PhD dissertation defense, 8/5 — Xuanda Chen

Congratulations to Xuanda Chen, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Linguistic Experience and the Representation of Phonological Features: Perception, Processing, and Second Language Acquisition,”...
August 22, 2025

PhD dissertation defense, 8/8 — Connie Ting

On August 8th, Connie Ting successfully defended her dissertation, “Investigating Cross-linguistic Patterns of Intrinsic F0 Effects in Production and Perception.” Congratulations, Connie! Connie...
August 22, 2025

PhD dissertation defense, 8/5 + postdoc — Terrance Gatchalian

Congratulations to Terrance Gatchalian, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “A temporal grammar of Kanien’kéha: Aspects and consequences” on Tuesday, August 5th. Terrance...
August 22, 2025

Michaela Socolof dissertation defence + post-doc

Michaela Socolof successfully defended her dissertation "Partial compositionality" on July 23. In September she will be starting a 2-year NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research...
August 24, 2024

Will Johnston dissertation defence + post-doc

Congratulaions to Will Johnston, who successfully defended his dissertation titled "Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong" on August 13th. Will with supervisors...
August 24, 2024

Jacob Hoover dissertation defence + post-doc

Congratulations to Jacob Louis Hoover, who successfully defended his dissertation titled “The Cost of Information: Looking beyond Predictability in Language Processing” on July...
August 24, 2024

Esmail Moghiseh dissertation defence

Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation,  “Free Choice Items: The view from Farsi”, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.
August 24, 2024

Wei Zhang dissertation defence

Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Phonetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts”, supervised by Meghan Clayards and...
August 24, 2024

Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong MA thesis defences

Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben's thesis was titled "Grounding Language in...
August 24, 2024

Clint Parker dissertation defense

Congratulations to Clint Parker, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "A Grammar of the Shughni Language", last Friday, September 22nd. Congratulations Clint! Clint...
September 24, 2023

Gouming Martens’ PhD defence

Congratulations to Gouming Martens, who defended his dissertation "What about those B-accents and hat patterns? Form and meaning of contrastive topics in English,...
August 22, 2022

Mathieu Paillé’s PhD defence

Congratulations to Mathieu Paillé, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Strengthening Predicates" August 3rd, supervised by Bernhard Schwarz and Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Mathieu will be...
August 22, 2022