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
Canaan	Breiss	Postdoc in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab	2021	Lexical Conservatism in phonology: theory, experiments, and computational modeling
Connor	Mayer	Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science, UC Irvine	2021	Issues in Uyghur Backness Harmony: Corpus, Experimental, and Computational Studies
Soemarmo			1970	Subject-Predicate, Focus-Presupposition, and Topic-Comment in Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese
Maayan	Abenina-Adar		2020	Expressing Ignorance with Determiner Phrases
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
Ann (Niki) M.	Acker	Linguistics Project Manager, Google via Adecco	2016	Voice and Valence Q'anjob 'al
Stephen M.	Adewole		1995	Yoruba word formation processes
Manjari	Agrawal Ohala	Professor, San Jose State University	1972	Topics in Hindi-Urdu Phonology
Byron	Ahn	Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University	2015	Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English
Katsue	Akiba		1978	A Historical Study of Old Japanese Syntax
Adam	Albright	Professor, MIT	2002	The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms
Dan	Albro	Software Engineer, Google (Deceased)	2005	Studies in Computational Optimality Theory, with Special Reference to the Phonological System of Malagasy
Ann M.	Aly	Director of Human Centered Design at TechFlow, Inc.	2017	Prosodic Effects of Code-Switching in Spanish Basque Bilinguals
Victoria	Anderson	Associate Professor, University of Hawai’i	2000	Giving Weight to Phonetic Principles: The Case of Place of Articulation in Western Arrernte
Alice J.	Anderton		1988	The Language of the Kitanemuks of California
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
W. Josh	Ard		1975	Raisings and Word Order in Diachronic Syntax
Linda L.	Arvanites		1991	The Glottalic Phonemes of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
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
Dauda M.	Bagari		1976	Subordinate Adverbial Clauses in Hausa, (R. Schuh)
Joèlle S.	Bailard		1982	Diachronic Evidence and the Form of French Grammar
Lorian	Baker		1973	The Lexicon: Consideration for a Performance Model
Christiane	Baltaxe		1970	N.S. Trubetskoy and the Development of the Theory of Distinctive Features, (J. Puhvel, chair)
Mary	Baltazani	Lecturer & Researcher, Oxford University, formerly tenured Asst. Prof., Univ. of Ioannina, Greece	2003	Quantifier Scope and the Role of Intonation in Greek
Susan L.	Banner Inouye		1995	Trills, Taps, and Stops in Contrast and Variation
Marco	Baroni	Facebook AI Research & Professor, Univ. de Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona	2000	Distributional Cues in Morpheme Discovery: A Computational Model and Empirical Evidence
Outi	Bat-El		1989	Phonology and Word Structure in Modern Hebrew
Marian C.	Bean		1976	A Study of the Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English in Relation to Theories of Word Order Change
Misha	Becker	Professor & Chair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	2000	"The Development of the Copula in Child English: The Lightness of Be"
Roy	Becker-Kristal	Prosody Specialist at Speech Morphing; Phonetics Specialist at Voiceitt	2010	Acoustic typology of vowel inventories
Filippo	Beghelli		1995	The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope
Dorit	Ben-Shalom		1995	Semantic Trees
Ava	Berinstein		1984	Evidence for Multiattachment in K’ekchi Mayan
Melanie J.	Bervoets	Data Scientist at TD, Toronto, Canada	2014	On opining: modal verbs, dispositions, free choice, and negation
Lee S.	Bickmore		1989	Kinyambo Prosody
Kent D.	Bimson		1978	Comparative Reconstruction of Proto-Northern- Western Mande
Charles S.	Bird		1966	Aspects of Bambara Syntax
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
Barbara	Blankenship		1997	The Time Course of Breathiness and Laryngealization in Vowels
Dustin	Bowers	Quality Assurance Linguist at Lionbridge	2015	A system for morphophonological learning and its consequences for language change
George Aaron	Broadwell		1990	Extending the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study
Catherine P.	Browman		1978	Tip of the Tongue and Slip of the Ear: Implications for Language Processing
Leston	Buell	Translator and Linguist, Amsterdam	2005	Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax
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
Eugene W.	Bunkowske		1975	Topics in Yala Grammar
Heather	Burnett	Universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7	2012	The Grammar of Tolerance: On vagueness, context-sensitivity and the origin of scale structure
Donald A.	Burquest		1973	A Grammar of Angas
Alora J.	Burton		1979	Phonological Systems of Aphasic Children, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Thomas	Bye		1976	Aspects of the Acquisition of Communicative Competence: The Role of Listener-Oriented Presuppositions in Producing Directions
Dani M.	Byrd	Professor, Uni. Southern California	1994	(Patricia Keating, chair) Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences
Richard G.	Campbell		1989	The Grammatical Structure of Verbal Predicates
Lyle	Campbell		1971	Historical Linguistics and Quechean Linguistic Prehistory
Ivano	Caponigro	Associate Professor, UCSD (San Diego)	2003	Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically
Vicki M.	Carstens	Associate Prof., U. Missouri	1991	The Morphology and Syntax of Determiner Phrases in Kiswahili
Roderic F.	Casali		1996	Resolving Hiatus
Marianne	Celce-Murcia		1972	A Syntactic and Psycholinguistic Study of Comparison in English
Isabelle	Charnavel	Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva	2012	On her own – Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing syntax and semantics with French propre
Lawrence Yam-Leung	Cheung	Associate Professor and MA Program Director, Chinese University of Hong Kong	2008	The Negative Wh-Construction
Telee	Chi		1984	A Lexical Analysis of Verb-Noun Compounds in Mandarin Chinese
Bonnie H.	Chiu		1993	The Inflectional Structure of Mandarin Chinese
Taehong	Cho	Professor, Hanyang University, Korea	2001	Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English
John-Dongwook	Choi		1992	Phonetic Underspecification and Target- Interpolation: An Acoustic Study of Marshallese Vowel Allophony,
Adam J.	Chong	Senior Lecturer	2017	On the Relation Between Phonotactic Learning and Alternation Learning
Robin L.	Clark		1985	Boundaries and the Treatment of Control
Abigail C.	Cohn	Professor, Cornell U.	1990	Phonetic and Phonological Rules of Nasalization
Thomas L.	Cornell		1992	Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers, (V. Fromkin, E. Stabler, chairs
Karen	Courtenay		1969	A Generative Phonology of Yoruba, (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)
Laura D.	Crain		1992	Clause Chaining in Nepali Discourse, (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)
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"
Daniela	Culinovic	Content Editor at Impact Fashion	2020	Second position’ revisited: a uniformly syntactic account of ‘split’ predicates
Susanna A.	Cumming		1988	Syntactic Function and Constituent Order Change in Malay, (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
Susan	Curtiss		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		1976	Referential Semantics, (J. Emonds, chair)
Sarah N.	Dart		1991	Articulatory and Acoustic Properties of Apical and Laminal Articulations, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
John	Davis		1973	A Partial Grammar of Simplex and Complex Sentences in Luiseño, (W. Bright, chair)
Brent E.	DeChene		1979	The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length, (S. Anderson, chair)
Jacquelyn	DeMeire Schachter		1971	Presuppositional and Counterfactual Conditional Sentences, (B. Partee, chair)
Gerard	Diffloth		1968	The Irula Language, (W. Bright, chair)
Timothy	Diller		1971	Case Grammar and its Application to Waray, a Philippine Language, (P. Schachter, chair)
Sandra F.	Disner		1983	Vowel Quality: The Relation between Universal and Language Specific Factors, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
William B.	Dolan		1994	(Ed Stabler, chair) “Context-Freeness and the Lexicon”
Fraida	Dubin		1971	Language and Attitudes among Navajo Adolescents, (W. Bright, chair)
Michael P.	Dukes		1996	(Ed Keenan, chair) “On the Nonexistence of Anaphors and Pronominals in Tongan”
Baruch	Elimelech		1976	A Tonal Grammar of Etsako, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Karen D.	Emmorey		1987	Morphological Structure and Parsing in the Lexicon, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Melissa	Epstein	IRB Director, Albert Einstein College of Medicine	2002	(Pat Keating and Jody Kreiman, co-chairs) Voice Quality and Prosody in English
Eser E.	Erguvanli		1979	The Function of Word Order in Turkish Grammar, (S. Thompson, chair)
Manuel	Espanol-Echevarria	Professor, Laval University, Quebec	1998	(Tim Stowell, chair) “The Syntax of Purposive Expressions”
Christina	Esposito	Associate Professor & Chair, Macalester College, St. Paul. MN	2006	(Patricia Keating, chair)The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation
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
Edward S.	Flemming	Associate Professor, MIT, Boston	1995	Donca Steriade, chair)"Auditory Representations in Phonology"
James Forrest	Fordyce		1988	Studies in Sound Symbolism with Special Reference to English, (P. Keating, chair)
John	Foreman	Associate Professor, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley	2006	(Pamela Munro and Tim Stowell, co-chairs). The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec
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
Barnabas	Forson		1979	Code-Switching in Akan-English Bilingualism, (P. Schachter, chair)
Meaghan	Fowlie	Assistant Professor at Linguistics Dept. of Universiteit Utrecht in The Netherlands	2017	(Edward P. Stabler, Chair)Slaying the Great Green Dragon: Learning and Modeling Iterable Ordered Optional Adjuncts
Barbara A.	Fox		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)
Edward	Fresco		1970	Topics in Yoruba Dialect Phonology, (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)
