Dissertation: The Phonetics and Phonology of Abkhaz Word Stress
Advisor: Claire Bowern and Natalie Weber
Position: Data Scientist (updated: 5 Jun 2025)
Dissertation: Language Forecasting: With Focus on Variation and Change in Icelandic
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iceland (updated: 28 Apr 2025)
Dissertation: Theory and Applications of Attribution for Interpretable Language Technology
Advisor: Dana Angluin and Robert Frank
Position: Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science, New York University
Dissertation: Archival Phonetics & Prosodic Typology in Sixteen Australian Languages
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zürich
Dissertation: At the intersection of temporal and modal interpretation: Essays on irreality
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Dissertation: Linguistic Variation From Cognitive Variability: The Case of English ‘have’
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Linguist, Google (Human Evaluation and Signals team)
Dissertation: Temporal Articulatory Stability, Phonological Variation, and Lexical Contrast Preservation in Diaspora Tibetan
Advisor: Jason Shaw
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Boston College
Dissertation: Computational Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Pama-Nyungan Verb Conjugation Classes
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Computational Linguist, Lausanne Business Solutions
Dissertation: On the Synchrony and Diachrony of the Spanish Imperfective Domain: Contextual Modulation and Semantic Change
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University
Dissertation: Argument Structure and Argument-marking in Choctaw
Advisor: Jim Wood
Position: Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
Dissertation: The Tonal Comparative Method: Tai Tone in Historical Perspective
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore
Dissertation: The morpho-syntax and pragmatics of the Latin Accusativus cum Infinitivo
Advisor: Raffaella Zanuttini
Position: Teacher, Notre-Dame High School, West Haven, CT
Advisor: Jason Shaw
Position: Computational Linguist, Apple
Dissertation: The non-aspectual meaning of African American English ‘aspectual’ markers
Advisors: Ashwini Deo and Claire Bowern
Position: Spoken word Poet and Editor, Scalawag Magazine
Dissertation: Affix ordering and templatic morphology in Mandan
Advisors: Stephen Anderson and Claire Bowern
Dissertation: A jewel inlaid: ergativity and markedness in Nepali
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Medical Informatics Center, George Washington University
Dissertation: Effects of topic structure on automatic summarization
Advisor: Robert Frank
Position: Language Engineer, Amazon
Dissertation: The cognitive sources of language change and variation: connecting synchronic variation and diachrony in Spanish copula use
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Associate Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Dissertation: Perception and production of timing in non-native speech: Russian palatalization
Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Position: Analytical Linguist, Google
Dissertation: Stratal Harmonic Serialism: Typological predictions and implications
Advisors: Gaja Jarosz and Claire Bowern
Position: Language Engineer, Amazon
Dissertation: The temporal organization of mouse ultrasonic vocalizations and its dependence on Foxp2 expression
Advisors: Stephen Anderson & David McCormick
Dissertation: The complement coercion phenomenon: Implications for models of sentence processing
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Dissertation: Semantic effects of head movement: Evidence from negative auxiliary inversion
Advisors: Robert Frank & Raffaella Zanuttini
Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Computer
Dissertation: Forming wh-questions in Shona: A comparative Bantu perspective
Advisors: Robert Frank & Raffaella Zanuttini
Position: Assistant Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs, FAS Dean’s Office, Yale University
Dissertation: Hungarian temporal and aspectual reference in the absence of dedicated markers
Advisor: Ashwini Deo
Position: Asst. Director, Yale Peabody Museum Student Programs
Dissertation: The phonology of contact: Creole sound change in context
Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Dissertation: Windesi Wamesa morphophonology
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Associate Professor, Swarthmore College
Dissertation: Metalinguistic negation in English and Arabic
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Program Development Consultant, Niagara University
Dissertation: Frozen scope and grammatical optimization
Advisor: Robert Frank
Position: Computational Linguist, Ntrepid Corp
Dissertation: Korean -(n)un, salience, and information structure
Advisors: Ashwini Deo, Laurence Horn
Position: Associate Professor, Kangwon National University
Dissertation: An MRI-based morphological approach to vocal tract area function estimation
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Dissertation: Coordination in prosodic gestures at boundaries in Greek
Advisor: Jelena Krivokapić
Position: Asssistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: An information structure approach to passives: with special focus on Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Southern Min
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor,Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers
Dissertation: A system for inducing the phonology and inflectional morphology of a natural language
Advisors: Gaja Jarosz, Stephen Anderson
Position: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications, Inc.
