People in the OSU Linguistics Department
Alumni Information
PhD degrees
Durian, David PhD 2013, Don Winford
Thesis Title: A New Perspective on Vowel Variation across the 19th and 20th Centuries in Columbus, OH
Email: ddurian@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~ddurian/
Position / Employer: College of DuPage
Mihalicek, Vedrana PhD 2012, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: Serbo-Croatian Word Order: A Logical Approach
Email: vedrana@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~vedrana/
Position / Employer: Indiana University
Mehay, Dennis PhD 2012, William Schuler
Thesis Title: Bean Soup Translation: Flexible, Linguistically-motivated Syntax for Machine Translation
Email: mehay@ling.osu.edu
Position / Employer: BBN Technologies
Holliday, Jeffrey PhD 2012, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: The emergence of L2 phonological contrast in perception: The case of Korean sibilant fricatives
Email: jjhollid@indiana.edu
Personal URL: www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~jeffh/
Position / Employer: Indiana University
Shin, Jeonghwa PhD 2012, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: Prosodic Effects on Spoken Word Recognition in Second Language:Processing of Lexical Stress by Korean-speaking Learners of English
Email: jshin@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/shin205/
Position / Employer: Ohio State University
Rajkumar, Raja PhD 2012, Michael White
Thesis Title: Linguistically Motivated Features for CCG Realization Ranking
Email: raja@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Na'im Tyson PhD 2012, Cynthia Clopper
Thesis Title: Exploration of Acoustic Features for Automatic Vowel Discrimination in Spontaneous Speech
Position / Employer: Computational Linguist / Voxy
Boyd, Adriane PhD 2012, Detmar Meurers, Michael White
Thesis Title: Pronunciation Modeling in Spelling Correction for Writers of English as a Foreign Language
Personal URL: www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~adriane/
Position / Employer: Multilingual Platform for the European Reference Levels: Interlanguage Exploration in Context
Wilson, Christin PhD 2012, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Variation and Text Type in Old Occitan Texts
Boxwell, Stephen PhD 2011, Michael White, Chris Brew
Thesis Title: A CCG-Based Method for Training a Semantic Role Labeler in the Absence of Explicit Syntactic Training Data
Email: boxwell@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~boxwell/
Position / Employer: U.S. Department of Defense
Hovermale, Ivan (DJ) PhD 2011, William Schuler
Thesis Title: ERRON: A Phrase-based machine translation approach to customized spelling correction
Email: djh@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.djhovermale.com/ ; http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~djh/
Position / Employer: U.S. Department of Defense
Lee, Jungmee PhD 2011, Judith Tonhauser
Thesis Title: Evidentiality and its interaction with tense: Evidence from Korean
Email: jlee@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: https://sites.google.com/site/jungmeelee/
Smirnova, Anastasia PhD 2011, Brian Joseph and Judith Tonhauser
Thesis Title: Evidentiality, mood and epistemic modality: Evidence from Bulgarian
Email: smirnova@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://tufts.academia.edu/AnastasiaSmirnova
Position / Employer: Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Costanzo, Angelo PhD 2010, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Romance Conjugational Classes: Learning from the Peripheries
Email: costanzo@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Bloomsburg State University
Dautricourt, Robin PhD 2010, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: French Liaison: Linguistic and sociolinguistic influences on speech perception
Email: rdautric@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Voice User Interface Designer, Voxify
Kubota, Yusuke PhD 2010, Carl Pollard/Robert Levine
Thesis Title: (In)flexibility of Constituency in Japanese in Multi-Modal Categorical Grammar with Structured Phonology
Email: yk@phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Personal URL: http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yk/
Position / Employer: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo
Foltz, Anouschka PhD 2010, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: How listeners resolve reference: Effects of pitch accent, edge tones, and lexical contrast
Email: anouschka.foltz@uni-bielefeld.de
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~anouschka/
Position / Employer: Post-doctoral Researcher, Universität Bielefeld
Sampson, Salena PhD 2010, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Noun Phrase Word Order Variation in Old English Verse and Prose
Email: Salena.Sampson@valpo.edu
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University
Heintz, Ilana PhD 2010, Chris Brew/Eric Fosler-Lussier
Thesis Title: Arabic Language Modleing with Stem-derived Morphemes for Automatic Speech Recognition
Email: Heintz.38@osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bromberg/
Position / Employer: Raytheon BBN Technologies
Smith, Elizabeth PhD 2010, Craige Roberts/Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: Correlational Comparison in English
Email: esmith@northwestern.edu
Personal URL: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~eas957/Home.html
Position / Employer: University of Quebec at Montreal
Papke, Julia Porter PhD 2010, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Classical Sanskrit Preverb Ordering: A Diachronic Study
Email: papke@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Graduate Program Coordinator, The Ohio State University
Kong, Eun Jong PhD 2009, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: The Development of Phonation-type Contrasts in Plosives: Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Email: ekong@kau.ac.kr
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~ejkong/
