Ph.D. Recipients

These are the Ph.D. Degrees awarded since 1965 through the Department of Linguistics at UCLA

The Ph.D.s are listed in reverse chronological order since 1965. To find particular names, please use the search box located at the top of this page.

First	Last	Current Position	Year	Dissertation
Abeer	Abbas		2025	Morphological Structure in the Arabic Mental Lexicon: Productivity and Priming Effects in Nominal and Verbal Patterns (Megha Sundara, Chair)
Huilei	Wang	Postdoctoral Scholar, Humboldt Research Fellowship	2025	Quantificational Scope and Clause-(Un)Boundedness (Ethan Poole and Yael Sharvit, Co-Chairs)
Katya	Khlystova		2024	Extralinguistic Cognition and Verb Argument Structure in Development: Learning and Processing (Laurel Perkins, Chair)
Jake	Aziz		2024	The Phonetics and Phonology of So-Called Vowel Devoicing in Malagasy (Sun-Ah Jun and Kie Zuraw, Co-Chairs)
Jinyoung	Jo	Social Science Research Professional, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University	2024	Individual differences in phonology: the realization of stem-final coronal obstruents in Korean (Kie Zuraw, Chair)
Colin	Brown	SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	2024	The Form and Function of Interrogatives in Sm’algyax (Harold Torrence and Yael Sharvit, Co-Chairs)
Yang	Wang	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah	2024	Studies in morphophonological copying: Analysis, experimentation and modeling (Bruce Hayes and Tim Hunter, Co-Chairs)
Blake	Lehman	Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mississippi State University	2024	Topics in Avatime Phonology (Kie Zuraw, Chair)
Mayumi	Ajioka	Lecturer, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Cal State San Bernardino	2024	A Japanese heritage speaker's acquisition of formal writing In Japanese and heritage motivation: A case study (Olga Yokoyama , Chair)
Adeline	Tan		2024	Learning hidden structure: Derived environment effects and the richness of the base (Kie Zuraw, Chair)
Z.L.	Zhou	Research Scientist at Apple	2024	Categorical and non-categorical perception of marginal phonemes (Patricia Keating, Chair)
Madeleine	Booth		2023	Topics in the nominal domain in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec (Harold Torrence, Chair)
Noah	Elkins	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Haverford College	2023	The interplay of syntax and prosody in Mam (Harold Torrence and Kie Zuraw, Chairs)
Hendrik	Kim	Solutions Analyst at Gradual	2023	The syntax of negation in Korean given an antisymmetric and cartographic framework (Hilda Koopman, Chair)
Jennifer	Kuo	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University	2023	Phonological markedness effects in reanalysis (Bruce Hayes, chair)
Minqu	Liu	Tenure-Track Professor, Fudan University, Department of Chinese Languages and Literature	2023	Featural Relativized Minimality in child grammar: An investigation of Mandarin long and short Bei-passives (Nina Hyams and Ethan Poole, Chairs)
Christine	Prechtel	Research Administrative Coordinator at Marcus Autism Center	2023	A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Lexical Stress Strength and Macro-Rhythm Strength(Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Hiro	Katsuda	Visiting Professor of Phonology, University of Kansas	2023	Loanword accentuation in Japanese: Corpus study, modeling, and experiments (Bruce Hayes and Sun-Ah Jun, chairs)
Zhuo	Chen	Lecturer, Chinese University of Hong Kong	2022	No Matter Whether You Ask: Yes-No Questions and Their Kin in Mandarin (Harold Torrence, chair)
Beth	Sturman	Growth Strategist at thrv.com	2022	Subclausal Quotation Intonation (Sun-Ah Jun and Jessica Rett, chairs)
Maura	O'Leary	Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Western Washington University	2022	About Time: Lexical, Structural, and Discourse Constraints on the Temporal Interpretation of Nominal Predicates (Jessica Rett, Chair)
Canaan	Breiss	Assistant Professor, USC Department of Linguistics	2021	Lexical Conservatism in phonology: theory, experiments, and computational modeling (Bruce Hayes, Chair)
Adam	Royer	Lead Research Scientist at thrv	2021	The Role of Prosodic Phrasing on the Acceptability of Agreement Attraction in English (Jesse Harris and Sun-Ah Jun, Chairs)
Travis	Major	Assistant Professor, USC Department of Linguistics	2021	On the nature of "say" complementation (Dominique Sportiche and Harold Torrence, Co-Chairs)
Connor	Mayer	Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science, UC Irvine	2021	Issues in Uyghur Backness Harmony: Corpus, Experimental, and Computational Studies (Bruce Hayes, Chair)
Maayan	Abenina-Adar		2020	Expressing Ignorance with Determiner Phrases (Dylan Bumford and Yael Sharvit, co-chairs)
Daniela	Culinovic	Content Editor at Impact Fashion	2020	Second position’ revisited: a uniformly syntactic account of ‘split’ predicates(Hilda Koopman and Tim Stowell, co-chairs)
Marju	Kaps	Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London	2020	Processing Information on Structures: A Case Study of Contrastive Topics in Estonian (Jesse Harris, chair)
Iara	Mantenuto	Assistant Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills	2020	'Other' and 'More' in San Sebastian del Monte Mixtec and Beyond (Pamela Munro and Carson Schütze, co-chairs)
Sozen	Ozkan	Senior AI Prompt Engineer at Spotter	2020	Word Order and Information Structure in Turkish (Anoop Mahajan and Dominique Sportiche, chairs)
Brice	Roberts	Text-to-Speech Linguist for German, Accenture	2020	2020. An Autosegmental-Metrical Model of Shanghainese Tone and Intonation (Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Jeremy	Steffman	Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh	2020	Prosodic Prominence in Vowel Perception and Spoken Language Processing.(Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Richard	Stockwell	Lecturer, Ulster University	2020	Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition (Yael Sharvit and Tim Stowell, chairs)
Deborah	Wong	Language System Developer at Wave Assistive Technology	2020	what’ did not move: Sluicing in Minimalist Grammars (Timothy Hunter, Chair)
Nikos	Angelopoulos	Post-doctoral fellowship at Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (CRISSP), KU Leuven	2019	Complementizers and Prepositions as Probes: Insights from Greek (Hilda Koopman and Dominique Sportiche, chairs)
Eleanor	Glewwe	Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, Grinell, IA	2019	Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Experimental Studies of Phonotactic Implicationals (Kie Zuraw, Chair)
John	Gluckman	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Kansas	2019	Perspectives on Syntactic Dependencies (Dominique Sportiche, chair)
Isabelle	Lin	Illustrator, Echo Illustration and Prints	2019	Functional Load, Perception, and the Learning of Phonological Alternations(Kie Zuraw and Megha Sundara, co-chairs)
Meng	Yang	Associate Consultant manager at BeMo Academic Consulting Inc.	2019	Cue Integration and Contrast Shifts: Experimental and Typological Studies (Patricia Keating and Megha Sundara, co-chairs)
Margit	Bowler	Siri - Natural Language Annotation Lead, Apple	2018	Aspect and evidentiality (Yael Sharvit, chair)
