Dissertation Archive
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Recent dissertations are listed alphabetically by author below.
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Abbuhl, Rebekha (PhD – 2005)
The effect of feedback and instruction on writing quality: Legal writing and advanced L2 learners
Mentor: Alison Mackey & Andrea Tyler
Adams, Rebecca (PhD – 2005)
Learner-Learner Interactions: Implications for Second Language Acquisition
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Al Khalil, Maymona (PhD – 2011)
Second language learning motivation: Its relationship to noticing and production in task-based interaction
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Allbritten, Rachael (PhD – 2011)
Sounding Southern: Acoustic realities of dialect perceptions
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Al-Zidjaly, Najma (PhD – 2005)
Communication across ability-status: A nexus analysis of the co-construction of agency and disability in Oman
Mentor: Ron Scollon
Aquil, Rajaa (PhD – 2007)
The segmenting/parsing unit in Cairene Arabic spoken language
Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front
Bauer, Matt (PhD – 2006)
Prosodic Strengthening of Consonants in Iron Range English
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Brooks, Rachel (PhD – 2013)
Comparing Native and Non-Native Raters of US Federal Government Speaking Tests
Mentor: Jeffrey Connor-Linton
Callier, Patrick (PhD – 2013)
Linguistic Context and the Social Meaning of Voice Quality Variation
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Campos, Marco (PhD – 2004)
Lexical Effects in Bilingual Sentence Processing
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Carpenter, Helen (PhD – 2009)
A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation of Different Aptitudes for L2 Grammar in Learners Equated for Proficiency Level
Mentor: Michael Ullman
Castillo Ayometzi, Cecilia (PhD – 2004)
Discourse, Practice, and Identity Transformation: An Immigrant Experience of Religious Conversion
Mentor: Ron Scollon
Choi, Myong Hee (PhD – 2009)
The Acquisition of Wh-in-situ Constructions in Second Language Acquisition
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Chou, Wen-Ying Sylvia (PhD – 2005)
End-of-Life Discourse: An Analysis of Agency, Coherence, and Questions
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Clagett Williams, Kathleen (PhD – 2012)
The Sociolinguistic Language Awareness of Three College Writing Instructors: A Discourse Analysis
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Cochrane, Leslie (PhD – 2014)
Telling Disability: Identity Construction in Personal and Vicarious Narratives
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
de Saint-Georges, Ingrid (PhD – 2004)
Anticipatory Discourse: Producing Futures of Action in a Vocational Program for Long-term Unemployed
Mentor: Ron Scollon
Dedaic, Mirjana (PhD – 2005)
Discursive Construction of National Identity in American, South African, and Croatian 1999 State of the Nation Addresses
Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin
Demo, Doug (PhD – 2007)
Interactional competence in gatekeeping encounters: A discourse analysis of cross-cultural employment interviews
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Diercks, Michael (PhD – 2011)
Issues in the morphosyntax of Bukusu
Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini
Disler, Edith (PhD – 2005)
Talking in the Ranks: Gender and Military Discourse
Mentor: Deborah Tannen
Egi, Takako (PhD – 2005)
Recasts, Perceptions, and L2 Development
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Eom, Soojeong (PhD – 2013)
Automatic Presentation Of Sense-Specific Lexical Information In An Intelligent Learning System
Mentors: Graham Katz & Markus Dickinson
Everts, Elisa (PhD – 2013)
In the Face of Blindness: Modalities of Negotiating Identity and Relationship in Blind/Sighted Interaction
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Feizollahi, Zhaleh (PhD – 2010)
Post-Lexical Categorical Changes: Turksih, Yoruba and Norwegian
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Felling, Shiraz (PhD – 2006)
Fading Farsi: Language Policy, Ideology, and Shift in the Iranian American Family
Mentor: Kendall King
Fidler, Ashley (PhD – 2011)
Extending the Language of Spece into Abstract Contexts in Child Hungarian
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Flannery, Mercia (PhD – 2006)
Stories of Racial Discrimination in Brazil: Language, Stigma and Identity
Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin
Fleischer, Astrid Alkistis (PhD – 2007)
The politics of language in Quebec: Language policy and language ideologies in a pluriethnic society
Mentors: Ralph Fasold & Monica Heller
Fogle, Evelyn (PhD – 2010)
Language socialization in the internationally adoptive family: Identities, second languages, and learning
Mentor: Kendall King
Fond, Marissa (PhD – 2013)
Orienting to Topic in Clinical Discourse Elicitation of Everyday Conversation
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Fridman Mintz, Boris (PhD – 2006)
Tense and aspect inflections in Mexican Sign Language verbs
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Fujii, Akiko (PhD – 2006)
Individual differences in task performance: Aptitude profiles, orientation to form, and second language production in the EFL classroom
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Gallagher, Colleen (PhD – 2012)
Emergent Biliteracy in Kindergarten Dual Language Classrooms: Examining Cross-Cultural and Bilingual Developmental Processes through a Narrative Lens
Mentor: Kendall King
Goo, Jaemyung (PhD – 2011)
Corrective feedback, individual variation in cognitive capacities, and L2 development: Recasts vs. metalinguistic feedback
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Grieser, Jessica (PhD – 2015)
The Language of Professional Blackness: African American English at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Class in Southeast Washington, D.C.
