Below are thesis titles and information aboutÌýcurrent or recent positions of Â鶹AV PhD alumni, organized by year of completion. Though we try to keep this information up to date, please get in touch if you notice missing or out-of-date information.
2024
Ìý
The cost of information: looking beyond predictability in language processing
Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong
MOGHISEH, EsmailÌý
Free Choice Items: The View from Farsi
SOCOLOF, Michaela
Partial compositionality
ZHANG, WeiÌý
Phonetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts
2023
Ìý(Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhastan)
A Grammar of the Shughni Language
2022
(Assistant Professor, Williams College)
Locality effects in composition with plurals and conjunctions
MARTENS, Gouming
What about those B-accents and hat patterns? Form and meaning of contrastive topics in English, Dutch, and German
Ìý(Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary)
Strengthening Predicates
Ìý(Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal)
Elements of (in)definiteness and binding: A Mayan perspective
2021
JIANG, Bing'er (Postdoctoral Fellow,ÌýKTH Royal Institute of Technology,ÌýStockholm)
Computational and behavioural approaches to understanding perception of speech variability
2020
Ìý(Postdoctoral Fellow, Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Beyond nominative: a broader view of Tagalog A’-dependencies
(Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University)
Interaction in phonological variation: Grammatical insights from a corpus-based approach.
(Research Analyst, )
Structured variability across dialects and speakers of English and Japanese
2019
Modal adjectives and the grammar of non-local modification
Ìý(Assistant Professor, York University)
Conditions on L1 transfer in L2 discourse-syntax mappings: The case of Clitic Left Dislocation in Italian and Romanian
Ìý(Lecturer (tenure track), National Research Center for Foreign Language Education, Bejing Foreign Studies University)
Plurality in second language Chinese
2018
BANG, Hye-Young
The Structure of Multiple Cues to Stop Categorization and its implications for sound change
Ìý(Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS))
On Asking and Answering Biased Polar Questions
(Assistant professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Kyungpook National University)
Individual differences in plasticity in speech perception
MORTAZAVINIA, Marzieh (Sepideh)Ìý
Second language acquisition of the semantics of focus-sensitive presupposition triggers in English and Persian
2017
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University)
Speech production planning affects variation in external sandhi
ÌýÌý(Assistant Professor, Université Laval)
Weight effects on stress: lexicon and grammar
2016
On the interpretation of reflexive pronouns
Ìý(Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan)
SecondÌý language acquisition of focus prosody in English and Spanish
2015 - 2011
2015
(Assistant Professor, Michigan State University)
Maximality in the semantics of modified numerals
(Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University)
The Syntax of Mi’gmaq: A configurational account
tokuma [at] human.mie-u.ac.jp (OKUMA, Tokiko)Ìý (Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics & Graduate School of Humanities & Social Science,ÌýMIE University, Japan)
Overt Pronoun Constraint effects in second language Japanese
2014
(Research & Development, 3D Graphics)
Inchoative verbs and adverbial modifcation: Decompositional and scalar approaches
(Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University)
Grammatical ingredients of definiteness
2013
(University of Calgary)
Getting L2 Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs Right
QU, Chen
Representation and acquisition of the tonal system of Mandarin Chinese
2012
BOUCHARD, David-Étienne (Professeur, Collège Montmorency)
Long-distance degree quantification and the grammar of subjectivity
Aspects of argument licensing
(Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies; Adjunct Professor, Second Language Studies, Indiana University)
Representation and acquisition of stress: The case of Turkish
(Associate Professor Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan)
Domain extension: A study of restructuring predicates in Japanese and the role of head movement
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Humbolt University)
Tense, aspect, and modal markers in Paciran Javanese
2011
(Chargée de cours, École de langues, Université du Québec à Montréal)
The perception and production of interdental fricatives in second-language acquisition
(Lecturer, Mount Royal University, Calgary; Research Associate, Language Research Centre, University of Calgary)
Segmental representations in interlanguage grammars: the case of francophones and English /h/
2010 - 2001
2009
NOSSALIK, Larissa
L2 Acquisition of Russian Aspect
(Team Lead, Software Development, Amilia)
Investigations of Downward Movement
UCHIUMI, Tohru
Binding and control: the unified approach
2008
(Professeure de Linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Aspects of the morphology and phonology of phases
Associate Professor (Faculty of International Communication, Gunma Prefectural Woman’s University)
