Graduation Year: 2015
Engineeer, Argo
Dissertation Title: On adjectival comparatives
Postdoctoral Scholar, Laboratoire Parole de Langage, CNRS/Université Aix-Marseille
Dissertation Title: Speech, variation, and meaning: The effects of emotional prosody on word recognition
Google Research
Dissertation Title: Patterns and symmetries for discourse particles
Graduation Year: 2014
Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Dissertation Title: Pragmatics and the social meaning of determiners
Dissertation Title: The comparative grammaticality of the English comparative
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Tel Aviv
Dissertation Title: “The most beautiful and correct Hebrew”: Authenticity, ethinic identity and linguistic variation in the greater Tel Aviv area
Katherine Geenberg
Localization Manager, Shmoop University, Inc.
Dissertation Title: The other California: Marginalization and Variation in Trinity County
Assistant Professor, Cognitive & Information Sciences, University of California, Merced
Dissertation Title: Towards optimal rhythm
Jessica Spencer
Consultant, Gap International
Dissertation Title: Stochastic effects in the grammar: Toward a usage-based model of copula contraction
Graduation Year: 2013
Postdoctoral Researcher, Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Dissertation Title: Learning to take turns on time: Perception and production processes involved in keeping inter-speaker gaps short
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Dissertation Title: What’s that supposed to mean? Modeling the pragmatic meaning of utterances
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Dissertation Title: The semantics of syntactic choice: An analysis of English emotion verbs
Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Dissertation Title: Navigating variability in the linguistic signal: Learning to interpret contrastive prosody
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dissertation Title: Towards a dynamic pragmatics
Graduation Year: 2012
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University
Dissertation Title: Sign and signal: Deriving linguistic generalizations from information utility
Assistant Professor, School of Languages and Cultures and Linguistics Program, Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Geminate typology and the perception of consonant duration.
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
Dissertation Title: Number and individuation
Postdoctoral Researcher, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dissertation Title: Prosodic reversal in Dogrib (Weledeh dialect)
CEO, Idibon
Dissertation Title: Modeling variation in low resource languages
Melanie Owens
Dissertation Title: Serial verb constructions: Argument structural uniformity and event structural diversity
Tyler Schnoebelen
Chief Analyst, Idibon
Dissertation Title: Emotions are relational: Positioning and the use of affective linguistic resources
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Dissertation Title: Acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in a modern-English dual-immersion classroom
Graduation Year: 2010
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dissertation Title: Starting big–The role of sequences in language learning and use
Rebecca Greene
Language Consultant, Understanding Language, Stanford University
Dissertation Title: Language, ideology and identity in rural Eastern Kentucky
Anubha Kothari
Senior Product Manager, Yahoo
Dissertation Title: Processing constraints and word order variation in Hindi relative clauses
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Covenant College
Dissertation Title: Given-before-new: The effects of discourse on argument structure in early child language
Hal Tily
Senior Data Scientist, Nuance Communications
Dissertation Title: The role of processing complexity in word order variation and change
Senior Product/Test Development Manager, Pearson Knowledge Technologies
Dissertation Title: Statistical inference in the learning of novel phonetic categories
Graduation Year: 2009
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, English & Linguistics Department, Truman State University
Dissertation Title: Clause structure and argument realization in Tongan
Senior Researcher in Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg
Dissertation Title: The logical and empirical foundations of Baker’s Paradox
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages, University of Salford, UK.
Dissertation Title: Generality and exception: A study in the semantics of exceptives
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Dissertation Title: Ethnicity and phonetic variation in a San Francisco neighborhood
Research Staff, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Dissertation Title: Head marking in usage and grammar: A study of variation and change in Yucatec Maya
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Experimental investigations of sociolinguistic knowledge
Graduation Year: 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University
Dissertation Title: Representational complexity and memory retrieval in language comprehension
Dmitry Levinson
Dissertation Title: Licensing of negative polarity particles yet, anymore, either, and neither: Combining downward monotonicity and assertivity
Researcher Officer First Class, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), in the LLACAN laboratory (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire), Paris
Dissertation Title: The mixing of syntactic properties and language change
Research Manager, Natural Language Understanding, Nuance Communications
Dissertation Title: An exemplar model of syntactic priming
Graduation Year: 2007
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Asking questions: Language variation and language acquisition
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Existential propositions
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Dissertation Title: States, changes of state, and the monotonicity hypothesis
Graduation Year: 2006
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Département des arts et lettres, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Dissertation Title: North of phonology
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin.
Dissertation Title: Argument/oblique alternations and the structure of lexical meaning
Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University.
Dissertation Title: Constraints on phonological interactions
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
Dissertation Title: Listener perceptions of sociolinguistic variables: The case of (ING)
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Yale University.
Dissertation Title: Tense and aspect in Indo-Aryan: Variation and diachrony
Associate Professor of Brain & Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.
