The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown has about 80 undergraduate majors (BA, Linguistics) and approximately 130 graduate students (MAT, MA,  MS, PhD, Linguistics). Email addresses for our current students can be found through the University's main directory: http://contact.georgetown.edu/

Learn about the GLSA (Graduate Linguistics Student Association)

Current Graduate Students (not exhaustive):

Allbritten, Rachael M.
Balkan, Aysun
Brandstetter, Corinne
Callier, Patrick
Carpenter, Helen
Checchia, Sonia
Cochrane, Leslie
Dembinska-Lemus, Karolina Maria
Diercks, Michael
Eom, Soojeong 
Feizollahi, Zhaleh
Fidler, Ashley Elmendorf
Fogle, Lyn Wright
Fond, Marissa
Gallagher, Colleen
Goo, Jaemyung
Grieser, Jessica
Gruber, James
Harris, Shelley
Howald, Esq., Blake Stephen
Hudzik, Jamie
Hutchinson, Corinne
Hwang, Sun Hee
Jacobsen, Natalia Dolgova
Jamsu, Jermay
Kalinski, Michelle Duvall  
Kelly, Justin R.
Krawczyk, Elizabeth
Kulagina, Katerina Y.
Logan-Terry, Aubrey
Lou, Jia Jackie
Myers, Marni
Park, Jong Un
Ronkin, Maggie 
Rubin, Rebecca
Rus, Dominik 
Sachs, Rebecca
Scialabba, Jeff
Sclafani, Jennifer
Seals, Corinne
Shah, Sheena
Shea, Mark
Shin, So-Jung
Sondermann, Kerstin
Stockburger, Inge
Suh, Bo-Ram 
Williams, Kathleen Clagett
Zubair, Cala Ann

 

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Rachael M. Allbritten

Concentration: Sociolinguistics/Computational Linguistics

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/rma22

Research Interests: Quantitative Variation/Machine Translation

Rachael works primarily in English dialectal Variation, particularly in the American South. Her research so far has been in the suburban area around Huntsville, AL.  She is interested in many different aspects of Southern English, including the Southern Vowel Shift, language change, monophthongization, and others.  She is also interested in the ways people use language to construct their identities, both long- and short-term.  Within Computational Linguistics, she focuses on Machine Translation and is currently working on a project for post-editing of Arabic to English MT.  Her crossover is quantitative work on corpus linguistics and an interest in Speech Processing of dialects.

Presentations:

"Where do we draw the urban/rural border?: Personal identity and intra-community linguistic variation." Panel presentation for 'On the urban/rural border:  language and identities in a global landscape'. American Anthropological Association (AAA). San Francisco, CA, 2008.

"The Anatomy of a Sociolinguistic Interview." Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 35, Columbus, OH, 2006

"Automated MT Improvement Through Post-Editing Techniques: Developing an MT Error Taxonomy."  Paper presented at the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas, Cambridge, MA, 2006

"The Southern Vowel Shift in Alabama: The Role of Urban Orientation in Intra-Community Variation."  Paper presented at the South Eastern Conference on Linguistics, Auburn, AL, 2006

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Aysun Balkan

Concentration: Ph.D. Applied Linguistics

• Research Interests: Cognitive Semantics: Language and Space, Language and Motion, "Principled Polysemy Model", Crosslinguistic Influence: Language Transfer, Cognitive SLA: Explicit/ Implicit Learning, "Input Processing"

Presentations:

Effects of Structured Input and Explicit Information on L2 Idiom Acquisition: Sanz &Morgan-Short (2004)
GURT 2009 Conference, Georgetown Uversity, Washington, DC
Extended [Co-presented with Jeong-eun Kim]

The Transfer from L1 Turkish into L2 English: The Nominal Possessive Constructions and   Interlanguage  Grammar  Development.  Paper presented at the Conference of Ohio
University Linguistics, COULD.  Ohio university, Athens, Ohio. (May 13, 2006)
             
A Perspective of Competition Model in Second Language Acquisition.  Poster presented at the Conference of Ohio University Linguistics, COULD. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (May 13,
2005)

An Empirical Study on an English Speaker of Turkish: The Pro-Drop Parameter and L1 Transfer Phenomenon.  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association, ILA, John Jay College of Criminal Justice & City University of New York, NY. (April 17, 2005)

The Cortical Representation of Native and Second Languages in Bilingual Brains. Paper presented at the TESOL/Applied Linguistics Graduate Students, TALGS, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (February 19, 2005)

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Corinne Brandstetter

Concentration:Theoretical Linguistics

Research Interests: 

• General syntax, syntactic variation, dialectal syntax, the syntax of Southern American English

Presentations:

“A Study in Syntactic Variation: Double Modal Constructions,” paper presented at NWAV 35, November 2006.

Publications:

“Imperative Subjects in Southern American English and Standard American English," GUWPTL Vol 4 (also an editor of this volume), March 2005.
(also an editor of this volume), March 2005.

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Patrick Callier

Concentration: Sociolinguistics Ph.D.

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/prc23

Presentations:

2008. H%, L%, and Everything between: Phonetic and Phonological Variation in Mandarin Intonation. NWAV 37, Houston, TX.

2008.  The social meaning of released /t/ among US politicians: insights from production and perception.  With Rob Podesva, Jermay Jamsu, and Jessica Heitman.  NWAV 37, Houston, TX.

2007. An obvious surprise: Language, gender, and sentence-final particles in Mandarin. Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 36, Philadelphia, PA.

2006. Multiple identities, multiple features: A sociophonetic profile of Condoleezza Rice. Poster presented with Podesva, Robert J., Jason Brenier, Lauren Hall-Lew, Stacy Lewis, and Rebecca Starr at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 35, Columbus, OH.

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Helen Carpenter

Concentration: Applied Linguistics Ph.D.

Websites: http://www.georgetown.edu/users/carpenth/ or http://brainlang.georgetown.edu/gradstud.htm#Carpenter

Research Interests:

• Memory systems and second language acquisition, language testing, and research methods

Presentations:

Carpenter, H. S. and Ullman, M. T. (2006). A Neurocognitive Approach to the Study of Second Language Aptitude. Poster. East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT), Washington, DC.

