Research

Ohio State Dissertations in Linguistics (OSDL)

Since October of 1994, dissertations that have been written by students in the OSU Linguistics Department since 1992 have been distributed by the graduate student-run organization OSDL. Below you will find a complete list of dissertations that we distribute.

As of September 2006, we will no longer be providing hard copies of dissertations. There are links below to PDF versions of all available dissertations. If possible, we provide a link to the author's original PDF. Some are available on the author's website and many newer dissertations (2002-) are available through OhioLink. All other dissertations have been scanned in and are available locally. Please let us know if you have trouble with any of the links.

If you have any questions about OSDL or any of the dissertations it distributes, please email osdl@ling.ohio-state.edu or write us at this address:

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Dissertations Currently Available:

Hee-Rahk Chae (1992)
Lexically Triggered Unbounded Discontinuities in English: An Indexed Phrase Structure Grammar Approach
Advisor: Arnold Zwicky
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John Xiang-ling Dai (1993)
Chinese Morphology and its Interface with the Syntax
Advisor: Arnold Zwicky
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Benjamin Xiaoping Ao (1993)
Phonetics and Phonology of Nantong Chinese
Advisor: David Odden
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Sun-Ah Jun (1993)
The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody
Advisor: Mary Beckman
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Gina Lee (1993)
Comparative, Diachronic and Experimental Perspectives on the Interaction between Tone and Vowel in Standard Cantonese
Advisor: Brian Joseph
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Katherine Welker (1994)
Plans in the Common Ground: Toward a Generative Account of Conversational Implicature
Advisor: Craige Roberts
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Chan Chung (1995)
A Lexical Approach to Word Order Variation in Korean
Advisor: Carl Pollard
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Gayle Ayers (1996)
Nuclear Accent Types and Prominence: Some Psycholinguistic Experiments
Advisor: Mary E. Beckman
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Jae-Hak Yoon (1996)
Temporal Adverbials and Aktionsarten in Korean
Advisor: Craige Roberts
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Frederick Parkinson (1996)
The Representation of Vowel Height in Phonology
Advisor: David Odden
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Shu-Hui Peng (1996)
Phonetic Implementation and Perception of Place Coarticulation and Tone Sandhi
Advisor: Mary Beckman
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Julie McGory (1997)
The Acquisition Of Intonation Patterns in English By Native Speakers Of Korean And Mandarin
Advisor: Robert Fox
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Hyeon-Seok Kang (1997)
Phonological Variation in Glides and Diphthongs of Seoul Korean: Its Synchrony and Diachrony
Advisor: Donald Winford
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No Ju Kim (1997)
The Optimality Theoretic Account of Tones, Segments, and their Interaction in North Kyungsang Korean
Advisor: Odden
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Eun Jung Yoo (1997)
Quantifiers and Wh-Interrogatives in the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Advisor: Carl Pollard
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Rebecca Herman (1998)
Intonation and Discourse Structure in English: Phonological and Phonetic Markers of Local and Global Discourse Structure
Advisor: Mary Beckman
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Kutz M. C. Arrieta (1998)
Nominalizations in Basque: A Case in Language Attrition
Advisor: Brian D. Joseph
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Kim Ainsworth-Darnell (1998)
The Effects of Priming on Recognition Latencies to Familiar and Unfamiliar Orthographic Formsof Japanese Words
Advisor: Julie E. Boland
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Bettina Migge (1998)
Substrate Influence in the Formation of the Surinamese Plantation Creole: A Consideration of Sociohistorical Data and Linguistic Data from Ndyuka and Gbe
Advisor: Donald Winford
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Karin Golde (1999)
Binding Theory and Beyond: An Investigation Into The English Pronominal System
Advisor: Carl Pollard
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Mary Bradshaw (1999)
A Crosslinguistic Study of Consonant-Tone Interaction
Advisor: David Odden
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Jennifer Venditti (2000)
Discourse Structure and Attentional Salience Effects on Japanese Intonation
Advisor: Mary Beckman

Elizabeth Strand (2000)
Gender Stereotype Effects in Speech Processing
Advisor: Keith Johnson
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Mariapaola D'Imperio (2000)
The Role of Perception in Defining Tonal Targets and ther Alignment
Advisor: Marcy Beckman and Keith Johnson
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Qian Gao (2000)
Argument Structure, HPSG and Chinese Grammar
Advisor: Carl Pollard
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Svetlana Godjevac (2000)
Intonation, Word Order and Focus Projection in Serbo-Croation
Advisor: Craige Roberts
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Gwang-Yoon Goh (2000)
The Synchrony and Diachrony of the English Prepositional Passive: Form, Meaning and Function
Advisor: Brian Joseph
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Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen (2001)
Grounding Ju|’hoansi Phonotactics: The Phonetics of the Guttural OCP and other Acoustic Modulations
Advisor: Beckman