Dissertation Title: Redundancy and syntactic reduction in spontaneous speech
Arman Maghbouleh
Director, SP Software and Applications Group, Cisco Systems
Dissertation Title: Intonation recognition models based on convex optimizations
Associate Professor, Department of International Communication, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University.
Dissertation Title: Perspectives in reported discourse
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Dissertation Title: Phonetic detail in sociolinguistic variation
Mary Rose
Data Manager, Ohio Department of Education
Dissertation Title: Language, place and identity in later life
Julie Sweetland
Director of Learning, FrameWorks Institute
Dissertation Title: Teaching writing in the African American classroom: A sociolinguistic approach
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
Dissertation Title: The temporal semantics of noun phrases: Evidence from Guaraní
Graduation Year: 2005
Veronica Gerassimova
Senior Search Quality Analyst, Yahoo!
Dissertation Title: Unbounded dependency constructions in Western Austronesian
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego.
Dissertation Title: Probabilistic models of word order and syntactic discontinuity
Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute of Linguistics, University of Minnesota.
Dissertation Title: Causative alternation errors in child language acquisition
Sarah J. Roberts
Dissertation Title: The emergence of Hawai’i Creole English in the early 20th century: The sociohistorical context of creole genesis
Associate Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Wellesley College.
Dissertation Title: Representing possessive predication: Semantic dimensions and pragmatic bases
Graduation Year: 2004
University Lecturer in Linguistics, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Oxford University
Dissertation Title: Resumption as resource management
Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College-JIR in Los Angeles.
Dissertation Title: Second style acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews
Brady Clark
Senior Lecturer and Weinberg College Adviser, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
Dissertation Title: A stochastic optimality theory approach to syntactic change
Visiting Research Fellow, Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
Dissertation Title: Morphology matters: Case licensing in Basque
Coordinator and Lecturer, Korean Language Program, Stanford University.
Dissertation Title: The use of multiple sources of information in Korean sentence processing
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Miami University
Dissertation Title: It’s a serious business: The construction of middle-class white characters by African American narrative comedians
Graduation Year: 2003
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London.
Dissertation Title: Structural and social constraints on non-native varieties of English
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University East Bay.
Dissertation Title: Tongzhi, ideologies, and semantic change
Graduation Year: 2002
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, School or Arts, Language and Cultures, University of Manchester
Dissertation Title: Semantics and pragmatics of evidentials in Cuzco Quechua
Japanese-English Translator, Fry Translation, and Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English
Dissertation Title: Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese conversation
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut.
Dissertation Title: Aspects of the meaning and use of conditionals
Michael Thomas Wescoat
Dissertation Title: On lexical sharing
Graduation Year: 2001
Makin McDaid Abdulkhaliq
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, CoStar Group.
Dissertation Title: English noun classes and generative lexical mechanisms
Associate Professor and Director of MS in Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington.
Dissertation Title: 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 Title: Optimization in argument expression and interpretation: A unified approach
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Dissertation Title: 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 Title: Non-native coarticulation: The case of consonant-vowel syllables
Machine intelligence group- google
Dissertation Title: A constructional approach to idioms and word formation
Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Carleton University.
Dissertation Title: The phrase-structure of non-projecting words
Associate Professor, School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona.
Dissertation Title: Changing economy, changing markets: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese yuppies
Graduation Year: 2000
Dissertation Title: Discourse configurationality in Bantu morphosyntax
Graduation Year: 1999
Research Scientist, Psychology Department, Washington University in St. Louis.
Dissertation Title: Estimating the probability of historical connections between languages
Julie Solomon
Principal and Member, J. Solomon Consulting, LLC, Mountain View, CA
Dissertation Title: Phonological and syntactic variation in the Spanish of Valladolid, Yucatan
Graduation Year: 1998
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation Title: Variation in Finnish phonology and morphology
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Reference form and discourse patterns
Bradley Cahn Davidson
General Manager, Ogilvy CommonHealth Behavioral Insights
Dissertation Title: Interpreting medical discourse: A study of cross-linguistic communication in the hospital clinic
Martha Swearingen Davis
Dissertation Title: A syntactic, semantic and diachronic analysis of Palenquero BA
Vivienne Funn Fong
Academic Director, Undergraduate Advising and Research, Stanford University
Dissertation Title: The order of things: What directional locatives denote
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics & Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University.
Dissertation Title: Mixed categories in the hierarchical lexicon
Associate Professor and Reader, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Dissertation Title: Constructive case: Dependent-marking nonconfigurationality in Australia
Associate Professor, Hispanic Linguistics, Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: The pragmatics of conditional marking: Implicature, scalarity, and exclusivity
Chang Yong Sohn
Seoul National University, Korea
Dissertation Title: The metrical structure of Beowulf
Graduation Year: 1997
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University
Dissertation Title: 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 Title: Optimizing structure in context: Scrambling and information structure
Anthony Ruiz Davis
Dissertation Title: Lexical semantics and linking in the hierarchical lexicon
Principal Linguist, Yahoo Inc.