Second language acquisition of Japanese wh-constructions
2007
MCCARTHY, Corrine (Information Technology Specialist/Research Analyst, Thomas Nelson Community College)
Morphological variability in second language Spanish
2006
BALE, Alan (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Concordia University)
The universal scale and the semantics of comparison
(Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Object clitics and null objects in the acquisition of French
(Data Scientist, Clio – Cloud-Based Legal Technology)
Resultative constructions: cross-linguistic variation and the syntax-semantics interface
(Professeure d'anglais, Université de Moncton)
DP-internal structure and movement in Romanian
2005
CONRADIE, Simone (Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University)
Verb movement parameters in Afrikaans: Investigating the Full Transfer Full Access hypothesis
(Professor of Language and Linguistics, Brandeis University)
Verb-stranding VP ellipsis: a cross-linguistic study
(Department of Asian Studies, University of Manitoba)
Second language acquisition of Japanese relative clauses
(Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Ottawa)
L2 ultimate attainment and the syntax-discourse interface: the acquisition of topic constructions in non-native Spanish and English
2003
BEN AYED, Hela
Mood and functional projections
(Professor, Gunma Prefectural Women's University)
Internally headed construction in Japanese: a unified approach
2002
(Professor, Department of Education, Concordia University)
Topics in the phonology of Picard
GÃœREL, Ayse (Professor, Foreign Language Education Department, Bogazici University)
Linguistic characteristics of second language acquisition and first language attrition: overt versus null pronouns
(Professor, Doshisha University)
Transfer and learnability in second language argument structure: Motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 English and Japanese
LEUNG, Ingrid
Functional categories in second and third language acquisition: a cross linguistic study of acquisition of English and French by Chinese and Vietnamese speakers
KOSLOWSKAÌýMACGREGOR, Martyna (Maitre de langue, Université du Québec à Montréal)
The state of near-native grammar: A study of aspect in L2 Polish
MELLANDER, EVAN (Translator; German, English, Czech)
A prosodic theory of prominence and rhythm
(Associate Professor, Department of French, University of Toronto)
Representation and phonological licencing in the L2 acquisition of prosodic structure
(Professor, Umea University)
Causativization in North Sami
2001
MATSUOKA, Mikinari (Associate Professor, Mie University)
Linking arguments to phrase structure: a study of passives, psych verbs, and ditransitive verbs in Japanese
(Lecturer, Stanford University)
On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian
2000 - 1991
2000
(Professor Emeritus,ÌýHispanic Studies, Western University)
The syntax of Spanish multifunctional clitics and near-native competence
HIRAKAWA, Makiko (Professor, Chuo University)
Unaccusativity in second language Japanese and English
(Associate Professor, Department of French Studies, Western University)
Malagasy clause structure
(Professor, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University Newfoundland)
Headedness and prosodic licensing in the L1 acquisition of phonology
1999
(Professor, Hosei University)
Coda constraints: Optimizing representations
(Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea, SOAS)
Unbounded dependencies in cleft constructions
(Adminstrator, Innis College, University of Toronto; author)
Mereology in event semantics
1998
BROWN, Cynthia
Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition
RODIER, Dominique
Prosodic domains in optimality theory
(Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM)
Serial verb construction parameter
TANAKA, Hidekazu (Faculty of Letters, Okayama University)
Conditions on logical form derivations and representations
1997
(Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales)
Transitivity alternations, even-types and light verbs
(Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)
Transitivity alternations in second language acquisition: A cross linguistic study of English, Spanish and Turkish
(Professor, Université François-Rabelais Tours)
Truncation in second language acquisition
(Professor, Department of Linguistics, UCSD)
Theoretical issues in comparative Ethio-Semitic phonology and morphology
(Professor of Modern Languages, University of Southampton)
Zero acquisition: Second language acquisition of the parameter of aspect
1996
(Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Seton Hall University)
L2 acquisition of English psych predicates by native speakers of Chinese and French
(Learning Specialist, United Nations)
Developmental language impairment: Evidence from Greek and its implications for morphological representation
(Professor, School of Business Administration, Senshu University)
Economy of chain formation
(Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Consequences of constraint ranking
(Adjunct Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University)
Making sense of tense: Tense, time reference, and linking theory
1995
(Computational Linguist, LexisNexis)
Aspects of ergativity in Tagalog
(Associate Professor, Kanagawa University)
