Degree Recipients
| 1991 | Ahmad Atawneh | Politeness theory and the directive speech-act in Arabic-English bilinguals: An empirical study | Professor of Applied Linguistics, Hebron University Palestine |
| 1991 | Dorit Kaufman | First Language Attrition as a Creative Interplay Between Two Languages | Professor (retired), Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University |
| 1991 | Mee Hwa Lee | A Parametric Approach to Code-Mixing | |
| 1992 | Hye Bae Yoo | External evidence for representations, rules, and constraints in Korean and Japanese | Professor (retired), Dept of English Language and Literature, University of Incheon, South Korea |
| 1995 | Janie Rees-Miller | Linguistics Features of Disagreement in Face-to-Face Encounters in University Settings | Department of Modern Languages, Marietta College |
| 1996 | Su-I Chen | A Theory of Palatalization and Segment Implementation | Department of Languages, Clemson University |
| 1996 | Marcia Haag | Lexical Categories in Choctaw and Universal Grammar | Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma |
| 1996 | Eriko Sato | The Logical Interpretation of English and Japanese Sentences | Assistant Professor, Director of East Asian Languages, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University |
| 1999 | Hasan Basri | Phonological and Syntactical Reflections of the Morphological Structure of Selayarese | Tadulako University, Indonesia |
| 1999 | Duncan Hutchins | Creoles and Comprehension in the Courtroom | |
| 1999 | Bhavani Saravanan | Morphotactics: Patterns in Tamil Morphology | |
| 2000 | Christine Sungeun Cho | Three Forms of Case Agreement in Korean | Department of English Education, Yeungnam University, South Korea |
| 2000 | Barbara Citko | Parallel Merge and the Syntax of Free Relatives | Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington |
| 2000 | Martin U. Kappus | Topics in German Negation | Lecturer, Computational Linguistics; Applied Linguistics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 2003 | Yiya Chen | The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrastive Focus in Standard Chinese | Professor, LUCL (Leiden University Center of Linguistics), Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2003 | Meghan Sumner | Testing the Abstractness of Phonological Representations in Modern Hebrew Weak Verbs | Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University |
| 2005 | Margo DelliCarpini | Phonological Awareness and Adult Second Language Literacy Development | Dean, College of Education and Human Development, Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio |
| 2005 | Franc Marušič | On Non-simultaneous Phases | Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia |
| 2005 | Ruiqin Miao | Loanword Adaptation in Mandarin Chinese: Perceptual, Phonological and Sociolinguistic Factors | The School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 2005 | Masha Vassilieva | Associative and Pronominal Plurality | ESL Department, Virginia International University |
| 2005 | Hiroko Yamakido | The Nature of Adjectival Inflection in Japanese | Professor, Dept of English Language and Culture, Fuji Women's University, Japan |
| 2006 | Marianne L. Borroff | The Articulatory Phasing of Glottal Stop | Institute for English Language Programs, Harvard University |
| 2006 | Jonathan E. MacDonald | The Syntax of Inner Aspect | Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois |
| 2006 | Mark Volpe | Japanese Morphology and its theoretical consequences: Derivational morphology in Distributed Morphology | |
| 2007 | Carlos de Cuba | On (Non)Factivity, Clausal Complementation and the CP-Field | Department of Communications and Performing Arts, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY |
| 2007 | Tomoko Kawamura | Some Interactions of Focus and Focus Sensitive Elements | |
| 2007 | Zheng Xu | Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory | Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| 2009 | Yunju Suh | Phonological and Phonetic Asymmetries of Cw Combinations | Amazon, UK |
| 2009 | Julie Weisenberg | Audience Design Effects in Sign Language Interpretation | |
| 2010 | Young-ran An | Frequency, Gradience, and Variation in Consonant Insertion | Associate Professor, Department of G2 Big Data Management, Gangseo University, South Korea |
| 2010 | Roksolana Mykhaylyk | Optional Object Scrambling in Child and Adult Ukrainian | Speech Linguistic Project Manager and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Google, Inc. and Department of Psychology at CSI CUNY |
| 2011 | Jiwon Hwang | Non-native Perception and Production of Foreign Sequences | Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University |
| 2011 | Miran Kim | The phonetics of stress manifestation: Segmental variation, syllable constituency and rhythm | Assistant professor, Department of English Education, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea |
| 2011 | Chih-hsiang Shu | Sentence Adverbs in the Kingdom of Agree | Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| 2012 | Andrei Antonenko | Feature-Based Binding and Phase Theory | Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University |
| 2012 | Hijo Kang | Diachrony in Synchrony: Korean Vowel Harmony in Verbal Conjugation | Department of English Language and Literature, Chonnam National University, South Korea |
| 2012 | Hyunju Kim | The phonetics of stress manifestation: Segmental variation, syllable constituency and rhythm | Director of English Education, SUNY Korea, South Korea |
| 2012 | Yu-an Lu | The Role of Alternation in Phonological Relationships | Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| 2012 | Tanya Scott | Whoever doesn't HOP must be Superior!: The Russian left-periphery and the Emergence of Superiority | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at College of Staten Island |