Carpenter, H. S. and Ullman, M. T. (2006). Beyond the MLAT: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on L2 Aptitude. Paper. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Seattle, Washington.

Moffa, M., Lee, S., Carpenter, H. S. and Ullman, M. T. (April 2005). Left handedness, Procedural Memory, and Grammar. Poster. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), New York, New York.

Publications:

Carpenter, H., Jeon, K. S., MacGregor, D., & Mackey, A. (2006). Learners’ interpretations of recasts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28(2), 209-236.

Malabonga, V., Kenyon, D., and Carpenter, H. S. (2005). Self-assessment, Preparation, and Response Time on a Computerized Oral Proficiency Test. Language Testing, 22(1), 59-92.

Kenyon, D., Malabonga, V., and Carpenter, H. S. (2001). Response to Norris Commentary. Language Learning and Technology, 5.

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Sonia Checchia

Concentration: M.A. in Language and Communication

Research Interests:

• Application of intercultural communication and discourse analysis in training and coaching/counseling

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Leslie Cochrane

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

• Discourse analysis, narrative analysis, style variation, language and identity

Presentations:

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Karolina Maria Dembinska-Lemus

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

• Language and identity, intertextuality, health in the media, written text

Presentations:

(2006) "Evidence of Conversational Dominance via Multimodal Discourse Analysis" Panel with Sigrid Norris and Anthony Garcia.Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 
 
(2005) "Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: A Case Study" Poster Presented at Georgetown Linguistics Society Conference 2005.

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Michael Diercks

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics

Research Interests:

Michael is currently working on issues related to the morpho-syntax of Bukusu, a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya.  Specific topics in this research project include locative inversion and the theory of agreement, wh-agreement in subject extraction, anti-agreement effects in subject extraction, and issues of case related to raising constructions in Bantu languages.  More generally, his research interests include the syntax and morphology of Bantu languages, syntactic and morphological theory, and the application of theoretical syntax to issues related to second language acquisition.

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Soojeong Eom

Concentration: Computational Linguistics

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/se48/

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Zhaleh Feizollahi

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Phonology

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Ashley Elmendorf Fidler

Concentration: General, emphasizing language acquisition

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/ahe3

Research Interests:

Ashley is currently working towards a PhD in Linguistics with a focus on child language development. She received an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 2004. Her thesis work compared psychological and linguistic approaches to the study of child language. At Georgetown, Ashley’s research interests center on the acquisition of case morphology by child speakers of Hungarian, as well as on the relationship between cognitive development and language acquisition more broadly.

Presentations:

Fidler, A. & Babarczy, A. (2008, November). Expanding Locative Case Marking beyond Spatial Contexts in Child Hungarian. Paper to be presented at the 2008 Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Fidler, A., Zack, E., Nathanson, D., & Barr, R. (2008, November). Television viewing patterns in 6- to 18-month olds: the role of caregiver scaffolding and interactional quality. Poster to be presented at the 2008 conference of the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology.

Zack, E., Fidler, A., Carr, C., Lee, J., Reyes, J. & Barr, R. (2008, March). Television viewing patterns in 6- and 9-month-olds: The role of infant-parent interactions and joint attention. Poster presented at the 2008 conference of the International Society on Infant Studies.

Fidler, A. & Rus, D. (2007, September). A cross-linguistic investigation of early locative morphology. Paper presented at the 2007 Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference.

Barr, R., Zack, E., & Fidler, A. (2007, March). Infant-parent interactions while viewing infant-directed videotapes. Paper presented at the 2007 conference of the Eastern Psychological Association.

Publications:

Fidler, A. & Babarczy, A. (2008). Locative case marking and abstraction in child Hungarian. Proceedings of the 2008 conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Fidler, A. & Rus, D. (2007). The role of linguistic complexity in early locative marking: a comparative study of Hungarian, Slovenian and English. In D. Rus & A. Fidler (Eds.), Georgetown Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 7

2006. Reconceptualizing fossilization in second langauge acquisition: a review. Second Language Research, 22(3), 398-411.

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Lyn Wright Fogle

Concentration: Applied Linguistics 

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/erw2 

Research Interests:

• Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, and Language Socialization

Presentations:

Fogle, L. (2006). English only in the EFL classroom? A look at classroom language policies. AU TESOL alumni workshop, Washington, DC.

Fogle, L. (2006, July). 'These are not kids with ESL': Examining adoptive parents’ talk about second language learning and their internationally adopted children. Paper Presentation, Sociolingusitics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland.

King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2005, March). Raising bilingual children: Parent ideologies and strategies. Fifth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5), Barcelona, Spain.

Fogle, L. (2004, March). The role of native English-speaking teachers in Russia. Paper Presentation, The Graduate Student Forum at the Annual TESOL Convention, Long Beach, CA.

Fogle, L. (2002, October). Integrating native English speaking teachers in Russia. Invited Plenary Address, St. Petersburg English Language Teachers Association (SPELTA), St. Petersburg, Russia.

Blaisdell, D. & Fogle, L. (2002, March). Lexical overextensions in child language acquisition. Paper Presentation, American University Graduate Student Research Forum, Washington, DC.

Publications:

Fogle, L. W. (under review). Repetition in collaborative discourse: Parent-child interaction with international adoptees. In J. Philp, R. Oliver, & A. Mackey (Eds.). Child’s play? Second language acquisition and the younger learner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Fogle, L. W. (2007). Review of M. Cruz-Ferreira (2006). Three is a crowd? Acquiring Portuguese in a multilingual environment. Language and Education, 21(2).

King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2006). Bilingual parenting as good parenting: Parents’ perspectives on family language policy for additive bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9(6), 695-712.

King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2006). Raising bilingual children: Common parental concerns and current research. CAL Digest. Center for Applied Linguistics.