Victoria A.	Fromkin		1965	Some Phonetic Specifications of Linguistic Units: An Electromyographic Investigation, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Sean	Fulop	Associate Professor, California State University, Fresno	1999	(Ed Stabler, chair) On the Logic and Learning of Language
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)
Jackson T.	Gandour		1976	Aspects of Thai Tone, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Mark	Garellek	Professor of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego and Director of UCSD Phonetics Lab	2013	(Patricia Keating, chair)Production and Perception of Glottal Stops
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
Edward Norman	Gary		1979	Extent in English: A Unified Account of Degree and Quantity, (S. Thompson, chair)
B.R.	George	Assistant Professor in Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University	2011	(Jessica Rett, chair) Question Embedding and the Semantics of Answers
Isaac	George		1975	A Grammar of Kwa-type Verb Serialization: Its Nature and Significance in Current Generative Theory, (P. Schachter, W. Welmers, chairs)
David	Gil		1982	Distributive Numerals, (E. Keenan, chair)
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
Alhaji Maina	Gimba	Professor, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria	2000	(Russ Schuh, chair) “Topics in Bole Verb Morphology”
Talmy	Givon		1969	Studies in Chibemba and Bantu Grammar, (P. Schachter, chair)
Eleanor	Glewwe	Mellon Post-doctoral fellow, Grinnell College	2019	(Professor Kie Ross Zuraw, Chair) Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Experimental Studies of Phonotactic Implicationals
Bonnie C.	Glover		1988	The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic, (R. Schuh, chair)
John	Gluckman	Assistant Professor at The University of Kansas	2019	(Dominique Sportiche) Perspectives on Syntactic Dependencies
Louis M.	Goldstein		1977	Three Studies in Speech Perception: Features, Relative Salience, and Bias, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Chris	Golston		1991	Both Lexicons , (V. Fromkin, D. Steriade, chairs)
Matthew	Gordon	Professor and Chair, UCSB (Santa Barbara)	1999	(Bruce Hayes, chair) “Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and Typology”
Amnon	Gordon		1982	The Structure of the Hebrew Lexicon, (P. Schachter, chair)
Lynn	Gordon		1980	Maricopa Morphology and Syntax, (P. Munro, chair)
Thomas	Graf	Associate Professor for Department of Linguistics and Affiliate Professor in Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University	2013	(Edward Stabler, chair) Local and Transderivational Constraints in Syntax and Semantics
William J.	Greenberg		1982	Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms, (P. Schachter, chair)
Steven	Greenberg		1980	Neural Temporal Coding of Pitch and Vowel Quality, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Javier J.	Gutierrez Rexach		1997	(Ed Keenan, chair) “Quantification, Context Dependence, and Generalized Minimalist Grammer: Studies on the Interpretation of Clitic Proforms and Existential Determiners in Spanish”
Robert E.	Hagiwara	Assistant Professor, U. Manitoba	1995	(Peter Ladefoged, chair) “Acoustic Realizations of American /r/ as Produced by Women and Men”
Peter	Hallman	Principal Investigator, Austrian Research Inst for AI	2000	(Dominique Sportiche, chair) “The Structure of Predicates: Interactions of Derivation, Case and Quantification”
Michael T.	Hammond		1984	Constraining Metrical Theory: A Modular Theory of Rhythm and Destressing, (B. Hayes, chair)
Deborah Ann	Harding		1966	The Phonology and Morphology of Chinyanja, (W. Welmers, chair)
Heather K.	Hardy		1979	Tolkapaya Syntax: Aspect, Modality, and Adverbial Modification in a Yavapai Dialect, (P. Munro, chair)
Sharon L.	Hargus		1985	The Lexical Phonology of Sekani, (W. Bright, chair)
Henk	Harkema	AI Research Scientist, Samsung Electronics	2001	(Ed Stabler, chair) Parsing Minimalist Languages
Tomiko	Hayashi		1996	(Paul Schachter, chair) “The Syntactic and Semantic Structures of Complex Predicate Constructions in Japanese”
Jeffrey	Heinz	Professor, Stony Brook University	2007	(Edward Stabler and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns
Randall J.	Hendrick		1979	On Nesting and Indexical Conditions in Linguistic Theory, (J. Emonds, chair)
Frank W.	Heny		1970	Semantic Operations on Base Structures, (B. Partee, chair)
Susan	Hess		1998	(Pat Keating and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) “Pharyngeal Articulations”
Kenneth C.	Hill		1967	A Grammar of the Serrano Language, (W. Bright, chair)
Thomas J.	HInnebusch		1973	Prefixes, Sound Change, and Subgroupings in the Coastal Kenyan Bantu Languages, (T. Givón, chair)
Kenji	Hirakouji		1979	Ni and No in Japanese, (G. Bedell, chair)
Dennis G.	Holt		1986	The Development of the Paya Sound System, (W. Bright, chair)
Vincent	Homer	Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst	2010	(Dominique Sportiche and Philippe Schlenker, co-chairs) Polarity and Modality
Joan Bybee	Hooper		1973	Aspects of Natural Generative Phonology, (P. Schachter, chair)