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Korea Aerospace University
Hall, Kathleen Currie PhD 2009, Elizabeth Hume
Thesis Title: A Probabilistic model of Phonological relationships from Contrast to Allophony
Email: kchall@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~kchall/
Position / Employer: University of British Columbia
Bailey, Stacey PhD 2008, Detmar Meurers
Thesis Title: Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language
Email: s.bailey@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.osu.edu/~s.bailey/
Position / Employer: MITRE
Baker, Kirk PhD 2008, Chris Brew
Thesis Title: Multilingual Distributional Lexical Similarity
Email: baker.1012@osu.edu
Position / Employer: Computational Linguist, The Zerhouni Group
Li, Fangfang PhD 2008, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: The Phonetic Development of Voiceless Sibilant Fricatives in English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese
Email: fangfang.li@uleth.ca
Personal URL: http://people.uleth.ca/~fangfang.li/index.html
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Department of Psychology
Li, Jianguo PhD 2008, Chris Brew
Thesis Title: Hybrid Methods for Acquisition of Lexical Information: The Case for Verbs
Email: jianguo@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~jianguo/
Position / Employer: Senior Staff Engineer, Applied Research Center, Motorola
Nagar, Ila PhD 2008, Don Winford
Thesis Title: Language, Gender And Identity: The Case Of Kotis In Lucknow- India
Riha, Helena PhD 2008, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Lettered Words and Roman Letter Characters in Chinese Writing: A Study Of Alphabetic Writing in Chinese Newswires
Email: riha@ling.osu.edu
Position / Employer: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Hana, Jirka PhD 2007, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: Czech Clitics in Higher Order Grammar
Personal URL: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~hana/
Position / Employer: Senior Research Associate, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University
Kang, Soyoung PhD 2007, Shari R. Speer
Thesis Title: Effects of Prosody and Context on Syntactic Ambiguity in English and Korean
Email: skang@ling.osu.edu
Position / Employer: Lecturer, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea
McGuire, Grant PhD 2007, Mary E. Beckman & Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: Phonetic Category Learning
Email: gmcguir1@ucsc.edu
Personal URL: http://people.ucsc.edu/~gmcguir1/
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Claifornia Santa Cruz
Rytting, C. Anton PhD 2007, Chris Brew
Thesis Title: Preserving Subsegmental Variation in Modeling Word Segmentation (or The Raising of Baby Mondegreen)
Email: rytting@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.osu.edu/~rytting
Position / Employer: Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland
Xu, Lei PhD 2007, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: Phonological Variation and Word Recognition in Continuous Speech
Email: xu@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~xu/
Position / Employer: Part-time student in the MA program in Speech Language Pathology, San José State University; full-time parent
Feldman, Anna PhD 2006, Chris Brew
Email: feldmana@mail.montclair.edu
Personal URL: http://chss.montclair.edu/~feldmana/
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science, Montclair State University
Lu, Xiaofei PhD 2006, Detmar Meurers
Thesis Title: Hybrid Models for Chinese Unknown Word Resolution
Email: xxl13@psu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13/
Position / Employer: Assisstant Professor, Applied Linguistics Department, Pennsylvania State University
Sims, Andrea PhD 2006, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Minding the gaps: Inflectional defectiveness in paradigmatic morphology
Email: asims@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/sims120
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Wong, Wai-Yi Peggy PhD 2006, Mary E. Beckman
Thesis Title: Syllable Fusion in Hong Kong Cantonese Connected Speech
Email: pwong@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://ling.osu.edu/~pwong
Position / Employer: University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Collins, Wes PhD 2005, Don Winford
Thesis Title: Centeredness as a Cultural and Grammatical Theme in Maya-Mam
Email: wcollins@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~wcollins/
Position / Employer: Professor, Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru (SIL)
Daniels, Mike PhD 2005, Detmar Meurers
Thesis Title: Generalized ID/LP Grammar: A Formalism for Parsing Linearization-Based HPSG Grammars
Email: daniels@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~daniels/
Position / Employer: Speech and Natural Language Group, Microsoft Corporation
Dawson, Hope PhD 2005, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Morphological Variation and Change in the RigVeda: The case of -au vs. -a:
Email: hdawson@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Senior Lecturer; TA Coordinator, Dept of Linguistics. Ohio State University
Dickinson, Markus PhD 2005, Detmar Meurers
Thesis Title: Error detection and correction in annotated corpora
Email: md7@indiana.edu
Personal URL: http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~mdickinson/
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Dodsworth, Robin PhD 2005, Donald Winford
Thesis Title: Linguistic variation and sociological consciousness
Email: rmdodswo@ncsu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/dodsworth.php
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
Tserdanelis, Georgios PhD 2005, Brian Joseph and Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: The Role of Segmental Sandhi in the Parsing of Speech: Evidence from Greek
Email: georgios.tserdanelis@eloyalty.com
Position / Employer: IVR Senior Programmer at eLoyalty
Yoon, Kyuchul PhD 2005, Mary E. Beckman
