Congratulations to Guilherme Garcia and Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron, who defended their dissertations this summer!
Gui’s dissertation, supervised by Heather Goad and defended August 2, is titled “Weight effects on stress: lexicon and grammar.” Gui is currently a lecturer in the Department of Education at Concordia University. In the winter he will be joining the Department of English at Ball State University as an assistant professor (tenure-track) in phonology/phonetics. Congratulations, Gui!
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Oriana’s dissertation, supervised by Morgan Sonderegger and Michael Wagner July 21, is titled “Speech production planning affects variation in external sandhi.” Oriana is currently a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Concordia University. Congratulations, Oriana!
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