Long-distance dependencies
1994
(Professor, University of Kaiserslautern)
Acquisition of some mechanisms of transitivity alternation in Arctic Quebec Inuktitut
BENNETT, Susan
Second language acquisition of reflexive binding by native speakers of Serbo-Croatian
1993
(Head of Information & Audience Engagement, IFEX)
The syntax of sentential negation: Interactions with case, agreement and (in)definiteness
(Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh)
Learnability and the lexicon in second language acquisition: Chinese learners' knowledge of English argument structure
1992
(Attorney at Law)
The structure of internally headed relative clauses: Implications for configurationality
(Professor, English Department, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
A movement theory of ergativity
(Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, Australia)
On the distinction between syntactic and semantic case
Ìý(Course lecturer, Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal)
Case and syntactic geometry
(Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations)
Licensing and the representation of floating nasals
1991
GENDRON, Jo-Ann
Aphasic comprehension of French causative constructions
(Professor, Education, Lakehead University)
Delaware stem morphology
(Professeure agrégée, Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal)
Possession and datives: Binary branching from the lexicon to syntax
1990 - 1981
1990
(Vice President Academic Affairs, Dublin City University)
Functional categories and phrase structure parameters
KEHAYIA, Evanthia (Associate Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Â鶹AV)
Morphological deficits in agrammatic aphasia: A comparative linguistic study
ONG, Roberto Keh
Morphological and syntactic deficits in Chinese aphasic patients
1989
(Freelance Editor)
Coordinate and subordinate conjunctions in childern's texts
MACHOBANE, Malillo
Some restrictions on Sesotho transitivizing morphemes
(Professeure agrégée, Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal)
Universal licensing implications for parasitic gap constructions
1988
(Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, SOAS)
Some constraints on governing relations in phonology
STYAN, Evelyn M.
Sentences containing 'be': A semantic analysis of subject-predicate relations
1987
HAGIWARA, Hiroko (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Sentence comprehension disturbances in Japanese aphasics
LIBBEN, Gary (Vice President of Research, Brock University)
Morpheme decomposition and the mental lexicon: Evidence from the visual recognition of compounds
(Researcher, CNRS)
Vers une sémantique représentionnelle
1986
HILDEBRANDT, Nancy
A linguistically-based parsing analysis of aphasics' comprehension of referential dependencies
(Professor, English Language and Literature, Kuwait University)
Spreading and locality domains in phonology
WALSH, Linda
The nature of morphological representations
1985
BUTTERS, Lesley
Linguistic and pragmatic factors in the acquisition of text competence
(Professeure titulaire, Département de langues, linguistique, et traduction, Université Laval)
Bilingual memory: The effect of two languages on the retention of prose
(Regents Professor, Arizona State University)
S-bar: Its character, behavior and relationship to (i)t
1984
GRAFSTEIN, Ann Julie
Argument structure and the syntax of a non-configurational language
JOHNSON-WEINER, Karen M. (Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, SUNY, Potsdam)
The effects of right and left hemisphere damage on the comprehension of stress and intonation in English
STIEBLICH, Christel
Deductive and inductive acquisition of second language structures
(Recteur, Université du Moncton)
Discriminating linguistic factors in reading disability
1981
(Professeure émérite, Département de Français, University of Ottawa)
Analyse sémantique et pragmatique du discours rapporté
1980 - 1968
1980
(James Â鶹AV Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, Â鶹AV)
Grammatical theory and language acquisition
1979
WEHRLI, Eric (Professeur, Département de Linguistique, Université de Gèneve)
Constructions infinitives: Compléments VP et leurs implications théoriques
1978
†CANALE, W. Michael
Word order change in Old English: Base reanalysis in generative grammar
CHA, Jin Soon
Linguistic cohesion in texts: theory and description
1977
GOLICK, Margaret
Language disorders in children: A linguistic investigation
1976
FEURER, Hanny Marie
Questions and answers in Mohawk conversation
PICARD, Marc
The phonological history of Arapaho: A study in linguistic change
1975
GABATON SEGALOWITZ, Elizabeth, (Associate Professor, Concordia University)
Systematic variations in second language speech: A sociolinguistic study
1974
ARKWRIGHT, Thomas D.
The phonology of the Hungarian consonant system
(Professeur, Université de Montréal)
Ordonnance et mode d'application des processus syntaxiques
1973
(Centre for Research on Language, Culture, and Contact, York University)
Malbay: A sociolinguistic community study
1972
(Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Ottawa)
Hungarian phonology and constraints on phonological theory
1968
(Professor, of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania)
Social aspects of multilingualism in New Guinea
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