Jennifer Muller (2001)
The Phonology and Phonetics of Word-Initial Geminates
Advisor: Elizabeth Hume
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Panayiotis Pappas (2001)
Weak Object Pronoun Placement in Later Medieval and Early Modern Greek
Advisor: Brian Joseph

Jennifer Vannest (2001)
Morphological Effects in Visual Word Processing: Their Timecourse and Consequences for Lexical Architecture
Advisor: Keith Johnson
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Shravan Vasishth (2002)
Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension: Processing Hindi Center Embeddings
Advisor: Shari Speer
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Neal Whitman (2002)
Category neutrality: A type-logical investigation
Advisor: David Dowty
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Paul Davis (2002)
Stone Soup Translation: The Linked Automata Model
Advisor: Chris Brew
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Jean Godby (2002)
A computational study of lexicalized noun phrases in English
Advisor: Craige Roberts
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Janice Fon (2002)
A Cross-Linguistic Study on Syntactic and Discourse Boundary Cues in Spontaneous Speech
Advisor: Keith Johnson
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Stefanie Jannedy (2002)
Hat Patterns and Double Peaks: The Phonetics and Psycholinguistics of Broad Versus Late Narrow Versus Double Focus Intonations
Advisor: Mark Beckman
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Martin Jansche (2003)
Inference of string mappings for speech technology
Advisor: Chris Brew
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Shelome Gooden (2003)
The Phonology and Phonetics of Jamaican Creole Reduplication
Advisor: Donald Winford and Elizabeth Hume
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Matthew Makashay (2003)
Individual Differences in Speech and Non-Speech Perception of Frequency and Duration
Advisor: Keith Johnson
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Misun Seo (2003)
A segment contact account of the patterning of sonorants in consonant clusters
Advisor: Elizabeth Hume
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Stephen James Winters (2003)
Empirical investigations into the perceptual and articulatory origins of cross-Linguistic asymmetries in place assimilation
Advisor: Keith Johnson
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Pauline Welby (2003)
The Slaying of Lady Mondegreen, being a Study of French Tonal Association and Alignment and their Role in Speech Segmentation
Advisor: Mary Beckman
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Nathan Vaillette (2004)
Logical specification of finite-State transductions for natural language processing
Advisor: Chris Brew
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Allison Ruth Blodgett (2004)
The interaction of prosodic phrasing, verb bias, and plausibility during spoken sentence comprehension.
Advisor: Shari Speer
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Thomas Stewart, Jr (2004)
Mutation as morphology: bases, stems, and shapes in Scottish Gaelic
Advisor: Brian Joseph
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Jeff Mielke (2004)
The emergence of distinctive features
Advisor: Elizabeth Hume
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Michelle Ramos-Pellicia (2004)
Language contact and dialect contact: cross-Generational phonological variation in a Puerto Rican community in the midwest of the United States
Advisor: Donald Winford and Brian Joseph
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Charlotte Schaengold (2004)
Bilingual Navajo: mixed codes, bilingualism, and language maintenance
Advisor: Brian Joseph
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Sun-Hee Lee (2004)
A lexical analysis of select unbounded dependency constructions in Korean
Advisor: Carl Pollard
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Tsan Huang (2004)
Language-Specificity in auditory perception of Chinese tones
Advisor: Keith Johnson
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Michael Daniels (2005)
Generalized ID/LP grammar: a formalism for parsing linearization-Based HPSG grammars
Advisor: W. Detmar Meurers
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Georgios Tserdanelis (2005)
The Role of segmental sandhi in the parsing of speech: evidence from Greek
Advisor: Mary Beckman and Brian Joseph
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Markus Dickinson (2005)
Error detection and correction in annotated corpora
Advisor: Walt Detmar Meurers

Robin Dodsworth (2005)
Linguistic variation and sociological consciousness
Advisor: Donald Winford
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Kyuchul Yoon (2005)
Building a prosodically sensitive diphone database for a Korean text-To-Speech synthesis system
Advisor: Mary Beckman
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Wesley M. Collins (2005)
Centeredness as a cultural and grammatical theme in Maya-Mam
Advisor: Donald Winford
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Anna Feldman (2006)
Portable language technology: a resource-Light approach to morpho-Syntactic tagging
Advisor: Chris Brew
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Xiaofei Lu (2006)
Hybrid models for Chinese unknown word resolution
Advisor: Walt Detmar Meurers
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