Dissertation Title: A situation semantic account of existential sentences
Charles Chieh-li Lee
Dissertation Title: The human sentence processor: Memory structure and accessibility
Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Dissertation Title: 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 Title: Ambiguity management in natural language generation
Graduation Year: 1996
Senior Research Engineer, CSLI, Stanford University.
Dissertation Title: Argument composition and the lexicon: Lexical and periphrastic causatives in Korean
Rudolf Pell Gaudio
Associate Professor of Anthropology, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College, SUNY
Dissertation Title: Men who talk like women: Language, gender, and sexuality in Hausa Muslim society
Hinrich Schuetze
Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.
Dissertation Title: Ambiguity in language learning: Computional and cognitive models
Graduation Year: 1995
Data analysis consultant- Ghostweather
Dissertation Title: The mud register: Conversational modes of action in a text-based virtual reality
Jennifer Ann Cole
Assistant (Assistant Professor), Universität Konstanz.
Dissertation Title: The prosodic domain hierarchy in reduplication
Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems and Director, US-Japan Management Program, Stanford University.
Dissertation Title: Grammaticalization in the system of Japanese predicate honorifics
Daniel Dor
Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University
Dissertation Title: An epistemically-based analysis of lexical selection
Professor, School of English, Kyung Hee University.
Dissertation Title: The grammar of negation: A lexicalist, constraint-based perspective
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.
Dissertation Title: Ergativity: Argument structure and grammatical relations
Research and teaching in linguistics, UFR Angellier (“Unité de formation et de recherche Angellier”), Université de Lille 3, Lille, France.
Dissertation Title: An ontology for event semantics
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut.
Dissertation Title: Syntactic innovation: A connectionist model
Graduation Year: 1994
Eunjoo Han
Seoul Women’s University, Korea.
Dissertation Title: Prosodic structure in compounds
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics
Dissertation Title: Learnable classes of categorial grammars
Bonnie McElhinny
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Dissertation Title: We all wear the blue: Language, gender and police work
Instructor, Departments of English and of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Idaho
Dissertation Title: Scheming and manipulating: How phonological structure emerges out of the child’s manipulation of output lexical form
Professor, Institute for Linguistics, University of Tromsø
Dissertation Title: Aspect and argument structure in modern Scottish Gaelic
Trisha Ann Svaib
Dissertation Title: “Twice upon a time”: A deaf child’s development of narrative structure
Lecturer, Department of Music, Stanford University
Dissertation Title: The geometry of visual phonology
Graduation Year: 1993
Alexandre Alsina
Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Translation and Language Sciences
Dissertation Title: Predicate composition: A theory of syntactic function alternations
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Universität Konstanz
Dissertation Title: The structure of complex predicates in Urdu
Masayo Iida
Dissertation Title: Context and binding in Japanese
Director and U.S. Development Partner, Pollimath.com
Dissertation Title: Semantics and pragmatics of colloquial Sinhala involitive verbs
Smita Joshi
Dissertation Title: Selection of grammatical and logical functions in Marathi
Director of Engineering, Refinements and Universal Search, Search Science, eBay
Dissertation Title: Configuring topic and focus in Russian
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Kobe University
Dissertation Title: On the wordhood of complex predicates in Japanese
Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Toward a new model of genesis: Competing processes in the birth of Saramaccan Creole
Professor, Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo
Dissertation Title: Scrambling in Japanese phrase structure
Graduation Year: 1992
Lubna Alsagoff
Associate dean special projects NFE SIngapore
Dissertation Title: Topic in Malay: The other subject
Professor, UFR d’Études anglophones Université Paris–Diderot (Paris 7)
Dissertation Title: Questions, queries and facts: A semantics and pragmatics for interrogatives
Aaron Halpern
Dissertation Title: Topics in the placement and morphology of clitics
Professor, Budapest Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Formal phonology
Paul R. Kroeger
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
Dissertation Title: Phrase structure and grammatical relations in Tagalog
Dissertation Title: Functional articulation in diglossia: A case study of grammatical and social correspondences in Sinhala
Dissertation Title: Restrictiveness in case theory
Fu Tan
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages. San Jose State University
Dissertation Title: Notion of subject in Chinese
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin
Dissertation Title: Argument structure and linking
Graduation Year: 1991
Abdullahi Bature
Professor, Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero State University
Dissertation Title: Thematic arguments and semantic roles in Hausa
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University
Dissertation Title: Parameters of consonantal assimilation
Kristin Hanson
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Resolution in modern meters
Ki-Sun Hong
Associate Professor, Department of English, Seoul National University, Korea.
Dissertation Title: Argument selection and case marking in Korean
Professor of Linguistics, Division of English Language and Literature, Pukyong National University
Dissertation Title: Current issues in morphological theory