Dissertation: Stress and tone in Indo-Aryan Languages
Advisor: Darya Kavitskaya
Dissertation: Information structure and the licensing of English subjects
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Dissertation: Kayardild morphology, phonology and morphosyntax
Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Position: Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland, Australia
Dissertation: Gestural characterization of a phonological class: The liquids
Advisor: Darya Kavitskaya
Position: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dissertation: Morphosyntax acquisition in hildren with disorders of spoken language
Advisor: Maria Babyonyshev
Position: Associate Professor of Instuction, PhD Program Director, Temple University, College of Public Health
Dissertation: Dislocations, context and composition: or, double subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Professor of Linguistics and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of North Texas
Dissertation: Tengger Javanese
Advisor: Dianne Jonas
Dissertation: Mandarin tones: An articulatory phonology account
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Dalarna University, Sweden
Dissertation: The nature of Korean place assimilation: Gestural overlap and gestural reduction
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Assistant Professor, Hannam University, Korea
Dissertation: Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics & pragmatics meet
Advisors: Maria Babyonyshev, Laurence Horn
Position: Professor, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Dissertation: A gestural coupling model of syllable structure
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Assistant Professor, Korea University Dept. of English Language and Literature
Dissertation: Vowel to vowel coordination, diphthongs and articulatory phonology
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Dissertation: Articulatory timing in first and second language: A cross-linguistic study
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Dissertation: Representation and interpretation at the syntax-discourse interface: Establishing dependency
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Professorin für Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen / Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Koln
Dissertation: Predicates, events, and discourse: representing the so-called head-internal relative construction in Japanese
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Associate Professor, Meiji University
Dissertation: Units of phonological encoding: Empirical evidence
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Professor, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, University of Munich
Dissertation: Schwas with and without active gestural control
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Associate Teaching Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Georgetown University
Dissertation: Topics in the phonology and morphology of Tuvan
Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Position: Professor and Chair, Swarthmore College
Dissertation: Negation in Korean and Japanese
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Dissertation: The Rigvedic temporal vocabulary, with linguistic notes on some related Indo-European words
Advisor: Stanley Insler
Position: Director The Executive Voice
Dissertation: Articulatory basis of syllable structure: a study of English glides and liquids
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Professor Universtiy of British Columbia
Dissertation: The effect of explicit articulatory training on adult gestural acquisition
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Dissertation: Morphosyntax of clausal nominalization constructions
Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Position: Linguistic Consultant at Lexicon Branding, Inc., California USA
Dissertation: A study of phonological constraint in Slavic phonology
Advisors: William Mahota/Draga Zec
Position: Associate Professor, Georgia State University
Dissertation: The Greek reduplicated aorist
Advisor: B. Vine
Position: Chair, Associate Professor of English, Iona College
Dissertation: On reflexives and middles
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Dissertation: Spatial prepositions in Modern Persian
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Instructor, Yuba College (English as a Second Language)
Dissertation: Aspects of the syntax and morphology of Telugu
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Dissertation: Descriptions in context
Advisor: Donka Farkas
Position: Professor, Stanford University
Dissertation: Division of labor between grammar and pragmatics: The distribtuion and interpretation of anaphora
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Dissertation: Discourse in East African dialogue poetry: a sociolinguistic approach
Advisor: A. Biersteker
Position: Director of Twaweza Communications and former Associate Professor of African languages at Kenyatta University in Kenya
Dissertation: The phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants: Evidence from Finnish and Italian
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Dissertation: A Study of reduplicatives in the Chu Cí
Advisor: Hugh Stimson
Position: Professor of Chinese, U.S. Miltary Academy, West Point, NY (Retired)
Dissertation: Features, gestures & the temporal aspects of phonological organization
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Dissertation: History & development of nominal predication in 8th century Japanese
Advisor: S. Martin
Position: Deputy Dean of Students, Australian National University
