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doctor of philosophy graduates

• Mari Fujimoto (PhD 2008)
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  Advisor: William McClure
  
  
• Tomoyuki Yabe (PhD 2007)
  The Morpho-syntax of languages in the Horn of Africa
  Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
  
  
• Tanya Viger (PhD 2007)
  Fundamental frequency in Mandarin Chinese an English: Implications for second-language speakers
  Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
  
  
• Ronald Simon (PhD 2007)
  A Platonic conception of language
  Advisor: Robert Fiengo
  
  
• Michael Horwitz (PhD 2007)
  Genetic and areal stability of phrasal word order and its potential as a typological marker
  Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
  
  
• Eulalia Canals (PhD 2007)
  The acquisition of tense and aspect by Moroccan learners of L2 Catalan and Spanish in Barcelona public schools
  Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
  
  
• Naomi Lapidus Shin (PhD 2006 | current affiliation: University of Montana)
  The development of null vs. overt subject pronoun expression in monolingual Spanish-speaking children: The influence of continuity of reference
  Advisor: Helen Smith Cairns
  
  
• Mary Sepp (PhD 2006 | current email)
  Phonological constraints and free variation in compounding: A corpus study of English and Estonian noun compounds
  Advisor: Martin Chodorow
  
  
• Alison Gabriele (PhD 2005 | current email | current affiliation: University of Kansas)
  The acquisition of aspect in a second language: A bidirectional study of learners of English and Japanese
  Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
  
  
• Peter Slomanson (PhD 2005 | current email)
  The verbal morphosyntax of non-canonical contact languages: Malay-derived constraints and the inflectional domain in Afrikaans and Sri Lankan Malay
  Advisor: Edward Bendix
  
  
• Miki Suzuki (PhD 2005 | current email | current affiliation: Microsoft)
  Clause stacking and antisymmetry in Japanese relative clauses
  Advisor: Robert Fiengo
  
  
• Gerald Dempsey (PhD 2004)
  Glottal effects in Icelandic phonology
  Advisor: Charles E Cairns
  
  
• Eiji Nishimoto (PhD 2004)
  A corpus-based delimitation of new words: Cross-segment comparison and morphological productivity
  Advisor: Dianne Bradley
  
  
• Ruth Reeves (PhD 2004 | current affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital)
  The meanings of personal pronouns: de se interpretation of long-distance anaphora in Icelandic and other languages
  Advisor: William McClure
  
  
• Maurizio Santoro (PhD 2004)
  Mastery of Italian accusative and dative clitics by English speaking college students
  Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
  
  
• Nora Ellen Aion (PhD 2003)
  Selected topics in Nootka and Tubatulabal phonology
  Advisor: Charles E Cairns
  
  
• Daniel Chapuis (PhD 2003)
  On the role of Malagasy in the creation of the vernaculars of reunion
  Advisor: Edward Bendix
  
  
• Antoino Gulli (PhD 2003)
  Reduplication in syntax
  Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
  
  
• Kathy Kessler (PhD 2003)
  ERP correlates of word order and morphosyntactic phenomena in adult native speakers and second language learners of English
  Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
  
  
• Mana Kobuchi-Philip (PhD 2003 | current email | current affiliation: University of Utrecht)
  Distributivity and the Japanese Floating Numeral Quantifier
  Advisor: Robert Fiengo
  
  
• Nenad Lovric (PhD 2003)
  Implicit prosody in silent readings: Relative clause attachment in Croatian
  Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
  
  
• Keiko Uehara (PhD 2003 | current affiliation: Gunma University)
  Center-embedding and nominative repetition in Japanese sentence processing
  Advisor: Dianne Bradley
  
  
• Maria Vicenta Blasco Aznar (PhD 2002)
  On the acquisition of object pronominal clitics in Spanish
  Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
  
  
• Nydia Flores (PhD 2002)
  Subject personal pronouns in Spanish narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York City: A variationist study
  Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
  
  
• Gail August (PhD 2001 | current e-mail | current affiliation: Hostos Community College)
  The road to second language reading: How do we get there?
  Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
  
  
• Dwijen Bhattacharjya (PhD 2001)
  The genesis and development of Nagamese: Its social history and linguistic structure
  Advisor: Edward Bendix
  
  
• Linda A. Pelc (PhD 2001 | current affiliation: LaGuardia Community College)
  L1 lexical, morphology and morphosyntactic attrition in Greek-English bilinguals
  Advisor: Gita Martohardjono
  
  
• Ivy Sichel (PhD 2001 | current affiliation: Hebrew University)
  Studies in the syntax of pronouns and features with particular reference to Hebrew
  Advisor: Marcel den Dikken
  
  
• Stephanie Smolinsky (PhD 2001)
  Brilliance, energy and size in vowels: A cross-linguistic study of phonetic symbolism
  Advisor: Edward Bendix
  
  
• Nancy Stern (PhD 2001)
  The meaning and use of English -self pronouns
  Advisor: Ricardo Otheguy
  