Nicoletta	Loccioni	Lecturer in Linguistics at UCLA	2018	Getting "the most" out of Romance (Tim Stowell, Chair)
Jesse	Zymet	Principal Data Scientist at Capital One; Insight Data Science Fellow; Computational Linguist	2018	Lexical propensities in phonology: corpus and experimental evidence, grammar, and learning (Bruce Hayes & Kie Zuraw, Co-Chairs)
Ann	Aly	HHS Program Manager & Research SME at CALIBRE Systems, Inc.	2017	Prosodic Effects of Code-Switching in Spanish Basque Bilinguals(Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Adam	Chong	Associate Professor in Phonology and Language Processing in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics - University of Oxford	2017	On the Relation Between Phonotactic Learning and Alternation Learning(Megha Sundara and Kie Zuraw, chairs)
Meaghan	Fowlie	Assistant Professor at Linguistics Dept. of Universiteit Utrecht in The Netherlands	2017	Slaying the Great Green Dragon: Learning and Modeling Iterable Ordered Optional Adjuncts (Edward P. Stabler, Chair)
Michael	Lefkowitz	Travel - Career Break	2017	Maxent Harmonic Grammars and Phonetic Duration (Bruce Hayes, Chair)
Yu	Tanaka	Associate Professor National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics	2017	The sound patterns of Japanese surnames (Kie Ross Zuraw & Bruce Hayes, Co-Chairs)
Ann (Niki) M.	Acker	Linguist at Appen	2016	Voice and Valence in Q'anjob 'al (Pamela Munro, Chair)
Natalia (Natasha)	Korotkova	Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent; tenured) at Utrecht University	2016	Heterogeneity and uniformity in the evidential domain (ael Sharvit & Dominique Sportiche, Co-Chairs)
Victoria E.	Mateu Martin	Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the UCLA Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese	2016	Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Raising and Control: Evidence from English and Spanish (Nina Hyams, Chair)
Jos L.	Tellings	NLP Specialist, Achmea	2016	Counterfactuality in Discourse (Jessica Rett & Yael Sharvit, Co- Chairs)
Lauren	Northrup-Winans	UX Researcher at Instagram	2016	Inferences of "will" (Jessica Rett & Yael Sharvit, Co-Chairs)
Byron	Ahn	Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University	2015	Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English (Sun-Ah Jun and Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs)
Dustin	Bowers	Quality Assurance Linguist at Lionbridge	2015	A system for morphophonological learning and its consequences for language change (Bruce Hayes and Kie Zuraw, Chairs)
Joe	Buffington	Director of Academic Support and Bar Success, Assistant and Professor of Law at Albany Law School	2015	The logical form of contract formation (Yael Sharvit and Tim Stowell, co-chairs)
Yun Jung	Kim	Lecturer, Emory University, Atlanta	2015	6-month-olds' segmentation and representation of morphologically complex words (Megha Sundara, chair)
Jun	Yashima	Lecturer, (Asst. Prof), Senshu University, Tokyo	2015	(Dominique Sportiche, chair) Antilogophoricity: In Conspiracy with the Binding Theory
Melanie J.	Bervoets	Data Scientist at TD, Toronto, Canada	2014	On opining: modal verbs, dispositions, free choice, and negation (Jessica Rett and Edward Stabler, Co-Chairs)
Laura	Kalin	Associate Professor, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University	2014	Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic (Anoop Mahajan, chair)
Laura E.	McPherson	Associate Professor at Dartmouth College	2014	Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages (Bruce Hayes and Russ Schuh, co-chairs)
Craig W.	Sailor	Assistant Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin	2014	The Variable of VP Ellipsis (Tim Stowell, chair)
Kaeli	Ward	Analyst, Strategy & Business Management, BMO Capital Markets	2014	Backtracking and have to: Maintaining a Unified Analysis of Conditionals (Yael Sharvit, chair)
Jason B.	Bishop	Associate Professor of Linguistics/ Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences & Director of the CUNY Prosody Laboratory at The City University in New York	2013	Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Information Structure (Sun-Ah Jun, chair)
Mark	Garellek	Professor of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego and Director of UCSD Phonetics Lab	2013	Production and Perception of Glottal Stops (Patricia Keating, chair)
Thomas	Graf	Associate Professor for Department of Linguistics and Affiliate Professor in Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University	2013	Local and Transderivational Constraints in Syntax and Semantics (Edward Stabler, chair)
Jianjing	Kuang	Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania	2013	(Phonation in Tonal Contrasts Patricia Keating, chair)
Chen Hsiu (Grace)	Kuo	Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University	2013	Boundaries and the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Group (Patricia Keating, Chair)
Nancy A.	Ward	Child Language	2013	The role of modality and register in imitation by adults and children (Megha Sundara, chair)
James C.	White	Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), University College, London	2013	Bias in Phonological Learning: Evidence from Saltation (Bruce Hayes and Megha Sundara, co-chairs)
Natasha	Abner	Assistant Professor, University of Michigan	2012	There Once Was a Verb: The Predicative Core of Possessive and Nominalization Structures in American Sign Language (Hilda Koopman and Edward Stabler, Chairs)
Heather	Burnett	Universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7	2012	The Grammar of Tolerance: On vagueness, context-sensitivity and the origin of scale structure
Isabelle	Charnavel	Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva	2012	On her own – Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing syntax and semantics with French propre (Dominique Sportiche, Chair)
Robyn	Orfitelli	Lecturer (Asst. Prof), University of Sheffield, UK	2012	Argument Intervention in the Acquisition of A-movement Nina Hyams, chair)
Denis	Paperno	Professor, Utrecht University	2012	Semantics and Syntax of Non-Standard Coordination (Edward Keenan, chair)
B.R.	George		2011	Question Embedding and the Semantics of Answers(Jessica Rett, chair)
Kevin	Ryan	Professor and Chair, Harvard University	2011	Gradient Weight in Phonology (Bruce Hayes and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs)
Victoria	Thatte	Adjunct Professor at Grossmont College	2011	Infant Phonotactic Learning (Bruce Hayes and Megha Sundara, co-chairs)
Chad	Vicenik	Physics Teacher, St Dunstan’s College, London	2011	The role of intonation in language discrimination by infants and adults (Megha Sundara, chair)
Kristine	Yu	Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst	2011	The Learnability of Tones from the Speech Signal (Edward Stabler and Megha Sundara, co-chairs)
Roy	Becker-Kristal	Prosody Specialist at Speech Morphing; Phonetics Specialist at Voiceitt	2010	Acoustic typology of vowel inventories (Bruce Hayes and Megha Sundara, Co-Chairs)
Vincent	Homer	Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst	2010	Polarity and Modality (Dominique Sportiche and Philippe Schlenker, co-chairs)
Tomoko	Ishizuka	Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan	2010	Toward a Unified Analysis of Passives in Japanese:A Cartographic Minimalist Approach (Hilda Koopman, chair)
