Recent Graduate Students
2009
 Robert Daland
Dissertation: Word segmentation, word recognition, and word learning: A computational model of first language acquisition.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UCLA (starting Fall, 2009).
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2008
Lewis Gebhardt
Dissertation: Numeral Classifiers and the Structure of DP.
James
Sneed German
Dissertation: Prosodic Strategies for Negotiating Reference in Discourse.
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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2007
Carolyn Gottfurcht
Dissertation: Denominal Verb Formation in English.
Current Employment: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
carolynzafra@hotmail.com
Elisa Sneed German
Dissertation: The Role of the Input in the Acquisition of Genericity.
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Université de Provence; resident at Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.
 Kristen Syrett
Dissertation: Learning about the Structure of Scales: Adverbial Modification and the Acquisition of the Semantics of Gradable Adjectives.
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), Rutgers University.
k-syrett@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Joshua Viau
 Dissertation: Possession and Spatial Motion in the Acquisition of Ditransitives.
Current Employment: Post-doctoral Researcher, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University.
viau@cogsci.jhu.edu
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2006
 Jessica Peterson Hicks
Dissertation: The Impact of Function Words on the Processing and Acquisition of Syntax.
Current Employment: Speech consultant for a Telephony Applications Service Provider, Chicago, IL.
jjpete@hotmail.com
Ann Bunger
Dissertation: How We Learn to Talk About Events: Linguistic and Conceptual Constraints on Verb Learning.
Current Employment: Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology/IRCS, University of Pennsylvania.
annbunger@gmail.com
Erin M. Leddon
Dissertation: Reconstruction Effects in Child Language.
Current Employment: Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
e-mcmahon@northwestern.edu
Yongeun Lee
Dissertation: Sub-syllabic Constituency in Korean and English.
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Chung-Ang University, Korea.
yongeun.lee@gmail.com
John Evar Strid
Dissertation: The Effect of Phonological Structure on Visual Word Access in Bilinguals and Monolinguals.
Current employment: Visiting Lecturer, Linguistics Program, Northeastern Illinois University.
jestrid@neiu.edu
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Stephen Fix
Dissertation: Agrammatic aphasia as a Late Insertion disorder.
Current Employment: Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University.
 Tessa Bent
Dissertation: Perception and production of non-native prosodic categories.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University.
tbent@indiana.edu
 Ralph Rose
Dissertation: The Relative Contribution of Syntactic and Semantic Prominence to the Salience of Discourse Entities.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
rose@waseda.jp
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 Catherine Anderson
Dissertation: The Structure and Real-Time Comprehension of Quantifier Scope Ambiguity.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Linguistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
canders@mcmaster.ca
 Julie Moore
Dissertation: Articles and Proper Names in L2 English.
Current Employment: Director, English as a Second Language Program and The International Summer Institute, Northwestern University.
jmm@northwestern.edu
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Deborah Gordon
MA Thesis: Influence of Russian L1 Palatalization Rules on Three Consonants in Azeri L2.
dgsoundings@aol.com
Jeanette Ortiz
MA Thesis: Effects of nuclear stress and clear speech on the durations of voiceless stops /k/ and /t/.
j-ortiz@northwestern.edu
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Lynn Whitcomb
Dissertation: Investigating Arabic Diglossia in Foreign Language Instructor Practice and in Native Speaker Behavior.
Current Employment: College Lecturer and Coordinator of Arabic Language Instruction, Program of African and Asian Languages, Northwestern University.
l-whitcomb@northwestern.edu
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Colleen Wapole
Dissertation: The Relationship of Phonological Awareness to Second Language Reading.
Current Employment: E.S.L. Facilitator, Elmhurst School District.
cwapole@aol.com
Saundra Wright
Dissertation: Internally Caused and Externally Caused Change of State Verbs.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of English, California State University, Chico, CA.
skwright@csuchico.edu
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 Deborah Berkley
Dissertation: Gradient OCP Effects.
