Doctoral Alums
2024
Norielle Adricula
Dissertation: Examining the Role of Inherent and Derived Prominence in Tagalog Voice and Word Order
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Jared Desjardins
Dissertation: The Semantics of Latin Morphology: A Case Study on Frequentative Verbs
Advisors: Laura A. Michaelis
Velda Khoo
Dissertation: Modeling Singlish: Authentic Hybridity in a Model Nation
Advisor: Kira Hall
Ayden Parish
Dissertation: Hearing Voices as Atypical Social Agents
Advisor: Kira Hall
Alyssa Strickler
Dissertation: Synchronic Sound Change as a Unique Look at Representation in /aɪ/ Raising in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
2023
Ghazaleh Kazeminejad
Dissertation: Computational Lexical Resources for Explainable Natural Language Understanding
Advisor: Martha Palmer
2022
Olivia Marrese
Dissertation: Just as a participants’ resource: Scales, stance, and action in interaction
Advisor: Chase Raymond
2021
Ling Liu
Dissertation: Morphological Generation with Deep Learning Approaches
Advisor: Mans Hulden
Dissertation: Conversational Storytelling in Arapaho: A Grammar of Narrative Initiations
Advisor: Andrew Cowell
Dissertation: Integrating Machine Learning into Language Documentation and Description
Advisor: Mans Hulden
Marielle Butters
Dissertation: Negation in four languages of Indonesia
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
2020
Evan Coles-Harris
Dissertation: Phonetic Convergence and Dialect Change in Nanjing, China
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Jesus Villalpando
Dissertation: Grammatical Aspect in Norogachi Rarámuri (Tarahumara; Uto-Aztecan)
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
2019
Tao Lin
Dissertation: Automatic Classification of Verb-Direction Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Advisor: Laura Michaelis and Martha Palmer
Marcus Avelar
Dissertation: Urban Spirits: Language, Race, and Modernity among Umbandistas in São Paulo, Brazil
Advisor: Kira Hall
Yahya Aseri
Dissertation: Encoding semantic relations between the predicate and participants through Arabic verbal morphology: A systems interaction approach
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Dissertation: Bringing together computational and linguistic models of implicit role interpretation
Advisors: Martha Palmer and Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: Syntactic and semantic improvements to computational metaphor processing
Advisor: Martha Palmer
2018
Luciana Marques
Dissertation: Perception of vowel nasality contrast in Brazilian Portuguese
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
2017
Samuel Beer
Dissertation: Grammatical Contraction in Nyang’i: A Descriptive and Comparative Study
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Stefanie Ramos-Bierge
Dissertation: Clause type and transitivity in Wixárika (Huichol): A Uto-Aztecan language
Advisor: Andrew Cowell
2016
Dissertation: The Space-time Topography of English Speakers
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Visual Speech Perception of Arabic Emphatics and Gutturals
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Niloofar Khalili
Dissertation: Contact-induced Cross-dialectal Phonetic Variability in an Endangered Iranian Language: The Case of Taleshi
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Dissertation: Stative and Stativizing Constructions in Arabic News Reports: A Corpus-Based Study
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Katherine Phelps Ridgeway
Dissertation: Phonetic training strategies for non-native speech perception
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Dissertation: Gesture-Speech Bimodalism in Arapaho Grammar: An Interactional Approach
Advisor: Andrew Cowell
Dissertation: Place Reference and Location Formulation in Kula Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2015
Dissertation: Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Influence of Lexical Class, Usage Frequency, and Constructional Content on Semantic Simulation
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: On the Acoustical and Perceptual Features of Vowel Nasality
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Hindi Complex Predicates: Linguistic and Computational Approaches
Advisors: Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan
Claire Bonial
Dissertation: Take a look at this! Form, Function and Productivity of English Light Verb Constructions
Advisors: Martha Palmer and Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Identification and Representation of Caused Motion Constructions, winner of the 2015 Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation, for dissertations representing outstanding, original and high impact scholarship in the field of cognitive science
Advisor: Martha Palmer