Laurence	Horn		1972	(B. Partee, chair) On the Semantic Properties of Logical Operators in English
Julia	Horvath		1981	Aspects of Hungarian Syntax and the Theory of Grammar, (S. Anderson, J. Emonds, chairs)
Grover M.	Hudson	Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University	1975	Suppletion in the Representation of Alternations, 9/75 (V. Fromkin, T. Vennemann, chairs)
Marie K.	Huffman		1989	Implementation of Nasal: Timing and Articulatory Landmarks, (P. Keating, chair)
Thomas	Hun-Tak Lee		1986	Studies on Quantification in Chinese, (G. Bedell, chair)
Larry M.	Hyman		1972	A Phonological Study of Fe’fe’-Bamileke, (V. Fromkin)
Tomoko	Ishizuka	Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan	2010	(Hilda Koopman, chair) Toward a Unified Analysis of Passives in Japanese:A Cartographic Minimalist Approach
Shoichi	Iwasaki		1988	A Study of Speaker’s Perspective in Japanese Spoken Discourse, (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chairs)
Eric	Jackson	Linguist, SIL International	2005	(Pamela Munro, chair) Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure
Catherine A.	Jackson		1990	The Grammatical Consequences of Early Focal Damage to the Left Hemisphere of the Brain, (S. Curtiss, V. Fromkin, chairs)
Michel T.T	Jackson		1988	Phonetic Theory and Cross-Linguistic Variation in Vowel Articulation, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Leon C.	Jacobson		1979	DhoLuo Vowel Harmony: A Phonetic Investigation, (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs)
Philip J.	Jaggar		1985	Factors Governing the Morphological Coding of Referants in Hausa Narrative Discourse, (R. Schuh, chair)
Richard D.	Janda		1987	On the Motivation for Evolutionary Typology of Sound-Structural Rules, (S. Anderson, chair)
Mary Jeanette	Johnson		1966	Syntactic Structures of Tamazight, (J. Applegate, chair)
Brenda	Joyce-Clark	African Linguistics	2001	(Anoop Mahajan, chair) Noun Classifiers
Jongho	Jun	Professor, Seoul National U.	1995	(Donca Steriade, chair) Perceptual and Articulatory Factors on Place Assimilation
Michael	Kac		1972	Formal Aspects of Semantic Representation, (P. Schachter, chair)
Laura	Kalin	Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University	2014	(Anoop Mahajan, chair) Aspect and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic
Jason	Kandybowicz	Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate Center	2006	(Hilda Koopman, chair) Conditions on Multiple Copy Spell-Out and the Syntax-Phonology Interface
Marju	Kaps	Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London	2020	Processing Information on Structures: A Case Study of Contrastive Topics in Estonian
Abigail R.	Kaun		1995	(Bruce Hayes, chair) The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
Benjamin	Keil	Researcher, Google	2010	(Marcus Kracht, chair) Generating Descriptions of Motion from Cognitive Representations
Kalon L.	Kelley		1967	Early Syntactic Acquisition, (B. Partee, chair)
Timothy Arbisi	Kelm	Senior Res Assoc, Boys Town National Research Hospital	2006	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency Patterns in Stuttering
Daniel	Kempler	Professor Emeritus, Emerson College	1984	Syntactic and Symbolic Abilities in Alzheimer's Disease, (R. Anttila, S. Curtiss, chairs)
Sameer ud Dowla	Khan	Associate Professor and Chair, Reed College	2008	Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali
Lukowa	Kidima		1991	Tone and Accent in KiYaka, (B. Hayes, chair)
Yun Jung	Kim	Lecturer, Emory University, Atlanta	2015	(Megha Sundara, chair) 6-month-olds' segmentation and representation of morphologically complex words
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
Sahyang	Kim	Professor, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea	2004	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The Role of Prosodic Phrasing in Korean Word Segmentation
Chin Woo	Kim		1966	The Linguistic Specification of Speech, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Alexandre	Kimenyi		1976	A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda, (T. Givón, chair)
Kay Atkinson	King		1973	Children’s Acquisition of Phonological Stress Contrasts, (P. Ladefoged)
Kasangati K.W.	Kinyalolo		1991	Syntactic Dependencies and the SPEC- head Agreement Hypothesis in KiLega, (H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, chairs)
Robert	Kirchner	Associate Professor, University of Alberta	1998	Donca Steriade, chair) “An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition”
Sharon M.	Klein		1982	Syntactic Theory and the Developing Grammar: Reestablishing the Relationship between Linguistic Theory and Data from Language Acquisition, (S. Anderson, chair)
Nathan	Klinedinst	Lecturer (Asst. Prof), University College, London	2007	(Philippe Schlenker, chair) Plurality and Possibility
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
Natalia (Natasha)	Korotkova	Post-doctoral researcher, University of Tübingen, and University of Konstanz	2016	(Yael Sharvit & Dominique Sportiche, Co-Chairs) Heterogeneity and uniformity in the evidential domain