Thesis Title: Building a prosodically sensitive diphone database for a Korean text-to-speech synthesis system
Email: kyoon@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://ling.osu.edu/~kyoon
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Yeungnam University
Blodgett, Allison PhD 2004, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: The interaction of prosodic phrasing, verb bias, and plausibility during spoken sentence comprehension
Email: blodgett@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~blodgett/
Position / Employer: Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland
Huang, Tsan PhD 2004, Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: Language-Specificity in Auditory Perception of Chinese Tones
Email: thuang3@buffalo.edu
Personal URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/huang/index.html
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, SUNY, Buffalo, Department of Linguistics
Lee, Sunhee PhD 2004, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: A Lexical Analysis of Select Unbounded Dependency Constructions in Korean
Email: shlee@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.wellesley.edu/EALL/slee/web/slee_web.html
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
Mielke, Jeffrey PhD 2004, Beth Hume
Thesis Title: The Emergence of Distinctive Features
Email: jmielke@uottawa.ca
Personal URL: http://www.linguistics.uottawa.ca/faculty/mielke.html
Position / Employer: Associate Professor, Univ. of Ottawa, Dept. of Linguistics
Ramos-Pellicia, Michelle PhD 2004, Brian Joseph & Donald Winford
Email: mramospe@gmu.edu
Position / Employer: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Schaengold, Charlotte PhD 2004, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Bilingual Navajo: Mixed Codes, Bilingualism, and Language Maintenance
Email: schaengold@fuse.net
Personal URL: http://anthropology.nku.edu/index.php/faculty/charlotte-schaengold
Position / Employer: Department of Anthropology, Northern Kentucky University
Stewart, Thomas PhD 2004, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Mutation as Morphology: Bases, Stems, and Shapes in Scottish Gaelic
Email: twstew02@louisville.edu
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor in Humanities (Linguistics), University of Louisville
Vaillette, Nathan PhD 2004, Christopher Brew
Thesis Title: Logical Specification of Finite State Transductions for Natural Language Processing
Personal URL: http://www.mtmlinguasoft.com/
Position / Employer: Project Manager, MTM LinguaSoft
Gooden, Shelome PhD 2003, Beth Hume & Donald Winford (co-advisors)
Thesis Title: The Phonology and Phonetics of Jamaican Creole Reduplication
Email: sgooden@pitt.edu
Personal URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~sgooden/
Position / Employer: Associate Professor, Pittsburgh
Jansche, Martin PhD 2003, Chris Brew
Thesis Title: Inference of string mappings for language technology
Email: jansche@acm.org
Personal URL: http://purl.org/net/jansche/
Position / Employer: Google, New York
Makashay, Matthew PhD 2003, Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: Individual differences in speech and non-speech perception of frequency and duration
Email: Matthew.Makashay@NA.AMEDD.ARMY.MIL
Personal URL: http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~makashay
Position / Employer: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Army Audiology & Speech Center
Seo, Misun PhD 2003, Beth Hume
Thesis Title: A Segment Sequencing Account of Sonorant-Consonant Interaction
Position / Employer: Hannam University, Korea
Welby, Pauline PhD 2003, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: The slaying of Lady Mondegreen, being a study of French tonal association and alignment and their role in speech segmentation
Email: Pauline Welby
Personal URL: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~welby
Position / Employer: Chargè de recherche, CNRS - Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence
Winters, Stephen PhD 2003, Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: Empirical investigations into the perceptual and articulatory origins of cross-linguistic asymmetries in place assimilation
Email: swinters@ucalgary.ca
Personal URL: https://webdisk.ucalgary.ca/~swinters/public_html/personal.html
Position / Employer: Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
Davis, Paul PhD 2002, Christopher Brew
Thesis Title: Stone Soup Translation: The Linked Automata Model
Position / Employer: Motorola
Fon, Janice PhD 2002, Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Syntactic and Discourse Boundary Cues in Spontaneous Speech
Email: jfon@ntu.edu.tw
Personal URL: http://foneticslab.blogspot.com/search/label/About%20me
Position / Employer: Associate Professor of Linguistics at National Taiwan University
Gao, Qian PhD 2002,
Email: qiangao@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Professor at the Defense Language Institute
Godby, Jean PhD 2002, Craige Roberts
Thesis Title: A computational study of lexicalized noun phrases in English
Email: godby@oclc.org
Personal URL: http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/godby/index.shtm
Position / Employer: Consulting Research Scientist, OCLC Online Computer Library Center,Inc.
Jannedy, Stefanie PhD 2002, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Hat Patterns and Double Peaks: The Phonetics and Psycholingusitics of Broad versus Late Narrow versus Double Focus Intonations
Email: jannedy@ling.osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarbeiter_jannedy.html
Position / Employer: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenshaft, Berlin
Muller, Jennifer PhD 2002, Elizabeth Hume
Thesis Title: The Phonology and Phonetics of Word-Initial Geminates
Email: jsmuller@ling.ohio-state.edu
Position / Employer: Department of Defense
Vasishth, Shravan PhD 2002, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: Working memory in sentence comprehension: Processing Hindi center embeddings.
