University of Colorado at Boulder

Colorado Linguistics Doctoral Alumni

Student Graduating2008

Masako Hoye
Dissertation: Exploration of the Notion of Subject in Japanese
Advisor: Barbara Fox

Hiromi Sumiya
Dissertation: The Effect of Familiarity and Semantics on Early Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers
Advisor: Barbara Fox

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

Hartwell Francis
Dissertation:  Transitivity in Arapaho:  A Construction Grammar Approach
Advisors: Laura Michaelis, Andrew Cowell

Cynthia Girand
Dissertation:  Prenuclear Accentual Structure in Conversational English
Advisor: Alan Bell

2005

Ayako Ikeno
Dissertation: Perceptual and Acoustic Cues 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
 
Holly Krech-Thomas
Dissertation:  Training Strategies for Improving Listeners' Comprehension of Foreign-Accented Speech
Advisors: Lise Menn, Alice Healy (PSYC)
 
Kristine S. Stenzel
Dissertation:  A Reference Grammar of Wanano, winner of the 2004 Mary R. Haas Award for an unpublished manuscript that “makes a significant substantive contribution to our knowledge of the indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere”.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)

Traci Curl
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 Profileof acordarse, creer, saber and Related Verbs
Advisor:  Barbara Fox 

2001

Douglas Roland
Dissertation:  Verb Sense and Verb Subcategorization Probabilities
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky

Michelle Gregory
Dissertation:  Linguistic Informativeness and Speech Production: An Investigation of
Contextual and Discourse-Pragmatic Effects on Phonological Variation
Advisor: Dan Jurafsky

2000

Makoto Hayashi
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
 
Erin Shay
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: Explorations in the Grammar of Focused Repair of
the Turn-Constructional-Unit-so-far
Advisor: Barbara Fox
 
Maria Thomas-Ruzic
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 with
Implications for Reading
Advisor: Alan Bell
 
Tilo Weber
Dissertation:  Shared Background and Repair in German Conversation
Advisor: Barbara Fox

1997

Immanuel Barshi
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
 
Jule Gomez de Garcia

Dissertation:  Communicative Strategies in Conversational Kickapoo
Advisor: Allan Taylor
 
Elizabeth O’Dowd
Dissertation:  Prepositions and Particles in English: A Discourse-Based, Unifying
Account
Advisor: Barbara Fox

1993

Liang Tao
Dissertation:  Zero Anaphora in Chinese: Cognitive Strategies in Discourse Processing
Advisor: Barbara Fox
 
Mei-Chun Liu
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 Variation in 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

Melissa Axelrod
Dissertation:  The Semantics of Temporal Categorization: the Aspectual System of
Koyukon Athabaskan
Advisor: David Rood

 

 

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