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Gruber, James (PhD – 2012)
An Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory Study of Phonological Tone in Modern Burmese
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Hama, Mika (PhD – 2013)
Strategic planning, recasts, noticing, and L2 development
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Hamrick, Philip (PhD – 2013)
Development of concious knowledge during early incidental learning of L2 syntax
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Harner, Hillary (PhD – 2016)
Focus and the semantics of desire predicates and directive verbs
Mentor: Paul Portner
Hilanto, Kimberly (Teague) (PhD – 2012)
The interaction of lexical and discourse-level categories in second language phonetics: Evidence from Mandarin-English pitch
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Ho, Vu (PhD – 2012)
Non-native argumentative writing by Vietnamese learners of English: Research and pedagogical implications
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Howald, Blake (PhD – 2012)
The Transformation of Spatial Experience in Narrative Discourse
Mentor: Graham Katz
Hutchinson, Corinne (PhD – 2013)
Morphosyntactic Echoes: Contact Phenomena in Navajo Child English
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Hwang, Sun Hee (PhD – 2013)
The acquisition of Korean plural marking by native English speakers
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Jacobsen, Natalia (PhD – 2013)
Applying cognitive linguistics and task-supported language teaching to instruction of English conditional phrases
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Jamsu, Jermay Reynolds (PhD – 2012)
Language variation and change in an Amdo Tibetan Village: Gender, Education and Resistance
Mentor: Robert Podesva
Jeon, K. Seon (PhD – 2004)
Interaction-driven learning: Characterizing linguistic development
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Jocuns, Andy (PhD – 2005)
Knowledge and Discourse: A Study of Knowledge in Social Interaction using the Theories of Mediated Discourse and Distributed Cognition
Mentor: Ron Scollon
Kajino, Sakiko (PhD – 2014)
Japanese Women’s Language, Regional Variation and Social Meaning
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Kallayanamit, Saovapak (PhD – 2005)
Intonation in Standard Thai: Contours, Registers and Boundry Tones
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Kang, Yunkyoug (PhD – 2013)
Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Semantics of Spatial Relations in Korean
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Kelly, Justin (PhD – 2013)
The Syntax-Semantics Interface in Distributed Morphology
Mentor: Paul Portner
Kim, Jeong-eun (PhD – 2013)
Explicit form-focused instruction and acquisition of implicit L2 knowledge in adult second language acquisition
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Kim, Ki-Tae (PhD – 2006)
Discourse of Oriental Medicine: Reference to Western Medicine and Co-construction of the Mind-body Relationship
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Kissling, Elizabeth (PhD – 2012)
When and Why to Teach L2 Phonetics and Phonology: Exploring FL Learners’ Perception and Production of Spanish Phones
Mentors: Jeff Connor-Linton & Cristina Sanz
Kodama, Yasue (PhD – 2007)
Functions of Timeless Sentences in Japanese Oral Narratives
Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin
Koutsomitopoulou, Eleni (PhD – 2004)
A Neural Network Model for the Representation of Natural Language
Mentor: Donald Loritz
Krawczyk, Elizabeth (PhD – 2012)
Inferred Propositions And The Expression Of The Evidence Relation In Natural Language: Evidentiality In Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo And English
Mentor: Paul Portner
Kripkee, Bernard (PhD – 2006)
Perceived Linkage of English Pitch Accents with Syllables
Mentor: Donald Loritz
Kuo, Chi-Hsien (PhD – 2006)
The Information Status and Discourse Function of Conditionals in Mandarin
Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin
Kuong, Io Kei (PhD – 2007)
Clausal Peripheries and Resumptives: A Cross-linguistic Study of Topic-Comment Structures
Mentor: Hector Campos
Lake, Julie (PhD – 2014)
The role of individual differences in L1 and L2 processing of bridging and predictive inferences
Mentors: Alison Mackey & Sanja Kotz
Lee, Chong Min (PhD – 2013)