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Marissa Fond

Concentration: General linguistics (Theoretical/Sociolinguistics)

Research Interests:

• Pragmatic theory and variation, modal verbs, language pathology

Presentations:

“Treatment Of Metaphor Comprehension Impairment Subsequent To Right Hemisphere Damage” (with Kristine Lundgren and Hiram Brownell), poster at the ASHA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2004

“Deontic and Epistemic Modal Expression: Theory & Acquisition in English & Spanish”, paper at the Second Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2004 

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Colleen Gallagher

Concentration: Applied Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Biliteracy development, narrative development, bilingual education, language socialization, language testing

Presentations:

Malone, M., Montee, M., & Gallagher, C. (2007, March). What every teacher should know about testing. Workshop presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Seattle, Washington.

Gallagher, C. (2006, November). The development of narrative structure in Spanish SOPI responses. Paper presentation at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention, Nashville, Tennessee.

Malone, M., MacGregor, D., Gallagher, C., & Montee, M. (2006, November). Improving assessment literacy: An online guide to test selection. Poster presentation at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention, Nashville, Tennessee.

Gallagher, C. & Montee, M. (2006, October). Revisions to CAL’s foreign language test database. Poster presentation at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) conference, Washington, DC.

King, K. & Gallagher, C. (2006, July). Love, identity and evaluative morphology in Andean mother-child conversations. Poster presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland.

Publications:

King, K. & Gallagher, C. (in preparation). Love, diminutives and gender socialization in Andean mother-child narrative conversations. Manuscript of chapter for edited volume in preparation.

Gallagher, C. (in press). [Review of the book Language, space and power: A critical look at bilingual education]. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 

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Jaemyung Goo

Concentration: Applied Linguistics

Presentations:

Goo, J., & Grañena, G. (2008, April). Working memory and reactivity. Paper presented  at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.

Grañena, G., Azeredo, F., & Goo, J. (2007, April). Implicit and explicit learning: A  computer-based study. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied  Linguistics, Costa Mesa, California.

Goo, J. (2005, October). Recasts in the acquisition of English relative clauses: Positive  evidence or negative evidence? Poster session presented at the Second Language Research Forum, New York, October.

 Publications:

Goo, J. (in progress). SLA in a neurolinguistic perspective: A comparative review.  Manuscript in preparation.

Goo, J. (in press). Working memory and reactivity. Language Learning, 60.

Mackey, A. & Goo, J. (2007). Interaction in SLA: A research synthesis and meta-analysis. In A. Mackey (Ed.). Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A collection of empirical studies (pp. 407-452). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews:

Goo, J. (2009). Review of “Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning.” Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 31, 126-127.

Goo, J. (2008). Review of “Variation in Working Memory.” Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 551-553.

Goo, J., & Mackey, A. (2008). Review of “Teaching Young Language Learners.” Language and Education, 22, 350-351.

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Jessica Grieser

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research interests: American dialectal variation, language and ethnic identity, gender and language, African American Vernacular English, Mandarin Chinese

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James Gruber

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jfg27/

Research Interests:

• Phonology 

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Shelley Harris

Concentration: M.S. in Applied Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Second language acquisition, second language literacy, American dialects, forensic linguistics, educating speakers of World Englishes in U.S. public schools

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Blake Stephen Howald, Esq.

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/bsh25

Research Interests: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics

Blake Howald researches the pragmatic, discourse and cognitive aspects of offender and victim interactions during the commission of violent crimes. He is interested in the ability to statistically model and predict (serial) offender typologies through linguistic features as informed by psychological and geographic profiling. He also researches the role of linguistics in the legal system; in particular, evidence, criminal and civil procedure, and trial practice.

Presentations:

New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37, NWAV 37, Houston, TX.  Variation of Victim Reference in the Construction of Serial Murderer Identity, November 2008.

International Association of Applied Linguistics, AILA 2008, Essen, .  Cross Cultural Jurisprudential Perspectives on Expert Testimony: The Role of the Linguist as Educator in the Administration of Justice, Symposium Participant, August 2008.

Arizona Anthropology and Linguistics Symposium, AZANLI 2008, Tucson, AZ.  Variation of Spatial Reference in the Institutionalized Narrative of a Serial Offender: Linguistic Evidence for Cognitive Mapping as a Reflection of Environmental Offense Behavior, May 2008.

International Association of Forensic Linguists, 8th Biennial Conference, Seattle, Washington Guilty Pleas as Grist for Crime Investigation and Prevention: A Discourse Analytic Case Study of the BTK Killer, July 2007.

International Association of Forensic Linguists, 8th BiennialConference, Seattle, Washington Authorship Attribution under the Rules of Evidence:Empirical Approaches in a Layperson's Legal System, Panel Participant with Hannes Kniffka, Ph.D., Carole E. Chaski, Ph.D., Gerald R. McMenamin, Ph.D. and Tim Grant, Ph.D., July 2007.

Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD Text-Typing Threat Letters, with Carole E. Chaski and Judith Parker, July 2006.

Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, The Problem of Stylistic Identity Dependency in the American Legal System, January 2006. (withdrawn due to travel)

Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences: Forensic Science: the Nexus of Science and the Law, Washington, D.C. Poster Presentation: The FLAT Characterization Method: Placing Linguistics into the Realm of Forensic Science and Evidentiary Jurisprudence, November 2005.

Michigan Linguistic Society, 35th Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI The Problem of Stylistic Identity Dependency in the American Legal System, October 2005.

International Association of Forensic Linguists, 7th Biennial Conference, Cardiff, Wales Comparative and Non-Comparative Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques: Methodologies for Negotiating the Interface of Linguistics and Evidentiary Jurisprudence in American Criminal Procedure, July 2005.

International Linguistics Association, 50th Annual Conference, New York,NY Admission of Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques as Evidence in American Criminal Procedure, April 2005.

Publications:

Authorship Attribution under the Rules of Evidence: Empirical Approaches in the Layperson Legal System, forthcoming, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

Identifying Authorship by Byte-Level N-Grams: The Source Code Author Profile (SCAP) Method, with Georgia Frantzeskou, Efstathios Stamatatos, Stefanos Gritzalis, and Carole E. Chaski, International Journal of Digital Evidence, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Spring 2007.