Stephen D.	Krashen		1972	Language and the Left Hemisphere, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Jianjing	Kuang	Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania	2013	(Patricia Keating, chair) Phonation in Tonal Contrasts
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)
Chen Hsiu (Grace)	Kuo	Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University	2013	(Patricia Keating, Chair) Boundaries and the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Group
Murat	Kural		1996	(Tim Stowell, chair) “Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates”
Peter N.	Landerman		1991	Quechua Dialects and their Classification , (G. Bedell, chair)
Felicia	Lee	Freelance Writer and Editor	1999	(Tim Stowell and Pam Munro, co-chairs) “Antisymmetry and the Syntax in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec”
Hyunoo	Lee		1993	(Ed Keenan, chair)"Categories, Structures, and Principles of Anaphoric Dependencies"
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)
Michael L.	Lefkowitz	Director, Core Technology at McD Tech Labs	2017	(Bruce P. Hayes, Chair) Maxent Harmonic Grammars and Phonetic Duration
Brook	Lillehaugen	Associate Professor, Haverford College, Chair of Linguistics at Haverford College	2006	(Pamela Munro, chair) Expressing Location in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
Isabelle	Lin	Student, L’Ecole Cesan, Paris	2019	co-chairs were (Kie Zuraw and Megha Sundara) Functional Load, Perception, and the Learning of Phonological Alternations
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
Mona E.	Lindau		1975	Features for Vowels, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Jacqueline	Lindenfeld		1969	A Transformational Grammar of Yaqui, (W. Bright, chair)
Geoffrey A.	Lindsey		1985	Intonation and Interrogation: Tonal Sturcture and the Expression of a Pragmatic Function in English and other Languages, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Wendy J.	Linker		1982	Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Labial Activity in Vowels: A Cross-Linguistic Study, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Haiyong	Liu	Associate Professor, Wayne State University	2004	(Anoop Mahajan and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu Structures
Feng-Hsi	Liu		1990	Scope Dependency in English and Chinese, (E. Keenan, chair)
Nicoletta	Loccioni	Lecturer in Linguistics at UCLA	2018	(Tim Stowell, Chair) Getting "the most" out of Romance
Ingvar	Lofstedt	Phonology	2010	(Bruce Hayes and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) Phonetic Effects in Swedish Phonology: Allomorphy and Paradigms
Barbara S.	Lopez		1979	The Sound Pattern of Brazilian Portuguese (Cariocan Dialect), (S. Anderson, 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)
Ronald K.S.	Macaulay		1971	Aspect in English, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Alex	MacBride	Analytical Linguist, Google	2003	(Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology
Margaret R.	MacEachern		1997	(Donca Steriade, chair) “Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions”
Ian	Maddieson		1977	Universals of Tone: Six Studies, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Iara	Mantenuto	Assistant Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills	2020	'Other' and 'More' in San Sebastian del Monte Mixtec and Beyond
Lynell	Marchese		1979	Tense/Aspect and the Development of Auxiliaries in the Kru Language Family, (S. Thompson, chair)
Andrew	Martin	Associate Professor, Konan University, Kobe, Japan	2007	(Kie Zuraw, chair) The Evolving Lexicon
Jack B.	Martin		1991	The Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax, (T. Stowell, chair)
Victoria E.	Mateu Martin	Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the UCLA Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese	2016	(Nina Hyams, Chair) Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Raising and Control: Evidence from English and Spanish
Masangu	Matonado	Assistant Professor, University of Florida	2003	(Tom Hinnebusch and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma
Christian	Matthiessen		1989	Text-Generation as a Linguistic Research Task, (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)
Robert W.	McCoard		1976	Tense Choice and Pragmatic Inferences: A Study of Preterit/Perfect Oppositions in English, (S. Thompson, chair)
Brian D.	McHugh		1990	(B. Hayes, chair) Cyclicity in the phrasal phonology of Kivunjo Chaga
Marina	McIntire		1980	Locatives in American Sign Language, (S. Thompson, chair)
John	McKay		1968	Free Adverbials in a Generative Grammar of German, (B. Partee, chair)
Laura E.	McPherson	Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College	2014	(Bruce Hayes and Russ Schuh, co-chairs) Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages
Peter	Menzel		1969	Propositions, Events, and Actions in the Syntax of Complementation, (B. Partee, chair)
Laura F.	Meyers		1976	Aspects of Hausa Tone, (P. Schachter, chair)
Purushottam J.	Mistry		1969	A Generative Syntax of Gujarati, (W. Bright, chair)