Email: vasishth@acm.org
Personal URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/
Position / Employer: Professor of Linguistics, Institute for Linguistics, Potsdam University
Whitman, P. Neal PhD 2002, David Dowty
Thesis Title: Category-Neutrality: A Type-Logical Investigation
Personal URL: http://literalminded.wordpress.com
Position / Employer: Freelance linguist; full-time parent
Yoneyama, Kiyoko PhD 2002, Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: Phonological neighborhoods and phonetic similarity in Japanese word recognition
Email: yoneyama@kokken.go.jp
Position / Employer: Associate Professor, Daito Bunka University
Hartman Keiser, Steven PhD 2001, Brian Joseph & Donald Winford
Thesis Title: Language change across speech islands: The emergence of a midwestern dialect of Pennsylvania German
Email: s.hartman.keiser@mu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.marquette.edu/english/keiser.shtml
Position / Employer: Associate Professor at Marquette University
Liphola, Marcelino PhD 2001, David Odden
Thesis Title: Aspects of Phonology and Morphology of Shimakonde
Email: liphola@zebra.uem.mz
Position / Employer: Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Miller-Ockhuizen, Amanda PhD 2001, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Grounding Ju|´hoansi Phonotactics: The Phonetics of the Guttural OCP and other Acoustic Modulations
Email: amiller@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~amiller/
Position / Employer: Research Scientist, Ohio State University
Pappas, Panayiotis PhD 2001, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Weak Object Pronoun Placement in Later Medieval and Early Modern Greek
Email: panayiotis_pappas@sfu.ca
Personal URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~papappas/PappasLing/HTML/Pappas_Personal.htm
Position / Employer: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
Vannest, Jennifer PhD 2001, Keith Johnson
Email: jvannest@bcs.rochester.edu
Personal URL: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/v/jennifer-vannest/
Position / Employer: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
D'Imperio, Mariapaola PhD 2000, Mary Beckman & Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: The Role of Perception in Defining Tonal Targets and Their Alignment
Email: mariapaola.dimperio@univ-provence.fr
Personal URL: http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~dimperio/
Position / Employer: Professor, Université de Provence, France
Godjevac, Svetlana PhD 2000, Craige Roberts
Thesis Title: Intonation, Word Order, and Focus Projection in SerboCroatian
Email: svetlanag@gmail.com
Position / Employer: Xerox Litigation Services
Goh, Gwang-Yoon PhD 2000, Brian Joseph
Email: goh@yonsei.ac.kr
Personal URL: http://chinese.yonsei.ac.kr/sinchon/libart_eng_01.asp
Position / Employer: Associate Professor, Yonsei University
Mutonyi, Nasiombe PhD 2000, David Odden
Thesis Title: Aspects of Bukusu Morphology and Phonology
Email: nasiombe.mutonyi@neulevel.biz
Personal URL: http://www.neulevel.biz
Position / Employer: NeuLevel, Inc.
Strand, Elizabeth PhD 2000, Keith Johnson
Thesis Title: Gender stereotype effects in speech processing
Email: estrand@microsoft.com
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/Alumni/estrand
Position / Employer: Microsoft
Venditti, Jennifer PhD 2000, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Discourse Structure and Attentional Salience Effects in Japanese Intonation
Email: jen.venditti@mac.com
Personal URL: http://web.mac.com/jen.venditti/Site/Home.html/
Position / Employer: Part-time speech language pathologist; full-time parent
Bradshaw, Mary PhD 1999, David Odden
Email: bradshaw.17@osu.edu
Personal URL: http://esl.ehe.osu.edu/staff/eslc/mary-bradshaw/
Position / Employer: Lecturer, ESL Composition Program, Ohio State Unversity
Cahill, Michael PhD 1999, David Odden
Email: mike_cahill@sil.org
Personal URL: http://www.sil.org/linguistics/NOL.htm
Position / Employer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
Golde, Karin PhD 1999, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: Binding Theory and Beyond: An Investigation Into The English Pronominal System
Email: kegolde@yahoo.com
Position / Employer: NetBase Solutions, Inc.