  
• Eva Fernandez (PhD 2000 | current email | current affiliation: Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center)
  Bilingual sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
  Advisor: Dianne Bradley
  
  
• Christina Mary de Kleine (PhD 1999)
  A morphosyntactic analysis of Surinamese Dutch as spoken by the Creole population of Paramaribo, Suriname
  Advisor: William Stewart
  
  
• Janine Graziano-King (PhD 1999 | Current affiliation: LaGuardia Community College)
  Acquisition of comparative forms in English
  Advisor: Helen S Cairns
  
  
• Yuki Hirose (PhD 1999 | current affiliation: Tokyo University)
  Resolving reanalysis ambiguity in Japanese relative clauses
  Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
  
  
• Robert Hollander (PhD 1999)
  MIGHT: Evidence and argument from negation and conjunction for an epistemic modality and its logical structure
  Advisor: Edward Bendix
  
  
• Stanley Koike (PhD 1999)
  A Monosemy approach to the Japanese particle no: Functional categories as linkers and antisymmetry in natural language
  Advisor: William McClure
  
  
• Barbara Bevington (PhD 1998)
  Indexical expressions: Syntax and context
  Advisor: Robert Fiengo
  
  
• Gerardo A Lorenzino (PhD 1998)
  The Angolar Creole Portuguese of Sao Tome: Its grammar and sociolinguistic history
  Advisor: John Holm
  
  
• Jose Antonio Mendez (PhD 1998)
  Stress and glides in Spanish syllable structure
  Advisor: William Stewart
  
  
• Albert W Romano (PhD 1998)
  Gender and language: A Goodwin look at Lakoff
  Advisor: Charles E Cairns
  
  
• Francisco Ordonez (PhD 1997 | current affiliation: SUNY Stony Brook)
  Word order and clause structure in Spanish and other Romance languages
  Advisor: Richard Kayne
  
  
• Jiaye Xie (PhD 1997)
  Processing NP-trace and reflexives in Chinese
  Advisor: Janet Dean Fodor
  