Terence H.	Moore		1967	The Topic-Comment Functiuon: A Performance Constraint on a Competence Model, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Lioba P.	Moshi		1985	Grammatical Relations in Swahili Discourse, (S. Thompson, chair)
Martin J.	Mould		1976	Comparative Grammar Reconstruction and Language Subclassification: The North Victorian Bantu Languages, (T. Givón, chair)
Jean G.	Mulder	Professor, University of Melbourne	1988	Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax), (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
Leonard Chacha	Mwita	Senior Lecturer Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya	2008	Russell Schuh, chair) Verbal Tone in Kuria
Mangesh V.	Nadkarni		1970	NP-Embedded Structures in Kannada and Konkani, (W. Bright, chair
Hiroyuki	Nagahara		1994	(Bruce Hayes, chair) “Phonological Phrasing in Japanese”
Seungho	Nam		1995	(Ed Keenan, chair) “The Semantics of Locative Prepositional Phrases in English”
Jonas N.A.	Nartey		1982	On Fricative Phones and Phonemes: or the Fricative Difference within and between Languages, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Rosa	Needleman		1973	Thai Verbal Structures and Some Implications for Current Theory, (S. Thompson, chair)
Roxana Ma	Newman		1971	A Case Grammar of Ga’anda, (P. Schachter, chair)
Paul	Newman		1967	A Grammar of Tera, (P. Schachter, chair)
Deogratias S.	Ngonyani		1996	(Hilda Koopman, chair)"The Morphosyntax of Applicatives"
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
Michael A.	Nkemnji		1995	(Hilda Koopman and Russ Schuh, co-chairs) “Heavy Pied-Piping in Nweh”
Michael P.	Noonan		1981	Lango Syntax, (S. Thompson, chair)
Dimitrios	Ntelitheos	Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University	2006	(Hilda Koopman, chair) The Morphosyntax of Nominalizations: A Case Study
Lynette B.	Nyaggah		1990	Cross-Linguistic Influence in Kenyan English: The Impact of Swahili and Kikuyu on Syntax, (T. Hinnebusch, chair)
Richard	Ogle		1974	Natural Order and Dislocated Syntax: An Essay in the History of Linguistic Ideas, (G. Bedell, chair)
John	Ohala	Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley	1969	Aspects of the Control and Production of Speech, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Kaoru	Ohta		1994	(Tim Stowell, chair) “Verbal Nouns in Japanese”
Reiko	Okabe	Associate Professor, Nihon University, Japan	2008	(Nina Hyams, chair) Acquisition of Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese
Kunio	Okuda		1971	Accentual Systems in the Japanese Dialects, (G. Bedell, chair)
Robyn	Orfitelli	Lecturer (Asst. Prof), University of Sheffield, UK	2012	Nina Hyams, chair) Argument Intervention in the Acquisition of A-movement
Tito N.	Oviedo		1974	Mood and Negotiation in Spanish Noun Clauses, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Sozen	Ozkan	Research Project Manager, ETS AI Research Labs	2020	Word Order and Information Structure in Turkish
George	Papcun		1980	How do Different Speakers Say the Same Vowels? Discriminant Analysis of Four Imitation Dialects, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Denis	Paperno	Professor, Utrecht University	2012	(Edward Keenan, chair) Semantics and Syntax of Non-Standard Coordination
Doris L.	Payne		1985	Participant Coding in Yagua Discourse, (S. Thompson, chair)
J. Matt	Pearson	Professor, Reed College	2000	(Ed Keenan and Timothy Stowell, co-chairs) The Clause Structure of Malagasy: A Minimalist Approach
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
Thomas H.	Peterson		1971	Moore Structure: A Generative Analysis of the Tonal System and Aspects of the Syntax, (P. Schachter, chair)
Carol	Pfaff		1973	A Sociolinguistic Study of Black Children in Los Angeles, (W. Bright, chair)
Jean M.	Phillips		1982	A Sociolinguistic Perspective on English Neological Processes, (R. Anttila, chair)
Chen	Ping		1986	Referent Introducing and Tracking in Chinese Narratives, (S. Thompson, chair)
Brian C.	Potter		1997	(Dominique Sportiche and Pam Munro, co-chairs) “Wh/Indefinites and the Structure of the Clause in Western Apache”
Margaret L.	Press		1975	A Grammar of Chemehuevi, (W. Bright, chair)
Judy S.	Reily		1982	Acquisition of Conditionals in English, (S. Thompson, chair)
Hongmo	Ren		1986	On the Acoustic Structure of Diphthongal Syllables, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
Charles M.	Richards		1971	A Case Grammar of Pampangan, (P. Schachter, chair)
Jason	Riggle	Associate Professor, University of Chicago	2004	(Edward Stabler, chair) Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory
Brice	Roberts	Text-to-Speech Linguist for German, Accenture	2020	2020. An Autosegmental-Metrical Model of Shanghainese Tone and Intonation
Robert	Rodman		1973	The Study of Fuzzy Islands within the Framework of Transformational Generative Grammar, (G. Bedell, chair)
Andrew	Rogers		1974	Physical Perception of Verbs in English: A Study in Lexical Relatedness, (B. Partee, chair)
William	Rutherford		1973	Studies in Extra-Sentential Relations, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Kevin	Ryan	Professor and Chair, Harvard University	2011	(Bruce Hayes and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs)Gradient Weight in Phonology