Dissertation: The temporal organization of vowel and consonant gestures
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Associate Professor Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico
Dissertation: An articulatory account of aspiration in English
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Associate Professor, University of the West Indies
Dissertation: On the form and interpretation of inflectional anaphora
Advisor: Donka Farkas
Position: Professor, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Sogang University
Dissertation: Acoustic study of vowel-vowel coarticulation in English
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Professor Emerita , Rhode Island College, Department of Communications
Dissertation: Articulatory organization of syllables: kinematic analysis of kabial and velar gestures
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Associate Professor, Temple University, School of Public Health
Dissertation: The influence of phonological structure on articulatory organization in Turkish and English: Vowel harmony and coarticulation
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Dissertation: Acoustic & perceptual consequences of V-V coarticulation in three Bantu languages
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Associate Professor at Northeastern University, Speech Pathology and Audiology
Dissertation: Simple thematic imperfectives in Anatolian and Indo-European
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Associate Professor, University of Delaware, Deceased: October 10, 2011,
Dissertation: A comparative study of linguistic rhythm
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Position: Researcher, Cambridge University, Department of Engineering, Deceased: June 7, 2018,
Dissertation: Pronouns and prepositional phrases
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Researcher, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto
Dissertation: Perfect tense in Greek inscriptions
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Professor, University of Pensylvania
Dissertation: Shondu: The prehistory of a Northern Ryukyuan dialect in Japanese
Advisor: Samuel E. Martin
Position: Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawaii
Dissertation: The nominative-accusative neuter plural in Anatolian
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Director for Preservation for Columbia University Libraries
Dissertation: The evolution of the Japnese past and perfect particles in the Muromati periods
Advisor: Samuel E. Martin
Position: Assistant Professor, Linfield College, Oregon
Dissertation: Syntactic theory in the Late Middle Ages: Modernistic models of sentence structure
Advisor: Rulon Wells
Position: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus former Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Institute for Artificial Intelligence The University of Georgia
Dissertation: Perceptual effects of phonetic mismatches
Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Dissertation: Methods for diagnosing subsystems of L2 grammars
Position: Assistant Professor of English, San Francisco State University
Dissertation: A grammar of North Carolina Cherokee
Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
Position: Guest Professor of English, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Dissertation: The effects of clause structure on memory for sentences
Position: Professor Emerita of French and Linguistics, Wellesley College
Dissertation: The -aya- verbal formations in Vedic Sanskrit
Advisor: Stanley Insler
Dissertation: Studies in Early Japanese morphophonemics
Advisor: Samuel Martin
Position: Emeritus Professor of Japanese, Ohio State University
Dissertation: A grammatical sketch of Chimborazo Quichua
Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
Position: Computer Analyst, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Dissertation: Accent and morphology in Korean dialects
Advisor: Samuel Martin
Position: Professor of East Asian Linguistics, University of Maryland
Dissertation: Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic phonology
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Position: Professor, Teikyo Heisei University
Dissertation: The particle u in the Riqveda
Advisor: Stanley Insler
Dissertation: The dialects of the Bikol area
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Dissertation: A grammar of Tuscarora
Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
Position: Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Lowland East Cushitic: Reconstruction & subgrouping
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Position: Casual VET Teaching - Adult Literacy & Numeracy
Dissertation: Non-pronominal anaphora and specificity in English
Advisor: Rulon Wells
Position: Professor of Applied Linguistics Portland State College
Dissertation: The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Position: Professor Emeritus, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Dissertation: Derivations of English infinitives
Advisor: Rulon Wells
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Dissertation: A Stratificational view of linguistic change
Advisor: Sydney Lamb
Position: Professor of English, University of Arizona
Dissertation: The vocalic system of Modern Standard French
Position: Free Lance Writer
Dissertation: The so-called aeoIic inflection of the Greek contract verbs
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Sanskrit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Constraints on deletion rules in syntax
Position: Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Dissertation: A grammar of the Lisu language
