhD 1995-96 --
Professor of Theoretical Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.
Dissertation: Ambiguity in Language Learning Computional and Cognitive Models

Scott A. Schwenter, PhD 1997-98 --
Associate Professor, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: The Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity

Philip Alan Stephen Sedlak, PhD 1973-74
Dissertation: Sociocultural Determinants of Lanuage Maintenance and Language Shift in a Rural Coastal Kenyan Community

Devyani Sharma, PhD 2002-03 --
Lecturer, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London.
Dissertation: Structural and Social Constraints on Non-native Varieties of English

Hadar Shemtov, PhD 1996-97 --
Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center.
Dissertation: Ambiguity Management in Natural Language Generation

Susan C. Shepherd, PhD 1981-82 --
Associate Professor, Department of English, Indiana University/Purdue University.
Dissertation: Modals in Antiguan Creole, Child Language Acquisition, and History

Henry Edward Smith, PhD 1991-92 --
Professor, Yale Law School.
Dissertation: Restrictiveness in Case Theory

Chang Yong Sohn, PhD 1997-98 --
Seoul National University, Korea.
Dissertation: The Metrical Structure of Beowulf

Julie Solomon, PhD 1998-99 --
Senior Research Associate and Director of Training Support, Sociometrics Corporation.
Dissertation: Phonological and Syntactic Variation in the Spanish of Valladolid, Yucatan

Kenneth Lyell Stallcup, PhD 1977-78
Dissertation: A Comparative Perspective on the Phonology and Noun Classification of Three Cameroon Grassfields Bantu Languages: Moghamo, Ngie, and Oshie

Caroline Mary Stoel, PhD 1973-74
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Liquids in Spanish

John Stonham, PhD 1990-91 --
Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Dissertation: Current Issues in Morphological Theory

Margaret Mian Yan Sung, PhD 1972-73
Dissertation: A Study of Literary and Colloquial Amoy Chinese

Trisha Ann Svaib, PhD 1993-94 --
Group Product Marketing Manager for the School Division of The Learning Company.
Dissertation: "Twice Upon a Time": A Deaf Child's Development of Narrative Structure

Julie Sweetland, PhD 2005-06 --
Research Specialist, Center for Inspired Teaching, Washington, DC.
Dissertation: Teaching Writing in the African American Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Kimie Mushiaki Swindell, PhD 1966-67
Dissertation: A Dictionary of Japanese Syllables

Whitney Tabor, PhD 1994-95 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut.
Dissertation: Syntactic Innovation: A Connectionist Model

Fu Tan, PhD 1991-92 --
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages. San Jose State University.
Dissertation: Notion of Subject in Chinese

Shiao-Wei Tham, PhD 2004-05 --
Assistant Professor, Defense Language Institute, Monterey.
Dissertation: Representing Possessive Predication: Semantic Dimensions and Pragmatic Bases

Ida Elisabet Toivonen, PhD 2000-01 --
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Dissertation: The Phrase-Structure of Non-Projecting Words

James William Tollefson, PhD 1977-78
Professor of English, University of Washington
Dissertation: Diglossia and Language Policy, with Special Reference to Slovenia

Judith Tonhauser, PhD 2005-06 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní

Catherine Truax, PhD 1989-90
Dissertation: Transparency, Analogy, and Phonological Change: Vowel Quantity and Nominal Number

Chui Lim Tsang, PhD 1980-81
Dissertation: A Semantic Study of Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Chinese

Hector Norberto Urrutibeheity, PhD 1967-68
Dissertation: The Lexical Structure of Spanish, with Special Consideration for the Functional, Physical and Statistical Properties

Linda Ann N. Uyechi, PhD 1993-94
Lecturer, Department of Music, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Geometry of Visual Phonology

Sharon Read Veach, PhD 1980-81
Technical writer, Sun Microsystems.
Dissertation: Children's Telephone Conversations

Richard Lawrence Venezky, PhD 1964-65
Dissertation: A Study of English Spelling-to-Sound Correspondences on Historical Principles

Irene Barrie Vogel, PhD 1976-77
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Delaware.
Dissertation: The Syllable in Phonological Theory; With Special Reference to Italian

Irene Wakeham, PhD 1964-65
Dissertation: Deviations from Standard English in the Writing of Filipino College Freshmen

Stephen Mark Wechsler, PhD 1991-92 --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin.
Dissertation: Argument Structure and Linking

Thelma Evans Weeks, PhD 1972-73
Dissertation: The Slow Speech Development of a Bright Child

Steven Eric Weisler, PhD 1980-81
Professor of Linguistics and Director of the School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College.
Dissertation: Relativization and Existence

Michael Thomas Wescoat, PhD 2001-02 --
Lecturer, Linguistics Department, UC Davis.
Dissertation: On Lexical Sharing

Nancy Wiegand, PhD 1986-87
Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Dissertation: Causal Connectives in the Early History of English: A Study of Diachronic Syntax

Andrew Wong, PhD 2002-03 --
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Dissertation: Tongzhi, Ideologies, and Semantic Change

Ann Charlotte Woodard, PhD 1976-77
Dissertation: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Relationship of Language Dominance, Lexical Meaning and Grammatical Structure in the Reading and Aural Comprehension of Bidialectals

Dovie Ruth Wylie, PhD 1988-89 --
TESOL, writing, and speaking consultant. Since 1992, Director, On-Site English.
Dissertation: The Structure of Monologue Discourse in English

Shuichi Yatabe, PhD 1992-93 --
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo.
Dissertation: Scrambling in Japanese Phrase Structure

Draga Zec, PhD 1987-88 --
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Cornell.
Dissertation: Sonority Constraints on Prosodic Structure

Qing Zhang, PhD 2000-01 --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin.
Dissertation: Changing Economy, Changing Markets: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Yuppies