Sharon L.	Sabsay		1979	Communicative Competence in Down’s Syndrome Adults, (W. Bright, chair)
Jilali	Saib		1976	A Phonological Study of Tamazight Berber: Dialect of the Ayt Ndhir, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Craig W.	Sailor	Teaching fellow in Syntax at the University of Edinburgh's Department of Linguistics and English Language	2014	(Tim Stowell, chair) The Variable of VP Ellipsis
Mari	Sakaguchi	Faculty Member, Notre Dame Seishin University	1998	(Tim Stowell, chair) “Distributivity in English and Japanese”
Anuradha	Saksena		1979	The Grammar of Hindi Causatives, (P. Schachter, chair)
Sukari B.	Salone		1983	Conditional Sentences in Swahili, (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs)
Vida	Samiian		1983	Structure of Phrasal Categores in Persian: An X-Bar Analysis, (P. Schachter, chair)
Bonny E.	Sands		1995	(Ian Maddieson and Tom Hinnebusch, co-chairs) “Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships: The Case of Khoisan”
Tetsuya	Sano		1995	(Nina Hyams, chair) “Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages”
Janine	Scancarelli		1987	Grammatical Relations and Verb Agreement in Cherokee, (P. Munro, chair)
Rebecca	Scarborough	Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder	2005	(Patricia Keating, chair) Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon
Jeannette C.	Schaeffer		1997	(Nina Hyams, chair) “Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian Child Language”
David	Schueler	Research Linguist (Independent Contractor at Codeq LLC)	2008	(Daniel Büring, chair) The Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Conditionals: Filling in the Antecedent
Stephan M.	Schuetze-Coburn		1994	(J. Du Bois and Pamela Munro, co-chairs) “Prosody, Syntax, and Discourse Pragmatics: Assessing Information Flow in German Conversation”
Russell G.	Schuh		1972	Aspects of Ngizim Syntax, (P. Schachter, chair)
Shabnam	Shademan	Senior Project Manager, Deep 6 AI	2007	(Susan Curtiss and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs) Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-Formedness Judgments
Marian	Shapley		1989	Fundamental Frequency Variation in Conversational Discourse, (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs)
Molly	Shilman	Head of Research and Content, Consumer Financial Service Corporation	2008	(Sun-Ah Jun, chair) On the Question of Accent Domains in English
Timothy	Shopen		1972	A Generative Theory of Ellipsis: A Consideration of the Linguistic Use of Silence, (P. Schachter, chair)
Aaron M.	Shryock		1995	(Russ Schuh and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) “Investigating Laryngeal Contrasts: An Acoustic Study of the Consonants of Musey”
Georgette	Silva		1973	On Infinitival Complements: A Cross-Linguistic Study, (P. Schachter, chair)
Carmen	Silva-Corvalan		1979	An Investigation of Phonological and Syntactic Variation in Spoken Chilean Spanish, (S. Thompson, B. Wald, chairs)
Daniel D.	Silverman		1995	(Donca Steriade, chair)"Phasing and Recoverability"
Raymond	Silverstein		1973	Igala Historical Phonology, (W. Welmers, chair)
John V.	Singler		1984	Variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality in Liberian English, (R. Andersen, R. Stockwell, chairs)
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)
John D.	Soper		1987	Loan Syntax in Turkic and Iranian: The Verb System of Tajik, Uzbek, and Qashqay, (G. Bedell, chair)
Kelly	Stack	Faculty Support Specialist, UCSC (Santa Cruz)	1999	(Susie Curtiss, chair) “Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II”
Herbert F.W.	Stahlke		1971	Topics in Ewe Phonology, (W. Welmers, chair)
Jeremy	Steffman	Post-doctoral Researcher at Northwestern University	2020	Prosodic Prominence in Vowel Perception and Spoken Language Processing.
Anne M.	Stewart		1987	Clause-Combining in Conchucos Quechua Discourse, (W. Bright, S. Thompson, chairs)
Richard	Stockwell	Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford	2020	Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition
Gianluca	Storto	Technical Program Manager, Google	2003	(Daniel Büring, chair) Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions
Nobuko	Sugamoto		1989	The Pronominality of Referential Expressions, (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chair)
Yero	Sylla		1979	Grammatical Relations and Fula Syntax, (R. Schuh, chair)
Yu	Tanaka	Assistant Professor, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan	2017	(Kie Ross Zuraw & Bruce P. Hayes, Co-Chairs) The sound patterns of Japanese surnames
Katrina (Katie)	Tang	Adjunct Faculty, U. North Dakota	2008	(Russell Schuh and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) The Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone Interaction
Jos L.	Tellings	Post-doctoral researcher, Utrecht University	2016	(Jessica Rett & Yael Sharvit, Co- Chairs) Counterfactuality in Discourse
Dale R.	Terbeek		1977	A Cross-Language Multidimensional Scaling Study of Vowel Perception, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Victoria	Thatte	Adjunct Professor at Grossmont College	2011	(Bruce Hayes and Megha Sundara, co-chairs) Infant Phonotactic Learning