Benjamin	Keil	Researcher, Google	2010	(Marcus Kracht, chair) Generating Descriptions of Motion from Cognitive Representations
Ji Eun	Kim	Assistant Professor, University of Ulsan, Korea	2010	(Sun-Ah Jun and Russell Schuh, co-chairs) The Generation of Implicit Propositions in "Alleged" Korean Topics
Ingvar	Lofstedt	Phonology	2010	(Bruce Hayes and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) Phonetic Effects in Swedish Phonology: Allomorphy and Paradigms
Lawrence Yam-Leung	Cheung	Associate Professor and MA Program Director, Chinese University of Hong Kong	2008	The Negative Wh-Construction
Sameer ud Dowla	Khan	Associate Professor and Chair, Reed College	2008	Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali (Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Leonard Chacha	Mwita	Senior Lecturer Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya	2008	Russell Schuh, chair) Verbal Tone in Kuria
Kuniko	Nielsen	Associate Professor and Department Chair, Oakland University, Michigan	2008	(Patricia Keating and Colin Wilson, co-chairs) Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation
Reiko	Okabe	Associate Professor, Nihon University, Japan	2008	(Nina Hyams, chair) Acquisition of Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese
David	Schueler	Computational Linguist at Claira	2008	(Daniel Büring, chair) The Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Conditionals: Filling in the Antecedent
Molly	Shilman	Head of Research and Content, Consumer Financial Service Corporation	2008	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) On the Question of Accent Domains in English
Katrina (Katie)	Tang	Adjunct Faculty, U. North Dakota	2008	(Russell Schuh and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) The Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone Interaction
Heather	Wilson	Formerly Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University	2008	(Anoop Mahajan, chair)Subject Positions in Marshallese
Jeffrey	Heinz	Professor, Stony Brook University	2007	(Edward Stabler and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns
Nathan	Klinedinst	Lecturer (Asst. Prof), University College, London	2007	(Philippe Schlenker, chair) Plurality and Possibility
Andrew	Martin	Professor, Konan University, Kobe, Japan	2007	(Kie Zuraw, chair) The Evolving Lexicon
Katya	Pertsova	Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	2007	(Edward Stabler, chair) Learning Form-Meaning Mappings in Presence of Homonymy: a linguistically motivated model of learning inflection
Shabnam	Shademan	Senior Project Manager, Deep 6 AI	2007	(Susan Curtiss and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs) Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-Formedness Judgments
Christina	Esposito	Associate Professor & Chair, Macalester College, St. Paul. MN	2006	(Patricia Keating, chair)The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation
John	Foreman	Associate Professor, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley	2006	Original: (Pamela Munro and Tim Stowell, co-chairs). The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec
Jill	Gilkerson	Language Research Director, LENA Foundation, Boulder CO	2006	(Nina Hyams, chair) Acquiring English Particle Verbs: Age and Transfer Effects in Second Language Acquistion
Jason	Kandybowicz	Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate Center	2006	(Hilda Koopman, chair) Conditions on Multiple Copy Spell-Out and the Syntax-Phonology Interface
Timothy Arbisi	Kelm	Senior Res Assoc, Boys Town National Research Hospital	2006	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency Patterns in Stuttering
Greg	Kobele	Professor, University of Leipzig, Formerly Asst. Professor, Univ. of Chicago	2006	(Edward Stabler, chair). Generating Copies: An investigation into structural identity in language and grammar
Brook	Lillehaugen	Associate Professor, Haverford College, Chair of Linguistics at Haverford College	2006	(Pamela Munro, chair) Expressing Location in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
Dimitrios	Ntelitheos	Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University	2006	(Hilda Koopman, chair) The Morphosyntax of Nominalizations: A Case Study
Dan	Albro	Software Engineer, Google (Deceased)	2005	Studies in Computational Optimality Theory, with Special Reference to the Phonological System of Malagasy
Leston	Buell	Translator and Linguist, Amsterdam	2005	Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax
Heidi	Fleishhacker MacBride	Formerly Data Engineer, Factual Inc.	2005	(Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) Similarity in Phonology: Evidence from Reduplication and Loan Adaptation
Eric	Jackson	Linguist, SIL International	2005	(Pamela Munro, chair) Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure
Ying	Lin	Mathematics Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College	2005	(Patricia Keating and Edward Stabler, co-chairs) Learning Feautures and Segments from Waveforms: A Statistical Model of Early Phonological Acquisition
Rebecca	Scarborough	Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder	2005	(Patricia Keating, chair) Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon
Harold	Torrence	Professor, UCLA (Prev. Univ. of Kansas)	2005	(Hilda Koopman, chair) On the Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof
Heriberto	Avelino	Professor, I.N. de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico (prev. Max Planck Inst, Leipzig	2004	Topics in Yala´lag Zapotec, with particular reference to its phonetic structures
Sahyang	Kim	Professor, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea	2004	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The Role of Prosodic Phrasing in Korean Word Segmentation
Haiyong	Liu	Professor, Wayne State University	2004	(Anoop Mahajan and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu Structures
Jason	Riggle	Associate Professor, University of Chicago	2004	(Edward Stabler, chair) Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory
Mary	Baltazani	Lecturer & Researcher, Oxford University, formerly tenured Asst. Prof., Univ. of Ioannina, Greece	2003	Quantifier Scope and the Role of Intonation in Greek (Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Ivano	Caponigro	Professor, UCSD (San Diego)	2003	Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically
Alex	MacBride	Analytical Linguist, Google	2003	A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology (Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs)
Masangu	Matondo	Assistant Professor, University of Florida	2003	Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma (Tom Hinnebusch and Donca Steriade, co-chairs)
Gianluca	Storto	Technical Program Manager, Google	2003	Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions (Daniel Büring, chair)
Adam	Albright	Professor, MIT	2002	The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms (Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, Co-Chairs)
Melissa	Epstein	Executive Director, Human Research Protection & Compliance at Cornell University	2002	Voice Quality and Prosody in English (Pat Keating and Jody Kreiman, co-chairs)