| 2012 | Yukiko Asano | Thematic resultative expressions in English and Japanese: A view from the syntax of event aspect. | Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 2014 | Ivana LaTerza | The DP Category and Serbian Nominal Structure | Linguistic Engineer, Meta |
| 2014 | Katharina Schuhmann | Perceptual Learning in Second Language Learners | Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics, Penn State University |
| 2015 | Svitlana Antonyuk | Quantifier Scope and Scope Freezing in Russian | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2016 | Poppy Slocum | The Syntax of Address | Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Program, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY |
| 2017 | Ammar Alammar | Frequency, Gradience, and Variation in Consonant Insertion | Assistant Professor, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia |
| 2017 | Sophia Kao | Phonological Learning Bias in Tone Patterns | Language Engineer, Apple |
| 2017 | Ala'a Melebari | The Interaction of Animacy and Morphosyntax in Arabic | Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia |
| 2017 | Chong Zhang | Dissertation: Stacked relatives: their structure, processing, and computation | Software Engineer/Linguist, Kasisto, NY |
| 2017 | Hisako Takahashi | On the syntax of spatiotemporal PPs | Associate professor, Department of Education, Tohoku Fukushi University, Japan |
| 2018 | Paola Cépeda | Negation and Time: Against expletive negation in temporal clauses | Assistant Vice Chancellor for Postdoctoral Affairs, Washington University of St. Louis |
| 2018 | Jungyeon Kim | Production and Perception of English Word-final Stops by Korean Speakers | Assistant Professor, Kangwon National University, South Korea |
| 2018 | Robert Pasternak | The mereology of attitudes | AI Engineer, Synthflow AI |
| 2018 | Vahideh Rasekhi | Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian | Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Iranian Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, UCLA |
| 2018 | Ling Wang | A Model-based Approach: the use of entropy-based quantities to characterize phone variation | |
| 2019 | Honaidah Ahyad | Vowel Distribution in the Hijazi Arabic Root | Lecturer, Languages and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University |
| 2019 | Hongchen Wu | Quantifier Scope in Mandarin | Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2020 | Alëna Aksënova | Tool-assisted Induction of Subregular Languages and Mappings | Linguist, Google (NYC office) |
| 2020 | Hyunah Baek | Prosodic resolution of syntacticambiguity in first and second languages | Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Ajou University, South Korea |
| 2020 | Aniello De Santo | Structure and Memory: A Computational Model of Storage, Gradience, and Priming | Assistant professor, Dept. Of Linguistics, University of Utah |
| 2020 | Hossep Dolatian | Computational Locality of Cyclic Phonology in Armenian | Technical Editor, ServiceNow |
| 2020 | So Young Lee | Processing of wh-scope | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Miami University |
| 2020 | Chikako Takahashi | The interaction between L1 and L2 phonetic learning | Lecturer in Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University |
| 2020 | Russell Tanenbaum | Order and Chaos in the Cluster: A Typology of Pronominal and Nonpronominal Clitics | |
| 2021 | Sedigheh Moradi | Monotonicity in Morphosyntax | Dialogue Designer, PolyAI |
| 2021 | Jon Rawski | Structure and Learning in Natural Language | Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University |
| 2021 | Anna Melnikova | The Architecture of Russian Dative Verbless Constructions | Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University |
| 2021 | Lei Liu | Phrasal Weight Effect on Word Orders | |
| 2022 | Ji Yea Kim | Morphophonological Consonant Epenthesis in Suffix Realizations | Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Gyeongsang National University (GNU). |
| 2022 | Nazila Shafiei | Computational Locality and Domain of Syntactic Long-distance Dependencies | Language Engineer, Amazon Alexa AI |
| 2022 | Dakotah Lambert | Unifying Classification Schemes for Language and Processes With Attention to Locality and Relativizations Thereof | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Haverford College |
| 2022 | Alex Yeung | Prosodic structure and tone preferences in Hong Kong Cantonese expressive morphology | Assistant Professor, Linguistics and TESOL, SUNY Oswego |
| 2022 | Yang Liu | Addressing Outstanding Questions of the Mandarin Syllable | |
| 2023 | Veronica Miatto | Emerging structures: Generational and regional variation in Italian word-final inserted schwas | Research Analyst II, The City University of New York |
| 2023 | Khanin Chaiphet | The Structure of Discontinuous Noun Phrases in Thai: Right-Dislocation and Quantifier Float | Department of English, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2023 | Andrija Petrovic | Insights From the Interfaces: Morphological Processes as String Transductions | |
| 2023 | Amanda Mahnaz Yazdani | How Experiences in L1 and L2 Influence L1 Phonetic Change: A Case Study | |
| 2024 | Kalina Kostyszyn | Using Machine Learning Systems to Investigate Phonological Representations | |
| 2025 | Kenneth Hanson | The Subregular Complexity of Case and Agreement | Lecturer, Yale University |
| 2025 | John David Storment | Projecting (your) voice: A theory of inversion and defective circumvention | Visiting Scholar, Stony Brook University |
| 2025 | Scott Nelson | The Computational Structure of Phonological and Phonetic Knowledge | Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |