Robert Munro November 5th, 2009

2011-12

Uriel Cohen Priva —
Assistant Professor,  Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University
Dissertation: Sign and Signal: deriving linguistic generalizations from information utility

Olga Dmitrieva —
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Dissertation:  Geminate typology and the perception of consonant duration.

Scott Grimm —
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dissertation:  Number and Individuation

Alex Jaker – ,
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dissertation: Prosodic Reversal in Dogrib (Weledeh Dialect)

Rob Munroe– ,
CEO, Idibon
Dissertation: Modeling Variation in Low Resource Languages

Melanie Owens —
temporary semantics lecturer; Oxford University
Dissertation:  Serial Verb Constructions:  Argument Structural Uniformity and Event Structural Diversity

Tyler Schnoebelen —
Dissertation:  Emotions are Relational: Positioning and the Use of Affective Linguistic Resources

Rebecca Starr —
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore                                                        Dissertation:  Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Knowledge in a Modern-English Dual-Immersion Classroom

2009-10

Inbal Arnon —
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel
Dissertation: Starting Big–The role of sequences in language learning and use

Rebecca Greene —
Research Assistant, Professor John R. Rickford and Professor Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
Dissertation: Language, Ideology and Identity in Rural Eastern Kentucky

Anubha Kothari —
Senior Product Manager – Search Science, eBay
Dissertation: Processing Constraints and Word Order Variation in Hindi Relative Clauses

Nola Stephens —
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Covenant College
Dissertation: Given-before-new: The Effects of Discourse on Argument Structure in Early Child Language

Hal Tily —
Postdoctoral research associate, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Dissertation: The role of processing complexity in word order variation and change

Yuan Zhao D’Antilio –
Senior Test Development Manager, Pearson
Dissertation: Statistical Inference in the Learning of Novel Phonetic Categories

2008-09

Doug Ball —
Temporary Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Truman State University
Dissertation: Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan

Elizabeth Coppock —
Postdoctoral Researcher in Semantics, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Dissertation: The Logical and Empirical Foundations of Baker’s Paradox

Iván García Álvarez —
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages, University of Salford, UK.
Dissertation: Generality and Exception: A Study in the Semantics of Exceptives

Lauren Hall-Lew —
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Dissertation: Ethnicity and Phonetic Variation in a San Francisco Neighborhood

Elisabeth Norcliffe —
Research Staff, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Dissertation: Head Marking in Usage and Grammar: A Study of Variation and Change in Yucatec Maya

Laura Staum Casasanto
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
Dissertation: Experimental Investigations of Sociolinguistic Knowledge

2007-08

Philip Hofmeister –
Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex
Dissertation: Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension

Dmitry Levinson
Dissertation: Licensing of Negative Polarity Particles yet, anymore, either, and neither: Combining Downward Monotonicity and Assertivity

Tatiana Nikitina —
Researcher at the CNRS in Paris in the LLACAN laboratory (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire)
Dissertation: The Mixing of Syntactic Properties and Language Change

Neal Snider —
Senior NLP Research Engineer, Nuance Communications
Dissertation: An Exemplar Model of Syntactic Priming

2006-07

Bruno Estigarribia —
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Asking questions: Language Variation and Language Acquisition

Itamar Francez —
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.
Dissertation: Existential Propositions

Andrew Koontz-Garboden —
Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Dissertation: States, Changes of State, and the Monotonicity Hypothesis

2005-06

Luc Vartan Baronian —
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Boston University
Dissertation: North of Phonology

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

Lev Blumenfeld —
Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University.
Dissertation: Constraints on Phonological Interactions

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

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

Tim Florian Jaeger —
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science, University of Rochester.
Dissertation: Redundancy and Syntactic Reduction in Spontaneous Speech

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

David Oshima —
Associate Professor, Department of International Communication, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University.
Dissertation: Perspectives in Reported Discourse

Rob Podesva —
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Dissertation: Phonetic Detail in Sociolinguistic Variation

Mary Rose —
Industry Research Analyst, SEIU, Columbus, Ohio
Dissertation: Language, Place and Identity in Later Life

Julie Sweetland —
Director of Teaching & Learning and Research, Center for Inspired Teaching, Washington, DC.
Dissertation: Teaching Writing in the African American Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Judith Tonhauser —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní

2004-05

Veronica Gerassimova
Senior Search Quality Analyst, Yahoo
Dissertation: Unbounded Dependency Constructions in Western Austronesian

Roger Levy —
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego.
Dissertation: Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity

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

Sarah J. Roberts —
Dissertation: The Emergence of Hawai’i Creole English in the Early 20th Century: The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis

Shiao-Wei Tham —
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Wellesley College.
Dissertation: Representing Possessive Predication: Semantic Dimensions and Pragmatic Bases

2003-04

Ash Asudeh —
Hugh Price Fellow in Linguistics and University Lecturer in Linguistics, Oxford University
Dissertation: Resumption as Resource Management

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

Brady Clark –
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
Dissertation: A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to Syntactic Change

Cathryn Donohue —
Visiting Research Fellow, Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
Dissertation: Morphology Matters: Case Licensing in Basque

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

Jacquelyn Rahman —
Assistant Professor and Director of Linguistics, Department of English, Miami University
Dissertation: It’s a Serious Business: The Construction of Middle-class White Characters by African American Narrative Comedians

2002-03

Devyani Sharma —
Lecturer, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London.
Dissertation: Structural and Social Constraints on Non-native Varieties of English

Andrew Wong —
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, California State University East Bay.
Dissertation: Tongzhi, Ideologies, and Semantic Change

2001-02

Martina Theresia Faller —
Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Manchester
Dissertation: Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua

John Stephen Fry —
Lecturer, Boise State University and Freelance Translator (Japanese into English)
Dissertation: Ellipsis and Wa-marking in Japanese Conversation

Stefan Heinz Kaufmann –

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
Dissertation: Aspects of the Meaning and Use of Conditionals

Michael Thomas Wescoat —
Dissertation: On Lexical Sharing

2000-01

Makin McDaid Abdulkhaliq —
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, CoStar Group.
Dissertation: English Noun Classes and Generative Lexical Mechanisms

Emily Menon Bender —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington.
Dissertation: Syntactic Variation and Linguistic Competence: The Case of AAVE Copula Absence

Hanjung Lee —
Professor, Integrated English Linguistics and Literature Specialist (IELL) Education Program, Sungkyunkwan University
Dissertation: Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A Unified Approach

David Alexander McKercher —
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Dissertation: The Polysemy of with in First Language Acquisition

Eunjin Oh —
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
Dissertation: Non-Native Coarticulation: The Case of Consonant-Vowel Syllables

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

Ida Elisabet Toivonen —
Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Carleton University.
Dissertation: The Phrase-Structure of Non-Projecting Words

Qing Zhang —
Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona.
Dissertation: Changing Economy, Changing Markets: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Yuppies

1999-2000

Yukiko Morimoto —
Dissertation: Discourse Configurationality in Bantu Morphosyntax

1998-99

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

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

1997-98

Arto Tapani Anttila —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Variation in Finnish Phonology and Morphology

Jennifer E. Arnold —
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Reference Form and Discourse Patterns

Bradley Cahn Davidson —
General Manager at Ogilvy CommonHealth Behavioral Insights                          Dissertation: Interpreting Medical Discourse: A Study of Cross-Linguistic Communication in the Hospital Clinic

Martha Swearingen Davis —
Dissertation: A Syntactic, Semantic and Diachronic Analysis of Palenquero BA

Vivienne Funn Fong —
Academic Director, Undergraduate Advising and Research, Stanford University
Dissertation: The Order of Things: What Directional Locatives Denote

Robert P. Malouf —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics & Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University.
Dissertation: Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Rachel Nordlinger —
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
Dissertation: Constructive Case: Dependent-Marking Nonconfigurationality in Australia

Scott A. Schwenter —
Associate Professor, Hispanic Linguistics, Ohio State University
Dissertation: The Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity

Chang Yong Sohn —
Seoul National University, Korea.
Dissertation: The Metrical Structure of Beowulf

1996-97

Renee Allison Blake —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University
Dissertation: All O’ We Is One? Race, Class, and Language in a Barbados Community

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

Anthony Ruiz Davis —
Dissertation: Lexical Semantics and Linking in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Yookyung Kim —
Principal Linguist, Yahoo Inc.
Dissertation: A Situation Semantic Account of Existential Sentences

Charles Chieh-li Lee —
Dissertation: The Human Sentence Processor: Memory Structure and Accessibility

Norma Mendoza-Denton —
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

Hadar Shemtov —
Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center.
Dissertation: Ambiguity Management in Natural Language Generation

1995-96

Elizabeth Owen Bratt —
Senior Research Engineer, CSLI, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Argument Composition and the Lexicon: Lexical and Periphrastic Causatives in Korean

Rudolf Pell Gaudio —
Dissertation: Men Who Talk Like Women: Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Hausa Muslim Society

Hinrich Schuetze —
Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.
Dissertation: Ambiguity in Language Learning Computional and Cognitive Models

1994-95

Lynn Cherny —
Dissertation: The Mud Register: Conversational Modes of Action in a Text-Based Virtual Reality

Jennifer Ann Cole —
Assistant (Assistant Professor), Universität Konstanz.
Dissertation: The Prosodic Domain Hierarchy in Reduplication

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

Daniel Dor —
Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University
Dissertation: An Epistemically-Based Analysis of Lexical Selection

Jong-Bok Kim —
Professor, School of English, Kyung Hee University.
Dissertation: The Grammar of Negation: A Lexicalist, Constraint-Based Perspective

Christopher D. Manning —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

Christopher Jude Piñón —
Research and teaching in linguistics, UFR Angellier (“Unité de formation et de recherche Angellier”), Université de Lille 3, Lille, France.
Dissertation: An Ontology for Event Semantics

Whitney Tabor —
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut.
Dissertation: Syntactic Innovation: A Connectionist Model

1993-94

Eunjoo Han
Seoul Women’s University, Korea.
Dissertation: Prosodic Structure in Compounds

Makoto Kanazawa —
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics
Dissertation: Learnable Classes of Categorial Grammars

Bonnie McElhinny —
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
Dissertation: We All Wear the Blue: Language, Gender and Police Work

Kurt Jonathan Queller —
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

Gillian C. Ramchand —
Professor, Institute for Linguistics, University of Tromsø.
Dissertation: Aspect and Argument Structure in Modern Scottish Gaelic

Trisha Ann Svaib —
Dissertation: “Twice Upon a Time”: A Deaf Child’s Development of Narrative Structure

Linda Uyechi —
Lecturer, Department of Music, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Geometry of Visual Phonology

1992-93

Alexandre Alsina —
Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Translation and Language Sciences
Dissertation: Predicate Composition: A Theory of Syntactic Function Alternations

Miriam Jessica Butt —
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Universität Konstanz
Dissertation: The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

Masayo Iida —
Dissertation: Context and Binding in Japanese

Tracy Holloway King —
Principal Product Manager, Query Services, eBay
Dissertation: Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian

Michael Vincent Inman —
Dissertation: Semantics and Pragmatics of Colloquial Sinhala Involitive Verbs

Smita Joshi —
Dissertation: Selection of Grammatical and Logical Functions in Marathi

Yo Matsumoto —
Dissertation: On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese

John Hamilton McWhorter, V —
Lecturer at Columbia University, Linguistics Department, American Studies
Dissertation: Toward a New Model of Genesis: Competing Processes in the Birth of Saramaccan Creole

Shuichi Yatabe —
Dissertation: Scrambling in Japanese Phrase Structure

1991-92

Lubna Alsagoff —
Dissertation: Topic in Malay: The Other Subject

Jonathan Ginzburg —
Present Professor, UFR d’Études anglophones
Université Paris–Diderot (Paris 7)
Dissertation: Questions, Queries and Facts: A Semantics and Pragmatics for Interrogatives

Aaron Halpern
Dissertation: Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics

Andras Kornai —
Dissertation: Formal Phonology

Paul R. Kroeger —
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
Dissertation: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog

John C. Paolillo —
Dissertation: Functional Articulation in Diglossia: A Case Study of Grammatical and Social Correspondences in Sinhala

Henry Edward Smith —
Dissertation: Restrictiveness in Case Theory

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

Stephen Mark Wechsler —
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin.
Dissertation: Argument Structure and Linking

1990-91

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

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

Kristin Hanson —
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: Resolution in Modern Meters

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

John Stonham —
Dissertation: Current Issues in Morphological Theory

1989-90

Christopher Douglas Culy —
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Internally Headed Relative Clauses

Mary Dalrymple —
Professor of Syntax and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University
Dissertation: Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding

Keith Denning

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

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

Catherine Truax
Dissertation: Transparency, Analogy, and Phonological Change: Vowel Quantity and Nominal Number

1988-89

Sharon Inkelas —
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation: Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon

Jonni Miikka Kanerva —
Dissertation: Focus and Phrasing in Chichewa Phonology

Marilyn Martin-Jones —
Dissertation: Models and Methods in the Study of Bilingualism among Linguistic Minorities (Vol. I, Vol. II)

Deborah Salgo —
ESL Tutoring.
Dissertation: Cohesion in Children’s Fictional Stories: Transitivity and a Goal-Directed Causal Analysis

Dovie Ruth Wylie —
Discourse analyst, owner of consulting and training firm working in SF Bay Area industries since 1979
Dissertation: The Structure of Monologue Discourse in English

1987-88

Mohamad Z. Abd-Rabbo

Professor, English Department, Bir-Zeit University.
Dissertation: Some Morphological Constraints in Classical Arabic

Michael Barlow —
Dissertation: A Situated Theory of Agreement

Daniel Paul Flickinger —
Dissertation: Lexical Rules in the Hierarchical Lexicon

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

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

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

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

Draga Zec —
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Cornell.
Dissertation: Sonority Constraints on Prosodic Structure

1986-87

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

William Albert Croft —
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico
Dissertation: Categories and Relations in Syntax: The Clause-Level Organization of Information (Vols I and II)

Judith Golden Hochberg
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Word Stress Rules in Spanish

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

Nancy Wiegand
Dissertation: Causal Connectives in the Early History of English: A Study of Diachronic Syntax

1985-86

Megumi Kameyama
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

1984-85

Catherine Houghton
Dissertation: Structure in Language and Music: A Linguistic Approach

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

Carl Jesse Pollard —
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
Dissertation: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars, Head Grammars, and Natural Language

1983-84

Paul Robert Kozelka
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

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

1982-83

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

Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno —
Dissertation: Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar

1981-82

Annette Herskovits
Annette Herskovits, PhD, became a writer and peace activist after a career as a linguist and college professor.
Dissertation: Space and the Prepositions in English: Regularities and Irregularities in a Complex Domain

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

Susan C. Shepherd —
Dissertation: Modals in Antiguan Creole, Child Language Acquisition, and History

1980-81

David Dowell Cusic
Dissertation: Verbal Plurality and Aspect

David Anderoff Evans
Dissertation: Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse

Carolyn Echols Johnson —
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia.
Dissertation: Children’s Questions and the Discovery of Interrogative Syntax

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

Randa Cecilia Mulford
Dissertation: Talking Without Seeing: Some Problems of Semantic Development in Blind Children

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

Chui Lim Tsang
Dissertation: A Semantic Study of Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Chinese

Sharon Read Veach
Technical writer, Sun Microsystems.
Dissertation: Children’s Telephone Conversations

Steven Eric Weisler
Dissertation: Relativization and Existence

1979-80

Iraset Paez-Urdaneta
Dissertation: The Use of ‘Tu’ and ‘Usted’: Patterns of Address in the Middle Class of Caracas

1978-79

Margaret Deuchar —
Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Bangor.
Dissertation: Diglossia in British Sign Language

Delia Farach Hufton
Dissertation: Parametros Del Lunfardo

1977-78

Linda Kay Brown
Dissertation: Word Formation in Pocomchi

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

Joy Louise Robinson
Dissertation: Verbal Deference in Catalan: A Sociolinguistic Inverstigation of the Pronouns of Address

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

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

1976-77

Elaine Slosberg Andersen

Professor, University of Southern California.
Dissertation: Learning to Speak with Style: A Study of the Sociolinguistic Skills of Children

Irene Barrie Vogel —
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware
Dissertation: The Syllable in Phonological Theory; With Special Reference to Italian

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

1975-76

James Joseph Duran
Dissertation: The Role of Swahili in a Multilingual Rural Community in Kenya

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

James Paul Gee —
Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Department of English, Arizona State University
Dissertation: Perception, Intentionality, and Naked Infinitives: A Study in Linguistics and Philosophy

Patricia Causey Nichols
Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San José State University
Dissertation: Linguistic Change in Gullah: Sex, Age, and Mobility

1974-75

Charles E. DeBose
Dissertation: Papiamentu: A Spanish-based creole

Linda Gail Hemphill
Dissertation: A Conceptual Approach to Automated Language Understanding and Belief Structures: With a Complete Disambiguation of the Word ‘For’

Vera Milada Henzl
Dissertation: Cultivation and Maintenance of Literary Czech by American Speakers

Ann Thayer Holmquist
Dissertation: A Semantic Approach to Narrative Fiction

Stephen Rudy Luckau
Dissertation: A Tonal Analysis of Grebo and Jabo

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

Sylvia Weber Russell
Dissertation: Computer Understanding of Conceptually Complex Phrases

1973-74

Veda R. Charrow
Dissertation: Deaf English – An Investigation of the Written English Competence of Deaf Adolescents

Teresa Ching-Sha Chen
Dissertation: A Statistical Study of Mandarin Phonology

Olga Kaunoff Garnica
Dissertation: Some Prosodic Characteristics of Speech to Young Children

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

Caroline Mary Stoel
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Liquids in Spanish

1972-73

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

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

Afia Dil
Dissertation: The Hindu and Muslim Dialects of Bengali

Lilith Margaret Haynes
Dissertation: Language in Barbados and Guyana: Attitudes, Behaviours and Comparisons

Gayle Holley Partmann
Dissertation: Le Dioula vehiculaire en Cote d’Ivoire: Etude comparative des jeunes locuteurs primaire et secondaires du dioula

Merritt Ruhlen
Independent Researcher.
Dissertation: Rumanian Phonology

Margaret Mian Yan Sung
Dissertation: A Study of Literary and Colloquial Amoy Chinese

Thelma Evans Weeks
Dissertation: The Slow Speech Development of a Bright Child

1971-72

Gretchen Brunk
Dissertation: Syntactic Glosses in Latin Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon Origin

1970-71

Rebecca Nogieru Agheyisi
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Janine Konauka Reklaitis
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1969-70

Alan Edward Bell
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Yole Correa-Zoli
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David Dixon Gardner
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David Ingram
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Olasope Oyediji Oyelaran
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1968-69

Michael Wilmont Grady
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Karen Louise Halladay Kavavik
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1967-68

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

1966-67

Edward Roy Gammon
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William Taylor Patterson
Dissertation: The Lexical Structure of Spanish, With Special Consideration for the Genealogical and Chronological Properites

Elisabeth Angela Popov
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Theodore Stephan Rodgers
Dissertation: Measuring Vocabulary Difficulty: An Analysis of Item Variables in Learning Russian-English and Japanese-English Vocabulary Pairs

Kimie Mushiaki Swindell
Dissertation: A Dictionary of Japanese Syllables

1965-66

Lars Holm Gantzel
Dissertation: The Meaning of Terminal Pitch Pattern

Hiroshi Miyaji
Dissertation: A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese Words, Volume I, Volume II

1964-65

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

Irene Wakeham
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