David Harper
Dissertation: An Analysis of Perceptual Factors in the Evolution of Spanish Approximants
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Michael Thomas
Dissertation: A Grammar of Sakun (Sukur)
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
2013
Dissertation: Beyond the Subject: The Interaction of Syntax and Semantics in the Production of English Verb Agreement
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Indexing Inferables and Organizational Shifts:'No'-Prefaces in English Conversations
Advisor: Barbara Fox
William Corvey
Dissertation: Leveraging Pragmatic Features for Microblogged Information Extraction During Crises
Advisor: Martha Palmer
Dissertation: Learning to 'Talk Indian': Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
Advisor: Kira Hall
2012
Dissertation: Aspects of a Grammar of Makary Kotoko
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Dissertation: Displaced Islamic Identities: Language, Time and Space in a Post 9/11 America
Advisor: Kira Hall
Dissertation: Similarity and Enhancement: Nasality from Moroccan Arabic Pharyngeals and Nasals
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
Dissertation: Voices in Transition: Testosterone, Transmasculinity, and the Gendered Voice Among Female-to-Male Transgender People
Advisor: Kira Hall
2011
Kai-Yun Helen Chen
Dissertation: Sound Patterns in Mandarin Recycling Repair
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Tipping the Balance: The Modulation of ERP Effects at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Advisors: Laura Michaelis and Albert Kim
2010
Susan Windisch Brown
Dissertation: Finding Meaning: Sense Inventories for Improved Word Sense Disambiguation
Advisor: Martha Palmer
Dissertation: Paradigms of Evaluation in Natural Language Processing: Field Linguistics for Glass Box Testing
Advisor: Martha Palmer
Dissertation: Lakota Intonation and Prosody
Advisor: David Rood
Saeko Ogihara
Dissertation: Verb Final Typology
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Jeff Stebbins
Dissertation: Usage Frequency and Articulatory Reduction in Vietnamese Tonogenesis
Advisor: Rebecca Scarborough
2009
Lori Heintzelman
Dissertation: The Re-education of Desire: The Role of Narrative in Religious-based Sexual Identity Transformation
Advisor: Kira Hall
Dissertation: Understanding Metaphorical Expressions: Conventionality, Mappings, and Comparison Processes
Advisor: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Dissertation: Articulating a Transnational Family: 'Hippo Family' Language Learners in Japan and the USA
Advisor: Kira Hall
Weldu Weldeyesus
Dissertation: Language Socialization and Ensuing Identity Construction Among Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Denver
Advisor: Kira Hall
2008
Dissertation: The Automatic Predictionof Prosodic Prominence from Text
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
Dissertation: The 'War on Terror' Narrative: The (Inter)Textual Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality
Advisor: Kira Hall
Masako Hoye
Dissertation: Exploration of the Notionof Subject in Japanese
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: A Syntactic Analysis of Written English Quotatives
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Hiromi Sumiya
Dissertation: The Effect of Familiarity and Semantics on Early Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Hui-hsin Tseng
Dissertation: The Use of Morphological Knowledge in Chinese Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
2007
Kyung-Im Han
Dissertation: Consonant Cluster Phenomena: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison.
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Hyun-Jung Yang
Dissertation: Grammar as an Interactional Resource in Korean Spontaneous Conversations
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2006
Dissertation: Transitivity in Arapaho: A Construction Grammar Approach
Advisors: Laura Michaelis and Andrew Cowell
Cynthia Girand
Dissertation: Prenuclear Accentual Structure in Conversational English
Advisor: Alan Bell
2005
Ayako Ikeno
Dissertation: Perceptual and AcousticCues in English Accent Variation: Accent Classification for Speaker Identification
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2003
Phyllis Bellver
Dissertation: An Investigation into the Functional Syntax of Spoken Basque
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: Training Strategies for Improving Listeners' Comprehension of Foreign-Accented Speech
Advisors: Lise Menn, Alice Healy (PSYC)
Dissertation: A Reference Grammar of Wanano, winner of the 2004 Mary R. Haas Award for an unpublished manuscript that “makes a significant substantive contribution to our knowledge of the indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere”.