Taehong	Cho	Professor, Hanyang University, Korea	2001	Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English (Sun-Ah Jun, Chair)
Christina	Foreman	Speech-Language Pathologist, West Hartford (Ct) Public Schools	2001	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The Use of Contrastive Focus by High-Functioning Children with Autism
Edward	Garrett	Researcher Asst, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK	2001	(Carson Schutze and Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs) Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan
Henk	Harkema	NLP Tech Lead, Watsonx Orders at IBM	2001	(Ed Stabler, chair) Parsing Minimalist Languages
Brenda	Joyce-Clark	African Linguistics	2001	(Anoop Mahajan, chair) Noun Classifiers
Stefano	Vegnaduzzo	Head of Data Science and AI at Socure	2001	(Ed Keenan, chair) A Partition Semantics for Temporal Adverbs
Victoria	Anderson	Associate Professor and Department Chair, University of Hawai’i	2000	Giving Weight to Phonetic Principles: The Case of Place of Articulation in Western Arrernte (Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, Chairs)
Marco	Baroni	Professor, Univ. de Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona	2000	Distributional Cues in Morpheme Discovery: A Computational Model and Empirical Evidence
Misha	Becker	Professor & Chair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	2000	"The Development of the Copula in Child English: The Lightness of Be"
Alhaji Maina	Gimba	Professor, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria	2000	(Russ Schuh, chair) “Topics in Bole Verb Morphology”
Peter	Hallman	Principal Investigator, Austrian Research Inst for AI	2000	(Dominique Sportiche, chair) “The Structure of Predicates: Interactions of Derivation, Case and Quantification”
J. Matt	Pearson	Professor, Reed College	2000	(Ed Keenan and Timothy Stowell, co-chairs) The Clause Structure of Malagasy: A Minimalist Approach
Jie	Zhang	Professor, University of Kansa	2000	(Donca Steriade, chair)The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution--Typological Survey and Formal Analysis
Kie Ross	Zuraw	Professor, UCLA	2000	(Donca Steriade and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs)Patterned Exceptions In Phonology
Harold	Crook	Professor, Lewis-Clark State College	1999	(Donca Steriade and Pam Munro, co-chairs) “The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress”
Katherine	Crosswhite		1999	(Bruce Hayes, chair)"Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory"
Sean	Fulop	Associate Professor, California State University, Fresno	1999	(Ed Stabler, chair) On the Logic and Learning of Language
Matthew	Gordon	Professor and Chair, UCSB (Santa Barbara)	1999	(Bruce Hayes, chair) “Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and Typology”
Felicia	Lee	Founder and Storyteller in Chief at Tardigrade Media	1999	(Tim Stowell and Pam Munro, co-chairs) “Antisymmetry and the Syntax in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec”
Kelly	Stack	Instructor in ASL at Monterey Peninsula College	1999	(Susie Curtiss, chair) “Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II”
Kimberly	Thomas-Vilakati	San Bernardino City Unified School District	1999	(Tom Hinnebusch and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) “Coproduction and Coarticulation in Isizulu Clicks”
Manuel	Espanol-Echevarria	Professor, Laval University, Quebec	1998	(Tim Stowell, chair) “The Syntax of Purposive Expressions”
Susan	Hess	Chinese instructor at Bullis School	1998	(Pat Keating and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) “Pharyngeal Articulations”
Robert	Kirchner	Associate Professor (ret.), University of Alberta	1998	Donca Steriade, chair) “An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition”
Mari	Sakaguchi	Faculty Member, Notre Dame Seishin University	1998	(Tim Stowell, chair) “Distributivity in English and Japanese”
Barbara	Blankenship	Grant and web writer at UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies	1997	The Time Course of Breathiness and Laryngealization in Vowels (Patricia Keating, Chair)
Javier J.	Gutierrez Rexach (Deceased)	Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics	1997	(Ed Keenan, chair) “Quantification, Context Dependence, and Generalized Minimalist Grammer: Studies on the Interpretation of Clitic Proforms and Existential Determiners in Spanish”
Margaret R.	MacEachern		1997	(Donca Steriade, chair) “Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions”
Brian C.	Potter	VP Mid Revenue Cycle & Clinical Language Intelligence at Optum	1997	“Wh/Indefinites and the Structure of the Clause in Western Apache”
Jeannette C.	Schaeffer	Professor of Language Acquisition at the University of Amsterdam	1997	(Nina Hyams, chair) “Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian Child Language”
Roderic F.	Casali	Affiliate Professor of Linguistics at Trinity Western University	1996	Resolving Hiatus
Michael P.	Dukes		1996	(Ed Keenan, chair) “On the Nonexistence of Anaphors and Pronominals in Tongan”
Tomiko	Hayashi		1996	(Paul Schachter, chair) “The Syntactic and Semantic Structures of Complex Predicate Constructions in Japanese”
Murat	Kural	Worker Owner at The Propaganda Site LLC	1996	(Tim Stowell, chair) “Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates”
Deogratias S.	Ngonyani	Associate Professor of Linguistics and African languages at Michigan State University	1996	(Hilda Koopman, chair)"The Morphosyntax of Applicatives"
Richard	Wright	Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington	1996	(Patricia Keating, chair) “Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation in Tsou”
Stephen M.	Adewole		1995	Yoruba word formation processes
Susan L.	Banner Inouye	Professor at University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College	1995	Trills, Taps, and Stops in Contrast and Variation (Patricia Keating, chair)
Filippo	Beghelli	Former Sr. Principal Engineer at Oracle	1995	The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope
Dorit	Ben-Shalom	Functional neuroanatomist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	1995	Semantic Trees
Edward S.	Flemming	Professor, Department of Linguistics, MIT	1995	Donca Steriade, chair)"Auditory Representations in Phonology"
Robert E.	Hagiwara	Assistant Professor, U. Manitoba	1995	(Peter Ladefoged, chair) “Acoustic Realizations of American /r/ as Produced by Women and Men”
Jongho	Jun	Professor, Seoul National U.	1995	(Donca Steriade, chair) Perceptual and Articulatory Factors on Place Assimilation
Abigail R.	Kaun	Executive Advisor to the Dean of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering	1995	(Bruce Hayes, chair) The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
Seungho	Nam	Professor of Linguistics at College of Humanities Seoul National University	1995	(Ed Keenan, chair) “The Semantics of Locative Prepositional Phrases in English”
Michael A.	Nkemnji	ELA Teacher at Centennial High School	1995	(Hilda Koopman and Russ Schuh, co-chairs) “Heavy Pied-Piping in Nweh”
Bonny E.	Sands	Adjunct position in the Department of English at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff	1995	(Ian Maddieson and Tom Hinnebusch, co-chairs) “Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships: The Case of Khoisan”
Tetsuya	Sano	Professor, Meiji Gakuin University	1995	(Nina Hyams, chair) “Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages”
Aaron M.	Shryock	Bible Translator at Horizons International	1995	(Russ Schuh and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) “Investigating Laryngeal Contrasts: An Acoustic Study of the Consonants of Musey”
Daniel D.	Silverman	Associate Professor of Linguistics at San Jose State	1995	(Donca Steriade, chair)"Phasing and Recoverability"
Nhlanhla L.	Thwala	Provost, Vice Chancellor (Rwanda) and Dean of ALUSB at The African Leadership University	1995	(Dominique Sportiche and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) “A Generative Grammar of Si-Swati: Morphology and Syntax of Nouns and Verbs”
Lawan Danladi	Yalwa		1995	("Issues in the Syntax of Hausa Complementation"Russ Schuh, chair)
Dani M.	Byrd	Professor, Uni. Southern California	1994	(Patricia Keating, chair) Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences
William B.	Dolan	Partner Research manager in Microsoft Research	1994	(Ed Stabler, chair) “Context-Freeness and the Lexicon”
Hiroyuki	Nagahara		1994	(Bruce Hayes, chair) “Phonological Phrasing in Japanese”
Kaoru	Ohta	Teaching Professor, University of Washington	1994	(Tim Stowell, chair) “Verbal Nouns in Japanese”
Stephan M.	Schuetze-Coburn	Freelance educational consultant	1994	(J. Du Bois and Pamela Munro, co-chairs) “Prosody, Syntax, and Discourse Pragmatics: Assessing Information Flow in German Conversation”
Andi	Wu	VP, Linguistic Research at GBI	1994	(Ed Stabler, chair)"The Spell-Out Parameters: A Minimalist Approach to Syntax"
Bonnie H.	Chiu		1993	The Inflectional Structure of Mandarin Chinese
Hyunoo	Lee		1993	(Ed Keenan, chair)"Categories, Structures, and Principles of Anaphoric Dependencies"
John-Dongwook	Choi (Deceased)	late of Apple computer, Cupertino, CA	1992	Phonetic Underspecification and Target- Interpolation: An Acoustic Study of Marshallese Vowel Allophony,
Thomas L.	Cornell		1992	Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers, (V. Fromkin, E. Stabler, chairs
Laura D.	Crain		1992	Clause Chaining in Nepali Discourse, (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)
Karen K.	Wallace	Principal NLP developer at Optum 360 (United Health Group)	1992	Verb Incorporation and Agreement in Crow,” (P. Munro, chair)
Linda L.	Arvanites		1991	The Glottalic Phonemes of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
Vicki M.	Carstens	Professor, University of Connecticut	1991	The Morphology and Syntax of Determiner Phrases in Kiswahili
Sarah N.	Dart		1991	Articulatory and Acoustic Properties of Apical and Laminal Articulations, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Chris	Golston	Professor, California State University Fresno	1991	Both Lexicons , (V. Fromkin, D. Steriade, chairs)
Lukowa	Kidima (Deceased)	late instructor, Glendale Community College	1991	Tone and Accent in KiYaka, (B. Hayes, chair)
Kasangati K.W.	Kinyalolo		1991	Syntactic Dependencies and the SPEC- head Agreement Hypothesis in KiLega, (H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, chairs)
Peter N.	Landerman (Deceased)		1991	Quechua Dialects and their Classification , (G. Bedell, chair)
Hyo Sang	Lee	Associate Professor at Indiana University, East Asian Languages and Cultures	1991	Tense, Aspect, and Modality: A Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Verb Affixes in Korean from a Typological Perspective, (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
Jack B.	Martin	Chancellor Professor, College of William and Mary	1991	The Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax, (T. Stowell, chair)
Daniela	Valois	Professeur titulaire, Université de Montréal	1991	The Internal Syntax of DP , (D. Sportiche)
George Aaron	Broadwell	Professor, University of Florida	1990	Extending the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study
Abigail C.	Cohn	Professor, Cornell U.	1990	Phonetic and Phonological Rules of Nasalization
Catherine A.	Jackson		1990	The Grammatical Consequences of Early Focal Damage to the Left Hemisphere of the Brain, (S. Curtiss, V. Fromkin, chairs)
Feng-Hsi	Liu	Professor, University of Arizona	1990	Scope Dependency in English and Chinese, (E. Keenan, chair)
Brian D.	McHugh	Professor, Department of Linguistics, Temple University, Philadelphia	1990	(B. Hayes, chair) Cyclicity in the phrasal phonology of Kivunjo Chaga
Lynette B.	Nyaggah		1990	Cross-Linguistic Influence in Kenyan English: The Impact of Swahili and Kikuyu on Syntax, (T. Hinnebusch, chair)
James J.	Tyhurst	Consultant/Founder at Tyhurst Technology Group LLC	1990	Logical Forms for English Sentences, (E. Keenan, chair)
Outi	Bat-El	Professor, Tel-Aviv University	1989	Phonology and Word Structure in Modern Hebrew
Lee S.	Bickmore	Professor, State University of New York at Albany	1989	Kinyambo Prosody
Richard G.	Campbell		1989	The Grammatical Structure of Verbal Predicates
Marie K.	Huffman	Associate Professor, Stony Brook University	1989	Implementation of Nasal: Timing and Articulatory Landmarks, (P. Keating, chair)
Carol D.	Lord		1989	Syntactic Reanalysis in the Historical Development of Serial Verb Constructions in Languages of West Africa, (G. Bedell, S. Thompson, chairs)
Christian	Matthiessen	Distinguished Professor in Linguistics, at UIBE (the University of International Business and Economics), Beijing, P.R. China.	1989	Text-Generation as a Linguistic Research Task, (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)
Marian	Shapley		1989	Fundamental Frequency Variation in Conversational Discourse, (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
Nobuko	Sugamoto		1989	The Pronominality of Referential Expressions, (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chair)
Elizabeth G.	Weber	Professor, Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at CSUN	1989	Varieties of Questions in English Conversation: A Study of the Role of Morphosyntax in Declarative and Nonclausal Forms, (R. Anttila, S. Thompson, chairs)
Fay	Wouk	Senior Lecturer Emerita, University of Auckland	1989	The Impact of Discourse on Grammar: Verb Morphology in Spoken Jakarta Indonesian, (P. Schachter, chair)
Alice J.	Anderton (Deceased)		1988	The Language of the Kitanemuks of California
Susanna A.	Cumming		1988	Syntactic Function and Constituent Order Change in Malay, (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
James Forrest	Fordyce	Professor in the Art History department at Glendale Community College	1988	Studies in Sound Symbolism with Special Reference to English, (P. Keating, chair)
Bonnie C.	Glover	Language Research and Technology Consultant	1988	The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic, (R. Schuh, chair)
Shoichi	Iwasaki	Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages, UCLA	1988	A Study of Speaker’s Perspective in Japanese Spoken Discourse, (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chairs)
Michel T.T	Jackson	Consultant at Triton Systems Inc	1988	Phonetic Theory and Cross-Linguistic Variation in Vowel Articulation, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Jean G.	Mulder	Professor, University of Melbourne	1988	Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax), (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
Karen D.	Emmorey	Distinguished Professor, San Diego State University	1987	Morphological Structure and Parsing in the Lexicon, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Richard D.	Janda	Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University	1987	On the Motivation for Evolutionary Typology of Sound-Structural Rules, (S. Anderson, chair)
Janine	Scancarelli	Staff Attorney at California Court of Appeal, First District	1987	Grammatical Relations and Verb Agreement in Cherokee, (P. Munro, chair)
John D.	Soper		1987	Loan Syntax in Turkic and Iranian: The Verb System of Tajik, Uzbek, and Qashqay, (G. Bedell, chair)
Anne M.	Stewart		1987	Clause-Combining in Conchucos Quechua Discourse, (W. Bright, S. Thompson, chairs)
Ore	Yusuf	National Institute for Nigerian Languages, Aba.	1987	Verb Phrase Serialization in Yoruba in Discourse Perspective, (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chairs)
Dennis G.	Holt	Poet, linguist and translator	1986	The Development of the Paya Sound System, (W. Bright, chair)
Thomas	Hun-Tak Lee	Professor, Tianjin Normal University & Professor Emeritus, Chinese University of Hong Kong	1986	Studies on Quantification in Chinese, (G. Bedell, chair)
Chen	Ping	Professor, University of Queensland	1986	Referent Introducing and Tracking in Chinese Narratives, (S. Thompson, chair)
Hongmo	Ren		1986	On the Acoustic Structure of Diphthongal Syllables, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Laurice Ann	Tuller	Professor of linguistics, University of Tours	1986	Bijective Relations in Universal Grammar and the Syntax of Hausa, (R. Schuh, T. Stowell, chairs)
Charles H.	Ulrich		1986	Choctaw Morphophonology, (P. Munro, chair)
Robin L.	Clark	Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania	1985	Boundaries and the Treatment of Control
Sharon L.	Hargus	Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington	1985	The Lexical Phonology of Sekani, (W. Bright, chair)
Philip J.	Jaggar	Professor of West African Linguistics, SOAS, London University	1985	Factors Governing the Morphological Coding of Referants in Hausa Narrative Discourse, (R. Schuh, chair)
Geoffrey A.	Lindsey	Linguist, writer and director	1985	Intonation and Interrogation: Tonal Sturcture and the Expression of a Pragmatic Function in English and other Languages, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Lioba P.	Moshi	Professor Emeritus at University of Georgia in Comparative Literature	1985	Grammatical Relations in Swahili Discourse, (S. Thompson, chair)
Doris L.	Payne	Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics at University of Oregon	1985	Participant Coding in Yagua Discourse, (S. Thompson, chair)
Ava	Berinstein	Director of Development at Asociación Q’eqchi’ Xch’ool Ixim (meaning "Heart of Corn")	1984	Evidence for Multiattachment in K’ekchi Mayan
Telee	Chi	Professor in the Languages & Literature department at University of Utah	1984	A Lexical Analysis of Verb-Noun Compounds in Mandarin Chinese
Barbara A.	Fox	Professor Emerita, University of Colorado	1984	Discourse Structure and Anaphora in Written and Conversational English, (S. Thompson, chair)
Andrew J.	Fox		1984	The Evolution of the Hebrew Infinitive, Form and Function: A Diachronic Study with Cross-Linguistic Implications, (R. Schuh, chair)
Michael T.	Hammond	Professor, University of Arizona	1984	Constraining Metrical Theory: A Modular Theory of Rhythm and Destressing, (B. Hayes, chair)
Daniel	Kempler	Professor Emeritus, Emerson College	1984	Syntactic and Symbolic Abilities in Alzheimer's Disease, (R. Anttila, S. Curtiss, chairs)
John V.	Singler	Professor Emeritus at New York University	1984	Variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality in Liberian English, (R. Andersen, R. Stockwell, chairs)
Sandra F.	Disner	Associate Professor (Teaching) of Linguistics at University of Southern California	1983	Vowel Quality: The Relation between Universal and Language Specific Factors, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Sukari B.	Salone	Associate Professor at South Carolina State University in Linguistics	1983	Conditional Sentences in Swahili, (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)
Vida	Samiian	Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Linguistics at California State University, Fresno	1983	Structure of Phrasal Categores in Persian: An X-Bar Analysis, (P. Schachter, chair)
Tracy G.	Thomas-Flinders		1983	Morphological Structures, (B. Hayes, chair)
David J.	Weber		1983	A Grammar of Huallaga (Huanoco) Quechua, (S. Thompson, chair)
Jeni E.	Yamada	Independent scholar	1983	The Independence of Language: A Case Study, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Joèlle S.	Bailard	Attorney, Los Angeles	1982	Diachronic Evidence and the Form of French Grammar
David	Gil	Linguist specializing in Indonesian and Malay linguistics	1982	Distributive Numerals, (E. Keenan, chair)
Amnon	Gordon		1982	The Structure of the Hebrew Lexicon, (P. Schachter, chair)
William J.	Greenberg	(Retired) Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras	1982	Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms, (P. Schachter, chair)
Sharon M.	Klein	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at California State University Northridge	1982	Syntactic Theory and the Developing Grammar: Reestablishing the Relationship between Linguistic Theory and Data from Language Acquisition, (S. Anderson, chair)
Wendy J.	Linker	Psychiatrist at Veterans Administration	1982	Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Labial Activity in Vowels: A Cross-Linguistic Study, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Jonas N.A.	Nartey		1982	On Fricative Phones and Phonemes: or the Fricative Difference within and between Languages, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Jean M.	Phillips		1982	A Sociolinguistic Perspective on English Neological Processes, (R. Anttila, chair)
Judy S.	Reily		1982	Acquisition of Conditionals in English, (S. Thompson, chair)
Mary Lee	Trithart		1982	The Applied Affix and Transitivity: A Historical Study in Bantu, (S. Thompson, chair)
Linda M.	Galloway		1981	Contributions of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere to Language and Communication: Issues in Cerebral Dominance with Special Emphasis on Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Sex Differences, and Certain Ethnic Groups, (S. Krashen, P. Ladefoged, chair)
Julia	Horvath	Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University	1981	Aspects of Hungarian Syntax and the Theory of Grammar, (S. Anderson, J. Emonds, chairs)
Michael P.	Noonan (Deceased)	Late American linguist specializing in functional and typological linguistics	1981	Lango Syntax, (S. Thompson, chair)
John R.	Watters	Linguistic Researcher and Translation Adviser at SIL International	1981	A Phonology and Morphology of Ejagham, with notes on dialect variation, (W. Welmers, chair)
Lynn	Gordon	Retired Associate Professor, Department of English, 1986 - 2018 at Washington State University	1980	Maricopa Morphology and Syntax, (P. Munro, chair)