Comparative and Non-Comparative Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques: Methodologies for Negotiating the Interface of Linguistics and Evidentiary Jurisprudence in the American Judiciary, 83 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 285, Issue 3, Spring 2006.

Identifying Authorship by Byte-Level N-Grams: The Source Code Author Profile (SCAP) Method, with Georgia Frantzeskou, Efstathios Stamatatos, Stefanos Gritzalis, and Carole E. Chaski, International Journal of Digital Evidence, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Spring 2007

Comparative and Non-Comparative Forensic Linguistic Analysis Techniques: Methodologies for Negotiating the Interface of Linguistics and Evidentiary Jurisprudence in the American Judiciary, 83 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 285, Issue 3, Spring 2006.

Book Reviews:

Book Review of Roger W. Shuy's "Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language" The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pgs 287-291, January 2007.

Book Review of Bruce D. Sales & Daniel W. Shuman's "Experts in Court: Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge" The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Vol. 12, No. 2 Pgs 309-315, December 2005.
December 2005.

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Jamie Hudzik

Concentration: Sociolinguistics, MLC program

Research Interests: discourse analysis, sociolinguistic variation, American dialects, language and identity, intertextuality

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Corinne Hutchinson

Concentration: Theoretical

Research Interests:

• Morphology, syntax, morphosyntactic variation, language change, Native American linguistics

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Sun Hee Hwang

Concentration: Applied Linguistics

Presentations:

Differential effects of corrective feedback on two structures in L2 Korean. Paper to be presented at the Second Language Research Forum, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (October, 2008).

The differential effects of corrective feedback on two target structures in L2 Korean. Poster presented at the Linguistics Society of America Summer meeting, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (July, 2008).

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Natalia Dolgova Jacobsen

Concentration: Applied Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Second language acquisition (in particular qualitative approaches), second language writing, language and law, applied cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis.

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Jermay Jamsu

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

• Variation, Tibetan and Chinese language ideologies, ethnic identity, language documentation, language technology, personal narratives.

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Michelle Duvall Kalinski

Concentration: M.A. Language and Communication

Research Interests:

• Intercultural communication, language policy, cultural/linguistic orientation of immigrants and refugees, education policy for displaced persons

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Justin R. Kelly

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics 

Research Interests:

Justin is a Ph.D. candidate in theoretical linguistics, focusing on argument structure alternations and the mapping from lexical-semantics to syntax. His major areas of interest include argument realization in verbal and nominal domains, the representation of aspectual classes and ‘First-Phase’ syntax, and theories of grammatical aspect. Justin received his M.S. in theoretical linguistics with a concentration in syntax from Georgetown in the spring of 2006; his thesis is entitled A Minimalist Account of Auxiliary/Main Verb Asymmetries in English. Aside from his research and his departmental assistantship, Justin works for Second Language Testing, Inc. in Rockville, MD, where he develops tests of second language aptitude and conducts research on the importance of linguistic simplification and language clarity for English Language Learners in large-scale examinations.

Presentations:

2008. “The development and validation of the Pre-DLAB.” With John Lett, Charles Stansfield, George Reinhart, and Carolyn Fidelman. Paper to be presented at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

2008. “The syntax and semantics of infinitival yet constructions.” Paper presented at Chronos 8, Austin, TX.

2007. “Development and equating of new forms of the DLAB.” With Charles Stansfield and Dorry Kenyon. Presented at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

2007. “Infinitival yet and sentential aspect.” Paper presented at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, KS.

2007. “A non-NPI use of yet: Effects on aspect and clausal structure.” Paper to be presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, DC.

2006. “Control in nominalizations: Distributed morphology and the movement theory of control.” Poster presented at the University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL, Arlington, Texas.

2005. “A’-movement in Saramaccan.” Paper presented at the Georgetown Graduate Portuguese and Hyspanic Symposium, Washington, D.C.

2005. “A’-movement in Saramaccan.” Paper presented at the Pennsylvania State University Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, State College, Pennsylvania.

Publications:

2008. “Yet as a negative perfect marker in English.” Paper to appear in Snippets online journal. http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/

2007. The Movement Theory of Control and the pro-drop Parameter: Some Implications for Language Acquisition. To appear in Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007.

2006. A’-movement in Saramaccan: An Overview. In Georgetown University Luso-Hispanic Linguistics Papers, 2006. http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/spanport/GULLP/index.cfm 

2006. A Minimalist Account of Auxiliary Selection and Predication. In Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2006. 

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Elizabeth Krawczyk

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Semantics, Syntax, Computational

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Katerina Y. Kulagina

Concentration: MAT in TESL and Bilingual Education

Research Interests:

• Applied linguistics, bilingualism (especially in children),second language acquisition particularly Russian/English),cross-cultural communication

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Aubrey Logan-Terry

Concentration: General Linguistics (Bridging Applied and Sociolinguistic Concentrations)

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/ael34/

Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Family Language Policy, Language and Gender

Presentations:

Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G., Hama, M., Logan-Terry, A., Mackey, A. and Nakatsukasa, K. (2006, September) Accurate perceptions about corrective feedback in L2 classrooms, presented at the BAAL/IRAAL joint annual conference, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G., Hama, M., Logan-Terry, A., Mackey, A. and Nakatsukasa, K. (2006, July) Teachers’ intentions and learners’ perceptions about corrective feedback, presented at PacSLRF 2006, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

King, K.A. & Logan-Terry, A. (2006, June). Additive bilingualism through family language policy: Ideologies, strategies and interactional outcomes. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Montreal, CA

Publications:

Mackey, A., Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G., Hama, M., Logan-Terry, A. and Nakatsukasa, K. (in press). Teachers’ Intentions and Learners’ Perceptions about Corrective Feedback in the L2 Classroom. To appear in Innovations in Language Learning and Teaching, 1.