Current Employment: Linguistic Test Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.
dmberk@microsoft.com
Michele Feist
Dissertation: On In and On: An Investigation into the Linguistic Encoding of Spatial Scenes.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
feist@louisiana.edu
 Jennifer Hay
Dissertation: Causes and Consequences of Word Structure.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, NZ.
jen.hay@canterbury.ac.nz
 William Stone
Dissertation: Black English: Language or Dialect?
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, Northeastern Illinois University.
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Larin Adams
Dissertation: Complex Events and the Semantics of -ing Sentential Complements.
Current Employment: ESL Instructor, BBC Experimental School, Jilin Province, China.
larin_adams@sil.org
 Linda DiDesidero
Dissertation: Psych Verbs: Acquisition, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure.
Current Employment: Chair, Department of Management and Liberal Studies, Capitol College, Laurel, MD.
desi6396@aol.com
 Karen Duchaj
Dissertation: Individual Differences in Humor Appreciation: The Role of Semantic Scripts.
Current Employment: Visiting Lecturer, Linguistics Program, Northeastern Illinois University.
⇑top1998
 Rami Nair
Dissertation: Syllables and Word-edges.
Current Employment: Lecturer, Program of African and Asian Languages, Northwestern University.
rnair@northwestern.edu
 Maria Pilar Ron
Dissertation: The Position of the Subject and Clausal Structure: Evidence from Dialectal Variation.
 Laurel Stvan
Dissertation: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Bare Singular Noun Phrases.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington.
stvan@uta.edu
⇑top1997
Zaida Cintron
Dissertation: Salsa y Control - Codeswitching in Nuyorican and Chicano Poetry: Markedness and Stylistics.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Bilingual Education Program,
Chicago State University.
zcintron@csu.edu
 Victoria Muehleisen
Dissertation: Antonymy and Semantic Range in English.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo.
vicky@waseda.jp
 Grace Song
Dissertation: Cross-linguistic Differences in the Expression of Motion Events and Their Implications for Second Language Acquisition.
Current Employment: Director of Intensive English for Internationals and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Memphis.
gsong@memphis.edu
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Barbara Brooks
Dissertation: Language as a Symbol of Identity: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Value Ascribed to Literacy in Oklahoma Cherokee.
Current Employment: Co-owner, CamBrook Services. Bridgeton, MO.
 Stefan Frisch
Dissertation: Similarity and Frequency in Phonology.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida.
frisch@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
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 Kathryn Harris
Dissertation: Perceived Stereotypes, Social Context and Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Mexican Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language in the United States.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics, Portland State University.
dbkh@odin.cc.pdx.edu
 Talke Macfarland
Dissertation: Cognate Objects and the Argument/Adjunct Distinction in English.
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University.
talke@earthlink.net
 William Snyder
Dissertation: Cognitive Strategies in Second Language Lexical Processing: Evidence from English Speakers' Spelling Errors in Spanish.
Current Employment: Associate Director of the MA TEFL Program, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
wsnyder@bilkent.edu.tr
⇑top1994
Ninah Beliavsky
Dissertation: The Evolution of Pronominal Reference in Children's Narratives: "Who Are 'They'?"
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Institute of English as a Second Language, St. John's University, Queens, NY.
beliavsn@Stjohns.edu
 Mari Broman Olsen
Dissertation: A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect. (Published by Garland, 1997.)
Current Employment: Computational Linguist/Lexicographer, Microsoft
molsen@microsoft.com
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Rosemary Buck
Dissertation: Politeness, Invitations, and Discourse Structure: A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Novels of E.M. Forster.
Current Employment: Professor, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University.
cfrab3@eiu.edu
 Shahrzad Mahootian
Dissertation: A Null Theory of Codeswitching.
Current Employment: Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Associate Chair of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Philosophy, Northeastern Illinois University.
s-mahootian@neiu.edu
⇑top1992
Sylvia Aruffo
Dissertation: An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Certain Conflicting Assumptions in Negotiations for Technology Transfer Between German and the United States.
Current Employment: President, Care Products. Inc. Northbrook, IL.
 Betty Birner
Dissertation: The Discourse Function of Inversion in English.
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
bbirner@niu.edu
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