Steven	Greenberg	Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Hearing Research at the Technical University of Denmark	1980	Neural Temporal Coding of Pitch and Vowel Quality, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Marina	McIntire		1980	Locatives in American Sign Language, (S. Thompson, chair)
George	Papcun	Sound forensics expert	1980	How do Different Speakers Say the Same Vowels? Discriminant Analysis of Four Imitation Dialects, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Yun-Yang Eric	Zee		1980	Phonetic Studies of Chinese Tones, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Alora J.	Burton		1979	Phonological Systems of Aphasic Children, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Brent E.	DeChene	Professor (emeritus), Waseda University	1979	The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length, (S. Anderson, chair)
Eser E.	Erguvanli		1979	The Function of Word Order in Turkish Grammar, (S. Thompson, chair)
Barnabas	Forson	Ghanaian English language educator	1979	Code-Switching in Akan-English Bilingualism, (P. Schachter, chair)
Edward Norman	Gary		1979	Extent in English: A Unified Account of Degree and Quantity, (S. Thompson, chair)
Heather K.	Hardy		1979	Tolkapaya Syntax: Aspect, Modality, and Adverbial Modification in a Yavapai Dialect, (P. Munro, chair)
Randall J.	Hendrick		1979	On Nesting and Indexical Conditions in Linguistic Theory, (J. Emonds, chair)
Kenji	Hirakouji		1979	Ni and No in Japanese, (G. Bedell, chair)
Leon C.	Jacobson		1979	DhoLuo Vowel Harmony: A Phonetic Investigation, (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)
Euphrasia C.	Kuene		1979	The Acquisition of SiSwati as a First Language: A Morphological Study with Special Reference to Noun Prefixes, Noun Classes, and Some Agreement Markers, (S. Thompson, chair)
Barbara S.	Lopez		1979	The Sound Pattern of Brazilian Portuguese (Cariocan Dialect), (S. Anderson, chair)
Lynell	Marchese	Thesis supervisor at South African Theological Seminary	1979	Tense/Aspect and the Development of Auxiliaries in the Kru Language Family, (S. Thompson, chair)
Sharon L.	Sabsay	Senior Information Developer at IBM	1979	Communicative Competence in Down’s Syndrome Adults, (W. Bright, chair)
Anuradha	Saksena		1979	The Grammar of Hindi Causatives, (P. Schachter, chair)
Carmen	Silva-Corvalan	Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California	1979	An Investigation of Phonological and Syntactic Variation in Spoken Chilean Spanish, (S. Thompson, B. Wald, chairs)
Yero	Sylla		1979	Grammatical Relations and Fula Syntax, (R. Schuh, chair)
Katsue	Akiba		1978	A Historical Study of Old Japanese Syntax
Kent D.	Bimson	Semantic Modeling and Text Analysis at Bimson Consulting	1978	Comparative Reconstruction of Proto-Northern- Western Mande
Catherine P.	Browman (Deceased)	Late American linguist and speech scientist	1978	Tip of the Tongue and Slip of the Ear: Implications for Language Processing
Louis M.	Goldstein	Professor, Department of Linguistics, USC	1977	Three Studies in Speech Perception: Features, Relative Salience, and Bias, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Ian	Maddieson (Deceased)	Late British-American linguist and professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico	1977	Universals of Tone: Six Studies, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Dale R.	Terbeek		1977	A Cross-Language Multidimensional Scaling Study of Vowel Perception, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Erhard F.K.	Voeltz	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Department of General Linguistics, Emeritus	1977	Proto-Niger-Congo Verb Extensions, (T. Givón, chair)
Wendy K.	Wilkins	Founding President of Association of Chief Academic Officers	1977	The Variable Interpretation Convention: A Condition on Variables in Syntactic Transformations, (J. Emonds, chair)
Dauda M.	Bagari		1976	Subordinate Adverbial Clauses in Hausa, (R. Schuh)
Marian C.	Bean (Deceased)	Late Associate Professor Emerita of English at University of Wisconsin Madison	1976	A Study of the Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English in Relation to Theories of Word Order Change
Thomas	Bye	Principal at Thomas Bye Consulting	1976	Aspects of the Acquisition of Communicative Competence: The Role of Listener-Oriented Presuppositions in Producing Directions
Susan	Curtiss	Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics, UCLA	1976	The Case of Genie: A Modern Day “Wild Child”, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Stephen	Cushing		1976	The Formal Semantics of Quantification, (J. Emonds, chair)
Kathleen G.	Dahlgren	Adjunt Professor at UCLA in Computational Linguist	1976	Referential Semantics, (J. Emonds, chair)
Baruch	Elimelech	Professor, ESL at Long Beach City College	1976	A Tonal Grammar of Etsako, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Jackson T.	Gandour	Professor Emeritus, Department of Speech Language Hearing Sciences at Purdue University	1976	Aspects of Thai Tone, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Alexandre	Kimenyi (Deceased)	Late Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento	1976	A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda, (T. Givón, chair)
Robert W.	McCoard		1976	Tense Choice and Pragmatic Inferences: A Study of Preterit/Perfect Oppositions in English, (S. Thompson, chair)
Laura F.	Meyers		1976	Aspects of Hausa Tone, (P. Schachter, chair)
Martin J.	Mould	Copyeditor at American Physiological Society	1976	Comparative Grammar Reconstruction and Language Subclassification: The North Victorian Bantu Languages, (T. Givón, chair)
Jilali	Saib		1976	A Phonological Study of Tamazight Berber: Dialect of the Ayt Ndhir, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Livingstone	Walusimbi (Deceased)	Late professor at Makerere University	1976	Relativization and Focusing in Luganda and Bantu, (T. Givón, chair)
W. Josh	Ard		1975	Raisings and Word Order in Diachronic Syntax
Eugene W.	Bunkowske	Late professor at Concordia Theological Seminary	1975	Topics in Yala Grammar
Isaac	George		1975	A Grammar of Kwa-type Verb Serialization: Its Nature and Significance in Current Generative Theory, (P. Schachter, W. Welmers, chairs)
Grover M.	Hudson	Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University	1975	Suppletion in the Representation of Alternations, 9/75 (V. Fromkin, T. Vennemann, chairs)
Mona E.	Lindau		1975	Features for Vowels, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Margaret L.	Press		1975	A Grammar of Chemehuevi, (W. Bright, chair)
Eva-Maria M.	Wotschke		1975	Ordered Grammars with Equivalence Classes: Some Formal and Linguistic Aspects, (S. Greibach, P. Schachter, chairs
Richard	Ogle	Veteran educator and business consultant	1974	Natural Order and Dislocated Syntax: An Essay in the History of Linguistic Ideas, (G. Bedell, chair)
Tito N.	Oviedo		1974	Mood and Negotiation in Spanish Noun Clauses, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Andrew	Rogers		1974	Physical Perception of Verbs in English: A Study in Lexical Relatedness, (B. Partee, chair)
Lorian	Baker		1973	The Lexicon: Consideration for a Performance Model
Donald A.	Burquest		1973	A Grammar of Angas
John	Davis		1973	A Partial Grammar of Simplex and Complex Sentences in Luiseño, (W. Bright, chair)