Book Reviews:

Logan-Terry, A. (in press). Review of ‘Raising children bilingually through the 'one parent-one language' approach’ by M. Takeuchi. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 

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Jia Jackie Lou

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Website:  http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jl297/

Research Interests:

Jia Jackie Lou is intrigued by language as a social semiotic process and its interactions with other social processes. That’s why you’ll find several “and”s in the following list of her interests:
Language, discourse and place; language, discourse and technology; Chinese sociolinguistics; social semiotics; and Chinatowns.
Aside from her ongoing interest in exploring the playful and creative dimensions of online Chinese discourses, she is currently working on a project to investigate, from multiple angles, the linguistic construction of Chinatown in Washington, DC.

Presentations:

Lou, Jia. 2007. The English Morpheme “-ing” as Discourse Marker in Online Chinese Text: A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Analysis. Paper read at 10th International Pragmatics Conference, at Göteborg, Sweden. 

Lou, Jia. 2007. The Implications of technology for understanding language policy and practice: How Pinyin romanization helped China in the age of the multilingual Internet. Paper read at GLS07: Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Lou, Jia. 2005. The old and new faces of Chinatown: A geosemiotic analysis of Chinatowns' shop signs in Washington, DC and Boston. Paper read at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 3, at Washington, DC.

Lou, Jia. 2005. From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs. Paper read at NWAV 34, October 22, at New York University, New York. 

Lou, Jia. 2005. Connecting the online and the offline: A preliminary study of display names in computer-mediated interactions. Poster presented at Language and Global Communication Conference, July 7, at Cardiff University, Wales. 

Lou, Jia. 2005. The presentation of self through online display names: A preliminary study on identity construction in computer-mediated interactions. Paper read at GLS05: The language and identity tapestry: Linguistic re/presentation of identities in soical interaction, February 18-20, 2005, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Publications:

Lou, Jia. To appear. Revitalizing Chinatown into a Heterotopia: A Geosemiotic Analysis of Shop Signs in Washington, DC's Chinatown. Space and culture 10 (2).

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Jong Un Park

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics

Research Interests: Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, East Asian linguistics

Conference Presentations:

“Deriving Three Interpretations of the Verb –iss in Korean.” Poster to be presented at Japanese and Korean Linguistics Conference 18 (JK 18), CUNY, New York, November 2008.   

“Decomposition of the Verb –iss in Korean.” Paper to be presented at International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL) 2, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 2008.

 “A Movement Approach to Case Alternations in Korean.” Paper presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL), Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, July 2008.   

“Word Order Asymmetry between Raising and Control Constructions in Korean.” Paper presented at the 38th Meeting of North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October 2007.

“Resolving a PBC Puzzle in Korean Raising and Control Constructions.” Paper presented at the 12th
Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (ISOKL), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 2007.

“Distributivity of the Korean Plural Marker –tul.” Paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2007, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 2007.

“Syntactic and Semantic Licensing Conditions on the Korean Plural Marker –tul.” Paper presented at 2007 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 2007.

“Dissociating Case/Agreement from EPP?” Paper presented with Myung-Kwan Park at the 6th International Conference on Generative Grammar. Hansung University, Seoul, South Korea, August 2004.

Publications:

Park, Jong Un (To appear) “Decomposition of the Verb –iss in Korean.”  In Proceedings of International Conference on East Asian Conference (ICEAL) 2.

Park, Jong Un (To appear) “A Movement Approach to Case Alternations in Korean.” In Proceedings of the 18th Congress of International Linguists (CIL).

Park, Jong Un (In press) “Distributive Effects of the Korean Plural Marker –tul.” In R. Leow (ed.), Proceedings of Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2007. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Park, Jong Un (In press) “Word Order Asymmetry between Raising and Control Constructions in Korean.” In M. Abdurrahman, A. Schardl, and M. Walkow (eds.), Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 38. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

Park, Jong Un (In press) “Resolving a PBC Puzzle in Korean Raising and Control Constructions.” In S. Kuno et al. (eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of Linguistics.

Park, Jong Un (2007) “On the Acquisition of Short Form Negation AN in Korean.” In A. Fidler and R. Dominik (eds.), Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 7, pp. 19-52. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Department of Linguistics.

Park, Jong Un (2007) “On the Structure of Short Form Negation in Korean,” Language and Information Society Vol. 8, pp. 30-44. Seoul: Sogang University Center for Language and Information.

Park, Jong Un and Myung-Kwan Park (2004) “Intervention Effects in Experiencer Constructions and Their Implications for the Theory of Move and Agree.”  Studies in Generative Grammar 14(2), pp. 199-224.

Park, Jong Un and Myung-Kwan Park (2003) “An Economy-based Approach to Scope Interaction among QP, Negation and Intensional Predicates.” Language Research 39(3), pp. 479-505.

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Marni Myers

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

Marni Myers is a recovering government lackey who spent more than seven years in the State Department, including an overseas tour to with the Foreign Service, before deciding to give up all those federal holidays to pursue a new career in the private sector last Fall.  She now helps manage a team that does research and analysis on geopolitical issues world-wide.  Marni received a Bachelor's degree in French from New York University in 1996.  She speaks French, Dutch, and Farsi.  She's still not sure what she'll do with the MLC degree when she obtains it, but she sure is having a good time studying at Georgetown.

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Maggie Ronkin

Website: www.nerdvana.com/~maggie/

Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, ethnography, and narrative inquiry
• Discourse analysis and key topics: Identity, ideology, inequality, and textuality
• General South Asian history (taught at the University of Texas at Austin) 

Publications:

Ronkin, Maggie. 2006. "Interrogating Power Upside Down: Literal and Hypothetical Worlds in Narration". Language and Linguistics in South Asia: Selected Papers from SALA 24 (working title). Kamal K. Sridhar and Shakaripur N. Sridhar, eds. New Delhi: Manohar Publications.