A Hybrid Approach to Inferring a Consistent Temporal Relation Set in Natural Language Text
Mentor: Graham Katz
Lee, Eunji (PhD – 2015)
L2 Acquisition of number marking: a bidirectional study of adult learners of Korean and Indonesian
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Lee, Jinsok (PhD – 2015)
Language, Ethnicity And Identity In A New Jersey Korean-American Community
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Lin, Hui-Ju (PhD – 2009)
Bilingualism, feedback, cognitive capacity, and learning strategies in L3 development
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
Loehr, Daniel (PhD – 2004)
Gesture and Intonation
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Logan-Terry, Aubrey (PhD – 2012)
Achievement, Assessment, and Learning: A Study of English Language Learners in Mainstream Content Classrooms
Mentors: Heidi E. Hamilton & Jeff Connor-Linton
Lou, Jia (PhD – 2009)
Situating Linguistic Landscape in Time and Space: A Multidimensional Study of the Discursive Construction of Washington, D.C. Chinatown
Mentor: Robert Podesva
Macgregor, David (PhD – 2007)
On the relationship between intransitive and causitive verbs in English
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Mahpeykar, Narges (PhD – 2015)
A Principled Cognitive Linguistics Account of English Phrasal Verbs
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Marinova, Diana (PhD – 2008)
Neutrality in Mediation Hearings: Managing the Mediation Process without Bias
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Matula, Suzanne (PhD – 2007)
Incorporating a Cognitive Linguistic Presentation of the Prepositions On, In and At in ESL Instruction: A Quasi Experimental Study
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Mauck, Simon (PhD – 2008)
Yehudah Hayyuj and Biblical Hebrew verbs
Mentor: Solomon Sara
McFadden, Jennifer (PhD – 2011)
Translating selves in public: Intersubjectivity, interaction and ethnography in an urban Bangladeshi market
Mentor: Heid E. Hamilton
McQuaid, Goldie Ann (Dooley) (PhD – 2013)
Variation at the Morphology-Phonology Interface in Appalachian English
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Mittelstaedt, Jennifer (PhD – 2007)
Auxiliary Verb Leveling and Morphological Theory: The Case of Smith Island English
Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes
Mozgalina, Anastasia (PhD – 2015)
Applying an Argument-based Approach for Validating Assessments in Second Language Acquisition Research: The Elicited Imitation Test for Russian
Mentor: John Norris
Murph, Karen (PhD – 2009)
Negotiating the Master Narratives of Prostitution, Slavery, and Rape in the Testimonies by and Representations of Korean Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military (1939-1945)
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Nakahama, Yuko (PhD – 2004)
Cross-linguistic Influence on the Development of Referential Topic Management in L2 Japanese Oral Narratives
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Nielsen, Rasmus (PhD – 2013)
Reassembling Identity: Stylistic Variation in African American English
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Nikolaev, Vitaly (PhD – 2013)
Za-perfectives of Russian motion verbs
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Nitisaroj, Rattima (PhD – 2006)
Effects of Stress and Speaking Rate on Duration and Tone in Thai
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Nylund, Anastasia (PhD – 2013)
Phonological Variation at the Intersection of Ethnoracial Identity, Place and Style in Washington, D.C.
Mentor: Robert Podesva
Nuevo, Ana-Maria (PhD – 2006)
Task complexity and interaction: L2 learning opportunities and development
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Or, Winnie (Wing Fung) (PhD – 2004)
‘I’m not selling you vegetables in the market!’: A Sociocultural Analysis of the
Discourse of Business Negotiation across Settings in Southern China
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Park, Jong Un (PhD – 2012)
Clause Structure and Null Subjects: Referential Dependencies in Korean
Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini
Parrott, Jeffrey (PhD – 2007)
Bridging the Gap: Distributed Morphological Mechanisms of Labovian Variation in Morphosyntax
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Petersen, Kenneth (PhD – 2010)
Implicit Corrective Feedback in Computer-Guided Interaction: Does Mode Matter?