Thomas J.	HInnebusch	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and African Languages at UCLA	1973	Prefixes, Sound Change, and Subgroupings in the Coastal Kenyan Bantu Languages, (T. Givón, chair)
Joan Bybee	Hooper	Professor emerita at the University of New Mexico	1973	Aspects of Natural Generative Phonology, (P. Schachter, chair)
Kay Atkinson	King	Director of the Office of Interparliamentary Affairs for the U.S. House of Representatives	1973	Children’s Acquisition of Phonological Stress Contrasts, (P. Ladefoged)
Rosa	Needleman		1973	Thai Verbal Structures and Some Implications for Current Theory, (S. Thompson, chair)
Carol	Pfaff	Independent Linguistic Research Professional	1973	A Sociolinguistic Study of Black Children in Los Angeles, (W. Bright, chair)
Robert	Rodman (Deceased)	late Professor of Linguistics, North Carolina State University	1973	The Study of Fuzzy Islands within the Framework of Transformational Generative Grammar, (G. Bedell, chair)
William	Rutherford (Deceased)	Late distinguished emeritus faculty member in USC’s Linguistics Department	1973	Studies in Extra-Sentential Relations, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Georgette	Silva		1973	On Infinitival Complements: A Cross-Linguistic Study, (P. Schachter, chair)
Raymond	Silverstein		1973	Igala Historical Phonology, (W. Welmers, chair)
Manjari	Agrawal Ohala	Emeritus Professor of English at San Jose State	1972	Topics in Hindi-Urdu Phonology
Marianne	Celce-Murcia	Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, UCLA	1972	A Syntactic and Psycholinguistic Study of Comparison in English
Laurence	Horn	Professor emeritus of linguistics in the department of linguistics at Yale University	1972	(B. Partee, chair) On the Semantic Properties of Logical Operators in English
Larry M.	Hyman	Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley	1972	A Phonological Study of Fe’fe’-Bamileke, (V. Fromkin)
Michael	Kac	Associate professor at University of Minnesota	1972	Formal Aspects of Semantic Representation, (P. Schachter, chair)
Stephen D.	Krashen	Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California	1972	Language and the Left Hemisphere, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Russell G.	Schuh (Deceased)	late Professor of Linguistics, UCLA	1972	Aspects of Ngizim Syntax, (P. Schachter, chair)
Timothy	Shopen (Deceased)	Late Visiting Fellow in the School of Language Studies	1972	A Generative Theory of Ellipsis: A Consideration of the Linguistic Use of Silence, (P. Schachter, chair)
Lyle	Campbell	Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i Manoa	1971	Historical Linguistics and Quechean Linguistic Prehistory
Jacquelyn	DeMeire Schachter (Deceased)	Late professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Oregon.	1971	Presuppositional and Counterfactual Conditional Sentences, (B. Partee, chair)
Timothy	Diller		1971	Case Grammar and its Application to Waray, a Philippine Language, (P. Schachter, chair)
Fraida	Dubin	Higher Education Teacher	1971	Language and Attitudes among Navajo Adolescents, (W. Bright, chair)
Ronald K.S.	Macaulay	Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College	1971	Aspect in English, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Roxana Ma	Newman	Emeriti Adjunct Associate Professor, Linguistics	1971	A Case Grammar of Ga’anda, (P. Schachter, chair)
Kunio	Okuda		1971	Accentual Systems in the Japanese Dialects, (G. Bedell, chair)
Thomas H.	Peterson		1971	Moore Structure: A Generative Analysis of the Tonal System and Aspects of the Syntax, (P. Schachter, chair)
Charles M.	Richards		1971	A Case Grammar of Pampangan, (P. Schachter, chair)
Herbert F.W.	Stahlke	Emeritus Professor of English at Ball State University	1971	Topics in Ewe Phonology, (W. Welmers, chair)
Christiane	Baltaxe	Speech-language pathologist	1970	N.S. Trubetskoy and the Development of the Theory of Distinctive Features, (J. Puhvel, chair)
Edward	Fresco		1970	Topics in Yoruba Dialect Phonology, (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)
Frank W.	Heny	Professor of Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, and Head of the Institute of General Linguistics at the University of Groningen, Holland.	1970	Semantic Operations on Base Structures, (B. Partee, chair)
Mangesh V.	Nadkarni	Late professor of English literature	1970	NP-Embedded Structures in Kannada and Konkani, (W. Bright, chair
Timothy S.J.	Smith		1970	A Phonetic Study of the Function of the Extrinsic Tongue Muscles, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Steven B.	Smith		1970	Generative Semantics, (B. Partee, chair)
	Soemarmo (Deceased)	Late Associate Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Ohio University	1970	Subject-Predicate, Focus-Presupposition, and Topic-Comment in Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese
Karen	Courtenay	Former linguist at Logovista US Inc	1969	A Generative Phonology of Yoruba, (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)
Talmy	Givon	Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Oregon	1969	Studies in Chibemba and Bantu Grammar, (P. Schachter, chair)
Jacqueline	Lindenfeld		1969	A Transformational Grammar of Yaqui, (W. Bright, chair)
Peter	Menzel		1969	Propositions, Events, and Actions in the Syntax of Complementation, (B. Partee, chair)
Purushottam J.	Mistry		1969	A Generative Syntax of Gujarati, (W. Bright, chair)
John	Ohala (Deceased)	late Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley	1969	Aspects of the Control and Production of Speech, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Harry A.	Whitaker		1969	On the Representation of Language in the Human Brain: Problems in the Neurology of Language and the Linguistic Analysis of Aphasia, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Gerard	Diffloth	Late Professor of Linguistics at Cornell	1968	The Irula Language, (W. Bright, chair)
John	McKay	Late librarian at the University of Arizona	1968	Free Adverbials in a Generative Grammar of German, (B. Partee, chair)
Kenneth C.	Hill		1967	A Grammar of the Serrano Language, (W. Bright, chair)
Kalon L.	Kelley		1967	Early Syntactic Acquisition, (B. Partee, chair)
Terence H.	Moore	Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.	1967	The Topic-Comment Functiuon: A Performance Constraint on a Competence Model, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Paul	Newman	Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University	1967	A Grammar of Tera, (P. Schachter, chair)
Charles S.	Bird	Former professor of linguistics at Indiana University	1966	Aspects of Bambara Syntax
Deborah Ann	Harding		1966	The Phonology and Morphology of Chinyanja, (W. Welmers, chair)
Mary Jeanette	Johnson		1966	Syntactic Structures of Tamazight, (J. Applegate, chair)
Chin Woo	Kim	Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1966	The Linguistic Specification of Speech, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Victoria A.	Fromkin (Deceased)	Late Professor of Linguistics, UCLA	1965	Some Phonetic Specifications of Linguistic Units: An Electromyographic Investigation, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Robert D.	Wilson		1965	Tree Derivation in Transformational Grammars, (R. Stockwell, chair)