  
• Marianne Janko Washburn (PhD 1998)
  Non-primary language acquisition of word order in German
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• Eleanor Olds Batchelder (PhD 1997)
  Computational evidence for the use of frequency information in discovery of the infant's first lexicon
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• Heliana Ribeiro De Mello (PhD 1997)
  The genesis and development of Brazilian vernacular Portuguese
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• Iris Elisha (PhD 1997)
  Functional categories and null subjects in Hebrew and child Hebrew
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• Rhoda Gilbert (PhD 1997)
  Integrating the methods and strategies of conversational analysis
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• Katherine Reese Green (PhD 1997)
  Non-standard Dominican Spanish : evidence of partial restructuring
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• Ingeborg Lasser (PhD 1997)
  Finiteness in adult and child German
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• Francisco Ordonez (PhD 1997 | current affiliation: SUNY Stony Brook)
  Word order and clause structure in Spanish and other Romance languages
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• Irina A. Sekerina (PhD 1997 | current affiliation: College of Staten Island/CUNY Graduate Center)
  The syntax and processing of scrambling constructions in Russian
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• Marcia Babbitt (PhD 1996)
  Lexical acquisition in second language learning
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• Carol Montgomery (PhD 1996)
  Conversation closings : the effects of gender, ethnicity and social proximity
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• Rosalie Schwartz (PhD 1996)
  Discourse dynamics of discriminatory practices in a job training situation
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• Sheila Meltzer (PhD 1995)
  Modularity : evidence from coreference processing in Spanis
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• Sharon L Utakis (PhD 1995)
  Quantification and definiteness in child grammar
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• Nina Wacholder (PhD 1995)
  Acquiring syntactic generalizations from positive evidence : an HPSG model
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• Joyce Blanchette (PhD 1994)
  On the same floor : a sociolinguistic study of a two-way bilingual program
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• Deborah Mandelbaum (PhD 1994)
  Syntactic conditions on saturation
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• Shiwen Pan (PhD 1994)
  A sociolinguistic study of Mainland Putonghua and Taiwan Guoyu in New York City
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• Nava Ayala Shaked (PhD 1994)
  The treatment of phrasal verbs in a natural language processing system
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• Judy B Bernstein (PhD 1993 | current affiliation: William Patterson University )
  Topics in the syntax of nominal structure across romance
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• Jill Caryn Burstein (PhD 1992 | current email | current affiliation: ETS)
  The stress and syntax of compound nominals
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• Clyde Coreil (PhD 1992)
  Fusion in language : a case for supralexical unit
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• Luisa C Garro (PhD 1992)
  Lexical access in bilinguals : the case of English-based Spanish calques
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• Arhonto Terzi (PhD 1992)
  Pro in finite clauses : a study of the inflectional heads of the Balkan languages
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• M. Sorie Yillah (PhD 1992)
  Temne phonology and morphology
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• Akua Duku Anokye (PhD 1991)
  Linguistic form and social function : a discourse analysis of rhetorical and narrative structure in oral and written African American folk narrative texts
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• Kristine Cecilie Gjerlow-Johnson (PhD 1991)
  Metalinguistic abilities in literate adults
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• Tsutomu Sakamoto (PhD 1991)
  Processing empty subjects in Japanese : implications for the transparency hypothesis
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• Ken Sheppard (PhD 1991)
  At sea in SLA : evidence of UG in the acquisition of French and English verbs
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• Elaine C Klein (PhD 1990 | current affiliation: Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center)
  The null-prep phenomenon in second language acquisition
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• Claudia Leacock (PhD 1990 | current affiliation: ETS)
  Lexically based parsing with application to infinitival control constructions in English
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• David Man (PhD 1990)
  The function of perception in the acquisition of non-native inflectional morphology : the case of the past in English
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• Thomas L Maxfield (PhD 1990)
  On the learnability of a version of generalized phrase structure grammar
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• Walter Petrovitz (PhD 1990)
  Argument opacity
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• Wayne Cowart (PhD 1983)
  Reference relations and syntactic processing : evidence of a pronoun's influence on a syntactic decision that affects word naming
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• Walter T French (PhD 1983)
  Northern Naga : a Tibeto-Burman mesolanguage
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• Nina M Hyams (PhD 1983)
  The acquisition of parameterized grammars
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• Martin R Gitterman (PhD 1982)
  Grammatical complexity as a predictor of L2 performance
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• Martin S Harris (PhD 1982)
  The role of sentence context in the perception and production of internal open juncture
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• John Klosek (PhD 1982)
  Second language communication strategies and grammatical accuracy
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• Olga Romero (PhD 1982)
  Aspects of code-switching in bilingual children
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• Robert Lee Silvey (PhD 1982)
  Language, politics, and The Federalist : a linguistic approach to interpretation
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• Penny Willis (PhD 1982)
  The initial consonant mutations in the Brythonic Celtic languages
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• Evelyn P Altenberg (PhD 1981)
  Bilingual lexical retrieval
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• Edwin L Battistella (PhD 1981)
  Topics in the theory of inflection
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• W. Neil Elliott (PhD 1981)
  Grammatical number
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• Jennifer Ryan Hsu (PhD 1981)
  The development of structural principles related to complement subject interpretation
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• Carolyn Panzer Sobel (PhD 1981)
  A generative phonology of Danish
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• Elsa Lattey (PhD 1980)
  Grammatical systems across languages : a study of participation in English, German and Spanish
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• Ellen Perecman (PhD 1980)
  Language realization in phonemic jargonaphasia : a case study
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• Miriam R Eisenstein (PhD 1979 | current affiliation: New York University)
  The development of dialect discrimination and stereotyping in adult learners of English as a second language
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• Steven L Strauss (PhD 1979)
  Some principles of word structure in English and German
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• Anita Janda (PhD 1978)
  The linguistic analysis of the honey bee's dance language
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• Geoffrey Nunberg (PhD 1977)
  The pragmatics of reference
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• John S Ritter (PhD 1978)
  The status of Chomsky's theory of transformational generative grammar as a mentalist theory of language
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• Alan L Tusher (PhD 1978)
  The utilization of silent pauses in spontaneous speech by the listener
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• Mark H Feinstein (PhD 1977)
  The linguistic nature of prenasalization
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• Ricardo Otheguy (PhD 1977 | current affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center)
  The meaning of Spanish el, la and lo
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• Ruth Marion Graeme Ramsay (PhD 1977)
  Multilinguals and successful language learners : cognitive strategies and styles of approach to language learning in adults
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• Ben Schapiro (PhD 1977)
  English appositive structures and right movement
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• Rochele Berkovits (PhD 1975)
  The interaction of bias, context, and intonation in the perception of surface structure ambiguity
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• Georgette Ioup (PhD 1975)
  The treatment of quantifier scope in a transformational grammar
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• Zafrira Malisdorf (PhD 1975)
  Sentential complements in Hebrew
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• John Dore (PhD 1973)
  The development of speech acts
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• Nancy Kalish-Landon (PhD 1973)
  Professional's title as a demand characteristic : a potential methodological confound in language research
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• Martin David Pam (PhD 1973)
  Tigrinya phonology
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• Ernestine R Daniels (PhD 1972)
  The old French case system : a functional study
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master of arts graduates

• Ichiro Kishimoto (MA 2008)
• Atsuko Miyajima (MA 2008)
• Jesse Meyerson (MA 2008)
• (Kaushi) Muditha Perera (MA 2007)
• Radica Capoor (MA 2005)
• Daniel G Erker (MA 2005)
• Erika Zoe Schutzman (MA 2005)
• Charles Braver (MA 2003)
• Roberta Pikser (MA 2003)