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Premilovac, Aida (PhD – 2006)
Voices of Trauma: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study of Therapeutic Discourse
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Rees, Daniel (PhD – 2009)
Towards Proto-Persian: An Optimality Theoretic Historical Reconstruction
Mentor: Shaligram Shukla
Rico-Sulayes, Antonio (PhD – 2013)
Quantitative Authorship Attribution of Users of Mexican Drug Dealing Related Online Forums
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Ross-Feldma, Lauren (PhD – 2006)
Task-Based Interactions Between Second Language Learners: Exploring the Role of Gender
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Rubin Damari, Rebecca (PhD – 2012)
Stancetaking as identity work: The case of mixed American/Israeli couples
Mentor: Robert Podesva
Rus, Dominik (PhD – 2011)
The acquisition of verbal inflection in child grammars in a variability model of early morphosyntactic development
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
Sachs, Rebecca (PhD – 2011)
Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Sacknovitz, Aliza (PhD – 2007)
Linguistic Means of Orthodox Jewish Identity Construction: Phonological Features, Lexical Features, and the Situated Discourse
Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes
Sanderson, Jason (PhD – 2013)
Breizh Atao?: The Macrosociolinguistics of Word Choice, Language Ideology and Regional Identity in Contemporary Brittany
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Sclafani, Jennifer (PhD – 2010)
Talking Back to Newt Gingrich: Discourse Strategies in the Construction of Language Ideologies
Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin
Seals, Corinne (PhD – 2013)
Mutilingual Identity Development and Negotiation Amongst Heritage Language Learners: A Study of East European-American Schoolchildren in the United States
Mentor: Natalie Schilling
Shah, Sheena (PhD – 2013)
Factors Affecting Proficiency among Gujarati Heritage Language Learners on Three Continents
Mentor:Alison Mackey
Shaw, Emily (PhD – 2013)
Gesture in Multiparty Interaction: A Study of Embodied Discourse in Spoken English and American Sign Language
Mentor:Heidi E. Hamilton
Shibuya, Yoshiho (PhD – 2006)
Production and Perception of Consonant Clusters in the L2 Phonology of Japanese Learners of English
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Siebecker, Laura (PhD – 2015)
The Basque Auxiliary Verb: Morphosyntactic Analysis and Implications for Second Language Acquisition
Mentor: Ruth Kramer
Sondermann, Kerstin (PhD – 2013)
The ‘Manual’ Way of Informing the Notion of ‘Balanced Bilinguals’
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Soukup, Barbara (PhD – 2008)
The stragegic use of Austrian dialect in interaction: A sociolinguistic study of contextualization, speech perception and language attitudes
Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes
Stockburger, Ingrid (PhD – 2011)
Making Zines, Making Selves: Identity Construction in DIY Autobiography
Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin
Suh, Bo Ram (PhD – 2010)
Written feedback in Second Language Acquisition: Exploring the roles of type of feedback, tope of linguistic targets, and awareness of a L2 writing task
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Tagarelli, Kaitlyn (PhD – 2014)
The neurocognition of adult second language learning: an fMRI study
Mentor: Michael Ullman
Takada, Mari (PhD – 2007)
Synesthetic Metaphor: Perception, Cognition, and Language
Mentor: Andrea Tyler
Tlale Boyer, One (PhD – 2006)
The Phonetics and Phonology of Sengwato, A Dialect of Setswana
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Tovares, Alla (PhD – 2005)
Intertextuality in Family Interation: Repetition of Public Texts in Private Settings
Mentor: Deborah Tannen
Toye, Margaret (PhD – 2008)
Interaction in the Production and Fanship of Train 48: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study
Mentor: Ron Scollon
Trester, Anna (PhD – 2008)
Improvising onstage and off: Combining variationist, discourse, and anthropological approaches to style
Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes
Van Guilder, Linda (PhD – 2008)
Cross-language Perception in Foreign Name Transcription
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Villafaña Dalcher, Christina (PhD – 2006)
Consonant Weakening in Florentine Italian
Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga
Wake, Virginia (PhD – 2006)
Triadic Interaction in Prenatal Genetic Counseling
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Weger, Heather (PhD – 2008)
Learner Motivations and Preferences: Realities in the Language Classroom
Mentor: Jeff Connor-Linton
Winke, Paula (PhD – 2005)
Individual differences in adult Chinese second language acquisition: The relationship among aptitude, memory and strategies for learning
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Wright, Laura (PhD – 2008)
Doing, Talking and Writing Science: A Discourse Analysis of the Resemiotization of Laboratory Activities in a Middle School Science Class
Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton
Ziegler, Nicole (PhD – 2013)
Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication and Interaction: A Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis
Mentor: Alison Mackey
Zubair, Cala (PhD – 2011)
Ethnolinguistic Nationalism in Sri Lankan University Subcultures
Mentors: Michael Lempert & Robert Podesva