Advisor: William Cornyn
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages
Dissertation: Greek disyllabic roots: The aorist formations
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Deceased
Dissertation: Spatial & temporal uses of English presuppositions
Position: Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Deceased: 2002
Dissertation: An outline of Plains Cree morphology
Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
Position: Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, University of Manitoba
Dissertation: The semiotic structure of the English verbs of motion
Position: Professor, University of Tokyo
Dissertation: The computer-aided analysis of undeciphered ancient texts
Position: Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Linguistics, Occidental College
Dissertation: Noun suffixation in Serbo-Croatian dialects
Advisor: Alexander Schenker
Position: Professor, University of Michigan
Dissertation: On the phonemic status of the Proto-Indoeuropean resonants
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dissertation: The phonology and morphology of Sherbro
Position: Professor, University of Toronto, Deceased: February 2, 2010
Dissertation: A grammar of Chortí
Position: Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: A grammar of Kickapoo
Position: Professor Emeritus of Native Studies and Languages, Brandon University, Manitoba
Dissertation: Empirical investigation of statistically generated sentences
Position Researcher, IBM Thomas J. Watson, Deceased: January 27, 2009
Dissertation: Proto-Indoeuropean schwa-ablaut
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Professor Emeritus, UCLA Linguistics, Deceased: January 27, 2023
Dissertation: The idiom structure of English
Advisor: Rulon Wells
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Deceased: January 18, 2020
Dissertation: Syntax of Cebuano Bisayari
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Position: Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies, Cornell University
Dissertation: Verb structures of Modern Literary Arabic and Lebanese Colloquial Arabic
Position: Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation: A grammar of Toba-Batak
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas
Dissertation: A grammar of Madurese
Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Position: Professor Emeritus, Queens College
Dissertation: The Kolokuma dialect of Ijo
Advisor: Bernard Bloch
Position Dean, Graduate School University of Port Harcourt, Deceased: January 3, 2005,
Dissertation: The dialect of Samuel Worcester
Advisor: Helge Kökeritz
Position: Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, MIT
Dissertation: A transformational analysis of the syntax of Colloquial Japanese
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto-Anthropology
Dissertation: The Indo-European thematic aorists
Advisor: Warren Cowgill
Position: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Greek loans in Latin through the period of the Republic
Position: Professor in Classics and Linguistics, University of Kansas, Deceased: July 19, 2018,
Dissertation: Navaho syntax
Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
Position: Professor of Linguistics, English and Anthropology, California State University of Los Angeles, Deceased: February 3, 2003
Dissertation: The Chung-yüan yin yüng: A study in an Early Mandarin phonological system
Position: Yale University (Professor Emeritus), Deceased, January 24, 2011
Dissertation: Seneca morphology
Position Professor of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara, Deceased: February 3, 2019
Dissertation: Tense and aspect in Spanish
Dissertation: An experiment in the comparative method based on four modern Indic languages
Position: Professor Emeritus of South Asian Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: The Indo-european longavowel preterites
Position: Professor of Linguistics, Yale University, Deceased: 1985
Dissertation: Outline grammar of the language of the Secret History of the Mongols
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation: Grammatical method in Pivini
Dissertation: Russian prepositions
Dissertation: The relative sentence in Hittite
Dissertation: The Kathinavastu (study of a Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit text)
Dissertation: Grammar of South Vietnamese
Position: Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Deceased: 2009
Dissertation: Outline of Siamese grammar
Dissertation: Russian noun suffixation
Dissertation: Nominal inflection in modern colloquial Polish
Position: Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Yale University, Deceased: August 21, 2019
Dissertation: The historical development of tenses from Late Latin to Old French
Position: Professor, Yale University, Deceased: September 27, 2014
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Advisor: Bernard Block
Position: Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, Deceased: February 18, 2009
Dissertation: Japanese morphophonemics
Advisor: Bernard Bloch
Position: Professor of Far Eastern Linguistics, Yale University, Deceased: November 28, 2009
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(PhD Anthropology): Some syntactic rules in Mohawk
(PhD Far Eastern Languages & Literatures)
(PhD Anthropology)
(PhD Anthropology): Comparative Iroquoian morphology
(PhD Anthropology): A descriptive grammar of the Potawatomi Language
(PhD Anthropology): A grammar of the Tunica language
(PhD Anthropology): A grammar of Wishram
(PhD Anthropology): The internal economy of the Nootka word
(PhD Anthropology): A grammatical sketch of Yokuts