Ronkin, Maggie. 2004. "Resistance (and Agency) in a Lahori Domestic Worker's Narrative". In William Randall, Delores Furlong, and Tanya Poitras, eds. Narrative Matters 2004 Conference Proceedings. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Narrative Matters Conference Planning Committee.

Ronkin, Maggie and Helen E. Karn. 1999. "Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet". Journal of Sociolinguistics 3.3. 360-380.

Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, and Maggie Ronkin, eds. 1997. Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Greece. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126. Joshua Fishman, general editor. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Alatis, James E., Carolyn Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger, eds. 1996. Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press.

Also co-editor of the 1995 GURT Proceedings.

Book Reviews:

2007. Book Review: Chatterjee, Indrani and Richard M. Eaton. eds. 2006. Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies.

2007. Book Review: Ring, Laura A. 2006. Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. To appear in The Journal of Asian Studies.

2006. Book Review: Bhatia, Nandi. 2004. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 65.3.

2005. Book Review: Mukherjee, Arun Prabha, translator. 2003. Joothan: A Dalit's Life by Omprakash Valmiki (original in Hindi). New York: Columbia University Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 64.2. 504-505.

2004. Book Review: Tarlo, Emma. 2003. Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 63.4. 1184-1185.

2002. Book Review: Wortham, Stanton. 2001. Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Counseling and Development Series). New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press, Columbia University. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6.4. 615-618.

1997. Book Notice: Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta, and Jayant K. Lele, eds. 1995. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics (Language and Development - Volume 2, Udaya Narayna Singh and Probal Dasgupta, series editors). New Delhi: Sage Publications Ltd. Language 74.3. 902-3. 

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Rebecca Rubin

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

• Language and identity, phonetics & phonology, sociophonetics, discourse analysis, Hebrew, Jewish English

Presentations:

"Stance taking as identity work: Attributed, accreted, and adjusted stances taken by an intercultural couple." Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 37, Houston, Texas. November 6–9, 2008.

"Are Israeli Americans linguistically American Jews?: A bicultural portrait of an Israeli-American family." Paper presented at Jewish Languages and Identity in a Globalized World, University of Maryland. December 2–3, 2007.
 
"Unity through language? The language policies of Seeds of Peace." Paper presented at the conference of the Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS), Georgetown University. March 30–April 1, 2007.

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Dominik Rus

Concentrations: Theoretical Linguistics & Applied Linguistics

Website: www.dominikrus.com

Research Interests:

• Theoretical Linguistics: Morphology; Syntax; Morphology-Syntax Interface (part. Tense, Agreement, Case) 
•  Psycholinguistics: Language Learnability Theories; Language Acquisition of (Morpho-)Syntax in healthy-developing children (part. Acquisition of Tense, Aspect, and Agreement) 
•  Neurolinguistics: Biological Bases of Language; Language Impairments, part. Specific Language Impairment (SLI) 
•  Cognitive (Neuro)Psychology: Neurocognition of Developmental Disorders; Language and Memory (part. the Organization of the Mental Lexicon)

Presentations:

Bridging linguistic and neurocognitive approaches to the acquisition of morphosyntax in healthy-developing children and children with Specific Language Impairment. Plenary talk delivered at SHAV, Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia 49th annual conference. Richmond, Virginia; March 2007

The acquisition of tense and agreement at the interfaces. Talk presented at the Biolinguistic Investigations. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; February 2007

The development of language. Invited workshop given at KAPLAN, Edutech, Inc. Panama City, Panama; November 2006

The acquisition of tense and agreement in early grammars and early root nonfinites (in child Slovenian) revisited. Talk presented at the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University, Boston, MA; November 2006

The functional structure of imperative phrase markers: Evidence from adult and child Slovenian imperatives. Talk presented at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)XV. University of Toronto, Canada; May 2006

Biology meets statistics: Towards a variational model of morphosyntactic learnability; Talk presented at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; March 2006

Early root nonfinites and the acquisition of finiteness in child grammar: Evidence from early child Slovenian. Talk presented at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) XIV. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; May 2005

Publications:

Rus, D. to appear. The acquisition of tense and agreement in early grammars and early root nonfinites (in child Slovenian) revisited. To appear in BUCLD31: Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Rus, D. to appear. The functional structure of imperative phrase markers: Evidence from adult and child Slovenian imperatives. To appear in Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) XV: the Toronto Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Rus, D. 2006. What momma still had to teach You: Towards a variational model of morphosyntactic learnability. To appear in Georgetown Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Rus, D. 2006. Early root nonfinites and the acquisition of finiteness in child grammar: Evidence from early child Slovenian. To appear in Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)XIV: the Princeton Meeting. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavica Publications.

Rus, D. & P. Chandra. 2006. Child language imperatives: Root infinitive analogues? To appear in Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA): the Siena Meeting. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.  

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Rebecca Sachs

Concentration: Applied Linguistics

Presentations:



Reactivity of concurrent think-alouds in synchronous computer-mediated L2 interaction. Poster presented with Bo-Ram Suh at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Montreal, Canada (June, 2006).

Teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about student languages and high-stakes standardized testing. Paper presented with Amy Pogoriler at the East Coast Organization of Language Testers Conference, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (October, 2005).

Textually enhanced recasts in synchronous CMC: Awareness and L2 development. Paper presented with Bo-Ram Suh at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (October, 2005).

Levels of awareness and L3 learning: A think-aloud protocol analysis. Paper presented with Amy Pogoriler (part of The Latin Project symposium) at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (October, 2005).

Second language vocabulary instruction: How does it influence learner-learner interactions? Paper presented with Rebecca Adams at the Second Language Research Forum, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (October, 2004).

Reformulation, noticing, and L2 writing. Paper presented with Charlene Polio at the Second Language Research Forum, Toronto, Canada (October, 2002)

Publications:

Dickinson, M., Eom, S., Kang, Y., Lee, C.M., & Sachs, R. (2008). A balancing act: How can intelligent computer-generated feedback be provided in learner-to-learner interactions? Computer Assisted Language Learning, 21(4), 369-382.