Roberts-Kohno, Rosalind R. PhD 1999, David Odden
Email: thekohnos@hotmail.com
Personal URL: http://esl.ehe.osu.edu/staff/sep/ruth-roberts-kohno/
Position / Employer: Lecturer, Spoken English Program, The Ohio State University
Arrieta-Stemen, Maria C. PhD 1998, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Nominalizations in Basque and Their Fate in Language Maintenance Situations
Email: kutz@uswest.net
Darnell, Kim PhD 1998, Julie Boland
Thesis Title: The Influence of Orthographic, Semantic, and Phonological Predictability on the Orthographic Dominance Effect: Evidence from Japanese
Email: kimad@gsu.edu
Position / Employer: Senior lecturer, Psychology Department, Georgia State University
Fallon, Paul D. PhD 1998, David Odden
Thesis Title: The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives
Email: pfallon@umw.edu
Personal URL: http://pfallon.umwblogs.org/
Position / Employer: University of Mary Washington
Herman, Rebecca PhD 1998, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Phrase-Final Fundamental Frequency Control
Email: rebecca_h76@yahoo.com
Position / Employer: On leave from De Paul University and Nuance Communications to be a full-time parent
Kurz-Nicoletti, Claudia PhD 1998, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Prepositions, Noun Phrases, and Simplification in Contact Varieties of German
Email: ckurz-nicoletti@lhsl.co
Position / Employer: Lernout & Hauspie
Migge, Bettina PhD 1998, Don Winford
Thesis Title: Substrate Influence in the Formation of the Surinamese Plantation Creole: A Consideration of Sociohistorical Data and Linguistic Data from Ndyuka and Gbe
Email: bettinamigge@ucd.ie
Personal URL: http://www.ucd.ie/icsifl/bettinam.html
Position / Employer: Senior Lecturer, University College Dublin
Poletto, Robert PhD 1998, David Odden
Email: rpoletto@columbus.rr.com
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/Alumni/rpoletto
Position / Employer: Nationwide Financial
Weldon, Tracy PhD 1998, Don Winford
Email: weldon@unity.ncsu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/weldon.html
Position / Employer: Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
Kang, Hyeon-Seok PhD 1997, Don Winford
Thesis Title: Phonological Variation in Glides and Dipthongs of Seoul Korean: Its Synchrony and Diachrony
Position / Employer: Dankook University in Cheonan
Saperstein, Andrew PhD 1997, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: A Word and Paradigm Approach to Reduplication
Personal URL: http://vineyardcolumbus.org/ministries/co-ed-small-groups/staff/andy-saperstein/
Position / Employer: Pastor, Columbus Vineyard Church
Yoo, Eun Jung PhD 1997, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: Wh-in-Situ and Theory of Quantification
Email: ejyoo@snu.ac.kr
Personal URL: http://humanities.snu.ac.kr/eng/se01_ac/se01_ac_c/se01_ac_c03/se01_ac_c03.jsp
Position / Employer: Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Elam (Ayers), Gayle Ayers PhD 1996, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Nuclear Accent Types and Prominence: Some Psycholinguistic Experiments
Email: gaelam@his.com
Personal URL: http://www.his.com/~elam/gayle/gayle-index.html
Position / Employer: Gayle Ayers Elam Consulting
Kim, Hyeree PhD 1996, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: The Synchrony and Diachrony of English Impersonal Verbs: A Study in Syntactic and Lexical Change
Email: hkim@cu.ac.kr
Position / Employer: Catholic University of Daegu
Kim, No-Ju PhD 1996, David Odden
Thesis Title: The Optimality Theoretic Account of Tones, Segments, and their Interaction in North Kyungsang Korean
Email: nokim@kyungpook.ac.kr
Position / Employer: Kyungbook National University
Parkinson, Frederick PhD 1996, David Odden
Thesis Title: The Phonological Representation of Vowel Height, its Phonetic Correlates and Role in Constraint-Based Phonology
Email: frederick.parkinson@nuance.com
Personal URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Parkinson%2C%20Frederick
Position / Employer: Nuance Communications
Peng, Shu-hui PhD 1996, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Phonetic Implementation and Perception of Segmental Coarticulation and Tone Sandhi
Position / Employer: Resigned as Associate Professor, National University of Kaohsiung, to be a full-time parent, Toronto
Sydorenko, Halyna PhD 1996, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: The Atypical Morpheme: Two Case Studies from Ukrainian
Email: sydorenk@rotman.utoronto.ca
Position / Employer: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Yoon, Jae-Hak PhD 1996, Craige Roberts
Thesis Title: Temporal Adverbials and Aktionsarten in Korean
Email: jyoon@khu.ac.kr
Position / Employer: Kyung Hee University, Korea
Chung, Chan PhD 1995, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: A Syntactic Theory of Word Order Variations in Korean
Personal URL: http://www.dongseo.ac.kr/eng_dsu/Academic/Foreignlang/English/Faculty/chungchan.html
Position / Employer: Dongseo University
Kathol, Andreas PhD 1995, Carl Pollard
Thesis Title: Linearization-Based German Syntax
Email: akathol @ earthlink.net
Personal URL: http://ling.osu.edu/~kathol/
Position / Employer: SRI International, STAR Laboratory
Hussein, Lutfi PhD 1994, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Voicing-Dependent Vowel Duration in Standard Arabic and Its Acquisition by Adult American Students
Personal URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Hussein%2C%20Lutfi
Lee, Sook-hyang PhD 1994, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Role of the Jaw in Consonant Articulation
Email: shlee@speech.wonkwang.ac.kr
Position / Employer: Wongkwang University, Chunbuk, Korea
Welker, Katherine PhD 1994, Craige Roberts
Thesis Title: Plans in the Common Ground: Toward a Generative Account of Conversational Implicature
Position / Employer: Intuit Inc.
