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

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