Defences
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