Ao, Benjamin PhD 1993, David Odden
Thesis Title: Phonology of Nantong Chinese
Personal URL: http://www.conversay.com/
Position / Employer: Conversay
Jun, Sun-Ah PhD 1993, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody
Email: jun@humnet.ucla.edu
Personal URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/jun/sun-ah.htm
Position / Employer: Professor of Linguistics, UCLA
Lee, Gina PhD 1993, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Diachronic and Experimental Perspectives on the Interaction between Tone and Vowel in Cantonese
Position / Employer: Ohio State University, Office of Human Resources
Chae, Hee-Rahk PhD 1992, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Lexically Triggered Unbounded Discontinuities in English: An Indexed Phrase Structure Grammar Approach
Email: hrchae@maincc.hufs.ac.kr
Personal URL: http://maincc.hufs.ac.kr/~hrchae/
Position / Employer: Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Dai, John Xiang-ling PhD 1992, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Chinese Morphology and its Interface with Syntax
Email: dai.12@osu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/refweb/micper/micdir.htm
Position / Employer: OSU Libraries
Chung, Young Hee PhD 1991, David Odden
Thesis Title: Tonal System of the North Kyungsang Dialect of Korean
Position / Employer: Seojong University, Seoul
de Jong, Ken PhD 1991, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Accent and Articulation
Email: kdejong@indiana.edu
Personal URL: http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~kdejong/
Position / Employer: Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University
Gruber-Miller, Ann PhD 1991, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Loss of Arabic Case Endings: Internal or External Reasons?
Personal URL: http://cornell-iowa.edu/wrc/
Position / Employer: Cornell College, Iowa
No, Yongkyoon PhD 1991, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Case Alterations on Verb-Phrase Internal Arguments
Email: ynoling@hanbat.chungnam.ac.kr
Personal URL: http://chungnam.ac.kr/
Position / Employer: Chungnam National University
Smirniotopoulos, Jane PhD 1991, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Lexical Passives in Modern Greek
Email: smirniotopoulos.1@osu.edu
Personal URL: http://esl.ehe.osu.edu/staff/sep/jane-smirniotopoulos/
Position / Employer: Academic Program Specialist, Spoken English Program, Ohio State University
Subramanian, Uma PhD 1991, David Dowty
Thesis Title: On Internal and External Syntax Mismatches
Email: uma.subramanian@keanmiller.com
Position / Employer: Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, L.L.P.
Sheu, Ying-yu PhD 1990, David Dowty
Thesis Title: Topics in a Categorial Theory of Chinese Syntax
Kuh, Hakan PhD 1989, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Toward an Adequate Account of the Interaction between Inflection and Word Order
Personal URL: http://english.hongik.ac.kr/
Position / Employer: Hongik University
Johnson, Keith PhD 1988, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Processes of Speaker Normalization in Vowel Perception
Email: keithjohnson@berkeley.edu
Personal URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~kjohnson
Position / Employer: Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Lasersohn, Peter PhD 1988, David Dowty
Thesis Title: A Semantics for Groups and Events
Email: lasersohn@uiuc.edu
Personal URL: http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/people/lasersoh/
Position / Employer: Professor, University of Illinois
Valimaa-Blum, Riitta PhD 1988, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Finnish Existential Clauses--Their Syntax, Pragmatics and Intonation
Email: Riitta.Blum@unice.fr
Personal URL: http://portail.unice.fr/jahia/jsp/index.jsp
Position / Employer: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Zhang, Zheng-Sheng PhD 1988, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Tone and Tone Sandhi in Chinese
Email: zzhang@mail.sdsu.edu
Personal URL: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/
Position / Employer: San Diego State University
Hinrichs, Erhard PhD 1985, David Dowty
Thesis Title: Toward a Theory of Events
Email: eh@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Personal URL: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~eh/
Position / Employer: Universität Tübingen
Nevis, Joel PhD 1985, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Finnish Particle Clitics and General Clitic Theory
Email: janevis@aol.com
Personal URL: http://members.aol.com/janevis/splat_pict2.gif
Nerbonne, John PhD 1984, David Dowty
Thesis Title: German Temporal Semantics: Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment
Email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl
Personal URL: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/
Position / Employer: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Obermeier, Klaus PhD 1984, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Temporal Inferences in Computational Linguistics Information Processing
Email: klaus@sqlbench.com
Personal URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Obermeier%2C%20Klaus%20K.
Position / Employer: SQLBench Intl.
Wallace, Rex PhD 1984, Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: The Sabellian Language
Email: rwallace@classics.umass.edu
Personal URL: http://www.umass.edu/classics/wallace.htm
Position / Employer: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Hoskison, James PhD 1983, David Stampe
Thesis Title: A Grammar and Dictionary of the Gude Language
Farrar, Christopher PhD 1982, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: A Prototype Model of Speech Perception
Schaffer, Deborah PhD 1982, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Intonation Cues to Management in Natural Conversation
Email: dschaffe@msu-b.edu
Personal URL: http://www.msubillings.edu/directory/AlphaSearchResults.asp
Position / Employer: Montana State University, Billings
Schaffer, Rachel PhD 1982, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Vocal Cues for Irony in English
Email: rschaffe@msu-b.edu
Personal URL: http://www.msubillings.edu/directory/Search.ASP?Lname=schaffer
Position / Employer: Montana State University, Billings
Schourup, Lawrence PhD 1982, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Common Discourse Particles in English Conversation
Personal URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Schourup%2C%20Lawrence%20C.