Sachs, R. (2007). Linguistic vs. visual feedback on ESL learners’ interpretations of tough-movement constructions: Testing a theoretical constraint on the effectiveness of L2 corrective feedback. In D. Rus & A. Fidler (Eds.), Georgetown University Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics (Vol. VII) (pp. 105-169). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Department of Linguistics. 

Sachs, R., & Suh, B-R. (2007). Textually enhanced recasts, learner awareness, and L2 outcomes

Sachs, R. & Polio, C. (2007). Learners’ uses of two types of written feedback on an L2 writing revision task. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29(1), 67-100.

Book Reviews:

Mackey, A. & Sachs, R. (2005). Review of The Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Language and Education, 19(4), 355-357.

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Jeff Scialabba

Concentration: Theoretical Linguistics

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jps74/

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Jennifer Sclafani

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/jms236/

Research Interests: Language attitudes and ideologies; discourse analysis; cross-cultural communication; language and gender; educational implications of sociolinguistic variation; African American English

Publications:

To appear.  Newt Gingrich, bilingualism and 'ghetto' language: Online constructions of language ideology.  Texas Linguistics Forum 52.  (SALSA XVI Conference Proceedings.)

2008.  The intertextual origins of public opinion: Constructing Ebonics in the New York Times.  Discourse and Society 19(4): 507-527.

2008.  Review of Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts, by Judith Baxter (ed.).  Women & Language 31(1): 63-64.

2007.  Dialect Jeopardy.  Instructional game for Voices of North Carolina: Language and Life from the Atlantic to the Appalachians.  With Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser.

Conference Presentations:
       
Newt Gingrich, bilingualism, and 'ghetto' language: Online constructions language ideology.  Presented at the Symposium about Language and Society (SALSA) XVI, Austin, TX, April 2008.

The intertextual construction of language attitudes and ideologies on a U.S. internet discussion board.  Presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS) 17, Amsterdam, April 2008.

Talking back to Newt Gingrich: Multimodal constructions of language ideology on Youtube.com.  Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Washington, DC, March 2008.

Martha Stewart style: Using parody to uncover the symbolic meaning of linguistic style.  Presented at NWAV 36, University of Pennsylvania, October 2007.

The intertextual origins of public opinion: The 1996 Oakland Ebonics controversy in the New York Times. Presented at AAAL, Costa Mesa, CA, April 2007.

Existential variation in AAVE: A preliminary investigation in Washington, DC.  Presented at NWAV 34, New York University, October 2005.

Voicing the Other to construct the Self: Identity construction in narrative. Presented at the Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS) Language and Identity Tapestry Conference, Georgetown University, February 2005.

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Corinne Seals

Concentration: General Linguistics (Sociolinguistics/Applied)

Research Interests:  Language policy, Bilingualism, First language attrition, Language and identity, Language and power, Spanish linguistics, Russian linguistics.

Presentations:

“Life in Gay Russia,” Modern Slavic Culture Academic Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 31, 2008

“Te Espero: Varying Child Bilingual Abilities and the Effects on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families" (Poster), Undergraduate Research Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 15, 2008

“From Russification to Ukrainisation: A Survey of Language Politics in ,” Eleventh Annual University of California Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies, May 3, 2008

“Te Espero: Varying Child Bilingual Abilities and the Effects on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families,” American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Washington, DC, March 31, 2008

“Te Espero: The Effects of Varying Bilingual Abilities of Schoolchildren on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families,” Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, November 17, 2007

“Unusual Palatalization in English by Native Russian Singers,” Tenth Annual University of California Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies, April 21, 2007

Publications:

“Te Espero: The Effects of Varying Bilingual Abilities of Schoolchildren on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families" (in preparation), expected to appear 2009.

“Unusual Palatalization in English by Native Russian Singers,” in The Undergraduate Journal on Slavic and East/Central European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Volume 1, 2008

“Unexpected Palatalization in English Music by Native Russian Singers,” in The Birch: A Journal of Eastern European and Eurasian Culture 7, Columbia University, Spring 2008

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Sheena Shah

Concentration: General Linguistics (Sociolinguistics/Theoretical)

Research interests: Endangered languages, Click languages, Multilingualism and language contact, Language variation and change, Language and identity

Presentations: Negotiating multilingual identities in interaction: The Südwesters of Namibia. Paper to be presented at the International Conference on Multilingualism, Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, ), Dec 16-18, 2008.

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So-Jung Shin

Concentration: Applied MAT-BLE

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Kerstin Sondermann

Concentration: Applied Ph.D.

Research Interests:

• Second Language Acquisition, Sign Language Acquisition.

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Inge Stockburger

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

• Discourse analysis, narrative analysis, language and identity, reference

Presentations:

"Narrating self, narrating community: Zine discovery narratives in sociolinguistic interviews".  Sociolinguistic Symposium 17. April 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

"Narrating the everyday?: Do-it-yourself autobiography in personal zines". Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics (GURT). March 2008. Washington, DC.

"Constructing identities in zine life-writing: A granola mother in The East Village Inky" AAAL Montreal, June 17-20, 2006

"Redoing small stories in written narratives: A mother's lice story in her memoir and personal zine" Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 Limerick, July 6-8, 2006

"Magazine text as dialogue: The case of BUST magazine" IADA Chicago, IL, March 30-April 3, 2004

Publications:

Stockburger, I. (2008). Embedded stories and the life story: Retellings in a memoir and perzine. Narrative Inquiry 18(2): 327-349.

(2003) "Emerging femininities: An analysis of an alternative women's magazine" Working Papers in Linguistics (2), Northeastern Illinois University

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Bo-Ram Suh

Concentration: Applied Linguistics Ph.D.

Website: http://www12.georgetown.edu/students/brs9/

Presentations:

Suh, B-R. (April, 2007). Output, learner awareness and L2 development. Paper to be presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Costa Mesa, CA.