Advisors: Barbara Fox, Jule Gomez de Garcia
2002
Valerie Wallace
Dissertation: The Roles of Babble in Language Acquisition: Evidence from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Advisors: Lise Menn, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano (SLHS)
Dissertation: The Phonetics of Sequence Organization: An Investigation of Lexical Repetition in Other-Initiated Repair Sequences in American English
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Linda Nicita
Dissertation: Cognitive Verbs in Spanish: A Discourse Profile of acordarse, creer, saber and Related Verbs
Advisor: Barbara Fox
2001
Dissertation: Verb Sense and Verb Subcategorization Probabilities
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
Dissertation: Linguistic Informativeness and Speech Production: An Investigationof Contextual and Discourse-Pragmatic Effects on PhonologicalVariation
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky
2000
Dissertation: Practices in Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Kristin Homer
Dissertation: A Discourse Constraint on Subject Information Questions
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
William Raymond
Dissertation: Toward a Theory of Grammatical Encoding in Speech Production: Evidence from Speech Errors
Advisors: Alan Bell, Laura Michaelis
1999
Linh-Chan Brown
Dissertation: The Grammaticalization of Directed Motion in Vietnamese
Advisor: Laura Michaelis
Dissertation: A Grammar of East Dangla: The Simple Sentence
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Debra Biasca
Dissertation: Language Development in Jacobsen(11q Deletion) Syndrome: The Interaction of Language, Cognition and Genetics
Advisor: Lise Menn
1998
Andrea Feldman
Dissertation: Constructing Grammar: Fillers, Formulas and Function
Advisor: Lise Menn
Robert Jasperson
Dissertation: Repair after Cut-off: Explorationsin the Grammar of Focused Repair of the Turn-Constructional-Unit-so-far
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Language and Activity: We, you and I in Instructional Talk
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Julia Fisher
Dissertation: Mental Lexicons of Children: Multiple Routes to Lexical Access withImplications for Reading
Advisor: Alan Bell
Tilo Weber
Dissertation: Shared Background and Repair in German Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1997
Dissertation: Effects of Linguistic Properties and Message Length on Misunderstandings in Aviation Communication
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
1996
Barbara Diekmann
Dissertation: The Mutual Shaping of Task Context and System Interface in Directory Assistance Conversations
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1995
Harold ‘Skip’ Wilcox
Dissertation: Salience Imbalance and Metaphor
Advisor: Lise Menn
1994
Won-Ho Kim
Dissertation: Grammatical Relations and Anaphora in Korean
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Randall Sparks
Dissertation: The Structure of Self-Repair in English Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Communicative Strategies in Conversational Kickapoo
Advisor: Allan Taylor
Dissertation: Prepositions and Particles in English: A Discourse-Based, UnifyingAccount
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1993
Dissertation: Zero Anaphora in Chinese: Cognitive Strategies in Discourse Processing
Advisor: Barbara Fox
Dissertation: Discourse, Grammar, and Grammaticalization: Synchronic and Diachronic Analyses of Mandarin Adverbial markers JIU and CAI
Advisor: Barbara Fox
1992
Eun-Il Kim
Dissertation: Voice in Korean
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Rebecca Burns-Hoffman
Dissertation: A Discourse Analysis of Variationin Children's Language in pre-School, Small Group Settings
Advisor: Lise Menn
1990
Robert Koops
Dissertation: Aspects of the Grammar of Kuteb
Advisor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Dissertation: The Semantics of Temporal Categorization: The Aspectual System of Koyukon Athabaskan
Advisor: David Rood
Doctoral Alums in Academia and Industry
is a senior linguist at Google Assistant in Mountain View, CA.
is an Assistant Professor of Computational Language Science at the University of Florida.
is a Senior Linguistic Data Specialist at in Longmont, CO.
is a Language Data Researcher at Amazon in Seattle, WA.
is a Computational Linguist, Data Scientist and Conversation Designer at Milestone Technologies, Inc. in Flagstaff, AZ.
is a Senior Research Scientist at .
is a postdoctoral fellow in the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) lab at TU Darmstadt.
is postdoctoral fellow in Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
is an analytical linguist specializing in Statistical Analysis and Model Evaluation at Grammarly in Seattle, WA.
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Metro State University, Colorado.
is an Instructional Specialist in the Linguistics Department at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey.
is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at IIT-Delhi.
is a lecturer at Washington State University.
is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at West Chester University.
is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Trinity Western University in British Columbia.
is Resident Fellow at the CU Boulder Center for Media, Religion, and Culture and adjunct faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming
is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Davis.
is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara.
is a Language Data Researcher at Amazon in Seattle, WA.
is Senior Research Associate and instructor in Linguistics and Computer Science, as well as co-director of the CLASIC program, at the University of Colorado Boulder.
is an instructor in Bioinformatics at the University of Colorado Denver Medical School.
is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona.
is Associate Professor in the Academic Writing Unit of the Institute of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Nagoya University.
is Instructor of English as a Second Language at the Community College of Denver.
is Adjunct Assistant Professor in CU Linguistics.
is an assistant professor of English Language and Literature at Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea.
is an assistant professor of Linguistics at the University of Western Carolina.
is a professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield.
is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Nagoya University, Japan.
is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.
is a research associate in Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
is a professor of Linguistics at San Marcos State University, California.