Stump, Gregory T. PhD 1981, David Dowty
Thesis Title: The Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
Email: gstump@pop.uky.edu
Personal URL: http://www.cs.uky.edu/~gstump/personal/
Position / Employer: Department of English, University of Kentucky
Churma, Donald PhD 1980, David Stampe
Thesis Title: Arguments from External Evidence in Phonology
Goman, Roderick PhD 1980, David Stampe
Thesis Title: Consonants in Natural Phonology
Schmidt, Deborah PhD 1980, Catherine Callaghan
Thesis Title: A History of Inversion in English
Warner, Richard PhD 1980, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Discourse Connectives in English
Boys, William PhD 1979, Catherine Callaghan
Thesis Title: Ibibio Phonology
Levin, Nancy PhD 1979, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Main-verb Ellipsis in Spoken English
Major, Roy C. PhD 1979, David Stampe
Thesis Title: Prosody in Brazilian Portuguese Phonology
Email: Roy.Major@asu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/who/major.htm
Position / Employer: Arizona State University
Donegan, Patricia PhD 1978, Robert Jeffers
Thesis Title: On the Natural Phonology of Vowels
Email: donegan@hawaii.edu
Personal URL: http://www2.hawaii.edu/ling/faculty.htm
Position / Employer: University of Hawaii
Latta, F. Christian PhD 1978, Robert Jeffers
Thesis Title: Methods for Internal Reconstruction
Herbert, Robert K PhD 1977, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Language Universals, Markedness Theory, and Natural Phonetic Processes: The Interaction of Nasal and Oral Consonants
Email: warthog@binghamton.edu
Personal URL: http://anthro.binghamton.edu/faculty2.html
Position / Employer: Binghamton University
Johnson, Marion PhD 1977, Arnold Zwicky, David Dowty
Thesis Title: A Semantic Analysis of Kiku Tense and Aspect
Kantor, Robert PhD 1977, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: The Management and Comprehension of Discourse Connection by Pronouns in English
Pollack, Jay PhD 1977, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Lexical Features in Phonology
Semiloff, Holly PhD 1977, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: An Acoustic Correlate of Syllabicity in English
Perkins, John PhD 1976, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Phonetic Study of Cross Dialect
Nobel, Barry PhD 1975, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Inflectional Shortening in Baltic
Garnes, Sara PhD 1974, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Quantity in Icelandic: Production and Perception
Email: garnes.1@osu.edu
Personal URL: http://english.ohio-state.edu/programs/graduate/faculty.htm
Position / Employer: Ohio State University
Lee, Patricia A. PhD 1974, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Impositive Speech Acts
Email: pal@hawaii.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/plee/
Position / Employer: University of Hawaii
Neeld, Ronald PhD 1974, Michael Geis
Thesis Title: Global Constraints in Syntax
Hutcheson, James PhD 1973, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: A Natural History A Natural History of Complete Consonantal Assimilationsof Complete Consonantal Assimilations
Shockey, Linda PhD 1973, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Phonetic and Phonological Properties of Connected Speech
Email: L.Shockey@reading.ac.uk
Personal URL: http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/appling/shockey.htm
Position / Employer: University of Reading
Wojcik, Rick PhD 1973, Michael Geis
Thesis Title: The Expression of Causation in English Clauses
Email: rwojcik@gte.net
Position / Employer: Boeing Company
Lu, Hsiao-Tung PhD 1972, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: The Verb-Verb Construction in Mandarin Chinese
Position / Employer: Florida State University
Bond, Zinny PhD 1971, Ilse Lehiste
Thesis Title: Units in Speech Perception
Email: bond@ohio.edu
Personal URL: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/linguistics/dept/bond.htm
Position / Employer: Ohio University
Elliott, Dale E. PhD 1971, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: The Grammar of Emotive and Exclamatory Sentences in English
Heringer, James T. PhD 1971, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Some Grammatical Correlates of Felicity Conditions and Presuppositions
Huang, Shuan-fan PhD 1971, Charles Fillmore
Thesis Title: A Study of Adverbs
Email: sfhuang@ntu.edu.tw
Personal URL: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/english_version/faculty/index.htm
Position / Employer: Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University
Lee, Gregory PhD 1970, Arnold Zwicky
Thesis Title: Subjects and Agents
Email: lee@hawaii.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/glee/
Position / Employer: University of Hawaii
Thompson, Sandra A. PhD 1969, Charles Fillmore
Thesis Title: Relative Clause Structures and Constraints on Types of Complex Sentences
Email: sathomps@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Personal URL: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/thompson.html
Position / Employer: UC Santa Barbara