Tracy G.	Thomas-Flinders		1983	Morphological Structures, (B. Hayes, chair)
Kimberly	Thomas-Vilakati	San Bernardino City Unified School District	1999	(Tom Hinnebusch and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) “Coproduction and Coarticulation in Isizulu Clicks”
Nhlanhla L.	Thwala		1995	(Dominique Sportiche and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) “A Generative Grammar of Si-Swati: Morphology and Syntax of Nouns and Verbs”
Harold	Torrence	Associate Professor, UCLA (Prev. Univ. of Kansas)	2005	(Hilda Koopman, chair) On the Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof
Mary Lee	Trithart		1982	The Applied Affix and Transitivity: A Historical Study in Bantu, (S. Thompson, chair)
Laurice Ann	Tuller		1986	Bijective Relations in Universal Grammar and the Syntax of Hausa, (R. Schuh, T. Stowell, chairs)
James J.	Tyhurst		1990	Logical Forms for English Sentences, (E. Keenan, chair)
Charles H.	Ulrich		1986	Choctaw Morphophonology, (P. Munro, chair)
Daniela	Valois	Professeur titulaire, Université de Montréal	1991	The Internal Syntax of DP , (D. Sportiche)
Stefano	Vegnaduzzo	Senior Vice President, Data Science, Integral Ad Science	2001	(Ed Keenan, chair) A Partition Semantics for Temporal Adverbs
Chad	Vicenik	Physics Teacher, St Dunstan’s College, London	2011	(Megha Sundara, chair) The role of intonation in language discrimination by infants and adults
Erhard F.K.	Voeltz		1977	Proto-Niger-Congo Verb Extensions, (T. Givón, chair)
Karen K.	Wallace		1992	Verb Incorporation and Agreement in Crow,” (P. Munro, chair)
Livingstone	Walusimbi		1976	Relativization and Focusing in Luganda and Bantu, (T. Givón, chair)
Kaeli	Ward	Analyst, Strategy & Business Management, BMO Capital Markets	2014	(Yael Sharvit, chair) Backtracking and have to: Maintaining a Unified Analysis of Conditionals
Nancy A.	Ward	Child Language	2013	(Megha Sundara, chair)The role of modality and register in imitation by adults and children
John R.	Watters		1981	A Phonology and Morphology of Ejagham, with notes on dialect variation, (W. Welmers, chair)
Elizabeth G.	Weber		1989	Varieties of Questions in English Conversation: A Study of the Role of Morphosyntax in Declarative and Nonclausal Forms, (R. Anttila, S. Thompson, chairs)
David J.	Weber		1983	A Grammar of Huallaga (Huanoco) Quechua, (S. Thompson, 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)
James C.	White	Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), University College, London	2013	(Bruce Hayes and Megha Sundara, co-chairs) Bias in Phonological Learning: Evidence from Saltation
Wendy K.	Wilkins		1977	The Variable Interpretation Convention: A Condition on Variables in Syntactic Transformations, (J. Emonds, chair)
Heather	Wilson	Formerly Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University	2008	(Anoop Mahajan, chair)Subject Positions in Marshallese
Robert D.	Wilson		1965	Tree Derivation in Transformational Grammars, (R. Stockwell, chair)
Lauren	Northrup-Winans	UX Researcher at Instagram	2016	(Jessica Rett & Yael Sharvit, Co-Chairs) Inferences of "will"
Deborah	Wong	Data Scientist at Spectrum Labs	2020	what’ did not move: Sluicing in Minimalist Grammars
Eva-Maria M.	Wotschke		1975	Ordered Grammars with Equivalence Classes: Some Formal and Linguistic Aspects, (S. Greibach, P. Schachter, chairs
Fay	Wouk		1989	The Impact of Discourse on Grammar: Verb Morphology in Spoken Jakarta Indonesian, (P. Schachter, chair)
Richard A. Professor, U. of Washington, Seattle	Wright		1996	(Patricia Keating, chair) “Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation in Tsou”
Andi	Wu		1994	(Ed Stabler, chair)"The Spell-Out Parameters: A Minimalist Approach to Syntax"
Lawan Danladi	Yalwa		1995	("Issues in the Syntax of Hausa Complementation"Russ Schuh, chair)
Jeni E.	Yamada		1983	The Independence of Language: A Case Study, (V. Fromkin, chair)
Meng	Yang	Associate Consultant manager at BeMo Academic Consulting Inc.	2019	Cue Integration and Contrast Shifts: Experimental and Typological Studies
Jun	Yashima	Lecturer, (Asst. Prof), Senshu University, Tokyo	2015	(Dominique Sportiche, chair) Antilogophoricity: In Conspiracy with the Binding Theory
Kristine	Yu	Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst	2011	(Edward Stabler and Megha Sundara, co-chairs) The Learnability of Tones from the Speech Signal
Ore	Yusuf		1987	Verb Phrase Serialization in Yoruba in Discourse Perspective, (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chairs)
Yun-Yang Eric	Zee		1980	Phonetic Studies of Chinese Tones, (P. Ladefoged, chair)
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
Jesse	Zymet	Principal Data Scientist at Capital One; Insight Data Science Fellow; Computational Linguist	2018	(Bruce Hayes & Kie Zuraw, Co-Chairs) Lexical propensities in phonology: corpus and experimental evidence, grammar, and learning
Travis	Major	Post-doc, USC	2021	On the nature of "say" complementation
Adam	Royer	Mixed Methods Researcher for thrv	2021	The Role of Prosodic Phrasing on the Acceptability of Agreement Attraction in English