Students’ Advising

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Doctoral students Dissertation Chair (A advisor)

  • Ariana Bancu  (Graduated in 2019)  Dynamics of language contact and language variation: The case of Transylvanian Saxon in the homeland and the diaspora
  • Rawan Bonais  (co-advisor with Acrisio Pires)
  • Danielle Burgess
  • Tridha Chatterjee  (co-advisor with Acrisio Pires) (Graduated in 2015)  Bilingualism, Language Contact and Change: The Case of Bengali and English in India
  • Sophie Eakins
  • Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales (co-advisor with Sally Thomason)
  • Joy Peltier
  • Emily Sabo (co-advisor with Jon Brennan) (impending graduation)  Social Factors in the Production, Perception and Processing of Contact Varieties: Evidence from Bilingual Corpora, Nativeness Evaluations, and Real-time Processing (EEG) of Spanish-accented English
  • Candice Scott (Graduated in 2016)  Tense & Aspect Markers in African American English
  • Yourdanis Sedarous (co-advisor with Acrisio Pires)
  • Alicia Stevers (co-advisor with Ezra Keshet) (Graduated in 2020) The Said Construction: Usage, Change, and Social Meaning in English and Spanish

B Advisor

  • Erica Beck
  • Marjorie Herbert
  • Jae-Young Shim
  • Theodore Stern

Committee member

  • Marcus Berger
  • Will Nediger
  • Moira Saltzman

Cognate committee member

  • Danielle Labotka (cognate member in Psychology)
  • Anne-Coleman Webre (cognate member in School of Education)
  • Saeed Al Alaslaa (cognate member in Near Eastern Studies)
  • Abdulaziz Alqasem (cognate member in Near Eastern Studies)
  • Mohammed Alshehri (cognate member in Near Eastern Studies)
  • Douglas Brunton (cognate member in Communication Studies)
  • Andrew Walker (cognate member in History)
  • Sandhya Narayanan (cognate member in Anthropology)
  • Choksi, Nisshant (cognate member in Anthropology)
  • Sarah Hillewaert (cognate member in Anthropology)
  • Graham Nessler (cognate member in History)
  • Sarah McDermott (cognate member in History)

Honors thesis director

  • Joseph Lesada (2017) “Taglish in Metro Manila: An analysis of Tagalog-English code-swiching” (recipient of the Matt Alexander Award for outstanding Honors thesis in Linguistics)
  • Amelia Flynn (2015) “A diachronic study of Haitian Creole”
  • Rachel Bayer (2013) “Null Subjects in Creole Languages” (recipient of the Matt Alexander Award for outstanding Honors thesis in Linguistics)
  • Justin Wedes (2008) “Bare necessities: A quantitative study of bare nouns frequency in Cape Verdean Creole”

Honors thesis reader

  • Brianna Wells (2019) “Perspectives on code-switching in bilingual classrooms in the United States.”
  • Gabrielle Valentic (2015) “The Influences of Dual-Immersion Teacher Interactional Styles on Spanish-English Bilingual Student Linguistic Output.”
  • Lauren Friedman (2008) “The loss of Old English null expletive ‘it’”

ADVISING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Doctoral students Dissertation Chair

  • Alberto Centeno Pulido (2010) “Reconciling generativist and functionalist approaches on adjectival position in Spanish”
  • Soo Jung Chang (2009) “Nominal structure and interpretation: On the syntax of the Korean Determiner Phrase”
  • Jiyoung Daniel (2009) “Netlingo in Korean and English”
  • Sasha Johnson (2008) “Acknowledging the voice of families: Metadiscourse and linguistic identity of African-American speakers of AAE”
  • Huimin Ji (2007) “On the syntax of Chinese nominals”

Master’s students Master’s thesis main supervisor

  • Amy Hernandez (2004) “Spanglish: A study of the features of bilingual speakers in Georgia”
  • Shih-Ju Young (2007) “Contact-induced changes from English (L2) to Mandarin Chinese (L1)”

Honors students Honors’ thesis main supervisor

  • Rachel Lunney (2007) “To have and to haf: The development of a new verb”

Doctoral students Committee member

  • Lisa Cohen Minnick (2002) “Dialect and dichotomy: A computational and critical approach to analyzing literary representation of African American speech”
  • Frederick James Pagniello III (2002) “The homeric augment: A deictic particle”
  • Susan Tamasi (2003) “Cognitive patterns of linguistic perception”
  • Tze Hui Lau (2004) “Topic chains as form and function: A ‘kitchen pidgin’ case study”
  • Alla Petrova Zareva (2004) “A model of lexical knowledge assessment of adult native and non-native speakers of English”
  • Othman Almeniei (2005) “What counts as language learning: Analysis of teacher-learner interactions in an English as a foreign classroom in Saudi Arabia”
  • Michele Hubbard Terray (2005) “Ethnocentrism and language endangerment in Uralic: The case of Ingrian-Finnish”
  • Marlene Kemp-Dynin (2005) “The ‘company’ words keep: A corpus-based analysis of collocational patterning in business terminology”
  • Sudarat Leerabhandh Hatfield (2005) “Lexical variation of Chiangmai dialect in Chiangmai province in Thailand”
  • Lamont Antieau (2006) “A distributional analysis of rural Colorado English”
  • Soyoung Kwon (2006) “Korpar: A rule-based dependency parser for Korean implemented in Prolog”
  • Iyabo Osiapem (2006) “Black English in Bermuda: Historical and current contexts”
  • Helga Wendelberger (2006) “Hide and seek: Quantitative authorship identification in language concealment”
  • Clayton Darwin (2008) “Construction and analysis of the University of Georgia tobacco documents corpus”
  • Betsy Barry (2008) “Data transformation: From theory to practice.”

Master’s students Committee member

  • Holli Renee Chapman (2001) “Building discourse relations: The use of requests in a boys’ peer group”
  • Yeon Ju Kim (2001) “Partial access to Universal Grammar: Parameter setting in second language acquisition of native and non-native speakers of Korean”
  • Robert Allen Cloutier (2002) “Diachronic negation in English: A minimalist analysis with references to other languages”
  • Congzhou He (2004) “Computer-aided analysis of ketamine-influenced speech”
  • Yanli Ma (2004) “The accessibility hierarchy and the processing of English relative clauses by Chinese college students”