Yue-Hashimoto, Anne O. PhD 1966, S-Y Wang
Thesis Title: Embedding Structures in Mandarin
Email: anneyue@u.washington.edu
Personal URL: http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/people/faculty/anneyue.html
Position / Employer: University of Washington
Hashimoto, Mantaro PhD 1965, S-Y Wang
Thesis Title: The Phonology of Ancient Chinese
Position / Employer: deceased
Master of Arts Alumni
Brawley, Hartman MA 2012, Laura Wagner
Thesis Title: What Informs Event Descriptions: Language, Salience, and Discourse in English and Japanese
Email: hartbrawley@gmail.com
Collins, Michael MA 2012
Email: mxcollins@gmail.com
Bibyk, Sarah MA 2010, Shari Speer
Thesis Title: The development of children's processing of English pitch accents in a visual search task
Email: sbibyk@bcs.rochester.edu
Position / Employer: graduate student, University of Rochester
Pate, John MA 2009, Detmar Meurers and Laura Wagner
Thesis Title: Extending Phone Prediction Models of Word Segmentation to a More Realistic Representation of Prosody
Ross, Sharon MA 2009, Peter Culicover
Email: ross.583@osu.edu
Position / Employer: University of Haifa
Shain, Corey MA 2009, Peter Culicover and Judith Tonhauser
Thesis Title: The Distribution of Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guarani
Shain, Rachel MA 2009, Judith Tonhauser and Brian Joseph
Thesis Title: Greek Lexical Semantics
Metusalem, Ross MA 2008, Shari Speer and Kiwako Ito
Thesis Title: The Role of Pitch Accent in Discourse Construction
Stevens, Jon MA 2008, Brian Joseph and Judith Tonhauser
Thesis Title: The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation
Freedman, Michael MA 2007, Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser
Gegg-Harrison, Whitney MA 2006, Craige Roberts
Email: whitney@ling.ohio-state.edu
Personal URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~whitney/
Position / Employer: PhD Student in Brain and Cognitive Science at University of Rochester
Watts, Andrew MA 2006, Detmar Meurers
Email: awatts@bcs.rochester.edu
Personal URL: http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/~awatts/
Position / Employer: Laboratory Technician / University of Rochester, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Shin, Hyunsook MA 2005, Robert Levine
Email: shin@ling.ohio-state.edu
Gonsalves, Toby MA 2001,
Email: agonsal@ling.ohio-state.edu
Wagner, Peter MA 2000,
Personal URL: http://www.cyc.com/
Position / Employer: Cycorp, Inc
Pimental, David MS 1996,
Email: dpimental@juno.com
Position / Employer: The Checkfree Corporation
Cohen, Kevin MA 1995, Mary Beckman
Thesis Title: Vowel Production and Vocal Tract Evolution
Email: Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com
Personal URL: http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen
Position / Employer: MITRE
McDougal, Christina MA 1994,
Johnson, Sarah (Lewis) MA 1992,
Email: cfsln@eiu.edu
Personal URL: http://www.libraryjobpostings.org/resume.htm
Position / Employer: Eastern Illinois University
Yampol, Todd MA 1992,
Email: yampol@nuance.com
Personal URL: http://www.nuance.com
Position / Employer: Nuance Communications, SF Bay Area
Kuo, Hsiao-ling MA 1990, Mike Geis
Email: gracekuo35@hotmail.com
Position / Employer: Language Training and Testing Center in Taipei, Taiwan
Neighbarger, Rick MA 1990,
Email: neighbar@oclc.org
Position / Employer: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Oh, Mira MA 1990, David Odden
Email: mroh@chonnam.ac.kr
Position / Employer: Chonnam National University
Pan, Ho-hsien MA 1990,
Email: hhpan@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Position / Employer: National Chiao Tung University
Hoyte, Joy MA 1988,
Email: jhoyte@sharidionne.com
Position / Employer: Sharidionne, Inc.
Huckabee Gardner, Patricia MA 1986,
Email: Gardner.92@osu.edu
Position / Employer: College of Dentistry at OSU
Stollenwerk, Debbie MA 1986,
Email: Debbie_Stollenwerk@prenhall.com
Position / Employer: Executive Editor, Prentice-Hall
de Hilster, David MS 1985,
Email: david@dehilster.com
Personal URL: http://www.textanalysis.com
Position / Employer: Text Analysis International
Lin, Hwei-Bing MA 1982,
Personal URL: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/people/faculty.htm
Position / Employer: NYU
Gunji, Takao MA 1981,
Email: gunji@sils.shoin.ac.jp
Position / Employer: Shoin Institute for Linguistic Sciences / Kobe Shoin Graduate School
Jamison, Emily MA
Notable Bachelor of Arts degrees
Wambold, Sandra BA 2003
Email: sandra@wambold.com
Personal URL: http://wambold.com
Position / Employer: Google
Azara, Misty BA 1998
Email: misty.azara@mindspring.com
Personal URL: http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb/people/mas.html
Position / Employer: Microsoft
Liaw, Lily BA 1997
Email: lliaw@socrates.berkeley.edu
Personal URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/
Position / Employer: UC Berkeley
Marlatt, Jason BA 1993
Email: jason_marlatt@hotmail.com
Position / Employer: Ohio Department of Health
Swora, Maria BA 1990
Email: maria_swora@yahoo.com
Position / Employer: Benedictine College, Atchison, KS
Darling, Julia A Carroll BA 1976
Email: jdarling@columbus.rr.com