Suh, B-R. (October, 2006). Effectiveness of textual input enhancement: A quantitative meta-analysis. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Song, M-J., & Suh, B-R. (August, 2006). The effects of output task types on noticing and learning of the English past hypothetical conditional. Paper presented at the 2006 Asia Teaching English as a Foreign Language International Conference, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Sachs, R., & Suh, B-R. (June, 2006). Reactivity of concurrent think-alouds in synchronous computer-mediated L2 interaction. Poster presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Leow, R., Cerezo C. L., & Suh, B-R. (October, 2005). Frequency of input, task complexity, and L2 development: A computerized study. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY.

Sachs, R., & Suh, B-R. (October, 2005). Textually enhanced recasts in synchronous CMC: Awareness and L2 development. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY.

Suh, B-R. (August, 2005). Frequency of input exposure, task complexity and L2 development: A computer-based study. Paper presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference, New York City, NY.

Song, M-J., & Suh, B-R. (July, 2005). The effects of output task types and input enhancement on noticing and learning of the English past hypothetical conditional. Paper presented at the International Applied Linguistics Association Conference, Madison, WI.

Publications:

Sachs, R. & Suh, B-R. (in press). Textually enhanced recasts, learner awareness, and L2 outcomes in synchronous computer-mediated interaction. In A. Mackey (Ed.), Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A collection of empirical studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Suh, B-R. (2005). Los efectos de tareas de producción en la adquisición de los pasados españoles: pretérito imperfecto y pretérito indefinido. Biblioteca virtual redELE, número 4. 

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Peter Vail 

Concentration: Sociolinguistics

Research Interests:

• Discourse and Linguistic Practice, Linguistic Anthropology, mainland Southeast Asia

Presentations:

"The Stateless Encounter the State: Dimensions of Marginality on the Thai-Lao Border" Presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 22-25 2007.

 "Discursive Competence and the Micropolitics of Empowerment in Rural
Thailand" Presented at NIDA conference 'การ
ประชุมวิชาการรัฐประศาสน
ศาสตร์ระดับประเทศ
ครั้งที่๑ รัฐประศาสน
ศาสตร์กับการเสริมสร้าง
พลังประชาชน'. Bangkok, Thailand, February 7, 2007

"Ethnographic Notes on Statelessness in Isan" Presented at Chiang Mai University (RCSD) Conference 'Critical Transitions in the Mekong Region' Chiang Mai, Thailand January 30, 2007.

"Formal Discourse, Rural Identity, and Social Power in Northeastern Thailand" Presented at Ramkhamhaeng University Faculty of Political Science Conference 'Freedom, Power, Ethics, and Politics' 'การ ประชุมวิชาการรัฐศาสตร์
และรัฐประศาสนศาสตร์แห่ง
ชาติ ครั้งที่๗ เสรีภาพ
อำนาจ จริยธรรม กับ
การเมืองไทย' Bangkok, Thailand November 7, 2006.

"Formal Discourse and Social Power in Rural Thailand" Presented at American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 2005.

"National Mythos, Historical Narrative, and a Swift Kick in the Head: Muay Thai Boxing and the Celebration of Thai Masculinity" Presented at Ninth International Conference on Thai Studies, DeKalb IL, April 2005.

Publications:

Vail, Peter, "Thailand’s Khmer as ‘Invisible Minority’: Language, Ethnicity, and Cultural Politics in Northeastern Thailand" forthcoming in Asian Ethnicity 8:2 (2007)

Vail, Peter. "A Systemic Functional Approach to Codeswitching in Northeastern Thailand" forthcoming in Linguistics and the Human Sciences 2:1 (2007)

Vail, Peter. "Can a Language of a Million Speakers Be Endangered?: Language Shift and Apathy among Northern Khmer Speakers in Thailand" International Journal of the Sociology of Language 178: 135-147 (2006)

การสลับภาษา วาทกรรม และ อัตลักษณ์ในฐานะเครื่อง
มือโน้มน้าวเชิง
วาทศิลป์: การสร้างการ
กระทำทางการเมืองท้อง
ถิ่นในภาคตะวันออกเฉียง
เหนือของไทย in กฤษดาวรรณ
หงศ์ลดารมภ์และจันทิมา
เอียมานนท์ (บรรณาธิการ).
2548. มองสังคมผ่านวาทกรรม.
กรุงเทพฯ: สำนักพิมพ์
จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย.
"Codeswitching, Discourse and Identity as Tools for Rhetorical Persuasion: The Construction of Local Political Action in Northeastern Thailand" in: Krisadawan Hongladarom and Jantima Eamanondh, eds. Viewing Society Through Discourse Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press (2006 [2549])

Vail, Peter. "Making the Mundane Sacred through Technology: Mediating Identity, Ecology, and Commodity Fetishism" (2004) Visual Communication 3:2 129-144.

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Kathleen Clagett Williams

Concentration: General PhD (Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics)

Research Interests: Language variation, academic discourse, and writing instruction

Kathleen Williams is specifically interested in Language Variation among speakers of American dialects and English-based creoles. She also does work in the area of academic writing instruction for speakers of English as a Second Dialect. Currently, she is engaged in a cross-generational exploration of the speech of Native American Lumbee living in Baltimore, MD. Her study focuses specifically on morphosyntactic features of Lumbee Vernacular English documented in Robeson County, North Carolina, the home of the Lumbee Tribe.

Presentations:

Building Bridges in the City and Beyond: Languages, Communities, and
Cultures, Conference at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April
11, 2008.  "Maintaining a Rural Dialect in the City: Past Be Configuration
Among the Lumbee Indians in Baltimore."

NWAV36, October 14, 2007.  "Ethnic Identity and Past Be Configuration in the Lumbee Community of Baltimore, Maryland."

Annual TESOL Convention, Tampa, Florida, Spring 2006. Innovative instruction for World English speakers. (Co-presenter with Dr. Christa de Kleine, The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD.)

The Fourth Biennial International Conference on Language Teacher Education, Center for Applied Research in Language Acquisition, Spring 2005. Preparing to teach World English speakers in the ESL classroom. (Co-presenter with Dr. Christa de Kleine, The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD.)

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Cala Ann Zubair

Concentration: Sociolinguistics